Vintage Teddy Bear Tea Party

Today I am featuring this precious VINTAGE TEDDY BEAR TEA PARTY submitted by Katie Nguyen Wells of Petite Social.

Here is what Katie said about her party- "This party was to celebrate my daughter Lila's 3rd birthday. Playing dress up and having tea parties are two of Lila's favorite activities so it was pretty easy to come up with a Teddy Bear Tea Party and hire The Bear Bus, aka, "Build-A-Bear" on wheels that comes directly to your house!

DECOR ELEMENTS:
I wanted vintage and romantic, but since this was a 3 year old party, it needed to have some whimsy. I envisioned soft palettes of pink, blue, yellow and cream with lots of lace, ruffles, fabric, doilies, pearls,
florals, and of course, incorporate teddy bear.

I partnered with Lindi from Love The Day, who was able to take my vision and create the perfect 'Frilly Tea Party' collection.

PARTY DETAILS - I created a dessert table, food table, and children's
tablescape for this event.
1) Dessert table
I knew I wanted to make use of a distressed dresser that I had found on Craigslist (for $5) as my focal point. It was a shabby and distressed piece of furniture that was absolutely perfect for what I envisioned. To get a soft, romantic and vintage feel, I created a fabric backdrop mixing
in lace, floral pattern, and chiffon. I also wanted to incorporate the DIY doily lanterns and globes I had made. The plan was to hang them, but due to time constraints, I ended up scattering on the floor and actually liked it even better than my original plan!

2) Food table
Since the dessert table was mostly lace and doily, I chose to create a ruffled food table and had a tablecloth custom-made (luckily my mom is a tailor!) to get the look and also created a ruffled crepe backdrop to cover the windows.

3) Children's Tablescape
I put two kids tables together to create one large square table for 14 little girls. Each setting included a doily wrapped tea cup, lace trimmed party hat, and pom attached to their chair.

PARTY FOOD:
I got to work with my favorite sweets designers on this party, Sugar High for Cake, JP Creatibles for custom-designed cookies, and Edible Details for cupcake toppers. Using the printable collection, all 3 designers came up with their creations.

Cake -- This was my 3rd time working with Brenda of Sugar High and another slam dunk. Going with my direction of incorporating a teddy bear wearing pearls and sitting in a tea cup, Brenda created the perfect centerpiece cake and sweetest looking teddy bear cake topper.

Custom Designed Cookies -- Jen of JP Creatibles is amazing and I was so lucky to partner with her on my 2nd project. Using the printables as the inspiration, she created 4 different cookie designs that matched the printables to a tee. The colors, the florals, and the lace and ruffles were the perfect addition to the dessert table and truly a sin to eat!

Cupcake Toppers -- Brittany of Edible Details is also a favorite of mine. She created both flat fondant toppers in the shape of a doily to match our invitation and 3D tea pot and tea cups. All the kids were fighting over the little tea set!

Menu-- A simple tea party menu was created to include 3 different types of tea sandwiches, mini quiche, tea cakes and cookies, vanilla meringues, fresh strawberries and cream, and green salad.

DIY and the little details:
There was a lot of DIY for this party! Following tutorials found online,
I created:
1) Ruffled backdrop using crepe streamers
2) Textured Fabric Backdrop mixing various textured and patterned fabric,
dowel, and commands
3) Paper Doily Lantern using paper doilies and lanterns
4) Fabric Doily Globes using old fabric doilies, balloon, and fabric
stiffener

ACTIVITY:
The Bear Bus came directly to our house and provided a very fitting activity for this party. For a full hour, each child got to pick out their own bear, stuff it with love, dress it up, and name it. The girls
had so much fun using their creativity. All compared names and outfits and then proceeded inside for a teddy bear tea party with their new friends.

PARTY FAVORS:
The bears served as the party favors, but each child also got to take home a custom-designed cookie from JP Creatibles.

VENDOR CREDITS & RESOURCES:

Event Styling: Petite Social
Event Photography: MoxieSox Photography
Custom Designed Party Printables: Love The Day
Custom Designed Cake: Sugar High, Inc.
Custom Designed Cookies: JP Creatibles
Fondant Cupcake Toppers: Edible Details
Entertainment: The Bear Bus
Dresser: Craigslist
Doily Lanterns/Globes, Lace and Fabric Doilies, Crepe and Fabric
Backdrops, Vintage China Set: Goodwill, Dollar Store, Hancock Fabrics: Goodwill

Pretty In Pink 1st Birthday Party

What is it about the color PINK….I am definitely a girl who loves it! Maybe it’s because I have ALL boys and need some femininity in my life! This PRETTY IN PINK 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY was submitted by Jamielyn Nye of I {heart} Nap Time.

