Shipping Out 1st Birthday Supplies

 A while back a dear friend of ours from high school asked if Liz and I would create a party package for her daughters 1st birthday and ship them to her in Sacramento.   Of course we jumped on the chance to help her out.  She sent me a picture of the plates and cups that she already purchased and asked if we could come up with some ideas based on her color schemes.  We made a happy birthday sign and banner, cup cake picks, food tags that she filled in, a banner for her sweet shop dessert bar, and we customized a banner for her to add pictures of her daughters first year.  She did an amazing job decorating for the party and we were fortunate enough for her to send us some pictures of her event.

Happy Birthday Banner, The cupcakes with the red fuzzy cherry is my favorite part!

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After

Picture Banner

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After, don't you just love her tissue poms?!?!

Birthday Sign

Sweet Shop Banner

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After..again those poms are amazing

 Extras, Food labels, Cup Cake Picks and  Cup Cake Tags

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After..ok we want to steal this fruit cup idea..aren't these really the cutest thing?!?

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This is how we shipped it out

And lastly the proud mama who made it all happen

Thank you so much Simona for asking us to make some paper goods for your daughters birthday!!!

Sometimes we have our own parties

Obviously Liz and I love planning parties, so much so that we will make any excuse to have a get together.  We are pretty fortunate that our husbands enjoy entertaining as much as we do. A while back I bought an In Home Wine Tasting from Living Social.  I was pretty excited when I scored this deal that I immediately began planning the menu.  I talked to a few of my wine connoisseurs, since I am most definitely not one. Ha! Anyways, they helped me figure out what cheeses, fruits, and nuts to pair with the wines that were being brought to my condo.  After 2 days of prepping and a lopsided homemade cake, I was pretty happy with my food spread.  The Wine consultant even called me a gourmet chef, HA!!! She must not get out that much.  Jk.  Here are some pictures of our fun night in.

This is the cheese, nut, and fruit, table. 

The cake plates featured on this table can also be purchased here

Of course the boys were the first ones to hit up the food table

The Dessert section

A close up to my lopsided cake

Our Party Favors

 I found these glass tags at Cost Plus, aren't they so convenient to be able to tell whose glass is whose?!?!

And I will end this post with a picture of me and my girls

Chucks 50th Birthday

A very dear man in our life, Chuck Vargas was turning 50 and his wife Lisa asked Liz and I to help set up and decorate for his bash. 

Because Chuck LOVES the 70's rock music and the Raiders, Liz and I decide to go for a disco 70's silver and black party.  We decorate with old records my dad had hiding away in his garage. (my husband David went through the box first to make sure I wasn't ruining any good records and to see if there were any he could add to his collection) I know this post is late (he he he) but we were very lucky that his birthday was in December.  We were able to find a ton of silver Christmas ornaments as well as some ornaments that looked like mini disco balls.  So with our new finds and many items our of our collection we were able to decorate a fun party for Chuck.  Here are some pictures of our event.

We love Pinterest!!! We were able to find this idea on Pinterest for the gift table. Although I should have let Liz do it, because she is the crafty one and it would have been 100 times better, I think it came out ok.

Lastly, Chuck LOVES apple desserts.  If it has apple in it he will most likely love it.  We enlisted some of our friends to help us create a homemade apples galore and more dessert bar.  We added the more because there are a few..and I mean few... other desserts that he loves that do not have apples in it. Here are some pictures....

Well that's it for Chucks Silver and Black Disco Bash.  Hope you enjoy