Well guys, my middle child turns 11 tomorrow. The theme he chose for his party this year is Lord of the Rings. He is crazy into that trilogy. Has been for the past year now. It sure was hard to find stuff to decorate with though... my DW is so frustrated by his "theme timing" since the films are like 6 years OUT of the theatres, and no party store has anything like that! There were some pretty cool things on eBay, but I was not willing to shell out that kind of money for party decs and cake topper stuff. My oldest turns 14 next month (Valentine's day) but has announced he's done with themes. Too old. Oh those very different stages, and when suddenly you're just "too cool" for some things.
In our house I'm the cake guy - at least I have been for the past several years while our boys have been into some cool themes. I enjoy cooking and am a creative type too, so I've had some fun with them through the years. We've done Indiana Jones, Star Wars several times, pirates, and Spiderman several times - now onto something new. I'm trying to find just the right imagery now to try and "recreate" for the cake. My wife found some cool action figures of the 4 hobbits leaving their homes on their quest for Mordor - so I'm going to do something along the lines of a hobbit hole, but not quite sure.
Just to share, here are some pics of the cakes I've done before...
The party's Friday night, and so after I'm done with the LOTR's one, I'll post a pic of that too.
