Milk & Cookies on the Farm Party

I was thrilled to see our Milk & Cookies party created for my daughter's 2nd birthday featured on Amy Atlas Blog today, here are the rest of the pics and details for your viewing pleasure.
Loved the invitations, fit perfectly with the theme! We created a cookie buffet using wooden crates from Micheals. I wanted to do something different than the usual dessert bar setup and I think that this turned out great. We accented the table with flower arrangements in milk carafes and sifters, milk bottles, and a large wooden letter A that I glued Cookie Crisp cereal on. I made a super easy chocolate chip cake, and I totally heart the cake bunting! There was a variety of milk to choose from Just love this shot We also served chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes, yummo! Here is a look at the inside, and you can find the recipe to make them here. Here is the birthday girl enjoying some milk and cookies :) For activities our guests got to feed ducks, milk cows, and go on tractor rides along with check out all the fun farm animals. For party favors I created a "make your own cookie mix" table out of crates and a 2x4. Each jar had all the dry ingredients like sugar, flour, baking soda, etc. and the kids got to mix in their own extras like m&m's, chocolate chips, nuts, oats, etc. And the cooking instructions I placed on the lid under the fabric. Inside the crates I put various things for decoration. Extra cookie mixes There were also little milk bottle (refurbished Starbucks frappuccino bottles) favors for everyone with custom labels.
I also had been wanting to do a little photo booth ever since I first saw them! This was alot of fun for both the adults and kids. The great thing about this too was that it was so easy to do! Just made a frame out of PVC and hung a fabric backdrop, banner, and hay bale to sit on. We made some themed signs for props Cookie and Milk props Milk Mustaches...
Here are some of my favorites...
Thanks so much for checking out our sweet party!

Vendor Credits:
Photographer: Black Bird Studios
Venue: Wheeler Farm
Invitations: Southern Belle's Charm
Crates: Micheal's Craft store
Fabric bunting for cake and favor table: Vintage Green Limited
Cookie Banner, milk mustaches, and paper photo props: Paper Party Parade
Pink Striped Straws: So and Such
Milk bottle labels: A Party Style
Fabric backdrop and accents, Milk carafes, and flowers: Hobby Lobby

Sweet Pea Baby Shower

I am finally posting this! Last month one of my good friends and I had the pleasure of throwing a shower for another friend who is blessed with having twins, a boy and girl! This is an occasion that you can't pass up! She already has 3 other kids, so we decided to go with a diaper shower since she has double duty! It was so fun and I loved the theme - Two Peas In A Pod. We also went with the open house style, I am not a huge fan of baby shower games, so this was great to just eat and visit with the guests.

The main color scheme for the shower was green and white, with hints of yellow and brown. I found a huge roll of lime green and white polka dot wrapping paper and a local craft store and new that it was the perfect accent color and pattern and matched part of the invites too! For the seating tables we just took a white table clothe and then rolled our a strip of wrapping paper for the runner. The centerpieces were white picture frames with little quotes on coordination designs from the invitations. Also a mason jar wrapped in burlap and ribbon with white, green, and yellow flowers, and a little jar of Hershey kisses that had little custom labels on the bottom. For each setting we had a green square plate, cloth napkin folded into a diaper, and small wooden utensils inside the diapers We didn't do much food since it was an open house, but we did serve a green PEA lettuce salad and rolls for a small dish.
Pea lettuce Salad There was a little dessert bar. For that we hung a white sheet for the backdrop and a white table cloth on the table. We got some cute wood letters spelling "Sweet Peas" and covered them also with the wrapping paper and hung them on the backdrop, then hung green paper lanterns around the words (I thought they would resemble giant peas). For the snacks we had cupcakes with little peas in a pod cupcake toppers, chocolate donut holes, powdered sugar donut holes, white chocolate dipped oreos, and sugar cookies. We placed each plate on a box to give it some height and dimention and wrapped in the same wrapping paper. I Also put a piece of wrapping paper on each plate to make the treats pop a little bit. For the cupcake towers, I took various sizes of hat boxes and wrapped those also in the wrapping paper and just stacked them upside down ontop of each other. I thought they turned out super cute and super easy to make! For beverages, we served lime water in a large picher that I wrapped a diaper around the base. I wanted diapers to be incorporated a bit all over since it was a diaper shower too! Again we didn't have games, but we did have some diapers that people could write fun little messages to give the parents a laugh later on for a little activity. There had to be a diaper cake for a centerpiece to go with the whole 'diaper shower' and also to give to the mommy, but wanted to do something a little bit different. So I made a diaper pod! 
I just took 42 diapers and rolled them up individually and stuck a rubberband around them each. Then take 21 and make a big circle in 3 layers: 1 in the center, 7 in the middle, and 13 on the outside). Do that twice. Place the 2 circles next to each other and one large rubberband around them both. Then I placed them on a couple large sheets of tissue paper (or you could use a baby blanket) and wrapped around the sides of the circles gathering the ends on each sides of the circles. Then a tied each end up with some rafia or you could use a ribbon or whatever. For the finishing part a made two large babies that matched the invites out of cardstock and pasted them onto some little sticks and stuck them inside the diapers. I hope that this all makes sense, and when you see the picture I think you can pretty much figure it out! And lastely for the favors, we made pea pod soaps. I have seen quite a variety of these online and some are way super cute! We went with a simpler and cheaper version that we could make ourselves. We got some 'make you own soap' kits at hobby lobby and just melted the soap, died it green, and poured them into round molds. Once they hardend we stuck 2 together on a piece of carboard and wrapped with tissue paper (or you could use a wash clothe), and tied the ends with rafia. They were super easy to make and a whole lot cheaper than oredering them online. Well that is pretty much it for the shower! Hope that any of this helps and inspires someone! And I would love to read you thoughts or comments. Thanks so much!

Vendor Credits:
- Invitations: Cherished Times
- Wooden Cutlery: Tie the Knot
- Chocolate Covered Oreos: Janet Cristina
- Sugar Cookies : Lil G's Cookies
- Pea Pod Cupcake Toppers: Sweeten Your Day
- Wooden Letters, Paper Lanterns, Hat Boxes : Hobby Lobby

New Cupcake Toppers!

So I have been super busy lately with the kids, parties, orders, and just everyday life! But I am so excited to be adding some new items to my shop! Here are some of them...
New Super Mario Assortment Batman Set Little Pirate Girls Peas in a Pod
I hope you all like, and don't forget to check out the rest of my items available here. And be sure to check back often for more items added all the time!

Bridal Gown Blog Feature & Giveaway!

I had the pleasure of being featured Monday on the Bridal Gown Blog's "Meant to Bee" event. Kerrie ordered some of my Bumble Bee cupcake and cake toppers to put on her very own cake and cupcakes. Here are her fabulous creations...
You can read all about the rest of the details on her blog post here. The toppers are also available for purchase in my Etsy shop here along with some other fun sets.

But why pay when she is doing a giveaway with lots of fun products and not to mention a set of MY bumble bee toppers! So hurry on over to enter for your chance to win a set of these... *Just toppers, cake not included.

You can see all the rest of the products and enter to win here, giveaway ends October 23rd at 8pm. Good Luck!!!

Contest Finalist!!!

I am SO EXCITED to be one of the finalists on the Summer Hostess Party contest! YAY! It is such an honor to be chosen along with all the other fabulous parties. I had such a blast planning this party and so excited to see it featured. Check out all the details on the previous posts and head on over to Kara's Party Ideas and VOTE VOTE VOTE for me!! Please! Thanks so much for all you love and support!