Mady is 5!

It has only taken me well over a month to post these photos, but I'm finally getting around to Mady's birthday party invitation! Mady Kate holds a very special place in my heart as she was the flower girl in our wedding, She is my best friend's niece and is like family to me. Needless to say I was thrilled to complete this project!

If you remember sometime back, I mentioned I was working on another "character" party. This was the one! Mady is a big fan of Littlest Pet Shop, so that was her theme of choice. Instead of going with the traditional royal blue associated with Littlest Pet Shop though, we opted for hot pink, pastel pink, black, & white. Basically we put our own spin on things! :) I also made this a 2-sided invitation, so either way you turn it, Mady was greeted with birthday wishes! Here are the pics...

Please stay tuned for the party "accessories" that were created to match the invite! I'll be posting those as soon as I can! :)

Landon is 2!

What an exciting project this was to complete! My nephew, Landon, just turned 2 last week and I created the invitations, centerpieces, and gift tags for his birthday party. The theme - Curious George! ...very fitting if you know Landon! :)

When the Curious George theme was decided upon, my sister and I both agreed that banana splits should be served at the party. Monkey, bananas - get it? :) ...and hence the reason there is a banana split on the invite! My sister also dressed up as the "Woman in the Yellow Hat" by wearing a spray painted sombrero. Yes, yes, we know its supposed to be the "Man in the Yellow Hat," but neither my brother-in-law, husband, dad or any other man at the party volunteered for the part! 

Pictured above are 4 of the centerpieces I created. We filled each one with bananas, in addition to the red shredded paper. The bananas were later used for the banana splits. ...and I guess you can tell from the picture of Landon that dessert time was obviously a hit! Oh the joys of being 2 and being able to smother your face with cake AND banana splits!! :)

On a side note, if you have kids, I highly recommend the Curious George soundtrack. I'm a big Jack Johnson fan and will gladly listen to it with my nephews any time they want. If only more singers like him made children's cds!

Thanks to Kelley and Chris for allowing me to help plan Landon's 2nd birthday! You guys did a great job on his party, as you do with everything. Jay and I can only hope to be parents as good as you two someday! ...and we can only hope to have children as cute!! 

*On a side note, this is the first of 2 "character" parties that will be featured on my blog. However, it is against copyright laws to sell these images, so please convince your children to have theme parties instead of character parties! ;-) I'm actually in the process of begging my 5 year old nephew to have a "clown" party next October. How fun would a circus theme be?!"

My First Works of Art...

Since April 17, 2009, I have had the pleasure of helping some very special people in my life by creating products for their special occasions – bachelorette parties, birthday parties, Christmas cards, etc. Below are a few pictures…

The passport, map, and boarding pass were for my friend Stacey’s August Bachelorette bash in New York City. I think it turned out quite cute, if I do say so myself! The idea was to take Stacey for a trip “around the world,” New York City style! Sadly, I was unable to attend the party, but I was able to create my first Social-o-logy project – a travel pack! It was so great looking at the pictures they took and seeing my passport make its way through the streets of NYC. They traveled to a Mexican restaurant, an Irish pub, an Italian wine bar - you get the idea! At each place she had a dare or a challenge and had to get her passport “stamped.” …An interactive bachelorette bash and Social-o-logy was a part of it!

…to top it all off, her wedding photographer, Jessica Monnich captured some amazing photos of my stuff and posted them on her blog! Jessica, I seriously can’t thank you enough!! Here is one of the pictures taken by her… I think I need to take some photography lessons - haha!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jessica!

P.S., You’re very gifted at what you do!! :) All the wedding pictures are absolutely stunning!

My second project was my nephew’s 5th birthday party invitation. …Let me tell you, the boy is OBSESSED with Star Wars! When my sister set out to plan his party, there was no doubt that it would be a Star Wars theme. I thought to myself, how can you make R2D2 and Jabba the Hut cute? I’m a girl, what can I say, I want everything to be “cute!” …and then I had the idea to make it an invitation that the kids could color! I just thought back to when I was 5 and how much I looooved entering coloring contest. To be honest, I don’t know that I ever won, but I do remember the girl that sat next to me in kindergarten asking if she could copy my picture. …so I must have been pretty good, eh?

Here are a few pictures of my nephew's birthday and the colored invitations...

...and as a side note, I’m sure you’ll see these boys on my blog many, many times! I’m kind of obsessed with my nephews! :) ...the one on the top right is Landon, and the one in the bottom center picture (with the crazy face) is Austin. That picture really makes me laugh by the way. He is SOO my sister's son!

…and then it was on to Christmas! Christmas kept me quite busy! :) I just love the holidays and I could sit around doing nothing but that for months. But I made myself focus and cranked out over 200 Christmas cards. That is definitely the biggest project to date! I think I had the most fun with my best friend Angee’s Christmas card…

When she told me that her husband and herself were headed to New York (see a trend? Haha!) for Christmas, I immediately thought – we should make you a “Merry Christmas From New York” postcard! I wanted to make it look like she had written a postcard to every person on her Christmas card list and sent it directly from New York City to their mailbox. I also wanted to put a vintage twist on it. I looove New York at Christmas and I just think its amazing how all of the Christmas traditions of that city have stayed in tact for years, and years, and years – which I wanted the card to reflect. ...and on top of all of that, my friend’s husband took the picture of Radio City that was used on the card! How cool is that?! I just thought it made it very personal. I made it, but it was his picture. It’s definitely one of my favorite projects thus far.

…and then it was on to our Christmas cards. As I’m sure you gathered by now, I love wedding, love dovey, mushiness. I just can’t help it! As newlyweds, I thought our card should reflect that. After all, you only get one chance to send out your first “married Christmas card.” (…and p.s., I came up with another idea while I was creating ours, so if you’re getting married or will be married by next Christmas, contact me! I’d love to bring that idea to life)! …but anyway, our card was us kissing under the mistletoe. The picture was taken by our photographers at our wedding , but then we put a Christmas spin on it by placing mistletoe above our head. …I thought the look on Jay’s face was perfect for that! :)

In addition to the cards, I made favor tags, cookie jars, labels – as I said, I was quite busy!

…but in the midst of all of the Christmas creations, I was honored to create birthday party invitations for my sister’s friend’s 4-year-old daughter. I just love the idea of a “Candy Land” birthday party. There are just so many things you can do with that! ..so with this one, we created a “lollipop” invitation. …this was the result!

I just think the absolute last thing you expect to pull out of an envelope is a big lollipop – which is why I loved this one so much! I just love doing things that are out of the ordinary and unique!

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