Galentine's Day Photo Op Fun

I'm shaking my parties up this year. Adding some backdrops for photo ops, food carts, lessons and some entertainment planned for up coming parties. You're so going to want to be checking in to snag yourself some inspiration and see all the fun. 

For the Galentine's brunch  I got gold foil balloons  (loving them!) from Celebration Lane  and spelled out No Boys Allowed. This was a Galentine's party after all. I'm seriously loving these gold lettered foil balloons. Why didn't I start using them sooner? Good question. 

Don't my friends do the emoji face sooo well. I know right. They've nailed it.  Actually, I didn't think they'd want to be seen all over the net but I really wanted to share the fun we had with you all. And to get you wanting to create backdrops for your parties. I know, I'm so pushy right. Always wanting to inspire you to throw a party. 

As you can see, I haven't nailed the emoji face. That, and you've already seen me. I'm only all over my About page. Which if you haven't been to it you seriously should.

My friend took these pics with her cell and sent them to me so they're not super crisp but who cares. You can still see how much fun we had and how you seriously need a backdrop at your parties this year. 

Think you don't have space for a backdrop. Think again. My house is not large, I don't have a second living room, dining room or family room.  I set up the backdrop behind the couch and when we were all done eating I moved the couch out of the way for some picture fun. 

Add some props like tissue poms, glasses, disco balls, anything that matches your theme. 

Thanks for hanging out and having fun with us! 

Jungle Baby Shower Bliss

I love the shadow effect.

While many of you were prepping for Halloween parties on Saturday, I was at a baby shower for my cousin.  My cousin and her mom threw a nice party. Loads of food, yummy cake, fun games and cute decorations. 
Grab your Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate and enjoy the baby shower. 

Balloon greeting as you walked in the door

Diaper cake. Everyone who brought diapers was entered into a  drawing for a prize. 

My aunt had a great spread of food. No one went home hungry. 

Who's ready for some cake?

My cousin had blank bibs and onsies for every one to decorate.  What a fun memory :)

Congratulations Cousin!  It was a fun  and colourful shower.
p.s. my cousins babies coloures, hot pink and lime green were my husband and I's wedding colours. GREAT choice ;) 

30 Going On 13: Why Grow Up?

Hi everyone! I'm Stacy from the Cupcake Crusaders and I am so excited to be a guest on Fizzy Party to share my twin sister, Jenn, and my recent birthday celebration. For this particular party we were turning THE BIG 3-0 and knew we had to go all out. Being graphic designers we initially wanted to do fancy invites, over the top decorations, the works. Unfortunately life got in the way and we were left with just a couple weeks to pull our party together. Luckily we both reminded each other of what Fizzy Party always says, it doesn't have to be perfect, just try to add a little fizzy to your party to make it special. With this in mind we quickly put together a Facebook invite and started brainstorming ideas.

The past few years we've helped plan parties for a few 1 year old and 2 year old girls (specifically, my nieces). This has meant many trips to the party store and we always found ourselves saying "I want that!" while roaming the kid's isles. From there we had our theme: 30 Going On 13: Why Grow Up?

Equipped with our theme, we were ready to do some shopping. First on the list: decorations and dinnerware. If we were going to customize anything at our party we needed to know the color scheme so we headed to Target.

Of all the fabulous decorations they had there, we chose these plates and napkins:
 

We instantly feel in love with the bold bright colors and of course, the cupcakes. We got a great matching bunting to put across the top of the window and balloons for touches of color throughout the inside and outside of the house.

Being the Cupcake Crusaders, the one thing we were on top of was making and ordering the cupcakes:

We loved these glittery 3 and 0 candles. Not only did we need two cupcakes to hold each number, but we loved the that 2 cupcakes represented each of us. Those two blueberry lemon cupcakes were made by yours truly. Thank goodness everyone liked them! (And in case you are curious, yes, that is cotton candy below the cupcakes... Yum!)

These beautiful cupcakes were ordered from Weekend Cupcake, a "cupcake hobbyist" who we reviewed recently. These two were some of our favorite flavors: Chocolate Chocolate and Chocolate Toffee.

Since there were so many cupcakes we decided that a "Cupcakes-To-Go" station would be completely necessary:

Even though we didn't design invitations, we were able to use our design skills for some of the
smaller items at the party, like this sign above.

Other than cupcakes, we had lots of chips, candy, and other sweet treats (including frosted AND dipped animal crackers). Jenn saw this on a party planning website and thought it was a cute idea:

We don't really think that 30 sucks, but it was fun way to incorporate some of the candy into the theme.

My husband even surprised us with a couple fun things that went perfect with our theme:

A cupcake pinata filled with mini liquor bottles.

Mustache finger tattoos. I got to the pink one first.  :)

To really seal the deal on this being a party that could be totally appropriate for a child (minus the mini liquor bottles) was the make your own goodie bags station. This was so much fun to put together and everyone seemed to have a great time with it:

Some of the goodies included were cupcake crazy straws, candy flavored lip gloss, temporary tattoos, stickers, mini slinkies, jelly braclets, mechanical pencils, and flower magnets. It was awesome.

Even though this party came together in just a couple of weeks, I think it turned out incredibly well. Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves and appreciate all the small touches and best of all we both had a great time!

Birthday Girl Jenn on the left, and Birthday Girl Stacy (me!) on the right. The matching tank tops were an accident... we do that a lot...

Something I plan to keep reminding myself is that Fizzy Party is right, your parties don't have to be perfect, but when you can, try to add some special touches that will make it memorable and all your guests will have an amazing time.