April Showers Birthday Celebration

Grab an umbrella and let's go play in the rain!

This is the sweetest spring

Birthday party, I have seen!!

Jenny from Crossing the Bugger-Dixon Line

put together this fabulous party for her son.

Check out all of the fabulous details.

Super cute sweets!

Oh my goodness....Check out those rain clouds!

Aw...in love!

And look at that Table Runner of Rain Boots!

More love.....

Find more details and pictures here

her blog!

We're All "Mad" Here!

My daughter celebrated her 7th birthday this past weekend
with a "Mad Hatters" Tea Party!
I had so much fun styling this party for my daughter!
How can you not with all of the Whimsy that goes into such a theme!
I took over 250 pictures!!
Here are the details of the day.

Table Decor:
I used grass squares for the place mats
and Mix and Match china for the place settings.
I created a table runner from black and white checkered material.
Decor included Rabbits, Mushrooms, Clocks, "Drink Me" colored glass bottles, metal keys and more!

"Mad" Tea Party Food:
I served Cucumber Sandwiches
"Queen Of Hearts" shaped PB and J's C
Chicken Salad Croissants
Wild Field Salad
Mixed Berries Chocolate
Covered Strawberries
Strawberry Tea

Classic Desserts Table

I used my daughter white desk from her room

to display some beautiful desserts!

My absolute favorite sweet here is the cake balls!

Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum Cake balls!

Can you believe those?

Who else but Terri's Treasures custom made these for me!

I contacted her about a month ago with the idea and she went for it!

I love love loved them!

Desserts served:

Fresh Fruit Tartlets

Lemon Tartlets

Mini Cream Puffs

Raspberry and Cream Cheese Pastries

Mini Coconut Cream Pies

Mini Banana Cream Pies

The Cupcakes turned out really cute!

The fondant toppers were the fabulous work

of Two Sugar Babies!

You can find there shop here.

The Cake!!!
I was so excited when the cake was delivered! Cake-Luv did a fantastic job!
All of the Characters were included on the cake and were designed beautifully!
And it tasted as good as it looked!

Bottle Cap Necklaces were made by the girls!

The "Mad Hatter" himself made a visit!

The girls were treated to the antics of

the "Hatter"!

My daughter is still talking about how she

made the "March Hair" appear!

He was great!

My Sweet Little Girl in her Fabulous shirt from Modern Frills!
I just love their shirts!
Stop by her very cute shop here!

Etsy Beauty: Cupcake Stands

If you have been around with me long enough,

you know that I am a sucker for

a cake or cupcake stand!

Well, my heart skipped a beat when I saw these lovlies!

I love the colors, the bell shape and the sweet birdie on top!

So cute! Can you imagine having a display of these?

Find them in the very talented shop of

Whitney Smith Pottery on Etsy!

Sweet Dessert Table Design

You know the old saying of
bringing the outside in with design.
I love seeing party design where they
have brought the inside out.

I love this sweet table design by Sugarbird.
The very talented Joono who's been in the sweets
business for 20 years put this table together
for a wedding in San Juan Capistrano.

Can you imagine getting married in such a setting!

Check out the details of these beautiful table!



There is something kinda old fashion about this
table. Maybe the color of the table reminds me of milkglass!



Lovely yellow striped backdrop!




Such a sweet and simply cake topper!



Check on many more designs on
Sugarbird!
You will be glad you did!

Photos by Gabriel Ryan

One Hot Tamale Girls Night

Well, on Friday I told you about my

Girl's Night In Party I had planned!

The party went great and the girls had so much fun

editing their pictures on Picnik!

Picnik is an online photo editing company

that asked me to host a House Party for them!

I gladly accepted!

If you haven't tried it..head over there and check it out!

You can host your own party too!

If you are interested contact me and I will

pass on the information!

The party theme was One Hot Tamale!

With Cinco de Mayo around the corner I thought

this was a perfect theme to tie in.

I opted for a more modern background for my theme

and chose Red, White, and Black as my colors.

The labels were custom made for me by

Parties By Hardie!

She was great to work with and helped me out on short notice!

I used the labels everywhere!

They were great!

I hole punched the edges of the plates and added a tag

attached by a red brad for an little extra touch.

I used metal containers to hold my red and white paper flowers.

Thanks again to Susan at Poca Cosas for the paper flower idea!

And for the napkins, I tied them up with red raffia

and attached a red pepper label.

The desserts table was a big hit!

Chocolate Cake Balls

Strawberry Cheesecake served in Mini Martini Glasses

Key Lime Mousse Cups

Lemon Poundcake with Lemon Mousse and Raspberries

Kahlua soaked Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Mousse

Lemon Cookies

The Favors were boxes of Hot Tamales!

I just covered them in scrapbook paper

and added the label!

I served Sangria and Margaritas for the cocktails!

These made great swirls mixed together!

Yummy!

And of course, I used the labels to make

drink tags for the glasses.

By the way, I got the glasses at Dollar Tree!

WOO...WHOOO...

For the appetizers we had

Grilled Chicken and Beef Skewers

Chips and Queso

7 Layer Dips served in individual wine glasses

Mini Beef Taco bowls

For some reason I didn't get any pictures of the food!

And I wish I had better pictures of the dessert table.

I will do better next time!

Hope you can use some inspiration for your

Cinco de Mayo celebrations this week!
Check out Parties by Hardie

for some printables!

These were custom made but,

I bet you could purchase them too!

Oh...and all the pictures you see..

you guessed it!

I used Picnik to edit them, add text, add borders,

and make the collages!

Winter Candyland Party

Last Friday my daughters Kindergarten class

had their Winter Party.

Since I am co-room mom, I was very excited

about planning the party and came up with a

"Winter Candyland" theme.

Here are all of the details.....hope you enjoy!

All of the Goodies....

Winter Candyland.....

Children's Table Centerpieces....

Drinks Tags...

I must say a BIG THANKS to Kim at the TomKat Studio!

She rescued the day with these very cute Holiday Labels!

You can find them here!