♥ First birthday party

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And eventually I managed to put together some pics of Giulio's first birthday party. The theme is elefant with red ballon, totally inspired by Dulce Sobremesa.I made wall decorations, table decorations and the cake and decorated biscuits! Yes I DID MAKE the sugar cake and biscuits, honestly I thought it was ore difficult but it wasn't, probably also because the decorations werent' very hard to make.

I just baked a Madeira cake (Francesca Sugar Art Recipe) and covered it with white sugar paste ( I watched some Francesca's video about how to cover a cake on her channel on Youtube). After that I just placed some blu elephants and red ballons on the top of it. I just had colored some sugar paste with my gel red and blue colors, flatted it with a pinroll, cut the shapes and pasted them on the cake.

And here some pics of the table:

I do love to organize this little party!!

♥ first bithday party

idea from Dulcesobremesa

♥ baby shower

Eventually I had Giulio's baby shower just in time, I mean, he was born 3 weeks in advance so just 5 days after his shower. I enjoyed so much arranging everything and also the party was really cute and was so nice to meet so many good girlfriends of mine. It was a really good laugh afternoon.

I love so much to organize party I'd like to do that such as second job/hobby!!! :-)

♥ how to make: halloween's pumpkins

Five days to go to Halloween and here you can find the last minutes tutorial to make your scary pumpkin lantern. I made one with a friend of mine Cla, she is so good at hand making these kind of things.

Here you can download the template, shape or designs to use for cutting your scary punpkin. And here you can see more pumpkins made by my lovely friend Cla

Isn't it so perfect!? anyway lets go haed and let me give you some tips to get it very easily.

Step by step:

1) First able the crucial point is to find the right pumpkin to cut: it could be soft and the size should be suitable for the template you chose. Of course you can also re-size the template adapting it to your pumpkin.
2) Cope the top where the stalk is (cut at 4/5 cm from it or less, it’s depends of the size of your pumpkin), the copped part should look such as a lid. Keep the lid!
3) Empty properly our pumpkin from seeds and stuff.
4) Put the paper of our template on the side you like, hang and fix it on the pumpkin with the help of some needles. Watch out! Make sure you put the needles in the part of the pumpkin you are going to remove so at the end you won’t find any little marks.
5) With a sharp and small cutter/knif notch and make a lot of little cuts on the pumpkin following right the shape of the design. Now you should see the design impress on your pumpkin in broad terms.
6) Start removing the biggest parts (without pay attention at the little details) then you can starting to refine and give a shape cutting precisely and minutely all borders. If you are in trouble, to get the best design out and to make the work easier for you, you can also reduce the thickness near the edges but don’t go too far! And if that is not necessary please avoid it. Don’t reduce to much the thickness otherwise the pumpkin becomes soft and it can wrinkle.
7) Here you go with the magic secret!! Put on all borders a bit of Vaseline so the edges won’t become black because of the air and also this avoids our pumpkin to dry too much.
8) Now put inside a candle and cover with the copped top. It's done!

Light it up and it’s Halloween’s night!! You’ll find something to suit your skill level!


Download printables here

♥ halloween

Hi all,

it will be HALLOWEEN in less than 1 month so lets celebrate! I selected just few little freebies:

- Invitations by perideaudesigns. Bridgett designed some cute and scary Halloween silhouettes!

- Topper cupcakes by yellows mum

- Idea: design a modern, sweet and scary Halloween tablescape with these easy DIY ideas and items from around your home.

But also a really nice and helpful idea:

- Trick-or-Treat Bag to Benefit UNICEF

Enjoy the halloween period.

♥ party time: baby shower memo

I love all these hues of blue, they are so cute, light and bright indeed. Here you can find a list ofthings to do and keep in mind to organize a successful baby shower. I'm not an expert in this parties but I did a good research among several blogs of party-planners and here I've summarized for you. You can find a wide choice of different thigs to keep in mind.

♥ Atmposhire
bunting, pinwheels, paper pompoms, pegs , music

♥ Card:
Save the date
Invite
Thank you for coming

♥ Printables
(choose theme, font, palettes)
food labels/signs, popcorn case, food toppers
sign/tag for cadeau

♥ Food
sweet food: cupcakes, macarones, scones, bignè, meringues, cake, jam
salted food: popcorn, tarallini, little sanwiches
candies: sugars bottons/dice, lollypop, jelly bean, chocolate,

♥ Drink
hot, cold and soft drinks

♥ Setting the table
cultery, tablecloth, napkins, glasses, plates, straws

♥ Petit cadeau
don't foget to be polite, give to your guests a present to thank them for coming. That could be such as something you hand-made, cookies bag, candies bag, cookies shape or let your mind to be creative.

