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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
We were Featured on iVillage
I am so excited our Tutus & Bow Ties party was featured on iVillage! Go HERE to see it and other party inspiration.
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!
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!
1st Birthday Party {Part 2}
Here are more of my favorite pictures from my daughter’s pink cupcake 1st Birthday Party.
Fondant cake and cupcake stand. With the help of my friend, Lacey, I was able to do my very 1st fondant cake (so don’t look too close!).
White chocolate (dyed pink) cupcakes on a stick
Pink marshmallows
This is the view from the back of the food table. We had the party at 11:30, so we served lunch in addition to all the goodies. Chic-Fil-A chicken nuggets, sandwiches we made with some good stuff from Newk’s Cafe (chicken salad, pimento and Newk’s Q… yummy!) and fruit skewers made by my friends, Lacey and Tara. Fruit dip… pink of course!
Birthday banner on the fireplace mantle along with the framed invitation and a cupcake in a cupcake stand.
We served Strawberry Lemonade and Cherry Limeade.
{Waterbottle labels that matched the party decor.}
I made these sugar cookies with royal icing. Turned out ok, but took a LONG time. Now I know why people who make these charge $2-$3 and up for these babies!
The party favors were strawberry or vanilla “cupcakes in a jar” for the guests to take home.
That’s enough for now! I still have a few more I want to show you, so those will come next. Sorry to overwhelm you with so many photos. At least I haven’t shown you the other 600!
1st Birthday Party {Part 1}
I am so excited! Here are the pictures from our little one’s first birthday party! This will have to be broken up into several blog posts, so this is the first of a couple. We’ll start from the outside and work our way inside. The theme for the party was cupcakes and of course, pink, pink and pink!
Outside, we made a large cupcake out of wood. I painted and glittered it to match the invitations.
I bought some tiny buckets at Michael’s craft store after Christmas and spray painted them pink. My sister-in-law made the pink vinyl polka dots that I stuck on the buckets… much faster and easier than painting dots! We filled the buckets with pink carnations. They lined our sidewalk to the front door.
{door sign on our front door to match party decor}
For Karidyn’s high chair, I made a tulle tutu for the front. Personalized plates available here.
I made the hat to match… and she actually wore it!
Too busy eating cake to realize it was on her head!
Those are all the pictures for today, sorry for not showing the cakes, cupcakes and food spread! Make sure you come back this week so you can see what’s inside!
Hope you have a great day!
Happy Birthday Baby Girl!
Happy Birthday to our sweet baby girl! It is so hard to believe a whole year has passed since your birth. It seems like you just joined our family, but at the same time it’s like you’ve been here all along.
These birthday photos were taken by Wynter Photography in Birmingham, Alabama. Wynter is quite amazing at what she does. I love all the pictures she has taken for us. She is quite talented!
If you’ve been wondering where I have been, I have been a little preoccupied with party planning, myself. Boy, a lot of work goes into a little one’s first birthday party! Tomorrow my to do list is full, but we are almost ready!
Hope you have a great day! We can’t wait to show you all our party pics! We’ll have them up next week.
