Watermelon Cake Made Out Of Real Fruit.

As parents, we've been trying to make a conscious effort to eliminate sugar in our daughter's diet. With her birthday coming up, she requested a cake, but we decided to make a watermelon cake and decorate it with fruit. This all fruit cake was a big success. Not only was it healthy, it was delicious, and she never missed having a cake slathered with frosting and baked with sugar. We used fruit that was in season at our local grocery store. Sliced up strawberries, cantaloupe cut outs, and blueberries were the perfect accessory to the watermelon base.

Confetti Pancake Breakfast.

For Easter we showed you a confetti cake we had made with the silhouette of a bunny on it. We love confetti here at Julie Ann Events. I have always thought a confetti themed bash would make a great first birthday party. It is a festive gender neutral theme for that first birthday. We are continuing the confetti theme for today's post as well.

Confetti pancakes. You don't need a fancy pancake recipe to make these. We used our simple buttermilk pancake recipe and added the sprinkles to each cake while the first side was frying. No matter what age you are, waking up to these on your birthday morning is an automatic celebration!

Superhero Snack Time.

 
We put together this "Superhero Snack Time" birthday party for my son who was turning 5. We kept the color scheme grey and green.

I cut out a giant number 5 from an old television box, painted it, and added a green border. Green balloons even got individual superhero masks.

We wrapped boxes with silver wrapping paper and turned them into little buildings. A friend of mine, Jenny Wilburn of Jenny Wilburn Designs (no website at the present) designed our party printables. She created a superhero that resembled my son which we used as our cupcake toppers. I made a little wooden peg person and painted it to resemble the printable image.

We served served Superhero Tootsie Pops as one of the snack items, using another printable for the cape. The children that attended the party each received their own superhero cape as well.

 

We picked the perfect superhero park in North Myrtle Beach to host our party. The jungle gym playground equipment just called out "Superhero" to us!

Blue Plaid & Lace Birthday Party (Twins).

For this party we made two smash cakes and a couple dozen cupcakes. I've been seeing these beautiful rosette cakes all over blogland, and thought it would be the perfect smash cake for the little birthday girl. For the birthday boy, I kept his cake simple with just accents of blue.

Blue Plaid & Lace Birthday Party (Twins).

Parties are all in the details. For our details we used paper doilies to create our "lace", making custom bunting, water bottle labels, and cupcake holders. We also made coordinating rosettes. A personalized sign was displayed in the vintage typewriter.

We spread out our doily table runner from the vendor challenge we participated in. To counteract the feminine lace aspect of the party, we strategically placed wooden crates on our table to produce a more masculine tone. Vintage glass bottles and an apothecary jar that held vintage buttons and wooden spools of thread were also part of the design.  

One other small touch we incorporated into the party were jars with the actual birth weight of each twin.  This allowed guests to get an idea of the difference in the two babies.

Blue Plaid & Lace Birthday Party (Twins).

We can now officially say we are an international company! And we are actively back in the party designing business. If you follow us on Facebook, you already know that this past summer was taken up with our personal life as we added a new daughter to our family. A few weeks ago we designed a small first birthday party for a set of twins in Canada. A boy and a girl. When I talked to the twin's mom she wasn't sure where she wanted to go in terms of the party. So we decided in an effort to keep expenses low, to do a small dessert table as the focal point.