That I got is it's really important to focus the theme of your party and choose the right pallettes of colors to use, every party should be full of vibrant and colorful details!

♥ flag toppers

I promise this is the last time i speak about flags and buntings but I coudn't help to don't make my own flags!!! I mede my flags to put on the top of your little sandwiches or simply food during your house party. I also add a writting so you can apprise your guests of wich kind of stuffing or ingredients there are in that specific sandwich or food. Nowaday there are a lot of vegetarina or allerging people so these my little flags can be helped.
So here you can find a paper with 4 different types of them in differnt colors too: Veggies, mayonnaise, meat and cheese.

You surely already know how to build and stick the little flags around toothpicks.

Click here to download the pdf.

Hope you like them! Print, Stick and Party!!

♥ flags&bunting

You already know I’m totally addicted of flags and buntings. So I went hunting for them around the web and I nicely found a lot of really cute handmade and super-cool things. I decided to do a summary of them such as a post and share them with you.

Some inspirations:

1) Cake Bunting by Kiki La Ru
Kiki La Ru's Cake Bunting makes cakes look extra special and festive! It’s really something special and unique, a real eye-catcher! She says: Every time I bring a cake topped with my Cake Bunting to a celebration, it gets a lot of 'ooohs' and 'aaaahs.'
2) Little Newspaper bunting by Corikindered
3) Valentine's Day Garland by Lavander. Use different type of papers and choose the size of the flags then sew them together and use them for embellishing your room adding a little love or paste them on your Valentine’s card, Valenine’s menù or use them simply to better wrap your gift.

Print and Party:

1) Free printable flags by Daily Suze. They come in 4 cute hues: coral pink, light teal, lavender, pastel green. Suze made 2 different sizes of them (big and small). You can find 4 sheets of printable paper bunting she has prepared for us!
2) free downloads by Creature Comfort. You can find here another set of bunting in 2 sizes (party bunting and food topper flags). Because of the used colors these would work great for a nautical themed party, a child's room decor or more, let your mind work.
3) Alphabet letters bunting by Ruffled, check my past post for all details.

Print as many pages as you'd like!!

Invitations:

1) Here my favorite finding, it’s really brilliant!! The Wedding Chicks offers us possibility to customize these gorgeous "save the date" cards for free at their website, I’m totally in love with the colors and those birds too! And also it’s very easy to get yours, go and try!

2) Bunting invitations and rsvp cards by Haley Dolan of Bread of Many . They are available for free download in three colors on Nonpareil Magazine.

3) If you don’t have time or you are simply no good at hand-making things you can have a look this website Tea For Joy where you can find invitations to buy.

Play and have fun!

♥ baby shower

Hi hi it's time for me to do outing: I'm having a baby very soon and you can't imagine how happy we are!! As every mum to be I'm getting crazy with clothes I'd like to buy (OMG gap has so many cute and marvellous miniclothes!!), things for fornishing the new room but I also think about party time! So the first party for my baby will be the baby shower and it is in December, I know it's really far away but I can't help to think about all this oh so cute things.

woollen booties by Frogginette

Actually in the past days I was blogging on my faves and I already found a lot of insipations but I don't wanna stop to glimpse in every nooks. Any Suggestion?

For sure a bunting can't miss at that party!

Here a little tip to make a very basic and easy bunting:
Materials:
Variety of cute fabrics
3 m of Ribbon
Scissors

Instructions:
1. Cut 12 long isosceles triangles from fabric. (basis: 20cm and height: 24 cm)
2. Pinch the flags with pins on the ribbon
3. Sew the top side of flags on the tape (you could also staple them)
4. Iron them

Enjoy!

♥ luxury eco picnic set

I LOVE eco and green and I definitely hate the plastic dishes. This is truly a brilliant idea and very cool too!!

Are you going to organize a party in the park? You are right maybe better an houseparty through this season (actually pic nic is my passion)!

Here you go and it will be really impressive just using them!!

On the left you can see some snaps about the pic nic pack but they sell also other pack for all type of party: the eco-friendly party pack!

They are 100% biodegradable so it doesn’t leave it’s mark on the environment. All stuff are contained in an easy-to-carry, recycled cardboard box that contains all the essentials for a gorgeous, eco-friendly bash and is available in a range of sizes to cater for as many people as you care to gather.

Finally this lovely eco packs are:

Biodegradable
Compostable
Sustainably-Sourced
Recycled
UK-Handmade
Organic
Fairly Traded
FSC Certified

It's definitely mine, I always look for the beauty!