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A “Reel” Fun Birthday Party
My good friend, Donna, hosted her daughter’s 3rd birthday party at her house last weekend. It turned out so cute, but this was no surprise, she is very creative. It was a drive-in movie themed party complete with popcorn, candy and glow sticks.
Sticking with the theme, the party was BYOC, bring your own car. The kids were adorable lined up on their cars and bikes munching on popcorn and watching the movie. Everything was so cute it was hard to choose my favorite things, but here are a few highlights:
The sign on the front door directed traffic to the back yard for the feature presentation. The party favors were boxes of movie candy with a custom film strip sticker that read, “Thanks for coming, it’s been REEL fun! Love, Avery”. In keeping with the theme the cupcakes were topped with marshmallows to look like little buckets of popcorn. The polka dot balloons stood in galvanized buckets full of popcorn and added a pop of color on the tables.
I just couldn’t resist posting this picture. I love seeing all the kids lined up munching on popcorn completely enthralled with the movie. You never would have known that five minutes before they were running around the yard pumped full of cupcakes and Capri-Suns. This is my goal for our next birthday party!
Invitations, cupcake wrappers, birthday banner, food labels, custom favor stickers, and polka dot balloons by HollyDays.
Cupcakes by Donna Franklin (Avery’s Mommy)
Tailgate in Style
It’s so hard for me to believe it is already September! In the South, that means FOOTBALL! Here is some inspiration for your tailgate- orange & blue style…
Cupcake Toppers/Wrappers, Bunting & Platter by HollyDays
Cupcakes by Donna Franklin
Interested in any of the items above?
Just email us at admin@shophollydays.com
Hippity Hoppity Easter Party
Hippity hoppity, Easter is on its way and with Jen’s little boy’s birthday falling on Easter weekend this year, she decided to have an Easter Egg Hunt birthday for him. It was so cute and may give you some inspiration for your Easter egg hunt this weekend…
Here’s the party story as told by Jen:
I loved the way it turned out, it was so fresh looking with the colors and gingham!
I found some chalk eggs in a plastic egg carton for the favors and we made custom favor stickers to put on top.
The kids lunches were served in a gable box to make it as simple as possible, they can just plop down and eat. We served egg shaped PB&J (in the gingham bag), Goldfish, a Buddy Fruit and juice box.
We had the buckets to use for the egg hunt.
Striped straws just make everything cuter!
The adults snacked on some veggies, potato salad, and mini ham sandwiches on sweet potato biscuits. Then we all shared some Easter bunny cupcakes for dessert along with haystacks made to look like birds nests.
Some of the kids enjoying the egg hunt
Happy 2nd Birthday Tucker!
Southern Living Cupcakes Book
As promised yesterday, we are giving away a SIGNED copy of Jan Moon’s Southern Living Big Book of Cupcakes. I picked up my own copy last week at Blue Willow in Birmingham, AL, and wanted to share one with one of you! It is filled with a ton of delicious cupcake recipes as well as cupcake tips & tricks.
Jan Moon is the owner of Dreamcakes in Homewood (Birmingham), AL.
Source: Dreamcakes Bakery
They have an adorable cupcake truck that makes stops around the Birmingham area… super cute and OH SO YUMMY!
So… would you like to win your own copy of the Big Book of Cupcakes filled with delicious cupcake recipes? Here’s how…
Back to a better pace & cupcakes
Last week was one of those weeks- one of those busy, exhausting weeks! One that was just such a blur, I actually can’t even remember what happened from one day to the next – I was just operating in survival mode. The week prior, we had spent setting up and working our Spring show, Cottontails Village in Birmingham, Alabama.
{Our Booth}
{Our HollyDays Tree… my favorite part!}
{Party setup & coloring table for the kids}
{We’ll be putting our Easter clothing & stickers/tags on our website this week!}
Wow, I have to tell you, this time I was exhausted. I had some AMAZING wonderful help this year, too – My husband, Jen, Karan, my parents and my in-laws… A HUGE THANK YOU TO THEM! Doing the show for us, is basically setting up a 10×30′ STORE for 3 days and then to turn around and take it down come home and unload it again… wears me out just thinking about it! We were so honored and excited to take home the 1st place booth award!
As we were tearing down the booth on Sunday evening, we got the message that my sweet friend, Lacey, was having her baby. She was just at the show the day before, so it’s a good thing the baby waited another day or else we could have had more excitement at the show than we could have handled! We packed up, went home to drop off the trailer, said goodbye to my parents who were watching our daughter and headed out the door with one of our hospital door signs and went to the hospital and waited for the sweet baby. She was born right after 10:30pm. We went home a little after that to get our little one in bed. The next day, we visited the hospital again so we could see the baby. As you can see, my Karidyn is in LOVE with this sweet new friend, Layla Westyn.
She is already a best buddy of her older sister, Ava Greer.
After all, they’ve been friends since they could sit in my office floor and play and Karidyn could pull AG’s hair!
Anyway, let me get back on track… show, return, unpack, catch-up and then start working on the new show orders… whew! Yes, I’m tired, but feeling good that orders from the show are actually going to start going out TOMORROW! Yay! We have a ton ready, just ready to be packaged up and shipped out.
Well, I’m off to get working on some new projects and glad to finally be back to a {more} normal pace! Keep up with this week on our Blog, Facebook or Twitter… we’ll be giving away a SIGNED COPY of Jan Moon’s Southern Living Big Book of Cupcakes! {YUMMY!}
{Customer Party} Cute Cow Party
I am so excited to share some super cute party pictures from a girly cow birthday party!
