Valentines Day Spa Party

This party makes me wish that I has a girl too. Or at least had a girl to throw a party for. This Spa inspired Valentines Party is absolutley adorable. Perfect for girls of any age. Designed by ItsyBelle , there are no details overlooked. I love the idea of the loofah "sundaes" They make a fantastic favor idea & can easily be tweeked for other themes. I'm thinking ice cream social or pool party.

The best part is the party printable are available at ItsyBelle's Etsy shop for a very reasonable price. Here is the details of the her party in her own words. The link is to ItsyBelle's shop is at the bottom of the post. So take a look & get inspired.

And if you have a little girl that I can plan a spa party for let me know :)

 

Paper Lanterns from Luna Bazaar

Welcome inside the Itsy Belle Valentine's Day Spa!

A party complete with Moodylicous Children's Spa Products, sweet "spa treatments", Valentines printables, ruffles, and pink ombre!

From Mani-Pedis to Love Potion a spa experience is the perfect Valentine's treat for girls of any age!

Guests were welcomed with towels, robes, and Moodylicous favor bags complete with flower headbands.

Moodylicous Chocolate Face Frosting, Cotton Candy Body Mist , Cotton Candy Lotions

were also given to each guest!

*Moodylicous Spa girl logo used was created by "Simply Sweet Parties"

A Mani/Pedi station was setup and each guest received a Mani-Pedi kit.

 

The girls got pampered with Moodylicous Chocolate Sugar Scrub,

what says Valentine's Day more than chocolate!

 

What Spa Party would be complete without a variety of sweet Spa "Treatments"?!

Paint swatches were used with a heart punch to create the pink ombre heart bunting.

Another fun party favor with bath beads, loofah, sundae dish and spoon!

A "Love" Valentine's Cake Bunting tops a Pink Ombre Ruffle Cake

"Sugar Scrub Treatment" were offered consisting of pink marshmallows dipped in pink sugar

Heart

Heart shaped photo holders from Pier 1 Imports.

Valentine's Party Flags top the "Sugar Scrub Treatment"

*Moodylicous Spa girl logo used was created by "Simply Sweet Parties"

This sweet "Love Potion" was just the treatment Valentine's Spa goers needed!

 

Lettered Mini Marshmallows as "Marshmallow Love Letters", Pink Cotton Candy as "Sugar Cotton Balls", and Peppermint Neccos as "Candy Bath Bombs" were just some of the Valentine's and spa themed sweets

 

The girls ended their spa day with Moodylicous Wicked Chocolate Face Frosting.

Purchase Moodylicous Wicked Chocolate Face Frosting here!

Printables are available in Itsy Belle's Etsy shop!

Valentines Party Favor {How to}

These are really cute & look extremely easy to make! I would love to make these with my sons class. BUT, the new "no candy" rule, rules it out :(

Soda Shoppe Valentines Favor Tutorial- Vintage Valentines Party

Making these Soda Shoppe Valentine Favors is really a cinch!

You will need:

Sundae glasses {you can find them everywhere, even Walmart}

Valentine M&M's

A glue gun

Pink & white taffy {or any color you would prefer}

A styrofoam ball cut in half {make sure it fits the top of your glass}

Glue dots or scotch tape

The how to:

All you do is fill the glass with M&M's, place the styrofoam ball {cut in half} on top of the glass {securing the styrofoam with glue dots or scotch tape} & hot glue the taffy onto the ball!

I stuck a cute straw on top for an added touch.

Photography by Lyndsey Fagerlund Imagery.

You can fine more great  party ideas at Kara's party ideas

Goody Goody Gumdrop Party

Found this at Hostess with the Mostess  Soooooo many cute ideas in this party. This party was designed by Paper & Pigtails.  I love using the gumdrops as garland & the gumdrop cake looks super easy to make. Well....buy :) Here are the details from HWTM in the designers own words.

