Partying With The Princesses: September 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

A Berry Sweet 1st Birthday Party

Molly turned 1 at the end of May and we celebrated with a Berry Sweet Strawberry themed birthday party. This theme came to me when I saw this outfit at Gymboree and just knew it had to be her birthday dress.

I decided to go with the colors in the dress for the decor....light blue and red. Since Molly's birthday was Memorial Day weekend we decided to go with a pool party barbecue. We held the party at Ryan's aunt's house on Long Island. She has a great pool and beautiful setting for a party.

I made most of the decorations myself. Here are some of the details...

Everything on the cake/dessert table was either blue, red, white or strawberry flavored. We had white chocolate covered strawberries, strawberry licorice, jellybeans, m&ms, gumballs, cupcakes, and strawberry cookies.

The cake was from our favorite local bakery, Cornerstone Caterers. They never disappoint!

I used these old-fashioned jars for some of the sweets...gumballs, m&ms and strawberry jellybeans.

Gotta have cupcakes...these were strawberry flavor.

Beverages...Skinny Girl Margarita with fresh strawberries for the adults and strawberry lemonade for the kiddos.

I wrapped the water bottles again!

Can't have a Strawberry themed party without a Make Your Own Strawberry Shortcake Bar! Yum!

We served hamburgers, hotdogs, jambalaya, sausage, and strawberry salad. I even jazzed up the condiments with themed labels.

I had strawberry cookies and strawberry cake pops as favors. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the cakepops, but they were adorable! Sorry about the shadow. I really need to learn how to use my camera.

My cousin Lindsey helped make these edible strawberry topiaries which were centerpieces for the tables. Thanks, Linds!

Even the big sisters coordinated with the party!

I didn't get a picture of Molly in her swimsuit, but she changed into this cute strawberry swimsuit from Gymboree when she went swimming. A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E is all I can say.

And here is the birthday girl eating a strawberry...love her!

I hope your 1st Birthday was BERRY SWEET- just like you, Molly Kate!

Love,

Mommy

XOXO

Sunday, September 4, 2011

A Nightmare Before Christmas Party

I threw this party for my nephew when he was turning 4. When he told me he wanted a Nightmare Before Christmas party, I was stumped. I had never seen a party with this theme on any of the blogs I read and I had never seen the movie, so I had no clue how I was going to pull it off. But I wanted to make him happy so I set off to research A Nightmare Before Christmas. I chose the main character, Jack Skellington as the focal point and the colors black, white and orange. Now, this party was in May...springtime...so not much out there that time of year to do with skeltons and pumpkins. Come to think of it, this would make a great theme for a Halloween Party as well. I found a few things on ebay and created most of the party decorations myself. Here is how it all turned out.

The invitation.

The sign welcoming guests to the party.

I put some decorations in the plant next to the door.

The main attraction...the dessert table. All of the treats were either black, white or orange to match the theme.

The dessert table included...

Cupcakes

Clementines, Orange Twizzlers, and Mini Oreos

Apricots, mini-marshmallows and black M&Ms

Airheads (because skeletons have nothing but air up there) wrapped to match the decor.

I made cones to hold popcorn. The kids loved these, when they were empty the would re-fill them with other treats from the table.

And last but not least an ice cream cake from Carvel (nephew's request) that my husband decorated to look like Jack Skellington. I think he did a great job! Thanks babe!

Hanging above the dessert table were three white paper party lanterns from Party City that I decorated with black scrapbook paper and double sided tape to look like Jack Skellington's head.