A Quick Break - New Blog Design Coming SOON!

Hi friends! I am going to "take off" for a few days while I finish up the last minute details of my new blog design! I.CANNOT.WAIT! I am smitten with the new logo design and color scheme! {The above photo from KiKi La Ru gives a hint to the new palette}. Carolyn has been amazing to work with and I love all that she has come up with. I will be back soon with a tremendous giveaway to celebrate the new launch of P is for Party...hopefully in a few days!!!

{Real Parties} A Farewell Blackout Party

I get so excited when people not only send me children's parties and showers, but grown up parties too! So many of us spend countless hours on parties for our kids, that we forget to host fabulous shindigs for ourselves or significant others. This particular party was a farewell party to a group of friends who were saying goodbye to the apartment they shared together for many years. Meghan of Everyday Inspirations thought of a clever theme...a BLACKOUT party called "Farewell to 3930!"

The highlight of the evening was the DIY photo booth she created. Meghan typed up simple instructions and placed them in a baroque style frame to coordinate with the party theme.

A blackout party is such a fun and unusual theme! Checkout Everyday Inspirations to see more party pictures and to see what else Meghan has to say.

Sneak Peek: The Friar Tuck Cup

I am gearing up to attend a "Wimbledon Whites" tennis party on Saturday night and I couldn't be more excited! Not only is it a fun theme, it is being thrown by my good friend, Christine and her husband. If you follow this blog, you know that Christine throws spectacular parties. Her parties are full of style, originality and she never misses a detail. The party is being photographed by an amazing photographer friend of ours, so I will have fabulous pictures to share with you in the next few weeks. I might sneak my camera in and hope I don't look too foolish! But for now, I'll leave you with links to stunning parties Christine has planned in the past. Be prepared for some serious eye candy...

Perfectly Pinkalicious

Cirque du Sadie

Butterflies

Sadie's Christening

Olivia's Christening

I wish you could have seen the invitation and how it arrived on my doorstep! I opened the door one afternoon to see a small box sitting on our front step. When I opened the box, I found a tennis ball packed on white crinkle paper and the invitation placed neatly inside. The invitation was in the shape of a ball, of course, and it consisted of several papers which were held together by a small chain. It was one of the most amazing presentations I have seen! The incredibly talented people from Atelier du Papier designed the invitation as well as the other paper goods which will be used on Saturday night. I look forward to sharing those details with you too!

Hmmm...now I need to decide on my all white outfit!

{Real Parties} A Tea Shoppe Party with a Hint of Hello Kitty

One of my absolute favorite things to see is someone take a popular or conventional theme and give it their own twist. Bird Crafts did just that! She had been itching to create a party around Hello Kitty and here is her pink and red interpretation with a dash of aqua blue!

Hop on over to Bird Crafts to see more pictures from the photo shoot! Bird Crafts also has a wonderful Etsy store where she sells her creative party printables.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!

{Real Parties} A Wedding Day Picnic Full of Lovely Details

This incredibly gorgeous picnic is one of the loveliest table settings I have ever seen...and it comes to us all the way from Spain! The details are sweet and simple, but elegant at the same time. Nina of Designs by Nina styled a beautiful picnic table for her wedding...

I was thrilled to see this intimate picnic in my inbox and to discover Designs by Nina!