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Winter Onederland 1st Birthday Party

We had an absolute blast celebrating Emerson’s 1st birthday. So much so that our friends are still talking about this Mimosa bar inspired 1st birthday brunch during the wintery holiday season. It was a fun escape for us, our friends and their families. What’s missing from the photos? The 30 kids under 6 in my home all at once ;) Hoping this peach, blush pink and gold 1st birthday theme inspires others planning their special celebration!

Imogen’s Winter Onederland Party

One of my good friends asked me to help organise her little daughter’s first birthday party. We had so much fun planning the birthday together. Everything was DIY including the snowflake decorations and candy buffet. I created the candy buffet and focused all the food around Winter and Christmas themes including ‘Jingle Jelly’. The snowman pops were so easy to make. I used some cute red striped paper straws, large marshmallows and dipped them in white chocolate. I used an edible pen to add the eyes and smile. I used a snowflake die cut to create all the candy labels.

Arctic Coco and Smores Holiday Party

This party was a perfect fit for a little girl with a love of all things penguin. It was a small get together for a few friends before the winter break. We did something small that would entertain and include some traditional holiday fun with a twist. The choice was obvious, a hot cocoa bar and smores yum. A few of the activities included letters to Santa, pin the nose of rudolph, face painting, and penguin bowling. We ended the day by making a visit to the hot coco bar where kids got the chance to choose from a number of wonderful topping: whipped cream, caramel, chocolate syrup, marshmallows, sprinkles, peppermint crumble, and chocolate chips. Instead of cookies or cake we chose to do smores. With a parents help everyone toasted their marshmallows and chose from chocolate, cinnamon, or honey graham crackers. To top things off they got to choose from cookies and cream or milk chocolate candy bars. Other items on the tables were peppermint pretzel sticks, smore marshmallows, chocolate dipped spoons. For favors there were take home smores kits, cocoa kits with mini marshmallows, chocolate Santa mustache pops, letters to Santa, personalized crayons with childs name on them, penguin cups and cuddly stuffed penguins. Since it was a Christmas party we thought it would be fun for all the kids to be Secret Santa’s for each other. We took photos of everyone saying shhh then printed them on tags that said, “Ho Ho Ho I’m your secret Santa.” Each guest was asked to wear red and white to get in the holiday spirit. As they arrived we had them sit down at the table and draw pictures of what they wanted for Christmas on placemats we printed out. 

Lila Kate’s Winter Wonderland 2nd Birthday

WINTER WONDERLAND – Aqua, Silver, White What started out with perusing invitations on Etsy turned into a little bit of Martha unleashed. Who knew that an evening reading fabulous party girl blogs such at the TomKat Studio, Hostess with the Mostess, and Amy Atlas Events, would turn into a month long DIY project! Everything was styled, crafted, photographed, and baked by mommy with love — from the party invitations, paper printables and party favors to all the sweet treats of cake pops, marshmallow pops, dipped winter wands, and cupcakes. I started with a theme and color scheme. And, everything else snowballed from there. I am SO happy with the results and wanted to share Lila’s Winter Wonderland Birthday party with you. I hope the pure enjoyment and giddiness I experienced throughout every little detail of planning this party comes out through the pictures. I have been inspired by this whole creative process and am going to keep scratching at this little itch I never really knew I had until now. This is my first peek into the world of all things fun, fabulous, and styled… Thank you for visiting!

Holly’s Snowy 1st Birthday on a budget!

I made a snowflake themed party for my 1 year old daughter’s 1st birthday in January. It was pretty, pink, robin’s egg blue and glittery like frost. I made some cupcake toppers with scrapbook paper, skewers, and snowflake stickers, along with some dollarstore white styro snowflakes…And I made the banners with the same scrapbook papers, as well as some old fashioned paper chains with snowflakes added on the bottom! Also I used those “decorate them yourself” crowns from the dollar store and glued the leftover bits of scrapbook paper onto them…

Gingerbread Birthday Party

For my daughter’s 3rd birthday, I decided upon a gingerbread party theme since her birthday is early January. Kids decorated mini gingerbread houses to take home and families also received homemade chocolate covered graham crackers as a favor. Our menu consisted of warm-up, comfort foods: blazin’ hot chili, winter white chili, cheesy potatoes, veggie pizza and mac-n-cheese. Sweet treats included white and dark chocolate covered strawberries and fluffy filled cupcakes with snow covered (coconut) ice cream balls. Tasty drinks offered were a variety of hot teas, pink hot chocolate, pineapple punch and juice boxes. For games, we played “Snowball Scoop” with cotton balls and “Snow Dig”.