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Little Red Car Birthday Party

I wanted to create a very simple car theme party for Luca with the idea of the movie ‘Cars’ but not using that exact theme.  Making the car red added a nice pop of color against the shades of white, gray and black.  I kept thinking about Route 66 and came up with adding his age inside the route sign.  Then it was fun to think of names to coordinate with all the desserts and drinks.  Such as ‘Fastlane Fruit Punch’ and ‘ Vroom Vroom Vanilla Cupcakes’. 

Olivia’s First Fiesta

The theme of the party was Olivia’s First Fiesta with grey, pink and yellow as  the main color scheme  but for the garlands I added a few other colors so that they would pop in the large space to fill. For the decor I made fabric banners with striped and polka dotted fabric and tons of yarn poms. The kids table consisted of pink and yellow polka dot table runners I made to match the color scheme. The place settings were colorful square polka dot plates topped with yellow and pink napkins. At the top of each place setting sat the party hats I designed to match the party printables. Boys hats were grey and yellow and the girls hats had the colorful polka dot pattern I created with pink and red poms on top. The centerpiece of the table had two very cute elephants on pedestals facing a colorful and romantic flower arrangement.I made a giant piñata of the number ‘1’ out of an old card box (DIY) and covered it in a wave style pattern with fucsia, orange, white and silver crepe paper. Filled it with tons of candy and sparkly confetti.The dessert table was the star of the party. The grey background with polka dots was decorated with a yarn tassel garland. The birthday cake had 3 layers of pink ombre style colors filled with buttercream, dulce de leche and covered in more buttercream, yum! The kids could not resist keeping their hands off the dessert table (as well as some adults!).Guests took home favor bags in pink stripes for the girls and blue polka dots for the boys with designed favor tags with each kids name on it. The paper bags were filled with stickers, bouncy balls, crayons and more candy of course.Activities involved a giant bouncy castle, bubbles, tons of games and before everyone left they had a lot of fun playing with the props and the background I designed for the photobooth. I loved all the details that went into planning her first Birthday. It will definitely be a party to remember. 

DIY Teal & Yellow Dessert Buffet – Kites, Paper Planes & Balloons

We wanted to create a dessert buffet which would be the focal point of the party. Our plan worked because most of the photos with our guests were taken with the dessert buffet as the background. We didn’t want to spend a lot of money so we pretty much baked all the goodies ourselves! All we had were cakes, cupcakes, cake pops, cookies and pecan tassies. I originally made white and teal tags with the description of the baked goods, but we ran out of time and weren’t able to do everything we had hoped to do. This table does show that you don’t need to have a lot to create a nice dessert table…even keeping it simple works!

Hot Pink and Red Dessert Buffet Baby Shower

I am so excited to show you this Hot Pink and Red baby shower we created this weekend. The couple picked the best combination of treats to be included in their dessert buffet. They choose pink and red rock candy sticks, cotton candy, mini cupcakes, chocolate drizzled rice krispys, our bubblegum lollipops, candy apples, pink chocolate caramel apples, and strawberry mini cheese cake squares.