Garden Party

I recently saw pictures of a garden party featured on the pottery barn kids website and thought that was such a cute idea for a kids birthday party. You can have the guests paint flower pots and plant a flower or give the guests vegetable seedlings to plant. Here is some ideas for your garden party.

Pictures from the pottery barn kids photo shoot, which was my original source of inspiration

photo courtesy of: thetomkatstudio

fruit in seed starting pots

Photo courtesy of: pillow thought

adorable "plant" cupcakes in mini terra cotta pots

Daisy's in tin cans 

photo courtesy of: Maria McBride

Outdoor Movie Party

One of my favorite ways to entertain during the summer is by hosting an outdoor movie party. You can add some  fun touches to your party by putting together a popcorn bar with different toppings and serve coca cola in the old fashioned glass bottles to give your party a retro touch.

The colorful pillows and blankets is a nice touch, which your guests will definitely appreciate. This picture also demonstrates the screen you show your movie on doesn't need to be high-tech it can just been a white sheet that you hang outside

Photo Courtesy of: designsponge

I love this movie marquee sign! 

Here's instructions so you can DIY: http://ohhappyday.com/2012/06/vintage-marquee-diy/

Photo Courtesy of: 100layercake

Popcorn bar! I love the cart and all the different toppings!

Photo courtesy of: Pen & Paper Flowers, you can also buy the signage used on Etsy

Cute signage "Take a Sheet & Grab a Seat"

Photo Courtesy of: designsponge

                                                     

 

Old fashioned glad coca cola bottles add a fun touch to the party! They remind of the outdoor movie scene in the movie Grease 

Photo Courtesy of: 100layercake

Pink & Gold Princess Party

These are pictures from a pink and gold princess party photo shot I did. I have seen a lot beautiful pink ombre princess parties on various blogs and websites, which had given me a lot of great ideas so I knew it was time to put those ideas into action.  I also love glitter and wanted to add a little sparkle to the party as well. 

The first thing I did for this party was make the gold crown cupcake toppers. I made the cupcake toppers by cutting crowns out of plain computer paper. I then painted the paper with gold paint and then added glitter to the wet gold paint. I also created gold glitter mason jars, which I made by applying mod podge to the mason jars and then applied glitter to the mod podge. 

I also made a tissue paper tassel garland with gold and different shades of pink tissue paper. I followed this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f71yVgdmisw to learn how to make the tassels. I then added the tassels to white ribbon. I also made a cake topper by using two pink stripped straws and then added some gold and pink bunting to the straws. This was the one craft project that didn't work out as perfectly as I had hoped it would. The ribbon would not stick to the straws and the bunting didn't stay as straight as I wanted. I definitely will have to keep experimenting to get the cake bunting perfect.

Now for the delicious baked goods! I made cupcakes with pink frosting, a cake with pink ombre frosting, pink cake pops on pink stripped straws, star sugar cookies, pink ombre mini cakes, macaroons that I got from Trader Joe's and pink pudding that I served with pink jewel studded spoons. I decided to put the star sugar cookies on cake pop sticks in order to make the cookies look like princess wands. I made the mini cakes by dividing cake batter into separate bowls and adding food coloring to the different bowls so that the batter was different shades of pink. Once the cakes where baked and cooled I used a 2" round cookie cutter to make the cake into circles. For the pink ombre cake I divided white frosting into different bowls and then added food coloring to make the frosting different shades of pink. I then added the darkest frosting to the bottom of the cake and added the lighter shades to the top of the cake.