This party is very girly one cute two-year-old!
{dessert table}
Cake, Cupcakes, Cow Cake Pops, Cow Rice Krispie Treats… yum!
Lunch was served, so a long table was set up for all the guests have a place to eat.
The chairs were bales of hay!
The birthday girl’s seat with one of our personalized plates that coordinated with the party
{they make great keepsakes for the birthday boy/girl}
She used glass Starbucks Coffee Frappuccino Jars for the milk bottles.
A good way to recycle the jars (especially since she has a friend who saved them up for her.)
She added our cute coordinating stickers and stripey straws and they were oh so cute!
{Sweet Tea was served in glass mason jars}
{pretty white flowers in mason jars}
{Cupcakes with our cupcake wrappers & toppers}
{Cute entrance to the party}
I couldn’t resist showing this super cute sign.
She had several posted around to show guests where to park
and direct them to the party in the backyard.
{The birthday girl in of course, cowboy boots!
They were actually her daddy’s boots when he was her age… how sweet!}
Thank you so much for sharing the Cow party pictures with us! Hope this gives you some inspiration for your next Moo-velous party! Just kidding… marvelous party .. can’t resist the cow jokes!
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Also, CONGRATULATIONS to our Clickin Moms winner Catherine Barrett! Catherine wins a LIFETIME membership to Clickin Moms!
Hope you have a great day!
Dog-gone Fun!
Tucker’s first birthday party was paws-a-tivly perfect! (In large part because of HollyDays) For those of you who did not get a chance to read a previous post, I am Jennifer, the newest employee at HollyDays. We recently celebrated my son’s first birthday, and I am thrilled to write my first post on the blog and share with you all the fun we had. (You can click on the pictures to view larger versions.)
{The Invitation}
I saw the whale invitation Holly had designed for a children’s birthday party and used the layout as a basis for Tucker’s invitation. We just added the dog and changed the colors. I had so much fun brainstorming wording for the invitation and party supplies. I love plays on words, as you will see in some of the pictures below, they are always good for a little laugh.
{Party Favors aka Doggy Bags}
We gave the children large sugar cookies in the shape of dog bones and tennis ball cake bites, in the event that they did not have enough sugar at the party.
{Favor Sign}
{Favor Tags}
The favor tags were enclosure cards that I attached to the brown bag with a clothespin.
{Birthday Banner}
HollyDays sells the polka dot balloons and I think they are so fun and different!
{The Birthday Boy’s Reserved Seating}
{Birthday Cake, Cupcakes and Cakebites, mmm!}
Hollydays created the brown and white striped cupcake wrappers to coordinate with the invitation and cake.
{Water Bottles}
{Water Bottle Labels}
The water bottle stickers are quick and easy way to add some fun to a party.
{Drinks}
{Food Labels}
Hot dogs, puppy chow, and Scooby Snacks were just a few of the items on the menu.
{Napkin Wrappers}
{Doggy Display}
{Outdoor Fun}
{Dog Ears}
My mom found some dog ears online for the kids to wear, they were adorable!
{Tucker with some of his best buddies}
{The Birthday Boy}
As you can see the party was dog-gone cute and fun!
Don’t forget to send us pictures of your party where you have used our products and we can post them for everyone to see!
Colorful Cupcake Cutie
We’ve got a super cute party to show you today! I was able to do party goods for a colorful cupcake first birthday party! Ellasyn Claire’s Mommy, Lynsey, was so kind to share the photos with us. Here are some of the pictures from the party!
Happy First Birthday Ellasyn Claire!
{The invitation}
{Address sticker}
{Thank you note cards}
{Favor stickers}
{Stickers for party decor}
Adorable cupcake cake! By Edgars Bakery
Is this not the sweetest cake?! It is Ellasyn Claire’s smash cake in the shape of a cupcake!
Lynsey used our stickers on bright card stock ruffle circles
and tied them with ribbons around the candy jars.
See our stickers on the cups! I love the muti-colored cup stack!
Here are the cute party favors.
Thank you Ellasyn Claire for sharing pictures from your sweet first birthday party!
Hope you enjoyed the pictures! The party was so adorable!
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!
1st Birthday Party {Part 3}
Ok, this is my last post with photos from my little girl’s pink cupcake party. I had so much fun planning it. It has me inspired to do more parties! (don’t tell my husband, he already thinks I’m crazy enough as it is!) In fact, we did a shower last weekend for our friends who are having a baby boy. I can’t wait to share a few of the decorations from the party, but until then, here are some more pink pics!
The smash cake. The one that ended up all over the place and even in Mommy’s hair.
Remember our poms from a recent show we did? We did more to hang in the trees in the backyard.
Actually, my friend made them with our tissue paper and her grandmother fluffed them…
See the polka dot balloons?! Love them, don’t you?! Well, we’ll be adding them to our website soon, but if you are interested, just contact us and we’ll get some to you! They come in Pink, Chocolate Brown, Lime Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, Robin’s Egg Blue, Wildberry (hot pink) and Purple! They are $3.25 per pack of 5. We also have the pearl pink balloons available, as well.
We bought a big pink tub from Target and pink balls for the kiddos to play with in the backyard.
One thing I learned through all of this is to remember who you are doing the party for and to cherish every moment of it. Really. I look back on this day as fun for me, but best of all it was fun for Karidyn. That’s what matters. I’d have to say, judging by her reactions all day, it was one of the best days of her life so far… and that’s what makes me proud.
Hope you enjoyed the photos!