Jamielyn said-- "I knew I wanted to go over the top with my daughter’s first Birthday party. This was my first party that I’ve styled and I had so much fun creating the party decor. The theme I went with was ‘Pretty in Pink.’

My daughter Emmalyn is just about as girly as they come and she LOVES pink. She enjoys trying on my pearls and her bows, so I wanted to tie that into the theme as well. I love to create decor on a budget so I found a lot of the decor pieces from Goodwill and upcycled them with pink spray paint.

{photography done by Momentology Photography}

My favorite upcycle was an old rusty chandelier I found for $5. I turned it into a beautiful pink cake stand trimmed with pearls. It completed the whole dessert table! You can find the tutorial here.

I also turned an old nightstand I found for $2 into a ‘Pretty in Pink’ candy station. I converted some dollar store glass vases by pouring pink paint inside and swirling it around. Then I filled them with fresh pink flowers to add to the dessert table. You can find both of those tutorials here. I created polka dot favor bags with ribbon and a thank you tag that they could fill with candy. At the candy station we had pink gumballs, sixlets, rock candy, gummy bears, suckers and bubble gum sticks.

I also spray painted a bunch of cute funky frames with pink spray paint to display Emmalyn’s photos from her first Birthdays shoot.

For the party we served pink lemonade, club wraps, chicken croissant sandwiches, chips, veggies, fruit and strawberry dip. I poured the pink lemonade in mason jars topped with citrus flower lids and pink striped straws. I wrapped each jar with ribbon, lace and twine securing it with glue dots. See the mason jar cups tutorial here.

The dessert bar was the best part! For the backdrop I hung up ruffle fabric with mounting tape and hung pommette’s in the center. I draped the tables with pink fabric and hung the ribbon banner across the front.

We had vanilla cake with strawberry filling, red velvet cake pops, royal icing cookies and strawberry cupcakes.

For the party we rented a princess bounce house and the kids had a ball jumping while the parents chatted and ate lots of cookies! The kids also had fun tossing balloons and blowing bubbles. Of course the best entertainment of all was watching our sweet girl dig into her first Birthday cake. We all snapped pictures with the Birthday queen and she just kept eating away.

I couldn’t have done this party with out the support from my wonderful family and fabulous vendors. THANK YOU!!"

Vendor Credits/Links:

-Studio Photography: Momentology Photography
-Styling and Photography: I {heart} Nap Time
-Cake, Cookies and Cake Pops: Sugar Deams AZ
-Invitations, Banner, Food Labels, Water Bottle Labels: Chickabug
-Ribbon Banner: A to Zebra Celebrations
-Pom’s and Pommette’s: Pom Flair
-Chandelier Cake Stand: I {heart} Nap Time
-Straws, Favor Bags: Cakes and Kids Too
-Bounce House: AZ Bounce House
-Mason Jars lids: We Love Citrus
-Funky Frames: Cut It Out
-Pink Candy: Oh Nuts!
-Pink Tutu and Party Hat: I {heart} Nap Time
-Ribbon: The Ribbon Retreat
-Ruffle Fabric Backdrop: Ruffle Fabric

Ribbons And Bows 1st Birthday Party

My next feature goes to this adorable RIBBONS AND BOWS 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY submitted by Suzanne Olvey of Fanciful Events. What a charming party! LOVE the theme. I'm so surprised I've never seen it before, it's so perfect for a little girl! This party is full of inspiration and is definitely a must see. All the party elements had so much thought put into them. Simply gorgeous, Suzanne! I'm so glad that we are cyber friends. Thanks for your submission!

Here is what Suzanne said about the party- "We recently did my daughter’s 1st birthday! After changing my mind several times and settling on a theme, I finally decided to go with a “Ribbons and Bows” because it seemed like a really sweet theme and also because it incorporated something frilly, girly and fun, exactly what little girls are! The invitation and the theme became realized when my sweet friend Kori from Paper and Pigatils helped me design and come with a sweet and girly invitation. She used bows, tassles, and bunting to give it a taste of girly and sweet! The colors we chose were the soft pinks, soft turquoise and touches of yellow. A sweet color combination to say the least!

