A shabby chic princess tea party...

Hello everyone.

I sit here on a lazy Sunday afternoon, watching the brightness of the sun slowly give way to the darkness of the night.  In comfy sweats, with a warm cup of tea to my left and my babies to my right, watching an old movie on TV.  Sunday in all its glory...

I mentioned in previous posts that I have been helping my sister with my niece's birthday party and today I wanted to show you a few of the details.  This was definitely a group effort as the women in our family came together with our different talents to create, in my humble opinion, a most beautiful magical party for a sweet little 6 year old...

Starting with the matriarch of the family, my sweet Mami - who has been baking cakes for us for as long as I can remember - and now continues to do so for her grandchildren... 

Her cakes are not only beautiful to look at 

but also taste delicious (gracias, Mami) 

My sister and I have similar taste and we compliment 

each other very well.  She has great attention to detail.

We wanted everything to feel feminine and soft and of course be budget friendly.  Buying this much fabric for such large table cloth would have cost a lot of money, so instead, I asked my mom to sew a seam on several plastic table cloths, which we then threaded rope through and gathered around the table.  This gave the plastic table cloth the illusion of gathered fabric.

She also sewed some ruffled 

crepe streamers together...

My dad found these cute little bottles at Walmart.  They contained pear nectar, which thankfully tasted  good since we had to drink about 36 of them.  My sister created and printed the sweet little labels which she attached on top of a doily.  So sweet...

My youngest sister - with the help of our dad and mom - made a gorgeous castle pinata, which was too beautiful to break.


Some water bottles covered with some of the beautiful Crafty Secret Paper.


My sister made some Popcorn cones embellished with a doily and pretty cupcake wrapper paper (shown here).


Even Cinderella made an appearance to the party....

A beautiful rose kissing ball to accompany the 

many, many tissue pompoms my sisters made...

Delicious merengues...

And more sweetness in 
the form of cupcakes...

We made a sweet canopy using a hula hoop some white plastic table cloths, tulle and ribbon.  We decorated it with butterflies and a sweet white dove.  We used the canopy as a photo booth, not only was the light perfect for pictures, but it also provided a perfect background...

We used a lot of items we already had at home and most of our supplies and decorations came from the Dollar Store, including the little bottles of bubbles you see in the white, carved wooden box...

The colours were inspired by this beautiful scrap paper printed from the Crafty Secrets CD.  The CD has over 92 coloured and black and white designs to choose from, but these fit perfectly with our theme. 

I can't wait to share some more of this very creative new product...say perhaps a giveway?  

It was so much fun putting this together, not only because (I hope) it turned out just like my sister imagined, but because it gave us the chance to bond.  


Thank you so much for your company today.


Wishing you a wonderful week!


much love,
Lucy 




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