We are totally sweet on this bright and playful GOODY GOODY GUMDROPS themed kids party by Kori of Paper & Pigtails! There’s such a wonderful simplicity to the overall design that really makes Kori’s adorable gumdrop-patterned stationery details POP. This is would be a fabulous, approachable theme for both holiday parties orkids birthday parties year-round!

A few favorite details include the homemade candy & ribbon garlands and necklaces, DIY gumdrop t-shirt making activity {what a fun treat for the kids!}, and the super cute “gumdrop bouquet” fashioned from Blumeboxes and Pastry Pedestals. And as a certified frosting-lover {the more the better!}, I’m definitely loving the generously iced gumdrop-shaped cake, which serves as the perfect functional centerpiece for the dessert table.

Read on for lots more colorful eye candy + party details…

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PARTY DETAILS, as told by Kori…

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OVERALL IDEA/DESIGN:
When the idea of a ‘gumdrop’ themed party was brought up to me, my mind started swirling with ideas! One of my favorite things about gumdrops are their bright, festive, colors which led me to an nontraditional Holiday color scheme of orange, yellow, red, green, and purple! I designed the invitation first and it served as the inspiration for the whole party. I decided to design this party outside, both to bring in more color, and because I know there are many other places who are still enjoying beautiful weather and love taking advantage of it!

KID’S TABLE:
For the kids table, we put together 2 kids picnic tables and covered them with linens. At each place setting was a colorful plate, favor bag of gumdrops, and a personal lunch in a little kit! The centerpiece was a large gumdrop covered ‘tree’ and several smaller ones the kids made from ice cream cones by spreading them with icing and sticking on gumdrops!

DESSERTS TABLE:
If you have a gumdrop party, you have to have a lot of sweet treats waiting for after lunch! The center of the table boasted a gumdrop cake, and on either side of the table was a Blumebox holding ‘gumdrop buttons’. I usedPastry Pedestals to make the skewers. Across the front of the table was a variety of gumdrop cookies from Bees Knees Creative sitting on a bed of gumdrops!

ACTIVITIES:
The kids at the party can have a blast making their own gumdrop trees! We used sugar cones and let the kids coat them with icing, then stick on the gumdrops. The other fun activity we did was make gumdrop candy necklaces! The gumdrops are really sticky, so we could only string about 5 on before the thread got way too sticky to work with, so we used ribbon to tie onto the ends!”

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VENDOR CREDITS:

– Party Printables & Party Theme Styling: Paper & Pigtails
– Cookies: Bees Knees Creative

Red & Aqua Christmas Party

After finding the Maree Truelove printables yesterday. I am LOVING the red & blue christmas theme. Here's a party that I found at Kara's Party Ideas . The party was created  by Mon Tresor of Australia.

 

It's not your traditional color scheme, which I love. Here's what the creator has to say about her party:

Suzanna said, "This christmas table was simple, yet effective and featured lots of ribbons, nougat wrapped in twine, fresh cherries in baking cups on sweet stands, cinnamon donuts drizzled with coconut to resemble snow, white chocolate snow cones, gingerbread cookies and red rock candy.

I own an online store, Mon Tresor which is an emporium of accessories & party pieces for stylish young ones & adults alike!"

Sparkling Christmas Tree Cakes

I was looking up some holiday recipes & found this at kraft foods.com. These are so cute & look super simple to make. Especially for the domestically challenged like me :)

You can find the step by step video here.

What You Need

1 pkg. (2-layer size) yellow cake mix

1/4 tsp.  green food coloring

1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

1 cup  powdered sugar

1-1/2 cups thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping

16   peppermint sticks (3 inch)

1/2 cup BAKER'S ANGEL FLAKE Coconut

2 squares  BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate, chopped

1/4 cup PLANTERS Dry Roasted Peanuts, chopped

  Assorted Christmas candy

Colored sugar

Make It

HEAT oven to 350°F.
PREPARE cake batter as directed on package; tint with food coloring. Pour evenly into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round pans.
BAKE as directed on package. Cool in pans 10 min.; remove to wire racks. Cool completely.
BEAT cream cheese and powdered sugar with mixer until well blended. Stir in COOL WHIP with whisk. Spread onto tops and sides of cakes.
CUT each cake into 8 wedges to resemble Christmas trees. Insert peppermint stick into curved side of each cake for the tree trunk. Decorate with remaining ingredients.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Size-Wise

With their built-in portion control, these cakes make great holiday treats!

Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy Party

Featured Party by Dixie Delights!

OK! This makes me want to convince my 9 year old to have a Cowboy themed birthday party.
This party was put together by Amanda at Dixie Delights  She did an AMAZING job. I am especially in love with the rope name background! Here's a look at her party& the details in her words.
Great Job Amanda!! She has loads of great parties on her Blog so be sure to check it out :)

 

We rounded up ten little cowpoke friends and put them though an afternoon of cowboy training.  They had a rootin tootin grand ole time earning badges as they completed each phase of cowboy schooling at the W Corral.

As the cowboys arrived, they were greeted with a W Corral bunting and Wanted Posters (featuring their somewhat shady looking faces) nailed to trees coming up the drive.

First things first, the cowpokes got their grub at the Chuck Wagon.  We couldn't hardly have ten hungry trainees on our hands.

Immediately following grub and some hearty swigs of sarsaparilla, we corralled the cowboys into the "Git Yer Gear" station where Honey conducted a brief session covering who's who and each cowpoke's assigned cowboy name, where things are on the W Corral, some repeat-after-me cowboy lingo and then what they had to do to earn their badges.  Let me just tell you that they were completely rapt with Honey's presentation.  After the session, we broke the cowboys into their three training groups and they cowboy-upped with hats, bandannas and (darling) vests (hand made by Mother.)  A cow bell was too appropriate in both signaling the changing of stations and the summoning of the cowpokes.

First on the agenda was the Horse Riding badge in the Ride em Cowboy Relay Race.

Afterwards we broke into guided groups (thank you thank you thank you Mother, Uncle C, Auntie M and Honey) to visit the rest of the training stations.  

At Stable Hand Pony Grooming, the cowpokes were blindfolded with a bandana, spun around five times and then left to pin the tail on the horse.  On completion, the cowpokes earned their Pony Grooming badges.

For Boot Toss badge, the cowpokes took five paces back from the corn hole game and tried their hand at tossing bags though the hole.

To earn Steer Roping badges, the cowpokes tossed rope rings around glass Coke bottles painted to look like cows.

Strike Gold badges were awarded after the cowpokes panned for gold at the Feelin' Lucky Gold Strike station.

At the coloring saloon, cowpokes made their own Wanted Posters and earned Crayola Corral badges.

All cowboys need to know their way around the horses' shoe, hence they earned the Horseshoes badge after a friendly, no horsing around allowed, round of the game.

And after the cowpokes had made their way around all the stations, they came together again for a grand finale marshmallow shoot-out.  Honey fashioned a pvc pipe marshmallow shooter for each little cowpoke and they went to town waging a full fledged marshmallow battle.  These shooters were the impetus for the whole party, after the PCP fell head over heels in love with the one my Uncle John sent him nearly a year ago.

After the shoot-out, the little cowpokes were awarded their shiny silver cowboy badges as a symbol of their full fledged status and completion of training at W Corral.  

With all the activities behind us, we lit SIX candles and sang "Happy Birthday" to Gentleman Johnny. 

The dessert table boasted Bonfire S'mores, Snake in my Boot sour strips, Rope a Steer licorice sticks, Swing Yer Partner swirly pops, Cowpoke cake pops, a good ole fashioned birthday cake.

The Watering Hole served up Water fresh from the W Corral, Lucky Lemonade, Cowpoke Chocolate Milk and Sioux City Sarsaparilla.

We then bagged up the loose candy and used the cowboy's bandannas to pack up the rest of the goodies for the road, wishing them happy trails on their travels.