Quinceañera Cookie Bar

This Summer I planned, styled and hosted a beautiful celebration in honor of my daughter Melanie's 15th birthday with a cultural tradition, a Quince!

Today, I want to share with you her lovely Cookie Bar which we had filled with ideas around her favorite things and the celebration's theme of modern-country in pinks, silver and wood.  We had so many amazing vendors helped make this a special cookie bar for our guests and the Quinceañera. They all did an amazing job on their cookies celebrating Melanie and her favorite things.

I designed the Cookie Bar to have a rustic look and I was able to achieve that by using this sawhorse and rustic door table which is a rental from a fabulous local vintage rental company, Sisters Vintage Rentals in Knoxville.  Then I wanted to have a mix of vintage pyrex bowls, metal and wooden stands to bring in all the elements of the event's theme.  You will see horses on our cookies and decor because the lovely event was held at a ranch style venue and our guests were smitten with all the horses and beautiful grounds of The Reserve at Bluebird Hill.

Eye Candy Creative Studio handlettered some beautiful labels for our bar and Jubilee Knoxchalks a wonderful chalkboard about our birthday girl as well as our "milk and cookies"! See more of Laura's handlettered items for our party on her own post here, she designed our Menu, escort cards and more for the entire event.

Our cookies are Melanie's favorite song lyrics, her event logo created by Blush Printables which KJ Cookies placed on cookies, her favorite Disney Princesses, the event's hashtag, Hello Kitty, and many more including lace, boots and horses, her name and monogram!  All these elements that were found through the party were part of the cookie designs.  

Our table was decorated beautiful by our floral designer Sassafras Flowers and we found the cutest decor items to add as the metal M and wicker balls. We provided the guests with take out boxes for taking home as favors and also plates and napkins and pretty party supplies to enjoy the cookies at the party along with milk!

Illustrator Kori Clark designed a label for our Cruze Farm milk.  The illustration is of Melanie on her second dress and it's adorable.  We served chocolate and whole milk on cute vintage glass bottles.

I was so in love with the final look of the table, I'll be talking about this one for a while.  This event and the Cookie Bar were amazing, can't wait to share more with you from this Summer.

CREDITS:

Styling: In Flight Party Ideas

Photography: JoPhoto

Venue: The Reserve at Bluebird Hill
Vintage Rentals: Sisters Vintage Rentals

Flowers: Sassafras Flowers

Wooden Sign: Country Bliss Designs

Chalkboard Art: Jubilee Knoxchalks

Portrait: Expressive Moments Photography
Handlettered Labels: Eye Candy Creative Studio
Logo: Blush Printables

Logo Cookies, Ombre Cookies, Boots Sugar Cookies, Mini Masons: KJ Cookies

Chocolate Covered Oreos: Sweet Temptations
Lace Stacked Ombre Cookies: Frog Prince Cake & Cookie Design

Boots, Lace, Wooden Personalized Cookies: Bambella Cookies

Hello Kitty, Disney Princesses, Song Lyrics,
 Melanie on Second Dress Cookies: Semi Sweet Confections

Rose Sandwich Cookies: The Art of Cookies

Handpainted MELANIE Cookies: Taste of Art by Wendy Symons

Tassel, Hashtag, Horse Cookies by Nat Sweets Cookies
Milk Label Illustration: Kori Clark 
Milk: Cruze Farm

Happy Easter 2014!

Wishing you a happy and blessed Easter and a beautiful day!

~ from In Flight

Block color cookies by KJ Cookies

Block color eggs inspiration from CAKE

Doc McStuffins Boxed Celebration {Party in a Box}

 

I had the pleasure of packing this little party on a box for my niece a couple of months ago and wanted to share it with you here on the blog too.  I put it all together inspired by a Doc McStuffins book (because my kids aren't little and I don't know much about the show) but I liked the idea of bringing stuff from the book to the table as you can see with the different cutouts.  To give it a handmade look I made a ribbon garland, found sequins fabric for a runner and mixed that in with supplies from Party City.  The Cookies were created by KJ Cookies and I used the mini cookie hearts to top the gummy bears in the candy cups.  Since the birthday was for a 2 year old I added Kix Cereal on the push ups instead of sweets.  Her mom had a cake made just for her matching her theme at home! 

 

 

I made it all possible with:

1 shipping box

tablecover

runner

ribbon garland

signs/cutouts

table decor

favor bags

stands

buckets and platters for cookies

3 different food items: cookies, push ups and candy

 

Great idea to surprise anyone with any theme, any time!

 

 

 

 

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Sew in Love! {As seen on Polkadot Balloon Magazine}

Happy Valentines Day!!

 

 

 

What a better way to share LOVE with all of you than to share my Sew in Love inspired table for two featured on the cover of Polkadot Balloon Magazine!  Enjoy!

 

 

Visit Polkadot Balloon Magazine for a link to download and purchase the magazine and to see all the other fabulous ideas and recipes included!

Credits:

In Flight Celebrations - Styling, Design and Photography

 

Cake Topper - Taste of Art by Wendy Symons

 

Cookies - KJ Cookies