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Ice cream + kids + parties = mess? You’d think so, but not with these clever darlings which I just love! Ice cream cone cookies, what a treat! … From Tradewind Tiaras.. just perfect for a pretty party theme!

Chocolate? You’re my weakness.. I think we might just be making this simple but delicious kit kat cake (from Made In Melissa’s Kitchen) for our next celebration.  So easy and so yummy!

How fun are these polka dot candy jars I found on Amazon? Perfect for a pastel inspired party or perhaps on your own kitchen counter? The cake style pedestals make them much more fun than regular candy jars.

We’ve been busy bee’s here of late. Not only are we busy with Spring and Summer weddings, but we celebrated Miss Ella’s 5th Birthday on the weekend. She chose our Buzz Buzz Bee invitations last July (while i was standing on a ladder decorating for her ladybird party!), and has done nothing but talk about her bee party ever since!

I was brave and made the cakes myself this time. Ella and I had fun in the kitchen playing with fondant – it’s the first time I’ve made a cake with fondant, so I’m happy with the way they came up! Some pics below of the dessert table and party, I hope they inspire you for things you can do with our buzz buzz bee party theme.

Food made for the dessert table included Honey Joys, Yo-Yo’s, Ginger-Bee’s and Buzz Cakes. Guests sipped on nectar and were given little ‘sweet as honey’ jars of sweets to take home. Entertainment was provided by Disco Pop Parties – the busy bee’s disco! And we finished up with a bee pinata.

The detail list

Invitations – Alannah Rose Buzz Buzz Bee Party Invitations

Printable Party - Buzz Buzz Bee Party Hats, drink bottle labels, tent cards, sweet as honey labels, by Alannah Rose

Empty Honey Jars – Star Gift Ashburton (these are plastic as I was concerned about glass and five year olds!)

Cake – Made by me! Fondant supplies etc from West’s Cakes

Bee Pinata – The Party Stop

Flowers – Camberwell Florist

Ella’s Bee Dress – The Kids Window (note these are large size dresses, we had to do some alterations to it for it to fit)

Garlands and Fabric – Spotlight – the garlands are wool – about $4.00 for 20 metres!

Bee Cookie Cutter – Baking Pleasures

Entertainment – Disco Pop Parties

A special thank you to Amy Atlas and her team for featuring our party today. Amy is a fabulous source of inspiration. We’re looking forward to seeing her book when it’s released and excited that she is heading out to Australia! Visit her blog for details.

I do wish Williams Sonoma would ship to Australia- especially when I stumbled upon this letter cookie cutter. The set allows you to write your own sayings on your raw cookies- what a neat idea to take a plain cookie into something personal.

This Paul Smith Evian water bottle (found via My Design Delights via Love, Obsess, Inspire) is such a fun idea for a party! I love the idea of wrapping your drink bottles in coloured ribbons. So easy but so pretty.

This such a fun idea from Sweetapolita if you have an artistic little one! What about icing a white cake and giving your birthday child an edible marker to truly create a cake that represents them?

The Party Parlour sent over this sweet little party theme they created using our little duck invitations & gift tags….

We love the sweet mix of yellow, black and red polka dots and the tower of delicious yellow cupcakes- topped with a red polka dot of course! All of the goodies in this shoot are available from The Party Parlour.

I think these spotty cookies might be making an appearance at our next party. So simple and effective! By SunshineBakes on Etsy

I came across this sweet idea via Family Chic, so sweet and simple. I’ve always loved these little paper parasols, would be perfect for the front door to welcome little guests to a Rainbow Party. See how to make your own here.

You may have noticed the Sunday Finds have been MIA. Well, here we are back with a fabulous find on a Sunday, but keep your eye out, they might pop up on any day now, Wednesday, Monday, whichever works!

One of my favourite finds for Alannah’s rainbow party was this amazing Snowball Wool. We strung masses of it together and it took on the form of a fluffy rainbow garland- perfect for adorning the dessert table and strung from the rafters over where our six year old guests ate their treats. The best part? You can find it at Lincraft yourself for about $3.50 for 25 yards!

