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2010
Alannah Rose Party – Ella’s Lovely {ladybird} Garden Party (ladybugs)
categories: alannah rose parties, baby, parties
My lovely little ladybird turned 4 last week and we celebrated on the weekend with a Ladybird party. I didn’t want to do a heavy red and black theme, so we decided to turn it into a Ladybird Garden party, going for a natural look and incorporating lots of pretty garden colours. Ella received a beautiful lavender fairy dress from her Nan which she wanted to wear for the party, so we used this as an accent colour alongside reds and pinks, but keeping the ladybug elements in their red and black.
Considering it is winter in Melbourne, and freezing, it was necessary to have an indoor party, so we decided to bring the garden inside! The dessert table was covered in artificial turf and our garden party grew from there!
Above: The dessert table, covered in artificial turf set the scene for the ladybirds garden; Wooden lady bugs dotted amongst the foliage; homemade cupcakes; Alannah Rose Lovely Ladybird Invitations; Ella’s Ladybird Birthday Banner
Above: Homemade gingerbread flowers potted in watering cans; sweet pink lemonade bottles with paper straws (from details details); the birthday girl
Above: Party Food – Potted Gingerbread flowers; Jelly beans; potted marshmallows and tiny toadstools; fairybread flowers, cupcakes; marshmallows dipped in chocolate, Yum!
Above: The beautiful two layer ladybird birthday cake was made by my very talented Mum! (thanks mum, so much it is exactly as I imagined x)
Above: little party guests enjoying the fare; pretty pom pom flowers adorned the roof of the kids party room for a garden feel; the children’s party table was set with ladybird antennae (homemade) for the kids to take home (plus ant antennae for the boys) and ladybird garden colouring sheets (free printable colouring sheet file available with purchase of our lovely ladybird invitations on request) and potted gingerbread flowers
Above: Also in the party room were the loot buckets – filled with plastic magnifying glass, ladybird clickers (remember those old fashioned metal ones?), lollies, blowouts and balloons – ‘fly me home’ were the instructions from miss ladybird; party games – a jar full of chocolate ladybirds went ‘missing’ each child was handed a net to catch the ladybirds and bring them home. They were then divided up and tied into the nets for the children to take home with their lolly buckets. This game was a big hit with the kids!
Other games included pass the lucky dip – my variation of pass the parcel – rather than wrapping prize upon prize into paper, I put individual prizes into paper bags which were passed around in a larger gift bag for the children to ‘lucky dip’ when the music stopped.
Supplier list:
Invitations and stationery – Alannah Rose – Lovely Ladybird Party Invitations
Stripey Straws – Details Details
White buckets – Holly Lolly
Flowers – gorgeous Kale, Rosehip, Roses and Magnolia leaves all from Camberwell Florist
Cake – made by my Mum! Ladybird sugar decorations from Cakes around Town
Nets – These are fish tank nets – I sourced them from a local $2 shop, and Cheap as Chips
White Ceramic Pots – Ikea
White Watering Cans – The Reject Shop
Lollies – Toadstools from Coles, Large marshmallows used on sticks in pots Campbells Cash & Carry
Mini Glass Bottles – These are empty Vittoria Juice Bottles – thanks to Sharnel and my twitter friends for the heads up on these
Special thanks to all my lovely friends and family – mum for all her help and the amazing cake, my husband for putting up with my bossiness, prue (gigi & lulu) for her inspiration, ideas and help on the day, Adrienne & Tim for the turf, and Kerrin for extra vases I needed at the last minute! Plus hugs and kisses to all Ella’s little friends that helped her celebrate and make the day so special.
Happy Birthday Beautiful Bella, I’m glad you loved your party, your smile and excitement bring me such joy! x
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July 27th, 2010 at 3:35 am
Beautiful! I love the ladybird theme and the tiny ladybugs really bring it to life…Love it!!!
July 27th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
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July 27th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Love love love Alannah. Such a gorgeous party. I love all the lovely details.
x
July 27th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
OMG Alannah, you blow me away again with your amazing talent and eye to detail! Please, please let me share…too late!
July 27th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Another beautiful party – so lovely – congratulations. Leanne x
July 27th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
oh my heavens! love the party to bits! too cute!
July 27th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
once again you have excelled yourself.Such a busy mother and business women
and still able to SQUEEZZZZZZZZZZZZin the time for such a beautiful event.congratulations to you!
July 27th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
This is, Oh So Cute!! Love the green turf grass!
July 27th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
where did you get the turf from? my son is having a gold party and i love this!
thanks
July 27th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
one more question- where did you get the rectangular tall platter?
thanks
July 28th, 2010 at 2:16 am
What a beautiful party!
July 31st, 2010 at 6:29 am
What a perfect party, I adore ladybugs and all your details are amazing.
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:52 am
Spectacular! I love all the little details the have been thought of.
Can you tell me where you got your glass bowls with the lids? The ones either side of the cake?
Thanks so much!
August 4th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Thank you so much everyone for your lovely replies.
it was sitting under the girls beds, I balanced it on some upside down pots from ikea.
Ok, some answers
Turf, they have similar at Bunnings, you can buy it by the metre.
The Platter – it’s actually a shelf
Dawn – of course you can, would love you too! x
Apothecary jars – the place I got these from doesn’t have them any more, but if you google apothecary jars you should find plenty!
Thanks again lovelies x
August 5th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Wonderful party! Can you tell me where you got the lemonade bottles… thank you so much!
August 6th, 2010 at 10:00 am
I LOVE your set-up! The grass table runner is beyond fabulous!
August 8th, 2010 at 3:34 am
You never cease to amaze me with your beautiful designs!
August 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
I love how you set up this table- it’s perfectly stunning! And I totally love the shelf stand! Brilliant! I’m so doing that for my next party!
August 8th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
The details and design are really beautiful. My daughter has now requested a Ladybug party for her 4th birthday party, which will be in October. Thank you for for the inspiration.
August 9th, 2010 at 5:26 am
Wow, Suzi! This is wonderful! I found you through Chris’ post from Celebrations at Home. I love the turf runner and love all the ladybug touches!!! Glad to have found you!
August 10th, 2010 at 3:29 am
Every little ladybug detail is adorable. I especially love the little nets!
August 10th, 2010 at 4:37 am
Gorgeous! LOVE the turf tablecloth!
August 13th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
This is insanely fantastic…..
August 13th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
love it soooo much!!
where did you get your birthday banner printed/purchased?
August 18th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Wow you did a fantastic job. Love all your party creations. I am planning my daughters 1st birthday in November so you have given me great ideas. Only problem is I have to many ideas, it is all so good.
August 21st, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Love i! You are so talented. I loved the Bird party and have been waiting to see what you came up with next. Love it all!
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 am
Where did you find those super cute marshmallows (if that’s what they are!?) Everything is just adorable! Love, love love! xo
October 29th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Love this party!!
I have been looking for the fish nets but cant find anything. Looked in cheap stores around my area, pet stores (too large and expensive) and even online. Can you tell me what store you got yours from.
With thanks!
October 29th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Hi Jodie, thanks for your lovely comments, the nets came from Cheap as Chips, not sure if you have one in your area, they were $2.00 each. Mariah, not sure if I answered your question, so sorry! Marshmallows from Campbells Cash and Carry
xx
November 5th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
What a great idea doing lucky dip rather than a pass-the-parcel! Pass-the-parcel is usually frought with angst for the little kids because most of them miss out. I remember my parents putting lollies in each wrapping so that everyone would get something.
I adore those pom-pom ceiling flowers! How did you make those?
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