Cinco De Mayo

Fiesta! Fiesta! I'm a fan of Mexican food, so I'm looking forward to Cinco De Mayo. It will be a relaxing night at home, but it will be filled with salsa, guacamole, margaritas, and more! Here is some inspiration.

I love this homemade invitation. A little card stock, fiesta stamp, crepe paper & Voila!

This Martha Stewart party is simple, yet so festive! Click here for the details to create this exact look!

To go along with this awesome set up, Kim from the TomKat Studio created some free printables based on this party above. Click here to get your free printables!

To fill your margarita glasses, I suggest SkinnyGirl Margaritas! I'm slightly obsessed with these. I'm a girl who LOVES margaritas, just hate how bad they are for you. Skinnygirl Margaritas are definitely the solution! Low calories and taste delicious.

Enjoy your fiesta!

{Press} LSC featured on Pizzazzerie

How Exciting!!??!! The Barnyard Birthday Bash I styled for my nephew's 2nd birthday was featured on PIZZAZZERIE! Courtney's site is always a go-to site for inspiration. I look up to her as she is young and has created this amazing website. It's a very exciting day here!- Yippee!

In case you missed my post from the party click here!

Happy Easter!

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Peace, Love & Cupcakes

Lola's 7th birthday party was celebrated this past weekend. It was a day filled with Peace, Love & Cupcakes. Lola is very into the "Peace" craze right now. She has a Peace room, clothes, bags, you name it, it's peace. When I started planning her party, she told me she wanted a peace party. My first thought went to the tie-dyed 70's look and I didn't want that. I wanted to make it young, fun, and current.

When I started to plan the party, I wanted someone to create the printables for me. Immediately, I knew who I wanted. After seeing her son's winter wonderland party, I knew I wanted Rebecca from Fresh Chick Design Studio. Her work stands out to me, and I was so happy when she was willing to create everything for me. {By the way, she was an absolute delight to work with. } She took my vision and turned it into exactly what I was looking for. I couldn't have asked for anything better.

For the dessert table, I started with a purple backdrop and surrounded it with a bunch of different color paper daisy's. I used one of the poster's that was created for the party to be the center point over the table. It read- "Peace, Love & Cupcakes."

On the table were a variety of different snacks and candy. I came up with some names using terminology from back in the 70's.

I had glass vases filled with "Groovy Gumballs, multi color twizzlers, and button candy.

I saw these cupcake pops at the store the other day and knew I wanted to incorporated them into the party. Aren't they adorable? I used a ceramic white vase filled with gumballs to stick them in.

Also when I was planning the party I knew I wanted to a cupcake cake to fit the theme. The cake was HUGE! It was so pretty I didn't even want to cut it. I put the cake on a stand in the center of the table. The girls couldn't get over that it was an actual cake. It was so cute.

I made some regular size cupcakes too for the dessert table.

These notebooks were one of the only things on the table that weren't edible. I just thought they were too cute to leave out or put right in the favor boxes. I also had some cookies with m&m's for our "Peace out cookies."

What child doesn't love Rock Candy on a stick? I used the "rock on" term for these popular treats! The girls weren't straight to them.

These lollipops were my favorite! I found these during valentines day, and couldn't wait to use them! They were perfect! I also liked how they weren't the traditional round peace sign.

Love Machines? So cute right? I found these heart shaped gumball machines after valentines day and changed the gumballs to multicolor ones. I liked these because it tied in the "love" party of "Peace, Love & Cupcakes."

These Peace sunglasses were the only other non edible item on the table. They girls had so much fun posing for pictures with these on!

I wrapped individual Hershey bars with these printables.

These pops were also a big hit with the girls.

You must have Groovy water right?

For the table, I used polka dot plates for each setting. For the girls to know where they were sitting, I used the extra food tags to stick on their strawberry or orange sodas and added their names to them.

"All you need is Love" was a saying I thought of last minute but wanted for the party. Rebecca was so great in creating this on such short notice. I originally wanted it for a sign for photos, but last minute, I added two to the signs to the table. The table had fresh crazy daisy's in the center, and also cupcakes lining the table.

I used this "Happy Birthday" sign to greet guests as they entered the party room.

For the favor table, I found a Peace fabric that I really liked. I used that as my backdrop, surrounded it with hot pink tulle, and made three paper tissue balls to hang above. I used a "Happy 7th Birthday Lola" poster to hang in the middle.

Each girl was given a pink polka dot box filled with goodies! The girls went home with heart shaped sunglasses, a peace necklace, cupcake notebook, a couple peace theme pins, and a fun dip candy.

Last, but centainly not least, the birthday girl blowing out her candles on her special day!

Credits:

Styling: Live Smile Celebrate

Photographs: Live Smile Celebrate

Printables: Fresh Chick Design Studio

Cake: White's Bakery

Paper Daisy's, Polka Dot Plates & Favor Boxes: Polka-Dot Market

Peace & Cupcake Lollipops: Walmart

Back Drop Fabric: Walmart

Gumball machines: Target

Pinata & Peace Sunglasses: iparty

Stuffed cupcakes on table & cupcake notebooks: The Children's Place

Cupcakes: Live Smile Celebrate

Backdrops

Hi Everyone!