We did the party in the middle of the afternoon so we went with finger sandwiches, donuts, pop corn, and lots of sweet desserts of course! We  placed the donuts, powdered donuts and the cupcakes, in pretty snack cups, berry baskets from Shop Sweet Lulu. We also had sweet cookies from The Cookie Jar that tied in beautifully with our theme. The adorable fondant toppers were made by Brittany from Editable Details...she also made the most adorable little duckie pull toy pulling a number 1 to decorate our table. We decided that donuts could use a little decor themselves so we dressed them and they looked absolutely adorable. We had assorted candy such as sixlets, rock candy and gumballs that were in our themed colors. Our gorgeous cake was made by Cupcake Couture. We decided to go with 2 two-tier ruffled cake to mimic the ruffles of little girls pettiskirts and dresses and decided to add a bow for that extra sweetness! It was just dreamy and so pretty! Our cupcakes and adorable little smash cake also came from Cupcake Couture. I saw a posting that Rosie from Sweetapolita, she made a sweet little cake for her daughter and I loved it so much that knew that was what I wanted my daughter to have as “her” smash cake. The dessert table looked so quaint, whimsical, sweet and girly!

For the decor we decided to add some vintage flair. I enlisted the help from the wonderful and sweet Carolyn from Sweet Tea and Linen, she made burlap runners with ribbons going down across the runners to give it that mix between the sweetness of the ribbons and the look of vintage. We had our candy displayed in varying apothecary jars and also we got this vintage yellow tray from Kara’s Party Ideas that displayed our eye catching blue rock candy. Of course how could we not have banners with a touch of glitter and sparkle? Kristy from The Purple Pug made the amazing banners with the right touch and amount and glitter. They added so much to our tables. We also got a vintage looking bunting banner from Starlit Nest that we used to hang our over the year gallery on. I found some adorable little mini suitcases that we displayed our bow shaped cookie favors from Polka Dot Market, they were looked so sweet on our tables and also held the utensils from Shop Sweet Lulu. We also bought our polka dot balloons & bunting banners from Polka Dot Market. The best little decor that we bought from Polka Dot Market were this sweet little pedestals that we used and placed cupcakes throughout our dessert table. We found this really cool antique looking candelabra that we displayed our cupcakes on and found this cool looking window at an antique store that we hung above the dessert tables with poms from Pom Flair. I found the lace umbrellas or parasols on Chasing Fireflies! I also had a dress form with an adorable top from Oh Fiddlesticks! Melissa designed the sweetest and cutest 1st birthday top. It had all the elements that tied into our theme. I decided to to use it as part of the decor because it was so cute and I didn’t want my daughter to ruin it.  I made a rosette decorated initial to add to the decor as well as this ferris wheel that had some of the powdered donuts on each “swing” We really tried to make this as frilly, girly, sweet, and vintage as we possible could and I think we accomplished that!"

Vendor Cedits:

Invitation and Printables: Paper & Pigtails

Banners: The Purple Pug, Starlit Nest Gifts and Photo Props, and Polka Dot Market

Tissue Pom: Pom Flair

Lace Umbrellas: Chasing Fireflies

Adri’s Top on dressform: Oh Fiddle Sticks

Silverware and cupcake cups: Shop Sweet Lulu

Polka Dot balloons, mini pedestals, and vintage suitcases: Polka Dot Market

Table runners: Sweet Tea and Linen

Cake, smash cake, and cupcakes: Cupcake Couture

Cookies: The Cookie Jar

Fondant cupcake and donut toppers: Editable Details

Photograohy: Amy Craft  Photography

Headband and bowtie favors: Enchantedly Yours

Yellow vintage tray: Kara’s Party Ideas

Flower Garden Girlie’s Day Out Party

This next winning feature was submitted by Sweet Rose Studio. This FLOWER GARDEN GIRLIE’S DAY OUT party is an absolute dream. These darling girls had a day out just like older “girls”. The setting under a gorgeous willow tree couldn’t be more perfect. Everything looks so pretty and sweet. Amazing job, Katie! Thanks for your submission.

Printables were ordered from the sweet TomKat Studio. Ruffled tank tops from Finley and Oliver. Head wraps from Vintage Rose Wraps. Cupcakes from Desert Delights. Cakes from Baked by Joanna. Cake pops and lollipops from Pink Cake Plate. Aprons and fabric bunting from Calle Lilly Cafe. Necklaces from CoCoMi’s. Tutu from Bella Ariana. Cupcake body spray from Pink Bow Bath Boutique.