{Real Parties} Little Aeroplane Party

I can't believe my little boy is 4 !!  To celebrate this year, we had a very small indoor "do" with family, his cousins and a couple of his very closest friends...

The best part of a party to me - is the building excitement for the birthday boy (and his big sister, event planner Miss Sambellina herself) in the party lead-up. We had so much fun preparing the treat bags together, making styrofoam aeroplanes, setting up the party table and planning the entertainment and games.
I love how completely absorbed and involved they both get with their birthday parties. Being simple and small, it was a lot of fun to put together.

Invitation by Sambellina, Cupcakes by Kiss Me Kate

The hero of the party were the amazing baked goodies custom made by Kiss Me Kate Events. I could gush all day about how beautiful the cupcakes and cookies were. I gave Kate a small brief and our custom designed invitation, and look at how perfectly matched these gorgeous cupcakes are !!!!! They were like little art masterpieces too good to eat, but all reported they tasted as great as they looked. Kate is an artistic baking genius.

Cupcakes and star cookies by Kiss Me Kate, Star Serviettes from Love To Celebrate, Partyware and Treat Boxes by Sambellina.

I would also like to mention the enormous generousity of Gaby from Love To Celebrate in Roseville, Sydney who sent me samples of styrofoam aeroplanes and aircraft party favours to make it so easy to theme everything up. The aeroplanes were great for our indoor air races (to a Top Gun soundtrack of course)....and the kids had fun making them up ready to race. Thank you Gaby !!

My first attempt at tissue pom poms as clouds. They were somewhat amateur but who says clouds need to be neat. Check out the Martha Stewart tutorial - easy peasy.

Retro styrofoam aeroplanes from Love to Celebrate.

A little party table with helium balloons. Kids really do love to find their initials and their personalised place before devouring the party food. We had a little blackboard runway in the middle of the table set out with some of Christian's massive aeroplane collection.

I remembered why I started up a party related business in the first place - they really are so much fun !!!
xx Kate

TRAIN PARTY DETAILS

Just to share a couple more of the party details...

Beautiful quality fabric bunting by Giggleberry Creations - perfectly customised to match our colour scheme.  

For lunch we had a sausage sizzle for everyone. Each child also had their own lunchbox, with a drink, biscuits, bottle of bubbles, and party blower which they got quite a kick out of. Lunchboxes and hampers are great as kids love "their own personal" box and you can prep in advance - putting in mini bagels or croissants, sandwiches, honey joys / chocolate crackles, chips, fruit .....anything.

"Playdoh" style fondant train on the cake made by me on a track of licorice and chocolate sticks. This was actually eaten up by one of the little party guests ( - ewww ).

Martha Stewart cake stand from Spotlight with striped ribbon wrapped around the edge.

Kraft lolly bags were from a $2 shop with ribbon stapled to seal the top with a train gift tag. Vintage style blue / white straws were from Mon Tresor (also available at The Party Parlour) with recycled bottles from Woolworths. Another hit was a portable hot water urn for cosy Winter warm drinks.  Sambellina partyware and tags.

A perfectly scaled down old fashioned mini railway all running on either steam or diesel. Most of the parents remembered coming there as kids too (and it wasnt just the kids squealing in the tunnels). For those in Melbourne, it is the Diamond Valley Railway....Great for a Sunday family day out.

xx Kate

CHRISTIAN'S TRAIN PARTY

What fun !! I had such a ball creating this party for my little guy....A bit of a challenge to pack up everything we needed in the "party bus" to get us to the railway with interesting clouds looming, but with a bunch of excited rugged up kids, a "giant" mini trainset to ride on and loads of food, everyone seemed to have a great time - especially the little grown up party boy.  All the details in the next post !!

xx Kate

SAMBELLINA PARTIES : CHOO CHOO TRAIN

My beautiful little boy turns 3 this week...and last weekend we had an outdoor (brrrrr) birthday party for him at a miniature railway park ! He had the best time EVER and was in complete amazement that all the attention was actually for him....I loved putting this party together especially as Christian was so aware and excited and could be involved, along with his big party planner sister in most of the organisation and preparation. More details on the way...!!

