The House of Normandy: Celebrations

Meg's Pink Parisian Poodle Party

From the moment she was born I had envisioned a pink poodle Parisian themed birthday party for my daughter's first birthday. With the food I went French all the way.

I served:

chocolate croissants-bought plan croissants and drizzled melted chocolate over them.
French macaroons (lovingly made by my sister, Nicola)
fruit with Brie cheese-a wheel of Brie cheese is $6 @ Costco
cream puffs-also from Costco.
pink poodle sugar cookies... of course.

As a tip Auntie Nicola's play list of French music added the finishing touch that the party needed.

The font I used for the Happy Birthday Banner is
Chocolate Box from Dafont.com
I also used that same font to make food labels.

adorable clothes pin cake topper doll made by none other than Auntie Melissa

For party favors my husband lovingly twisted pink and black balloons into poodles. Thank goodness for the hidden talents of my husband. They were cheap and the kids loved them.

Found the cute party hat at Hobby Lobby.
I just added the medallion and a little pink feather boa to it.
Tip: the "1" I put on using Velcro.
Next year I can take it off and Velcro a 2 on instead.

A Baby Shower for BreAnne

I was inspired by a website that my sister introduced me to www.bumpsmitten.com

For our brunch we had 3 different mini muffins, a yogurt parfait (served in a trifle dish, mini quiche and fruit

Each guest was asked to bring and infant hair bow to hang on our bow tree.

A seat in the shade for the guest of honor next to the gift table

paper pennants hung on the gazebo

A Royal Wedding High Tea

You are cordially invited to follow us as we plan a Royal High Tea in honor of Prince William and Kate Middleton's Wedding, April 29th 2011.

Invitations
Below is an example of the wording I used for the invitations. I followed the wording outline of William and Catherine's actual wedding invitations as my guide.

The Lord Chamberlain is commanded by

The Queen to invite

________Name of guest_________

to view the Marriage

His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales, K.G.

with

Miss Catherine Middleton,

at a Royal High Tea in their honor

to be held at (location)
Friday, April 29, 2011

at 6:00 pm.

A reply is requested to Casual Dress
Miss (name) In the theme of blue

I inserted a free clip art crown at the top of the invitations. When they were printed I added glitter to the crown and hand wrote each guests name on the printed line. Below is the finished product. The colors for my high tea are obviously shades of blue with accents of silver but feel free to do whatever color scheme you would like