Showing posts with label spa party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spa party. Show all posts

Monday, July 22, 2013

it's a spa-aaaah party!

When Sofia turned 8 at the end of April, we hosted a "spa-aaaah" party, and I'm thrilled to finally share it with you.

There are a lot of pictures, so let's get started!

When the girls walked into the party, they saw the decor that we set up in the living room:

spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.


spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.

They saw it all and their eyes went wide - I loved it.  We let them look, and then brought them into the kitchen for lunch: little sandwiches, little spa veggie bites, and, for the very picky eaters (ahem, my daughter) pizza.  All against a little DIY chalk art...

spa-aaaah party.


After lunch, but before facials, we had an crafty-yummy treat for the girls.  My friend Marlyn (montreal confections) made lady face cookies that the girls could decorate!  They had a great time "applying" edible make-up to their cookies.

spa-aaaah party.

After that, we pampered the girls with facials and manicures.  The handmade eyemasks were favors, but doubled as headbands to keep the girls' faces hair-free...

spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.

When the masks started tingling, a few of them got nervous and rushed to wash it off.  Miss-cool-as-a-cucumber in the picture above was one of them. ha.

spa-aaaah party.

All of the paperie was created using the spa party collection from CSS (click, click, and click.)

spa-aaaah party.

Apparently, the manicures brought out the ganster in the girls...

Once the nails were dry, we showed off the desserts:

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spa-aaaah party.

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spa-aaaah party.

Marlyn made this amazing ruffle cake!  She swears it isn't hard to create in her video tutorial.

spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.

Bath bubbles are my fave: they were cake balls, dipped in white candy melt and heavily sprinkled.  Also, thank you Target for that bathtub find.

spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.

The parfaits were the sleeper hit of the party.  I found the idea on the wedding chicks blog, and thought they would be for the adults, but the kids loved them too!

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spa-aaaah party.

spa-aaaah party.

After presents, and giggling about how they felt like "a million bucks" (seriously, I can't make this stuff up!) we presented them with their own take-home pedicure kits.

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I hope you've enjoyed our party!  Thanks for coming to the Spa-aaaah!

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

prepare to be pampered {spa party invitations}

I am so excited to share Sofia's spa party with you all... finally!  We hosted it a few months ago, and I have been sitting on a pile of pictures ever since.

prepare to be pampered.

I'm sharing spa-aaaah party invites today, cut with CSS's eye mask die.

prepare to be pampered.

I used images from our spa set to stamp the "spa-aaaah" banner and the sentiment underneath it.

A simple dot image, stamped multiple times before re-inking, gave me a subtle background without overwhelming the mask.

prepare to be pampered.

With a black copic multiliner, I drew in sleepy eyes, and glittered the lids.  I drew myself a template first, to make sure my eyes were lined up.

All of the party information was printed and cut on a separate eye-mask, and adhered to the back of this layer.

prepare to be pampered.

The party girl.

I hope you'll come back tomorrow for the full party!