This fun Pink Rockstar party is filled with lots of great ideas of food and activities for this party theme! It was put together by Gayle from I Will Invitations for her daughters birthday and she designed all the stationery.
I love the whole setup that Gayle created – the pink carpet (using a plastic tablecloth), the light towers and cardboard speakers!
The dessert table has so many creative items all linked to a rockstar party theme!:
Such a clever way of presenting some “drum stick” desserts:
Love how the guitar wings have been used on these tubes:
Fantastic microphone cupcake idea:
How cool is the record cupcake tower?!:
There was lots of fun for the kids with VIP passes, guitar decorating and dress up’s:
If you want to organise your child’s own Rockstar party theme, view my Blog post shopping guide here.
You can also find the link to the stationery range from I Will Invitations used in this party by clicking on the below image:
Pink rock star invitation and stationery – I Will Invitations
Credits:
Invitations and decor accessories: I Will Invitations
Cake: Kyliecakes
Guitar Cookies: Crumbs of Yum
Microphone Cake Pops: Sugar Pop Bakery
Candy: Big Lolly
Today I am featuring a 3rd birthday party involving some of my Queensland vendors from the Life’s Little Celebration’s children’s party directory (Credits at the bottom). You can meet a lot of these vendors in person at the Confetti Fair in Brisbane (Saturday 8th March)!
I love all the pretty handmade flowers and the delicate garden feel of this party.
All the details as told by Michelle from Hanging Pretty:
Lilly-Jean was turning three and seeing as she loved so many different things, I decided to create a “A few of my favorite things” party for her.
I started with her favorite book at the time called “Annie the Apple Pie Fairy” that features Lara Ede’s delightful illustrations and Tim Bugbird’s wonderful, rhyming text about a TV chef who makes simple, homey pies. One day, her position as the queen of pies is threatened by Sondra the Strudel fairy’s new show. An intense competition starts between Annie and Sondra, and sees their fairy audience become obsessed with Sondra’s fancy pies and the gadgets used to make them. But when the mass of new gadgets and pie-making machines causes a huge power outage, what will happen to all the pies, and will Annie be able to save the day?
We read to the kids while sitting up in the backyard. Then there were activities such as coluring in pictures of Lilly’s favourite things in the mini colouring books or swimming like her favorite fish, Nemo.
Exploring the garden, led them to discover mini dessert tables, allowing the children to feel like big kids for one day, as they could easily reach all the yummy treats!!
Joce from Memories are Sweet was amazing at creating the vision I had for all the printables and Lilly loved seeing herself featured on them too.
Helen from Baked created the most yummy treats and all the kids had fun finding all the sweets from their books too.
Everyone had a really lovely time and went home to eat up all the little take home lollies and then plant their own strawberry seedlings in the little hessian bags.
Credits:
Pink jumbo balloon and pale pink spotty plates by Saffy & May:
https://www.facebook.com/saffyandmay?fref=ts
Tutu & shirt by:
https://www.facebook.com/sweet.pirouette
Printables & Colouring in books from:
https://www.facebook.com/MemoriesAreSweet
Cake and Sweets by Baked Cakes and Cupcakery:
https://www.facebook.com/BakedCakesandCupcakery
Concept, Styling, Paper Flowers, Flower Garlands & Floral Balloon Tails, Floral Chandelier, Cake Bunting and Butterflies by Hanging Pretty:
https://www.facebook.com/HangingPretty
Vintage Props & Wicker Stand by Whimsy Petite Styling:
https://www.facebook.com/whimsypetitestyling
Linen from Creatively Bespoke Weddings & Events
http://www.creativelybespoke.com.au/html/index.html
Thank you for sharing this lovely 3rd birthday with us Michelle, filled with some fantastic vendors!
I’m thrilled to be able to share Rebekah’s 3rd birthday Ballerina party with you after it has been featured in the recent Confetti Fair magazine which you can buy at the show, news-agencies or subscribe online!
We held the party in November 2013 and went with a “Ballet & Bows” party theme as Rebekah’s daily outfit of choice at the time was always a tutu and bow and she loves to pretend she is a ballerina! I went with the colours of pink, peach and ivory and held a small party at home for her with a few friends.
When planning this ballet & bows party I chose to only use vendors from the Life’s Little Celebration’s children’s party directory! I do genuinely believe you can plan a wonderful party through using the directory and I didn’t need to look elsewhere.
All photos are by Nikki Fitt Photography who I highly recommend and I’ll talk more about the photography later.
Here is the setup of the Ballerina dessert table and children’s table:
The gorgeous ruffled backdrop, as well as the kids party table, chairs, kids tulle tablecloth and ballerina centrepiece were all hired from Little Wish Parties, and gave a lovely ballerina feel to the party! I just loved that ruffled backdrop which perfectly matched the colour scheme as well!
I love tassel garlands but wanted something a bit different for this party. The wonderful Sara of Pom Pom Princess designed the tulle tassel garland you see at the front of table along with the tulle pom pom spoons on the jelly cups:
I kept the table quite simple and symmetrical – it meant an easier setup which is important for me when I have 2 toddlers running around on the day.
The gorgeous cake along with the bow macarons, ballerina slipper cake pops and cookie stacks were all created by It’s a Cake Thing (by Jhoanee) and tasted as good as they looked!:
To keep the ballerina party theme going I used mini tutu’s from Tiny Tutu Cake Couture to wrap around the jelly cups and milk bottles. It created a really pretty effect – they are designed to be used on cupcake wrappers but I think they can work on a range of items!
