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Call Me Maybe Valentine’s Day Party – The Dessert Table

2013

Yay! I am so excited to finally share the full details of our Call Me Maybe Valentine’s Day Party we had a few weeks ago. I was just slightly obsessed with this song this last year and really loved when the Olympic swim team did their montage with the song. It really just cracked me up and I got thinking how cute a theme this would be for a Valentine’s party. Of course I love hot pink and turquoise together (Lauren’s room is in these colors) and an idea was born. I was SOO excited to team up with Mariah from Giggles Galore to design and style this party and enlisted a fabulous team of vendors.

I have a serious love affair with tulle right now! I swear it is one of my most favorite fabrics to use for a party simple because of the full effect they can create and over the last few years I have loved how photography backdrops can really add visual depth to a table much like fabric backdrops. I buy them in small sizes that fit perfectly for behind the table I am using. This one by Swanky Prints had this great damask pattern in the perfect colors!

Though this may look like a decked out table, it really is simple in the desserts we served. A store bought cake and cupcakes and some special macaroons and cake pops from some of our favorite sources was all that we used with splashes of some candy for color.

Our 3 layer white fondant covered cake was simple adorned with a hot pink band of ribbon and this cute “Hello” on top. The “Hello” was created using cut out letters on gold card stock and glued to gold spray painted toothpicks.

Our store bought cupcakes got some royal treatment too! Dressed up in our cupcake wrappers with matching cupcake toppers and the most ridiculously cute fondant coordinating cupcake toppers by Brittney of Edible Details. At the last moment I decided to sprinkle the cupcakes with some edible gold sprinkles. It truly glammed them up!

The cake pops were a work of art. They are so simple yet really packed a punch in flavor and in sprucing up the table. Made by Kris of Goods by kCreative, she sent us her newest flavor, Chipotle, and decorated the heart pops with edible gold glitter frosting; spelling out “Hello”. Oh how we had too much fun figuring out what to do with them and ended up using them in 2 places. Here next to our gold phone popping out of a paper wrapped box and laid out on a platter with rock candy sticks.

Even our strawberry milk glasses had to be off the hook! Fondant gold phones by Edible Details hung from the rims with striped straws with coordinated flags from our printable collection.

My favorite dessert is macaroons. I swear I could sit there and eat a dozen of them before you could blink an eye!! Mariah had these made in a strie of colors. Then we sprinkled them with edible gold dust I purchased at Michaels.

We had such a fun time planning and enjoying this party and next up is the activities and games the kids played! Stay tuned. . . .

1 week left before Valentine’s Day so snag your Call Me Maybe Party decorations and recreate this fun party theme for all those little Valentines HERE:

Amazing Vendors:

Styling: Giggles Galore & A Blissful Nest
Party Printable Decorations: A Blissful Nest
Photography: Alyssa Maisano Photography
Fondant Cupcake Toppers, Phone Receivers & Lollipops: Edible Details
Cake Pops: Goods by kCreative
Girl’s Shirt: Sweet Threads Clothing Co.
Girl’s Necklace: Dress It Up Shop
Balloons: Whimsically Detailed

Filed Under: Blissful Nest Parties, Girls Birthdays, Inspiration, Inspiration Photo Shoots, Valetines Day Tagged With: Call Me Maybe Party, Pink and Turquoise, Valentines Day Party, Valentines Day Shoot, valentines printables

{Event Recap} Dinner Party Ideas

2013

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This last weekend we had the pleasure of hosting some business guests for my husband over at the house. It was a little hectic of a day since we had had a birthday party in the early afternoon too but there is nothing like running all day to burn some calories before a big dinner!

On Instagram I had shown my choices for a table runner and I choose the navy Greek key print (can’t wait to use the other one for another party!). I think it was a good choice for an evening meal.

Since this was a more of a business casual meal we were not making it formal and decided to eat in our breakfast room off the kitchen.

I set the table using our rattan place mattes and Emma plates from Pottery Barn (we use everyday!). Then I mixed in some antique pieces to give some sophistication and elegance. I seem to do this in all my table settings as seen here and here! My Italian salad plates date back to the early 1900′s and my gorgeous vintage milk glass vase has an art deco look that was the perfect touch.

I created a short floral arrangement using store bought flowers. I love small arrangements on a table this size that can encourage conversation.

Pewter napkin rings and salt & pepper shakers are my staples for my dinner parties. I love the look of pewter!

I served a salted caramel cake for dessert with vanilla bean ice cream to finish the night off.

Needless to say we were all very full and tired!

I would like to thank Pottery Barn for reposting our dinner party picture on their site. I was extremely flattered and excited!!

You too can follow along in my daily life behind the scenes of ABN on Instagram. I am slightly addicted to this new form of social media!!

Filed Under: Adult Parties, Blissful Nest Parties, Dinner Parties Tagged With: Adult Parties, Dinner Party, entertaining, Pottery Barn, Table Decorating

Football Tailgate Party Reveal

2013

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Football parties are a classic party theme for your all American little guy! With the Super Bowl right around the corner, this is great for the upcoming weekend of sports! We sure do love a tailored and preppy party and were so excited for our latest collaboration with Michele of Sweet Threads Clothing Co.

Every little guy needs a football tee and how fun to have one for the girl’s too! Michele made these darling coordinating shirts available in her shop now. We designed the collection of printables to focus on footballs, stripes and the traditional colors of brown, grass green and yellow. That way we kept it simple and away from any team colors. The colors really made the table “pop”.

Read on for some fabulous tips from Michele on recreating this simple table scape:

We first placed down a piece of artificial grass we picked up at our local hardware store. We had them cut it the size of our table and it really is an inexpensive way to add an authenticity to the whole football theme. I think the piece literally cost about $5! The focal point of our table was a goal that my husband actually made out of pvc pipes. Again, from the hardware store and super, super cheap!!

For the sweet treats, popcorn in popcorn cones (part of the collection designed by Rebekah), simple vanilla cupcakes from the local grocery store, pretzels (we found the snack cups in Target for $2!) and delish football themed cookies and cake pops from Fun Favors. I Have A Favor sent personalized football themed water bottles for all our guests and we used those during the party and as their party favor!

The kids truly had a blast playing catch in the backyard, even my daughter who was the little cheerleader! What a way to get ready for the football season and the Super Bowl! Go team go!