You Saw This, Right?

Let's just take a short trip around a few blogs today.

Surely you saw the super colorful and fun new party by Michelle over on HWTM, right? Loves it. Every detail was thought out and executed to perfection. Great job, Michelle!



My girl, Robyn, at Mix Mingle Glow turned St. Patty's Day OUT with not one, not two, but three fantastic tablescapes.



What about the gorgeous new FREE downloads from Tangarang?



What about the deliciously fun "food on a stick" over at Celebrations at Home. Feed me.



Favor Affair Giveaway and short survey on Design by Kendall, anyone?



And, if you haven't seen this AMAZING birthday party over on LotusHaus then go. Get out of here. Go look.

Inspiration: The Sweetest Thing

Stem: The Sweetest Thing



Cristin: Sweet as Sugar

Cristin sent in this "Sweet as Sugar" party she did for her daughter's 1st birthday. Just look at all the sweet touches.

She made the glitteriffic invitations using Yours Truly circle invitations. Once at the party, everyone received a little jar with one serving of hot chocolate - a perfect "sweet treat" for a winter birthday party. Each guest table had a grouping of paper lanterns/candies hanging above it and the pool table was turned into the Candy Shoppe! The Candy Shoppe had a lot of treats and one special treat that I just adore - the centerpiece. The centerpiece was created using a foam topiary to look like a "Bellie Pop" (Bellie = daughter's nickname...real name - Annnabelle). Cute!

Cristin also had two fun things planned for the kids. One was to decorate craft tote bags with foam stickers and then use them to pack up their candy. For the older kids (3+), she had plain coffee mugs that they could decorate with the appropriate markers (came in the kit) - and then take home to use with their hot chocolate.

Thanks for the pictures, Cristin! Let me know how that golf party turns out!

Operation Shower Loves Tiny Prints

As promised, I'll be featuring some of the wonderful donors and sponsors for our Operation Shower Mother's Day Showers in the next couple of months for everyone to see the events come together before our eyes. Should be lots of fun!

As every good party planner knows, it all starts with the invitation. Our goal is to make this as special as we can for these moms while trying to be as Eco-Conscious as we can. We really feel it's important that they have an actual keepsake invitation from us so we called on Tiny Prints - one of the undisputed leaders in fabulous invitations. Lucky for us, Tiny Prints has agreed to donate invitations to Operation Shower!

In case you didn't know, Tiny Prints has an adorable selection of invitations on recycled cardstock.

In keeping with our gender neutral and "earthy" color pallette, we have chosen this invitation for our guests of honor! The fact that we throw "showers in a box" and this is full of boxes was all the more reason to make this little cutie our choice.

Thanks again to Tiny Prints and stayed tuned for more shower donors and details to come!

(BONUS: Tiny Prints is offering 15% off orders over $75 until 3/16 with code TPISFIVE.)

I Love Party Wishes

Do you ever find something and wonder "how did I not know about this before?" Me, too. Case in point, Party Wishes. Now I know the interwebs is big old place but I can't believe it took me until last month to find one of my sisters in soiree.

Donna at Party Wishes has the most adorable children's party packages available for those of you living in California (see her site for areas) and some incredible inspiration for those of us that don't. Just look at this spa party for starters. Can you imagine how fancy these little guests feel getting their very own spa experience?



Not that her clients outdo her own offspring. Far from it. You must check out her blog and look at the Chinese Tea Party that Donna threw for her own daughter. She had me at the hand-delivered kimono invitations. COME ON. I die.



Be sure and visit Donna's website and her blog for many, many more inspiring ideas. You'll love what you see!

Inspiration: Thing One and Thing Two Twins Baby Shower

Today's Stem Inspiration party is from Madeline over at Newly Nesting. She was inspired by my Thing One and Thing Two Shower and boy did she take the ball and run with it!



How cute is this Dr. Suess Party? You must visit her blog for more pictures, as well as recipes and all the details. Her oversized Dr. Suess books are too great for words. You need to go see them for yourselves!

Thanks for sending in the pictures, Madeline and for hanging in there for me to get more reader parties posted.

More to come for those of you that have sent some in and those of you looking for more inspiration!

So Tell Me More About Operation Shower

I thought you'd never ask. Operation Shower is my latest love affair and honestly one of the most rewarding things I've ever had the honor of doing. I am so excited and proud to be on the Board as the Chief Event Planner and want to encourage everyone to check us out!



Operation Shower is a non-profit organization that recognizes and honors the sacrifices military families make by producing and coordinating baby showers for pregnant and expecting military personnel and their families. If you are in the St. Louis area we would LOVE to have you attend our Spring Fundraiser April Flowers Bring May Showers at Mandarin in the Central West End. We have a cool venue, great food and drink and some fun raffle prizes. A great night out for a great cause. Please join us! Click on the photo below to be directed to the site.



I also cannot wait for the two unit showers we are doing in May (hence the bring May showers...) at Ft. Hood in Texas and Scott AFB in Illinois. Our theme is "Boxes in Bloom" and our goal is to make these events as Eco-Conscious as we can! We have already secured some fantastic vendors and sponsors but can always use more.

If you are a vendor reading this that would like to contribute, please contact me. We look forward to helping promote you as you help us.

Lastly, and thanks for reading this btw, if you are a fellow blogger that can spread the love and post about Operation Shower's fundraiser and unit showers, I would be forever grateful. I know our mission can spread like crazy with your help! Let me know if you post, so I can thank you publicly and link back to you!

Coming Soon....

Just a quick note to let you know that I intend to hunker down this weekend and get some fun posts together for all of you that are so kind to stop by here every day.

In between running Stem Parties, my other job (yes, I have another job...hence the sporadic posting at times!), gearing up for a fantastic Spring full of events as a Board Member for Operation Shower, training for a 1/2 marathon in April in honor of my dear friend, Marie, AND attempting to stay sane and spend some time with my husband, my little blog seems to suffer at times.

Next week will bring more parties that readers have submitted as well as some of fun details of our Operation Shower events that are in the works!

So, thanks for your patience and your loyalty. You all are the best!