Party // black, white, + gold birthday party

I’m excited to finally share with you the details of Thomas’ second birthday party. (um, he turns four in a four months. ?) I’m not sure what took me so long, building a house and moving has really kept me busy this past year and a half, but I’m happy to be back to blogging more regularly!

I wanted to do a party with black and white with gold accents. I made a pinterest of my inspiration here.

My little Thomas loves little toy animals, so I incorporated them into the party by taking some I found at the dollar store and painting them gold with gold spray paint. An easy way to add a lot of fun detail to the party.

I also spray painted a cardboard box to give the table some levels, and I put the cake stand on it.

My friend Aubry who owns Hello Maypole felt balls came over and helped whip up a felt ball garland. It added the perfect detail under my Happy Birthday sign.

I gave the spray painted Lion a little party hat that I made with black and white cupcake liners from Bake it Pretty, and a little gold fuzzy ball top.

I made a little dessert table with treats that matched the party. I added some gold washi tape around the rim of my cake plates to add a little extra detail. And, I also made some macarons with a chocolate ganache filling for the dessert table.

The macarons and gold chocolate coins also served as the party favors for our guests to bring home in a little black and white striped box.

I used some Ikea Sofia black and white striped fabric for the tablecloth, and dressed up the table with some of my milk glass collection, and some simple white flowers.