{Product} Cars Birthday Line

I've been super behind on both posting to this blog and also adding all my new lines to my Etsy shop! Today's post is accomplishing both of these items! I've recently created a "Cars" themed birthday design by request from one of my customers. Her son is in love with Lightning McQueen and wanted this theme for his 3rd birthday. Here is what I came up with!



I think he liked it!

All the items pictured are now available in my Etsy shop as printables and ready made!

{Event Recap} LAPSG Magazine Cocktail Party

I was asked to plan a cocktail party for the Los Angeles Private School Guide Magazine this past spring. My client wanted all of her guests to feel really appreciated and loved. The cocktail party was being thrown to thank the school administrators for their support of the magazine. I decided to use lots of red in the design to give the party some warmth. I paired the red with black and white as a nod to chalkboards and the school affiliation of all the guests. I wanted the tie in to schools to be fun and subtle.

I used calla lilies, red roses and white hydrangea arranged in black vases as the floral decor. A trip to the LA flower mart and a little assembly in my kitchen created these centerpieces. I was really happy with how the color popped off of the black and white table cloths.


The food table was packed with lots of fun finger foods for everyone to enjoy as they drank and mingled. I used black and red chalkboard signs to label all of the food and the sandwiches were all held together with tiny heart toothpicks!


Of course, no cocktail party could be complete without a bar! Wine, Margaritas, lemon water and pink lemonade was served to all of the guests.


Vendors
Event Design: Enchanted Events & Design
Printables: Enchanted Events & Design
Photography: Mia J Photography
Client: Los Angeles Private School Guide Magazine

{Event Recap} Samarra's Bumble Bee Birthday

I'm in love with the photos Mia J Photography took of the bumble bee party I styled for little Samarra's 2nd birthday and I'm very excited to share them all with you. I really enjoyed working on this event. The soft colors were really pretty and I thoroughly enjoyed covering everything in cute little bumble bees.

The Dessert Table






Cake


Personalized Candy Bars




Cookie Pops


Bumble Bee Antennae and Invitation




Centerpiece, Personalized Water Bottles and Favors


Table Settings and Birthday Banners

The event was held at Amy's Indoor Playground in South Pasadena. I'd never worked with this location previously, but I will strongly recommend doing so in the future. The staff was fantastic! They answered any questions I had quickly and thoroughly. The biggest downside is the set up time allotted for each event. Most time slots only get a ten minute set up time, however, the very first party slot of the day (the one we had) gets a whopping fifteen minutes! To compensate for this short set up we were able to drop off items for the staff to set up ahead of time and they were very enthusiastic helpers!
Face painting provided by Amy's Playground and the birthday girl!

Vendors
Party Styling: Enchanted Events & Design
Photography: Mia J Photography
Printables: Enchanted Events & Design
Cake: Cake Sensations
Cookie Pops: Fenella Higgins
Bumble Bee Cake Pops: Enchanted Events & Design (I'll be posting a tutorial soon!)
Topiaries: Enchanted Events & Design
Favors: Target and Party City
Location: Amy's Indoor Playground

Link to the Inspiration Board for this event.

{Event Recap} Zzzebra 33rd Birthday Slumber Party

Since my husband was scheduled to be out of town for my birthday weekend, I decided I would have a big girly celebration! I know kids' events are all the rave right now, but let's face it, we're all just big kids at heart! I think everyone of us deserves a big extravagant party. So I unleashed the party planner in me and became my own client.

A few months back I found some adorable zebra plates at the dollar store. I loved them and knew I had to get them for some future party. These fabulous plates became the beginning of my theme!


With zebra on the brain, I chose to pair it with a purple and green. I didn't want to throw the traditional hot pink and zebra party. I wanted a different color scheme that would be fun, funky and girly!

Having a color scheme and girly slumber party theme, I set off to design the invitation. Invitation designing is one of my favorite aspects of party planning. It's typically the first glimpse into the party that a guest will get and I think first impressions are so important! For the finishing touch I used a standard white outer envelope but added a zebra envelope liner.


As I started accumulating items for the party, I was having difficulty deciding what to do for the favor, without breaking the bank. I had lots of ideas but nothing affordable. Then, I struck gold! I LOVE the Target bargain bins! I always peruse them whenever I shop because they have so many amazing, little, affordable finds. I found purple and black damask boxes, eyemasks in both purple and a black and white stripe, purple and black damask pedicure sets, lipgloss and nail polishes! I cleaned out 3 Targets to assemble my favors.


Next, I contacted Rebekah over at A Blissful Nest to help me design the rest of my printables. I sent her my invite and she re-sized it all for the rest of the printables and added a cute little black band to the design.


Sandy of Sandy's Baking Memories (soon to be Firefly Confections) agreed to design some cookies for my dessert table. She was amazing to work with. We emailed back and forth to figure out the design, then she let me know as she completed each step of my cookies, including emailing me pictures! They turned out so cute! I love the ribbon she tied to it.

I also relied on a few of my friends to assist me with filling out the food and dessert table. I knew I wouldn't have time to make a cake for myself so I called up my friend, Fenella. She agreed to create the fabulous cupcakes I wanted and they were everything I imagined and more!


I continued to look high and low for items that would create a fun, youthful and yet elegant atmosphere for the party. I lucked out because Target is currently FILLED with zebra prints. I filled out the rest of my decor with items from Ikea and Michaels. My favorite new additions, however, came from the fabulous Layla Grayce. I won a gift card to their fabulous store from a giveaway on Kate Landers Events and got myself some beautiful new serving dishes and definitely put them to good use.

My guests’ ages ranged from early 20’s to early 40’s so I really wanted an event that would be fun and energetic for the younger crowd and nostalgic for the older girls. Keeping that in mind I tried to design each room with a slightly different mood. The first room was the lounge. This room had a dessert table, beauty bar and a big comfy couch with lots of floor pillows in front of a roaring fire.















Brownie Hugs


Cherry Bon Bon Cookies


Grape Rock Candy


Cake Pops
(both had yellow cake but the purple was dark chocolate frosting
and the green was buttercream frosting)


Chocolate Covered Zebra Cookies (tutorial)
with Regular and Chocolate Milk


Candy Jars

Next was the game room. In this room I had "Dance, Dance Revolution" and "Guitar Hero" set up and ready to be played.



I also set up the snack and drink tables and displayed the favors.




Sangria, Apple Vodka in an ice sleeve and Scooby Snacks in ice shot glasses


Grape and Lime Jello Shots


Purple People Eaters and Apple Martinis



The final rooms were a make your own pizza station I set up in the kitchen and the dinning room, which was set with chargers so people could sit and eat as they finished assembling their pizzas.







Of course my favorite part by far was spending the
evening with some AMAZING friends and family!






Enchanted Events & Design: party styling, photography, printables
A Blissful Nest: Collaborated in designing the table printables and door sign
Firefly Confections: Eye mask sugar cookies
Fenella Higgins: Cupcakes