When I first started out planning parties, I searched and searched trying to figure out how people made these gorgeous backdrops for their tables.

If you are planning an event somewhere, you can't use their wall as your cork board and stick tacks all around it to hang your fabric. I never found a great answer to what I was looking for, so I came up with a solution myself.

While making cake pops one night at my sisters house, my brother in law gave me a piece of insulation foam board that he had cut to hold my cake pops up. He told me that he got it at the hardware store and they are very large.

{Light Bulb ON} These would be perfect for a backdrop. They aren't too heavy and the thickness is perfect. I'll just go to Lowes and buy a large one and cut it! Brilliant!

My first trip there I looked like a lost little girl trying to find what I was looking for. Luckily, a worker at Lowes helped me. {yes, he looked at me like I had 9 heads when he asked me what I was using it for} Once I found the perfect one, he offered to cut it for me, because they are HUGE. Of course that didn't cross my mind when I drove my little car there thinking I could just throw it in the backseat.

Of course, my first trip also had me outside trying to shove these boards into my car because he cut them too big! Thank god for the man parked next me who had a box cutter. {Yes, I got a lot of looks that day.}

Now when I go, I know exactly what I want and how big I want them.

So in one large piece, you can get two backdrops and some extra.

I have mine cut 40 inches long and buy two yards of my fabric that I want to cover it.

I use my hot glue gun to glue all around the backside of the board. You can dress up your board with banners, pictures, and so much more! The possibilities are endless.

I hope this helps a few people out there trying to find the perfect way to create a beautiful backdrop.

Easter Table

Easter will be here before we know it, so I wanted to share my table from last years Easter. I kept it simple and used pastel green, yellow, and blue colors. I first started off with making a the floral arrangement. I'd seen variations of this online before and knew I had to try and make one. Isn't it so festive? {These are the greatest gifts too}

To make, you need:

Two packages of peeps {the ones that stand up}

Two packages of jelly beans {so many great ones to choose from}

A flower bundle. {I usually use one of two packages of Tulips for this}

A large round vase

A small round vase

To make, start by placing the small vase inside the larger one. While holding the small one in the center, add jelly jeans around the edges making sure none fall into the middle vase. Once they are evenly spread out around, its time to add the peeps. You can use one color of peeps, two, or three. Here, I just used yellow, but you could alternate to make a pattern if you'd like. Take the peeps and place them over the jelly beans around the entire vase.

Once your candy is all in place, you can add your water and flowers. Fill the small vase inside up about half to three quarters full. Trim your Tulips so they aren't too tall for the vase. Add tulips to vase and you are finished! It's so quick and easy anyone can do it! Also not expensive!

For the table I started off with using a printed piece of scrap booking paper for place mats. This is an easy, and inexpensive way to dress up your table. I then placed a simple white plate one top. I used fabric napkins, with egg shaped napkin rings to go on top of the plate. I placed the arrangement in the center of the table and TA DA! Table Complete!

Well almost, I also went the extra step to create a few tissue paper flowers to hang above the table. These are pretty easy to make. They do take a little practice, but once you get the hang of them they are easy. Martha Stewart has a great tutorial here.

I hope you got some inspiration for your Easter table this year! I'm not hosting this year, so I don't set it all up. But wherever I do go, the host will sure be getting a Easter flower arrangement!

Purple Bridal Shower

A few weeks ago I styled and created this Bridal shower dessert table. The invitation had lavender and plum shades of purple, so I used those color throughout the table.

For the backdrop, I hot glued fabric on a foam board and added paper fan wheels in different shades of color. For the center paper fan I added a heart with the word "Love." I then surrounded the board with a purple lace.

I made everything for the dessert table. I made a mixture of chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting. Some of the cupcakes were topped with purple fondant shaped hearts. I also but cupcake toppers on the cupcake on the tower. They said expressions such as: "I Do," and "Love," More treats on the table that I made were chocolate covered oreos, cakes pops, popcorn boxes & Hershey bars wrapped with a personalized wrapper.

I had an assortment of purple candies in the corner of the table in candy vessels. I used gumballs, dark Hershey kisses, and jelly beans. There were also cake pops in simple white and purple colors sticking out of a white planter vase.

I found this great "diamond ring" paper weight while shopping one day and knew I had to use it for the table. I put the ring in a glass dish surrounded by purple decorative pieces to make it stand up. The ring sat atop the cupcake tower.

I used the same lace that I had surrounded the backdrop with to create a pennant banner using pictures of the couple.

The favors given to guests were heart shaped wine stoppers. I wrapped each box in a printed paper to match the theme. I then wrapped a purple ribbon around the box and glued a "thank you" tag on it.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures!