Circle of Mom's - 25 Top Party Plannin' Blogs

We are super excited to be included with some of the world's best, for the Circle of Mom's 25 Top Party Plannin' Blogs!

We would love it if you were able to spend a minute (seriously, I promise thats all it takes) to vote for us. You can vote once a day, every day until 11th April.

You can vote here and we have also put the funky button on our sidebar.

Thanks everyone!

Dino-party-saur

Recently a client contacted us to put together a 'Little Occasions in a Box' for her twins 4th birthday party around a dinosaur theme.

It was great fun to prepare and worked fantastically well; allowing the client to style the party on the day of the event with her own touches, but knowing she had gorgeous and bespoke products to use at her finger tips.

Alex whipped up 50 of her delicious cupcakes, 50 cake pops and 50 dinosaur sugar cookies all in blues, greens and touches of orange. I designed a range of printables including; paper bunting, cupcake toppers, drink labels and decorative circles to match the favour boxes the client had already purchased.

Before we boxed it all up, we took a few shots...

Can't wait to do one of these again! If you are interested in some bespoke printables or delicious edibles (!) then please don't hesitate to contact us for a quote.

Cheers,

We have been crushed on!!

You might notice a new little button on our side bar this week... that's cause we have been crushed on by The Purple Pug!!

If you haven't heard about The Purple Pug and her crushes, then you really should go check it out. It's an 'experiment in nice' where she is featuring fabulous people from the party industry every day for a whole year! What a gorgeous idea and we are honoured to be a part of it!

You can read all about us over here...

We're over here today...

Just wanted to let you know that I am blogging over here at the Handmade Hullabaloo today! It's all about Easter decorating.....

Would love it if you dropped by!

Also...our Ladybird Baby Shower from a couple of weeks ago is the Catch My Party Party of the Day! You can see it here.

It's been an exciting day!

The Handmade Hullabaloo

The Handmade Hullabaloo....have your heard about it yet?

The project driven by Anne from Little Red Bus will be a community filled with creative types who love to share; their inspirations, DIY projects and insights into the worlds of events, parties, handmade goodness and kids - there really will be something for everyone!

Launching this week, The Inspired Occasion is so very excited to be a part of such a fabulous team of contributor. We can't wait to watch this project unfold and grow over the coming months!

Hope to see you over there!

Cheers,

Ladybird Baby Shower

There is something so special about baby showers; the opportunity to celebrate a new life, to spoil a new mum and to have a few laughs and champagnes with friends.

So, we were thrilled when we were asked to do a baby shower for a gorgeous friends 2nd baby. She knew she was expecting a girl and really gave us free reign to come up with something fun and stylish. How could we say no?!

We chose a theme of spring fresh colours with pink, red and a light green. A ladybird seemed a perfect fit, so we changed her around a bit and gave her a red and pink coat instead of the usual red and black.

For the afternoon tea, we provided a small savoury table and a small dessert table - perfect for 12 ladies.

The savoury table featured; hand made scrolls with delicious fillings such as olive and feta, as well as the traditional ham and cheese, hot pastries, zucchini slice and elegant finger sandwiches.

The dessert table included; carrot cake cupcakes with a dreamy cream cheese icing (can you tell this is one of my favourites?!), an assortment of slices, some mini chocolate cupcakes, fresh scones with jam and cream, white chocolate cake pops and some fresh berries.

The highlight of the dessert table though, had to be the divine cake that Alex made. It's a chocolate mud cake with a butter cream icing and dusted with a pink edible glitter. The design was inspired by this one made by 'I am baker'. As soon as we saw it, we knew our gorgeous ladybird baby would look divine lying on top of it!

We also set up a simple drinks station for the girls to toast the guest of honour. With buckets of champagne, decorated glasses and individual mineral waters for each of the guests, it was lovely to be able to carry the theme across.

And what's a baby shower without games? We provided a 'guess the baby in the bottle' game, a trivia game, a 'pin the dummy on the baby' game and finally, a baby ballot to guess the date and weight of the new arrival. The girls all got into it and had a lovely afternoon.

Finally - big congratulations to the guest of honour on the safe arrival of her baby girl. Mummy and baby are both doing extremely well!