SAMBELLINA PARTIES : PARTY BIRDS

Nesting Mummy bird in the tree waiting for her little one to arrive...

Thank you take home cake boxes to carry home extra afternoon tea goodies.

My sweet friend is about to have her first baby and her sister put together an intimate afternoon tea to celebrate and asked me to help her on the creative styling part of the project ...of course I jumped at the idea, especially as my friend loves "finishing touches" and appreciates lots of details. What fun I had..and I was so happy to be able to help her family give her a warm memory to treasure.. Here are a couple of the ideas to share from the little soiree...

A super simple fondue recipe from the ever fab 4Ingredients cookbook.

Using her favourite Sambellina Party Birds invitation as inspiration we chose a taupe / chocolate, red and white colour scheme. First thoughts that came to mind were chocolate, strawberries and marshmellows....which then led to a yummy orange chocolate fondue served with skewers of strawberries and marshmellows along with many other afternoon tea treats.

Flowered Chocolate Royals

 Sugar flowers attached with melted chocolate. 

Notes for Mummy and Baby in a keepsake box.

I cant wait to meet her little mini-me..... xx Kate 

SAMBELLINA PARTIES - TRAIN

The party planning bug has hit again, and I am thinking about my little boy's birthday coming up in June. It is FREEZING then in Melbourne, and chances are it will be miserable - brrr, but I am taking bets on the weather and hoping to set up a cosy (?!) outdoor BBQ at a miniature ride-on railway (where even adults get a kick out of it). Scaled down diesel and steam trains with tunnels, stations, signals and bridges. Christian is mad about trains (choo-rains) and our Sambellina "choo-choo" train invitation was designed especially with him in mind. First step was to order some gorgeous custom bunting from Giggleberry Creations - isnt it perfect ?

And...just as I have put on the planning hat on for all things train, up comes this super gorgeous train party below for added inspiration from the  The Party Dress - how adorable is that train ride ? Check out the details here.

                  

Next stop, I have speak to somebody about the weather !!

xx Kate

Sambellina Partyware Parties - Blue / Red and White

Following on from my recent post about loving the red, white and sky blue colour combination together, Katena sent me some photos from her little man's 4th birthday party. Lots of polkadot goodness to be found....I'm also loving the cupcake stand - who can ever get enough of that stitched ribbon ? Most of her goodies were purchased at one of our very stylish retailers - Details Details ! Check out more over at her blog.

I absolutely love to see any party photos where Sambellina has helped style up the party scene....thanks Katena. xx

Sambellina Partyware Parties - Red

We went to a birthday party for a super gorgeous 1-year old on the weekend. I forgot my camera, but here is a little happy snap of the effort my sweet friend went to. I especially loved the ribbon around the chocolate mousse and frog-in-the-pond cups, and the roving ladybirds - all to tie in with red polkadots. (PS. My Sam is in the background with her hands on some of the many delicious baked goods consumed - my hands were usually on the Mars Bar slice - mmmmmm)...  xx

Sambellina Partyware Parties - Red and Pink

Recently, Sharnel from The Cupcake Company and My Life My Loves created the most delicious looking party setup for her daughter Olivia's 5th Birthday. Her party dessert buffet looked absolutely beautiful and made it onto the gorgeous party blogs of the styling genius Amy Atlas and the uber stylish Party Perfect.

Sharnel complemented her colour scheme with some of our new Sambellina partyware and sent them to me so I couldn't resist popping them on here. Check out our red and pink polkadot tableware in action below.

The divine photos were taken by Leanne Stamatellos and as I popped into her blog for a squiz I discovered lots of stunning pickies - I absolutely love this one with the balloon below - dont you just want to skip along with this little darling ?

Simply Gorgeous...

xx Kate