St. Patricks Day Party

Stay Golden!
I’m so excited to share our “Stay Golden” St. Patrick’s Day party with you! Have you ever heard the song “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver, the other’s gold”? It’s an old song I learned in Girl Scouts years ago, and was the jumping off point for our theme this year. I think the premise suits our GNO’s perfectly since the littles that join us are always making new friends. And as you know, good friends are definitely pure gold!
 
After choosing our theme, I knew I had to have these gold letter balloons from Northstar Balloons to spell out “Stay Golden” for our backdrop. I fringe-cut tissue paper in small sections, and taped it directly to the wall, trimming the top in hot pink festooning for a little pop of color. Pretty smitten with the outcome.
 
I found the vintage bar cart at a local flea market, and after a little elbow grease, she was returned to all her glory.
 
We kept the desserts simple and will serve cupcakes topped with St. Pat’s inspired candy bark, and gorgeous shamrock cookies. Can you even with the gold glitter on the back side of the cookies?! Yep – they are double-sided cookies! Say Anything Bakery really outdid herself!
 
To add a little extra shimmer to our “Pots ‘o Gold” caramel popcorn, I added a bit of gold disco dust. Love how they look in the little pots from Oriental Trading and the “Lucky” tags designed by Jen T. by Design.
 
The Rolos, Sixlets, and Hershey’s Kisses were the perfect additions to our mini candy bar.
 
The pink and green “tree” table centerpieces were created by Bethany of Sweet Georgia Sweet and coordinated perfectly with the other décor items.
 
In between the trees was a whimsical “pot of gold” using mini golden balloon as the gold coins, and more shamrock cookies.
 
Aren’t these shamrock wands the cutest?! They’re actually wooden shamrock ornaments painted gold, and then attached to ribbon wands, which we painted hot pink! The littles will add mini pom poms to them in any color they’d like (although I just used pink for the samples to match our theme).
 
My friend’s sweet daughter was the perfect model for the day with her Irish bloodline and red hair! If the littles who attend our GNO next weekend have half as much fun as she did, then the night will be a big hit!
 
Here’s a little more eye candy for ya! Hope you have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and don’t forget, Stay Golden Friends!
 
xo…
 
Credits:
Party Styling: Made of Sugar and Spice
Photography: Moments by Maredith
https://www.momentsbymaredith.com/
Graphic Design: Jen T. By Design
https://www.jentbydesign.com
 
Cookies: @SayAnythingBakery
https://www.instagram.com/sayanythingbakery/
Table Centerpieces: Sweet Georgia Sweet
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SweetGeorgiaSweet?section_id=13751048
Wooden Shamrock Ornaments, Green Ribbon Wands, Black Candy Buckets, Apothecary Glass Jar Set: Oriental Trading
http://www.orientaltrading.com/holidays/st–patricks-day-a1-550659.fltr?cm_re=Version_A-_-Zone1_panel2-_-link
Stay Golden Balloons: Northstar Balloons
http://www.northstarballoons.com/
 
Tissue Paper: Paper Mart
http://www.papermart.com/premium-colored-tissue-paper/id=7827#7827

Yesterday my little one, Megan, and I hosted a Top o’ the Mornin’ St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast for some of our playgroup friends. We had about a dozen little friends and their mommies. I was so excited about this party because this was our first hosted event with this group and I love St. Patrick’s Day! Not many people know this but we have a leprechaun named Liam who can be quite naughty St. Patrick’s Day morning. I’ll have to share some pictures of his escapades…
One of my favorite things about throwing a party are the decorations. I love the details and finding or creating those little touches that mean so much in the overall design. I bought six gold fringe door streamers to use for my pink and gold birthday party in January to use as curtains in my dining room. They stayed up for Valentine’s because they were so festive and just when I thought I was going to take them down I realized they would be perfect for St. Patrick’s Day.
I wanted to add some color so I added a valance made out of rainbow wrapping paper. Tutorial for that will be later this week. It’s so easy and only cost $4.
Many of the items I used were found at one of my favorite places , The Dollar Tree. You can find some amazingly great stuff there. The green foil runners on the coffee bar was a roll of wrapping foil from there. The vintage looking glass pedestal bowls and cake plates…candlestick glued to the bottom of glass bowls and plates. I love anything sparkly so in addition to glittering the serving pieces I created a “LUCKY” glittered letter banner
No one believes me that I got the supplies at Dollar Tree! The Irish coffee mugs and shamrock garland I decorated them with, yep, from there too. The serving spoons and forks were found there too, I just glittered them. The people at my local Dollar Tree recognize me now I’m in there so much.
Now onto the food! I served Lucky Charms in leprechaun hats, mini Nilla Wafers in black pots because they looked like little coins, festive Chex Mix, mint crinkle cookies, rainbow made out of fruit and mini green pancakes, and crock pot Irish cream coffee.
The kids loved the marshmallows in the Lucky Charms, devoured the Nilla Wafers, and thoroughly enjoyed the fruit rainbow. The mommies seemed to really like the Irish cream coffee! One of the moms, not a fan of coffee, really liked this coffee because it tasted more like hot cocoa. Lucky for me there was a cup left which I am enjoying right now.
I wanted to do a craft with our new friends so I bought glitter paint at Michael’s and cut a few poster boards from Dollar Tree into 8×10 and 5×7 sheets. I also cut some bell peppers in half (took the seeds out) because when cut they look like shamrocks. The art station was a huge hit and I loved seeing all those little rainbow fingers! This is a really easy craft to do even with a bigger group. It’s pretty inexpensive too. A 6 pack of glitter paint was $5.99, the paint brushes were $5, the poster board was $1.50 and it made a bunch of sheets, the bell peppers were on sale so I think they were $2, and I made the pots and coins with my Silhouette Cameo with black and yellow paper I had on hand.
The art project was a big hit and everyone went home with something to remember our day together. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!