The paper bows on the table were created by Penny Lane Studio who always creates such lovely decor.
I incorporated bows wherever I could to continue the “Ballet & Bows” theme, so hanging over the drink dispenser is a bow garland by PS Made with Love who created bow balloon tails as well (see photo further down):
Above the children’s table I created a cluster of hanging decorations – lanterns, paper fans and tulle poms which I bought from various party boutiques in my directory (Ruby Rabbit Partyware, Occasion by Design, The Party Parlour, Pom Pom Princess).
This was a lot more time consuming than I realised, trying to get the cluster/spacing just right! Thankfully this party was held at home and I could set this up the day before.
On the children’s table I used lace paper plates, and pretty bow spoons created by Bespoke Party Products. Around the milk bottles I wrapped the mini tutu’s from Tiny Tutu Cake Couture (you must visit their range if you’re planning a ballerina party!).
The girls loved having their own table to sit at and it actually made them stay in one spot and eat their lunch!
I loved the bow balloon tails made by Liv of PS Made with Love to continue the bow theme.
Liv also created a “Pin the tutu on the ballerina” poster along with personalised little tutu’s for the girls to stick onto the poster! They were stunning with tulle and bows attached :
I had organised a little tutu for each of the girl’s on the day so they could each feel like a little ballerina.
Nicole from Pretty and Print created the customised printables for this party
Personalised swing tags were made for each of the tutu’s with the girl’s name and character image:
For the invitation I wanted a mini story book to be created as Rebekah loves storytelling with people she knows. Nicole of Pretty and Print created this lovely story with her friends, telling the story of them being invited to her 3rd birthday party and Rebekah really enjoys this little invite/book we can still read after the party.
I cannot speak more highly of Nicole’s designs and service!
I printed these invitations and then bound them with twine to create a little book:
For the party favour along with the tutu, each girl received a tutu ballerina bag (from The Party Parlour) along with a bow and some ballerina goodies I purchased from Party & Co and Piece of Cake Parties & Celebrations. I always enjoy putting together something lovely for the kids to take home.
As mentioned before Nikki from Nikki Fitt Photography was the photographer. I couldn’t recommend her more highly as we were so happy with the photos she took of the party and the friends and family there.
She had wonderful rapport with Rebekah to be able to take some lovely single shots of her at the start of the party as well. She captured lots of special and fun moments. I’m always careful not to share too many personal images of my children on my blog otherwise I would love to show you all the gorgeous moments she captured!
By the way the cute little tiara party hats you can see my youngest Naomi wearing below were from Party & Co and were such unique pretty hats – highly recommend them for any girly party theme as the kids enjoyed wearing them!
Fairy Crystal from Diamond Fairy Parties entertained and enchanted the girls with her fairy ballet. I am so glad I booked someone for the party. With only 6 girls I was going to skip on paid entertainment. However having Fairy Crystal there meant that the parents could eat lunch in peace while the kids were entertained and enchanted and Rebekah absolutely loved the dancing, facepainting and games.
I did also run pass the parcel and pin the tutu on the ballerina (as mentioned above) however running these games with a group of toddler age children definitely wasn’t as easy as I expected which made me grateful I had organised extra entertainment.
We also had a table setup with some ballerina colouring in sheets and crayons for an extra activity and PS Made with Love designed the ballerina colouring sheets.
We honestly had a wonderful day celebrating Rebekah’s 3rd birthday! It was the smallest birthday celebration (numbers wise) we have had for one of our girls and it made the party very relaxed. Rebekah really enjoyed the company of her sister and 5 friends.
I hope you enjoyed the photos! It was a lot of fun to put this party together and with Rebekah turning 3 it was the first party she truly understood and appreciated.
As I was setting it up she kept saying “mum, it is so beautiful!”. Those words made everything so worth it because she is so beautiful and I hope the party reflected her.
Happy party planning!
xx
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
Today I am delighted to share with you a unique baby shower styled by Lettuce & Co. I love that it is based around a classic nursery rhyme which is always good inspiration for a baby shower. My favourite element has to be the drinks setting on the vintage pram and the sweet cake bunting to match the rhyme!
Lisa from Lettuce & Co writes – This gorgeous baby shower took us back in time. The time the nursery rhyme was sung to us by our grandmothers to the time we were singing and dancing to the rhyme ourselves with our little friends.
There is just so much to love about it with its vintage rustic theme. Despite the nursery rhyme’s old history the vibrant colours of the oranges and lemons bring it to life, which is what we were celebrating after all, a new life! Our client didn’t know what she was having either, so these colours worked perfectly whether it was to be a boy or a girl.
The rhyme in almost its entirety (for those that had forgotten it!) hung above the old wooden table filled with orange and lemon goodness and the vintage pram was a real find and works just beautifully as the drinks station, laden with homemade lemonade and flowers.
In keeping with the themes old history but celebrating the new life, we worked the cakes and desserts around the old and the new.
Tangy lemon curd mousse pots and layered orange cakes with buttercream topped with orange zest, ‘jam drop’ biscuits filled with orange marmalade and lemon curd and dusted with icing sugar had a real rustic feel to them, mini lemon meringues and the gorgeous citrus cake, with ruffles.
A lovingly handmade bunting by us girls with cut out children signifying the ‘oranges and lemons’ game took centre of the cake.
Credits:
Styling & Design, Floral & Stationery: lettuce & co
Cake & Biscuits: Cakes & Biscuits by Lisa
Desserts: Sweet Empire
Photography: Willem dirk du Toit
Thank you Lettuce & Co for sharing this event with us!
