More blog thanks

A quick but heartfelt thanks to the super talented Kate from Sambellina for featuring Olivia's party this week.

If you haven't seen her gorgeous range of kids partyware, do yourself a favour and check it out.

I used the pink and white and red and white for Olivia's party. I'm also planning of using thr preppy blue, red and white colour way for William's birthday in January. We are planning a Hampton's themed BBQ at twilight.

Thank you Kate for the mention!

Party favour bags

When planning Olivia's party the first thing I tackled were the party favour bags. I had in my mind exactly what I wanted.

At the moment Olivia loves to write her name, letters and lists. I thought this theme would make a cute favour.

In keeping with the colour theme I found little notebooks, pencils, erasers and the sweetest little sharpener for each of Olivia's guests.

I collected different fabrics and sewed the bags and found some cute little tags on etsy.

I love the way they turned out and our little guests enjoyed them too!

Image Sharnel Dollar 2009

My little girls magical day

I am so excited to share with you these beautiful images Leanne took of Olivia's 5th Birthday party. I couldn't recommend Leanne more highly. She is a gorgeous person and this shows in her work.

The dessert buffet was inspired by the one and only Amy Atlas

All images Leanne Stamatellos Photography

What a day!

Only one photo to share with you all just now of Olivia's party. I didn't take one photo myself, instead the super sweet and talented Leanne from Leanne Stamatellos Photography spent the entire party making sure each and every detail was snapped.

Photo courtesy of Leanne Stamatellos Photography

Party planning

While we are on the topic of Olivia, I'm right in the thick of organising her 5th Birthday Party.  I cannot even start to explain how much I love throwing kids parties.  I live for it.  

So here is the inspiration board for her party.  The theme is based around a colour palette of pinks, raspberry red and white.  Spots also play a strong feature.

Decorations - tissue paper pom poms from Martha Stewart (FYI she's my sister from another mother).

Invitations - pink spotted gift cards from Specklefarm with white grosgrain bow on front.

Table cloths - electic mix of spotted fabrics from eBay.  I'm in the throws of sewing these as I type.

Cake Topper - custom topper being handcrafted by lollipop workshop.

Party Favours - i'm making little fabric bags and filling them with a pink spotted notebook, pencils and eraser all from Specklefarm.

Entertainment - Princess Shahara.  She's teaching the girls arabian princess dancing, should be cute to watch!
Candy Buffet - i'm hoping to create something remotely similar to the images below.  Amy Atlas is amazing!

Image 2 via Amy Atlas