Pizza

I had to share my son’s 1st birthday theme… since his name is DEAN we felt a Dean Martin inspired birthday party was a must!
We specifically targeted the song ‘That’s Amore’ and went the pizza route with food and some featured decor pieces. It was easy-peasy because we blasted a Dean Martin playlist from Spotify, served New York style pizza (which was delivered), designed Dean’s smash cake to replicate a pizza (Thanks Britt Bakes) had pizzas inspired cookie takeaways with a message saying “Thanks for Bein’ a Pizza Dean’s Year”. We found the cutest gold banner that read “I love you to pizzas” that hung above the makeshift bar in the garage – yes, this was a garage party! The tables were lined with red & white checkered table runners, displaying photo pedestal frame centerpieces from Ikea for like .99/each. We found a wholesale site that sold personal pizza size boxes that we used as risers and centerpieces and now my son uses when creating Playdoh “pizzas”. It was a truly lovely event and outside-the-box theme that everyone loved! Most importantly, it didn’t break the bank.
XO, Nicole

I celebrated Halloween with some adults and a toddler, but thought lots of the ideas could also be used for a children’s halloween party!

Every year I get so excited to style for my son, Greyson, and this year for this 6th birthday it was quite the fete. He had several requests this year and I really wanted to incorporate all of them. Moustaches. Restaurants with Cooking. Dress Up. I thought long and hard about creative ways to include all of these requests. Then one day while visiting Kindergarten on Pizza Day – it all came to me. {Papa G’s Pizzeria: Moustaches & Mozzarella}. I would create a restaurant just for him. After that was decided, I contacted my fabulous friend Paula of Frog Prince Paperie to turn my son into an Italian Chef cartoon. She did an amazing job! For the printable collection, I wanted to use red and white checkered patterns with the traditional Italian colors. When searching for new, creative twists on parties – patterns are a wonderful way to achieve that goal.

Halloween themed costume birthday party.