Fresh beat band / rockstar birthday party

So the day finally came and we had a great time celebrating my son's 5th and my daughter's 2nd birthday. We all had a blast, and I asked that all the kids and adults dress as rock stars or as one of the fresh beats. I really wanted to get a fbb rockstar jacket for my kids but they were all out and etsy was selling them too pricy.
I homemade most of the decorations as there are not much fbb party decorations out there, plus I like homemaking things. My husband made the cake and I shaped them as guitars, I made the pinatas myself (which I am so super proud of). We had taco salads for food (those were a hit)
Here are the pictures:


I got inflatable guitars ,microphones and rockstar glasses  for the kids

 I decorated the party bags with thank u cards

 I made some musical notes table pieces

I hung stars from the ceiling

We had taco salads

I was so happy to see all the party guests dressed as the fresh beats and as rockstars

My guitar pinatas were great, they held up so well and every kid was able to take a whack at them multiple times before it broke.

My nieces and nephews dancing to the fresh beat songs

We had 2 cakes, one for my son and one for my daughter, the cakes were graham cracker with chocolate ganache and marshmallow frosting, it was delicious to say the least.

 My birthday babies

My kids loved them.

 We got a drum set for my son

We had so much fun taking pictures on the stage backdrop.

Over all the party was awesome and a great memory for my kids and I.

guitar pinata.

My kid's birthday is coming up so I decided to do a fresh beat band theme party, I saw a guitar pinata online that I wanted to buy but it was over $50.00 I was not gonna pay that much so I decided to do it myself and I think that it turned out better than the one I wanted to buy online.
I had a flat screen t.v box in my garage so I used that, I'm into arts and crafts so I already had glue, ribbon, tissue paper and other things.

First I hand drew the shape of the guitar on the cardboard box, then I cut it using a box blade, I then traced it to the other side of the box so that I could have 2 identical pieces.

Then, I cut out strips from what was left of the box and I used them for the sides. I taped it all with duck tape( I used alot of it to make sure it didn't come apart)

   I used more duck tape than the picture shows.(way more)

 I decided to also do paper mache on top of it just to make it extra strong ( the paper mache didn't stick much to the duck take so next time I'll make sure to use longer pieces of paper for the paper mache to make sure there is no lifting on the tape parts)

After letting it dry for a day, I started to decorate it and I am very happy with the final product, I guess the real test will be once the kids start going at it ( but that's not for another 2 weeks)

I made sure to reinforce the strap because I will be hanging it from it for the party, I also made sure to leave an opening on top so that I can put the candy in. I made the opening on the same side as the strap so that the candy doesn't fall out once we hang it.
I learned a few things from making this, next time I will make the strings longer so that they don't end right where the black circle is (cause that's not how they really are), I will also make sure that the strap is on the right place so that it doesn't hang funny, you will see once I post pictures of the birthday in 2 weeks :)

UPDATE: They held up great, they were sturdy and everyone loved them.

Nights like tonight.

I couldn't sleep tonight, so I went on facebook to pass the time and I saw a couple of posts that just hit me hard, not because they are sad or anything like that, but because I was jealous, yes I know it's pathetic and wrong, I know this. I just couldn't help to feel it.

The posts were about kids who are the same age as my Elijah, they were just normal things that kids do and one video hit me hard,a girl that I used to work with posted a video of her 5 year old sending a message to her grandma and she looked so beautiful and charming talking, and it just hit me that MY Elijah is gonna be 5 in a few weeks and my baby still doesn't speak...... I know it's wrong for me to be jealous, I know it but I can't help it. I know that it's ok and that God has everything under control............. but I am just so afraid that I might never be able to have a conversation with my baby, I wanna hear his voice, I wanna tell him a joke, I want him to tell me a joke, I want him to express his feelings to me, I just want to have a conversation with my baby and I can't. I know that there are people that have it worst and I know that there are people who would think that I am lucky that my baby is healthy, I know this ... but tonight I'm sad, I'm just sad. I know that by tomorrow I'll feel really silly for this post, but right now, I'm just sad.