About 1-2 years ago I did a mini shoot for the My Little Jedi magazine (now ‘One Lovely Day‘) and I realised I never blogged about it so now is the perfect time to share a little bit of this simple Christmas Eve setup
It is based around a milk & cookies theme and I set it up quite simply – as a mum, for other mum’s – using inexpensive items!
The idea was to have a little set up of milk and cookies to enjoy while opening gifts. This is a little tradition I grew up with – we would go to church at Midnight and come home and open presents at 1am in the morning. I loved it! Although you could use the same idea for a Christmas day morning or a fun milk/cookies for Santa setup.
I used different flavoured milk as well as milk with little tin pails of flavouring powder. Store bought cookies in simple cookie jars and also store bought confectionery (maltesers etc) in little cupcake cases. Printables were from Ham & Pea Design and Paperie
A little setup for Santa as well with milk and flavouring and some special cookies which were made by Denin of Spoon and Fork Cookies and Cake:
Hope you enjoyed the photos and it gives you a bit of inspiration if you want to set up a little snack table for the kids to enjoy while opening their gifts!
Let me take this opportunity also to thank all of you for being a part of Life’s Little Celebrations this year through reading the blog, being a part of the facebook community or being a vendor on the directory. I truly truly appreciate your support and all the connections I have made from this blog and directory. It was a risk to take the leap to have a completely new site designed as a directory but thank’s to everyone’s support it has all come together!
I wish you and your family a joyful Christmas together!
I will be taking a break over Christmas/New Year and will be back blogging from Monday 6th January
Guest post by Amanda and Carly of The Creative Journal
Christmas time can be so busy! A million things to do and never enough time to do them all. And then if you’re the one hosting Christmas – well it can get even more stressful! Which is why we put together a little Christmas dessert table that anybody can do and it can all be prepared ahead of time. Afterall – who needs to be up until 11pm on Christmas Eve baking?!
It is based completely around mini-desserts and treats to help keep portion sizes down and hopefully waistbands not too tight!!
We’ve also included some super easy DIY decorations that not only make the perfect table backdrop they can be used as little keepsakes to give your family and friends! Best of all…. No sewing required!
Food:
Now we did cheat a little and included some store purchased item (the pudding and tarts) – and if you do the same we’re sure you will be forgiven!
Caramel Slice (for recipe click here)
Mint Slice (for recipe click here)
Vanilla Cheesecake with Salted Caramel Sauce (for recipe click here)
Decorated Lindt Balls
Cranberry & Clementine Christmas Tarts
Christmas Pudding
Custard
Decorating Lindt Balls:
Now this is just about the simplest form of decoration we’ve ever done!
1) Paint the Lindt ball in edible gold paint & let dry
2) Paint Lindt ball with some piping gel and dip into edible glitter
That is all there is to it! You will find edible metallic paint, edible glitter & piping gel at your local cake decorating store.
Decorations
1 Vase
1 Bunch of Twisted Willow or similar (we got ours from the local florist for $15)
Battery powered fairy lights
Felt Christmas Decorations (See full tutorial below)
Felt Christmas Decorations
You will need:
– Felt of various colours (we used four colours – grey, white, fawn and teal)
The amount needed will depend on how many decorations you want to make. 4 pieces ~30cm by ~30cm would be ample to make 7 stars and 7 trees.
Card could be used instead of felt.
– Thread
– Craft glue (suitable for gluing fabric)
– Scissors
– Template (as attached)
– Pins (optional)
We made six trees and six stars.
How to:
Instructions for Tree
1. Cut the three triangles from the Templates
2. Pin templates onto the felt and cut out triangles
3. Cut thread 9inch long (23cm) and knot the ends together
4. Attach the knotted end of thread to the middle sized felt triangle with glue (take picture)
5. Glue the smallest triangle on top of the middle sized felt triangle and press down to affix glue
6. Glue the largest triangle underneath the middle sized triangle and press down to affix glue, leave to dry
Instructions for Star
1. Cut the two circles and the star from the Templates
2. Pin the circle template onto the felt an cut out the circles
3. Hold the star template onto the felt and carefully cut around (easier to hold than to use pins)
4. Cut thread 9 inch long (23cm) and knot the ends together
5. Attach the knotted end of the thread to the top of the large circle ensuring it is low enough that it will be covered with the smaller circle (take picture)
6. Glue the star to the smaller circle and press down to affix glue
7. Glue the smaller circle to the large circle and press down to affix glue, leave to dry
There you have it – all you need to create a super simple Christmas dessert table!:
Amanda & Carly are two bankers who much prefer playing in the crafty world! They have recently started The Creative Journal, a creative lifestyle blog where they share their inspirations in all things (food, home, parties, well anything!), crafty finds and creative chaos and are looking forward to launching The Creative Labs in 2014 because it is always much more fun to play with others!
I’m excited to share this gorgeous Christmas styling from Allison of Wild Rose Sweets & Styling , who is one of the vendors on the Life’s Little Celebration’s Children’s Party Directory.
As soon as I saw the images I knew I wanted to share this. I just love the combination of the pinks & aquas with silver as well as the meaningful touches Allison added through the prints and the words used on table.
All credits are at the end of the post. Hope you enjoy the images like I did!:
Such a beautiful cake with stunning toppers. Love the little baubles on the cake stand too – it is little touches like this which you can incorporate into your own christmas table even without a professionally made cake.
The little pots look lovely filled with Vanilla Bean Panacotta. You can buy similar pots here.
