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Party + Event Planning: A Little Series
I started the thought process this week: My little one, (I call her “LB” for “Little Bit” as so many of you probably call your little ones) is almost another year older!
{I didn’t realize it was such a popular nickname, I just picked it out as I looked at her when she was a fresh new baby, 5lbs 7oz, a tiny “little bit”, so that was her nickname that stuck right away. To prove my point, here she is, 11 days old, the first day her Daddy went back to work at his office, next to a normal 8.5×11″ piece of paper wearing preemie clothes that were falling off of her. So tiny!}
I am totally off track right now, but I guess I felt I needed to tell you who I
am talking about when I refer to “LB”. Now, my friends, you will know!
Anyway, where was I?
I started the thought process this week: LB is going to be 4 soon! What, I am going to have a 4 year old?! Really, it is so true. So, with exactly 3 months until the big 4th birthday, that’s where my party planning begins. 3 months is a good range for me in the birthday party planning process.
I picked up some ribbon and fabric yesterday. They all work with my vision of her 4th birthday. I love fabric, I’m not much of a seamstress. Yes, I may have won our school’s 4-H sewing competition in 4th grade, but that about wraps up my sewing career. I think I am a patient person until I am sitting in front of this machine with my foot on the pedal thinking “when is this going to be over?” I’m not cut out for a sewing career. I do it a little for my daughter, but that is about it. I love fabric for its color, patterns, texture and possibilities…
I’m not going into much detail today, but just wanted to let you know about our upcoming party planning series! I’m really excited because I am a planner and I love to help you make your parties and events special. By thinking about an event well in advance and having a strategic plan, most times you will have a less stressful event and you will be a happy hostess! I’ll walk through some easy steps to help your next event be less stressful and more organized. We’ll have a post a week about it until we wrap it up!
Have a great weekend!
Woodland Baby Shower
Recently, some friends of ours had a baby boy. Before baby Ellis was born, we helped host a baby shower for the mommy and daddy-to-be, Troy and Brittany Johnson. Ellis’s nursery is a woodland theme, so we decided to make the shower coordinate with his nursery. Here’s what we came up with…
We had a table at the entrance with photos of the mommy & daddy-to-be clothes-pinned on jute across a vintage frame. We also had the framed invitation and the favors on the table.
This is a wishing tree we made for Troy & Brittany. Each guest could fill out a card for baby Ellis and hang it on the tree.
The cards had things on it like: “I hope you learn __________________”, “I hope you aren’t afraid __________________”, “I hope you love __________________”, “I hope you laugh __________________”, etc.
The couple has a great sense of humor, so to see what their friends wrote in the blanks was quite entertaining. In this picture both of the grandmothers are laughing at some of the wishes on the cards. (By the way, I sure hope I look as good as they do when I’m a grandmother!)
We used more vintage touches with Fenton glassware. We used it on the wishing tree table and the dinner tables.
Here is an example of one of the arrangements on the dinner tables. Weren’t they precious with the old blocks around them? Oh, one thing we learned- if you are doing an event on Mother’s Day weekend, make sure you don’t just stop in for flowers. The florist was almost out! Good thing they had these that looked perfect in the vases. Our friend Mary did all the centerpieces and she did great! Under the vases were small “logs” cut from branches to add more of a “woodland” touch!
Here is the drink table.
We had water bottles that matched the invitations.
Each of the guests could take home a set of 12 note cards and a pencil in a neat little bag. These were for the girls and the boys got a little more “manly” geometric design- no whimsical art for them!
Here is their coordinating thank you notes:
Here’s the mommy & daddy-to-be! Of course, they are now proud parents of an adorable little boy. As long as he turns out like his mom he’ll be ok!
We had such a great time planning and hosting this shower! Hope you have a great weekend!
New Baby Door Sign
I just wanted to share a new baby door sign we did for baby Sophie who will soon be here! Her nursery will have little birdies, so we made a sign that would coordinate with her theme. If you are interested in this sign or any of our other hospital door signs, just contact us. These signs make great gifts!
