I had my Sweet 16 birthday party last weekend and it was a lot of fun. I started making the invitations out so they would be uniquely me, I play soccer so I had a girl playing soccer on the front and she was juggling a birthday cake, and I put my picture where the girls face was. I had 8 friends over. We were on a budget so we got all of the prizes from the dollar store we got some girlie princess hats for all the girls to wear, some really cheesy gag gifts from there including hemorrhoid cream for the worst karaoke singer and so on. My mom and I bought some little things of bubbles and decorated them saying Nicole sweet 16 and we gave them out to everyone, I also made a mixed CD for everyone with everyone's favorite song on it plus a lot of my favorite songs, I put them in jewel cases and even made a jewel case cover with everyone picture on it and on the inside a shout out to each person. We bought picture frames to decorate during the party, they were plain wood ones from the dollar store and my mom and I spray painted them red the week before, and put a shiny coat on as well.. My birthday party was the day after valentines day so we decorated the frames with conversation hearts. We decided to take a tip from another website and take pictures with a digital camera to put into the frames as a souvenir of my party.. My mom and I decorated a plain white sheet with hearts and cool designs for the backdrop of the pictures, they turned out very nice. We played karaoke at my party and I taped my friends doing karaoke without them knowing it, at the end I told them, a good keepsake from my party!!! We played pin the nose on Michael Jackson just for fun. We also had the scent game where you blindfold a guest one by one and they go to a designated spot where you hand them a brown paper bag with something in it, just household items and they have to guess what it is.. Surprisingly not a lot of people got many answers, we had easy things like lemon juice, peanut butter, chips, and popular perfume.. Since this was a sleep over we played a game called Piggly Wiggly at the end of the night where someone goes out of the room and everyone in the rooms goes to someone else's sleeping bag or blanket and hides under it.. The person outside comes back in and sits on the bag and says piggly wiggly the person in the bag has to say oink oink and the other person has to guess who it is. Another game we did was info about me I asked 15 different questions about myself and everyone had to fill them out, it's a good way to know who knows you the best. My party was a great hit everyone loved it, it was a sweet 16 party and we did some kiddish things but all and all everyone liked it.. the party cost about $150.. I made my own initiations, made CD mixes, bubbles things, had girlie party hats, we had a cooler with soda in it for easy access, for dinner we had a Nacho bar we got a huge can of cheese from Costco ($9) and a big box of 2 bags of chips ($5) and everyone had nachos.