Allison made all the sweets including the Salted Caramel Macarons, White Chocolate & Pistachio Rocky Road and Coconut Ice
Love this idea of hanging a decoration over the candy jar for a gorgeous Christmas styling idea!:
Using the words of a Christmas song presented on a Christmas table really helps add extra meaning – I love this one that Allison used:
Too gorgeous right? I hope you received some inspiration and enjoyed the Christmas eye candy!
Credits:
Styling, Sweets and Photography – Wild Rose Sweets & Styling
Cake – Michelle The CakeChef
Printable – MillyBoo Designs
Cake Stands – Sweet Style
Apothecary Jars – Leo & Bella
Belinda and Renee from Sugar n Spice Party Printables are guest posting today on the blog with some ideas and FREE PRINTABLES for a black and gold NYE Party! I’ve also included some party finds to match the printables at the bottom of this blog post.
You can also follow my black and gold NYE Pinterest board here.
Enjoy!
Sophisticated NYE Party – Celebrations
All that Glitters – Black and Gold by Sugar n Spice Party Printables
Oh my where has 2013 gone, one minute it is 1 January the next it is almost News Year Eve again and time to start planning the party all over again. We have all bases covered for you, which include activities for the kids and ideas for adults too plus some ‘All that Glitters’ FREE printables which will come in handy for you and your guests.
How do you celebrate New Years Eve, do you take the kids with you and involve them in the celebrations if so here are some excellent ideas to keep them entertained for hours on end;
Countdown activity – Celebrating Family website
How cool is this and so easy to do, all you need is;
– Lolly bags/Tote Bags – which can be found on eBay, etsy or many businesses online sell them
– Draw a clock on the bag or print one out and stick it on the bag
– Buy some fun toys, lollies, or even set up a treasure hunt with a map or clues inside each bag
– Make sure you have enough activities for the amount of time you will be at the party for e.g. 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, etc
Another idea is to create a little kids corner table with paper, glitter, crayons, textas, pencils, stickers and paints where they can decorate the night away whilst having so much fun with their little friends and you can relax a little more knowing they are having fun and not destroying the house in question.
Kids art table by One Lovely Day with table and chair hire by Tiny Tots Toy Hire (Sydney)
Don’t know what to feed the kids? To be honest keep it simple and balanced with lollies, fruit, popcorn, chips, cupcakes, sandwiches – so a little bit of naughty and nice foods to keep the kids happy.
Perhaps put the fruit in cups or even on kebab sticks and cut the sandwiches into shapes for a bit of fun for the kids.
Fruit cups – Birds Party Blog
Party Pieces website
Also we can’t forget the cookies and milk! How cool do these look? So cute and easy to do:
Belle the magazine blog
Now something for the adults – FREE printables in black, gold and white.
Such a unique, elegant and classy theme for your 2013 New Years Eve celebration with friends and family.
To get you on your way Sugar ‘n’ Spice Party Printables has designed the following printables for you for FREE. Just e-mail us at: hello@sugarnspiceprintables.com.au
Your set will include:
– 2 inch party circles – Perfect for cupcakes, confetti, put on lollipops’
– Chocolate Wrappers – 100g Lindt Chocolate
– 2013 Bunting
Email hello@sugarnspiceprintables.com.au to receive your free set!
Party Finds for an All That Glitters NYE party:
Thanks Belinda and Renee for your printables and ideas! Here are a few party finds to accompany these printables to plan your NYE celebration:
Confetti bomb metallic – Ruby Rabbit Partyware
Star lanterns – Saffy & May
Jumbo black balloon with stars – Occasion by Design
Gold polkadot tassel garland – Ruffles and Bells Event Styling
Gold star tray – Ready to Party
Black star tags – Sugar n Spice Party Printables
Black star cupcake holders – Sugar n Spice Party Printables
I hope you enjoyed the ideas, printables and finds for NYE!
If you’re planning something with your kids in mind there are more kid friendly and game ideas in this blog post for a NYE party on the Celebrations at home blog.
Today I’m introducing you to one of my blog sponsors in the Party Boutique category – Just Party Supplies
I first discovered this party store when I was searching for plastic candy buffet containers online. I found their fantastic plastic candy buffet range along with an extensive range of party decorations, and kids party supplies!
Plastic candy buffet containers – Just Party Supplies
Besides their online store you can also visit them in store at 856 Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne.
If your child is after a character or themed party Just Party Supplies has a large selection of party decorations, tableware and plastic candy buffet supplies that can suit lots of various themes. Here is just a few:
Very Hungry Caterpillar collection – Just Party Supplies
Despicable Me party supplies – Just Party Supplies
Cat in the hat party supplies – Just Party Supplies
Peppa Pig favour box – Just Party Supplies
Besides all the various character and themed items, you can also find a large range of party items you can search by colour, such as hanging decorations, table ware and favour bags:
Blue paper fans – Just Party Supplies
Set of 3 pink lanterns – Just Party Supplies
Red chevron table runner – Just Party Supplies
Yellow chevron straws – Just Party Supplies
Cupcake boxes – Just Party Supplies
As I previously mentioned, they have a fantastic kid-friendly range of candy buffet plastic containers. This is the style I used for my daughter’s party:
Plastic candy buffet containers – Just Party Supplies
Here is a photo of how I used it:
Just Party Supplies also have a NEW selection of Christmas Kids stocking fillers, Christmas Party Decorations, Christmas Baking/Candy Supplies Tableware and gift wrap.
For all your Christmas and Kids Birthday Party Celebrations be sure to check out Just Party Supplies at www.justpartysupplies.com.au or you can visit them in store at 856 Sydney Road in Brunswick, Victoria.
I am sure you will find what you need for your next kid’s celebration and lots more!