Hope you have a great day!
Toadily Fun Party
We’ve got some adorable photos from a Frog Birthday Party! Jamison turned ONE and had an adorable Frog theme party. His mommy did such a great job. She contacted me to do some of the paper goods for the party four months prior to the event, so she put a lot of time and love into creating it.
{fill-in-the-blanks thank you flat card and envelope}
{The dessert table}
large tiered cake + frog shaped cake +smash cake + frog cupcakes = YUMMY!
{Jamison with the frog cake}
{the food table}
All of the food had a frog theme… frogaroni, fly dip, swamp punch…
{This is Freddie, a wood frog made by Jamison’s Daddy
for photos with guests. How cute is Freddie!}
{party favors}
bath theme: a towel, a frog bath scrub, a frog bath toy, a frog tub tread
and a personalized wood frog for each child.
{party favor stickers}
Thank you, Jamison, for sharing your fun party pictures with us!
{gift enclosure cards for Jamison when he goes to birthday parties}
Hope this inspires your creativity for your next party!
Welcome Baby with a Door Sign
Where have we been the past few days?! The 102.8 degree temperature hit our little one again on Tuesday, so after a doctor trip for her, I had my own trip to the doctor the next day! I have learned it’s virtually impossible to stay well when you have a sick baby. Now, we are all feeling much better and on our feet again!
Are you ever looking for a creative, personalized gift for a new baby? Take a look at our New Baby Hospital Door Signs. The signs can be personalized with the child’s name and initial. These signs are a hit at baby showers and in the hospital. I’ve had numerous new moms tell me they had people knocking on their hospital door asking where they got the sign. It even happened to me when I was in the hospital delivering our baby!
Here’s the one for our little girl. It now hangs on her bedroom door.
The fonts and colors can be changed on the signs so they can match the nursery decor!
When the baby is born, the new parents write in the birth details with a permanent marker or paint pen!
Our Baby Door Signs are available HERE! If you don’t see a design you like, but there’s a design you like on another of our personalized items, we can create a sign just for you!
Hope you have a great day!
Babies and More Babies
We’ve been working away this week on baby shower invitations! By the looks of it, there are a lot of girls on their way this summer! Here are some of the shower invitations we’ve been designing this week. What is really neat is that by just changing the wording, these invitations can also work great for summer cookouts, wedding showers and children’s parties.
A couple of the invitations also have matching thank you cards for the daddies & mommies-to-be! What a creative gift from the shower hosts/hostess!
Cooking Out Invitation available here
Matching thank you notes available here
Fiesta Invitation available here
Matching thank you notes available here
Want to know where we got these new adorable fonts? Click on the link below and you can download some for yourself! We love creativity at HollyDays and these fonts are just that! Amanda at Fonts for Peas takes a person’s handwriting and turns them into computer fonts! Now, how cool is that!?
Hope you enjoy getting a glimpse of what we’ve been working on lately! It’s hard to believe that it has been almost a whole year since my own baby showers! Coming up this week… we’ve started planning a 1st Birthday party for our little one! Starting this week, we’ll be posting some DIY projects for birthday parties. Also, we’ll also be showing off more baby shower gift ideas. Hope you have a great day!
About to Hatch
It is perfect timing! We just had our post about the Little Birdie Pink Birthday Brunch and guess what we found! Don’t think little birdies are just for little girls’ parties! With some formal touches, this party theme can be an amazing baby shower or wedding shower.
One of our favorite entertaining and hosting blogs, Hostess with the Mostess, had the most beautiful photos from a Bird Baby Shower. Here are just a few of the shower photos.
{Wishing Tree}
There are so many beautiful photos from the bird baby shower, they had to be separated into two different posts! Here is part one and here is part two. Are you interested in hosting a formal bird themed shower or party? HollyDays would love to work on some beautiful invitations and paper accessories to fit your decor. Hope you enjoy these photos as much as we did!
