Roller Queen

My daughter's 10th birthday was a few weeks ago and she requested to go roller skating. I created this invitation for her, and we invited a few of her closest friends, loaded them up in our Yukon, and headed to Playland Skate Center in Austin!


We opted not to buy a party package at the skating rink. Instead we paid for each child to skate for a few hours and then we went to Red Robin for dinner where one kid ate free with each adult meal purchased! It saved us a ton of money and the food was way better than greasy skating rink pizza!

After dinner, we headed back to our house in New Braunfels for cake & ice cream, presents, and a sleepover!

I had baked my daughter's cake that morning. To keep with the black, white, and pink theme, it was a triple tier devil's food cake with vanilla icing and pink rosettes.

I also found these great zebra striped mini takeout boxes at Hobby Lobby that I filled with hot pink tissue paper, small colored picture holder cubes I found in the $1 bin at Michaels, and of course candy.


After cake, the girls took a little break to ogle some eye-candy in New Moon, and then I had prepared a fun roller skating themed craft for them to make during the sleepover.

I had drawn some roller skating images and added quirky sayings. I printed out 2 of each design and cut them apart so each girl could use them as a pattern.


We traced the images onto shrinky dink plastic and colored them in with my Prismacolor pencils. Then I trimmed around all the finished and colored designs, punched a hole at the top, and baked them in the oven.

It took me quite awhile to bake all of them since I could only do it 2 at a time and several pieces curled up on themselves and had to be re-baked.

I also had a minor setback when I reached in to grab the tray of shrinky dinks, the potholder slipped and I grabbed the bare oven rack, burning the crap out of my finger! I may have said a few choice words, but luckily the girls were all upstairs playing Glee Karaoke and Just Dance 2 while I was baking.

Needless to say once they were all baked, I was beat! I had a stiff drink, watched The Runaways and went to bed while the girls watched Season 1 of Glee in the game room.

The next morning I fixed a huge pancake breakfast for the girls. And then I took the shrinky dinks from the night before and added jump rings and colored cords to make them roller skating necklaces to wear home.


It was a very fun and successful party, but it was also exhausting to say the least!

I can't believe my baby girl is 10 already!