Well here we are back from a lovely weekend and a fantastic and fun rainbow party!
Alannah had an amazing time, she was so happy the entire day, and I  thought I’d share the pics with you.

Keeping with our our rainbow theme and inspired by the book ‘You, Me and the Rainbow’ I introduced a heart element into the invitation design as well as some of the design elements in keeping with the rainbow ritual in the book ‘sending a rainbow from my heart to yours’.
We were both really excited about this theme, it was so much fun to work on.
Above: Our new ‘wrap me in rainbows’ party invitations created especially for this party; Miss Alannah loving every bit of her 6th Birthday; ‘wrap me in rainbows’ party hats
Above: Rainbow party hats – Alannah loves party hats, so these were a special request from her, now available as a printable party file;
Favours – guests were given ‘Cookie Love’ take home rainbow gingerbread hearts; The kids party table – one of my favourite things and a fabulous find that I used for this party were the garlands – you can’t see much of them in the pics, but I strung them all over the roof, mainly in white, with some bulk colour for the rainbows. These were not actually garlands, but strings of wool! Yes wool, it’s called snowball and you can purchase it in 25 metre lengths in a multitude of colours from Lincraft or Spotlight for around $3.50. A bargain!

Above: The Sweets and Candy Table – The hanging cloud with rainbow hearts was purchased from etsy seller The Rainbow Room, Clara very kindly adjusted the design to have hearts rather than rain drops for me; The Cake - I first saw the rainbow cake over at my lovely friends Hip Hooray, for instructions to make head on over to Whisk Kid. For our version I wanted Alannah to be involved – she finger knitted the wool decoration to wrap around the cake, and chose the unicorn on top out of selection of few cake toppers I found on etsy – this one came from the very talented Bunny with a Toolbelt. The number six was purchased from spotlight and I glued some printable paper with spray adhesive to the front so it would tie in with the other stationery pieces.

Above: The food - as we were having an afternoon party I didn’t want to make too many different dishes for the dessert bar, so we went with cupcakes – topped with the rounded tip of a candy cane, rainbow bark – white chocolate with crushed candy cane on top, heart shaped fairy bread – always a favourite, and rainbow striped gingerbread hearts – these took a fair bit of time to make, but I’m super pleased with the outcome even if I do say so myself! An assortment of coloured lollies were also added included smarties, jelly beans and twizzlers – rainbow coloured licorice!

Above: More sweet treats; Drink bottles – were dressed up with printable drink labels in our wrap me in rainbows theme

Above: The rainbow cake – it worked! It really is simple to make, and very effective – the papparazzi were in force!; Sweet Treats – I printed up little treat bags and filled with candy for guests to take home

Above: More Gifts - I couldn’t resist making up these  little personalised pocket mirrors to match the invitations. The poem on the hessian bag was ironed on with t-shirt transfer.

Entertainment - I wanted to sit back and enjoy the party this time around so I organised for Stephanie from Fairy Flutterby to entertain the guests. Stephanie is a fantastic entertainer and talented face painter. She kept the girls laughing with a magic show, dancing, games, facepainting and balloon sculpting – what more could you ask for! I highly recommend her.

More Details:

Stationery - All of the stationery items used in this party are now available for purchase through Alannah Rose as printable party files, you can view our ‘wrap me in rainbows’ printable party invitations and matching items here. So if you’re wanting to replicate this look, you can simply purchase the files and print off the paper pieces at home.

Twizzlers - from Sugar Station

Ribbon Cake stands from Tracey Lau

Rainbow Candy Cane - Big W

Cake Supplies – Wests

Rainbow Twine – The Twinery

Finally – A very special thank you to my mum, my husband, my two gorgeous girls that make me smile every day, my lovely friend Kerrin, and the mums that helped me on the day.

And finally to Amy Atlas who featured our little party on her blog today with the sweetest words – I’m so flattered! – I’m ever inspired by Amy’s work, and thrilled that she has featured one of our party’s again.