Category Archives: Parties

french inspired party: favors …

November 9, 2012

So, I’m back sharing a few more details from Norah’s French inspired third birthday party.

Today, I am going to share the party favors with you!

We gave each of our guests a wooden berry basket full of some of our favorite French goodies, and items that match the party decor and colors!

Each basket was filled with: (Click on items for source)

Wooden Berry Basket
Wooden Excelsoir
C. Howard’s Lemon Mints
Dove and Hersheys Chocolates- Walmart
Lindt Chocolates- Walmart
Bonne Maman French Honey
Cotton Muslin Bags With Dried Lavendar
Milka Chocolates- Walmart
Small Toblerones- Walmart
Eiffel Tower Chocolates, made using melted chocolates,  an eiffel tower mold from Orson Gygi

It is a lot of fun for me to put together these party favors!  It is always fun to go around and see what I can find that fits into the party theme with colors and such!

I think it was the perfect way to say “Merci!”

To see more pictures of Norah’s French inspired party, see here!

{All photos by me, Caroline Armelle Drake}

halloween play-date …

October 26, 2012

Can you believe Halloween is almost here?!  It even snowed at my house yesterday!  The seasons are definitely changing around here.

I had a little Halloween play-date at my house this week for my kiddos and some of their friends!

 I thought I’d share a few of the pictures!

I turned some of these oranges “jack o lanterns” and they were a hit with the kids!  For some reason an orange is more fun if they look like a pumpkin! (inspiration here)

I also drew some jack o lantern faces on the fruit cups!

I threw together a really easy Halloween party mix.  It is also a great option for little toddlers since it has little pieces of cereal and other goodies that kids like!

Here is the easy recipe!

We gave some fun goodie bags with some Halloween loot to all our guests.

and, a few pictures I snapped with my phone, because of course I forgot to grab a picture of the spread after our guest arrived with all their goodies.

I used a glass bottle from ikea to put milk in, then added a little black felt ghost face!

And, we can’t forget our cute party guests all decked out!

The boys were very serious about protecting the planet, ha!

Hope you have a Happy and Safe Halloween!!

{all photos by me, Caroline Armelle Drake}

french-inspired party: watercolor invitations

October 13, 2012

I can’t believe that I haven’t shared details of my little Norah’s third birthday party that was in July?!
Time sure does fly by, and things get busy.

I wanted to first share her invitations with you.  I decided to go with a French-inspired theme for the party.  And, since France is full of talented artists, I decided to do watercolor invitations.

I printed black in onto watercolor paper, and used the watercolors to spruce up the invitations.

Be sure to check out the instructions, and full details on how I made the invitations over on my post on the Hellobee blog.

I’ll be sure to share more of the party soon!

{all photos by Caroline Armelle Drake}