Party Poppers...A New Year's Must

What is New Year's with our party poppers!?! We love them, they are so much fun to hand out a party! They can be made so easily with gorgeous papers and ribbons and filled with "sweets" of your choice! Here are some of our favorite ones and Here is a great DIY if you want to make your own to bring in the New Year with a "pop"!

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Marie Antoinette Inspired Dessert Table

Oh how we love anything Marie Antoinette inspired...but when you mix in Melody from My Sweet and Saucy and Tori Spelling you know its going to be amazing! sTORIbook Weddings, that airs on Oxygen, has become a new favorite of ours to watch! Melody has had the opportunity to work on a few gorgeous weddings that Tori and her husband Dean have created. They recently featured, a Marie Antoinette inspired wedding that was absolutely swoon worthy! The dusty blue cake with golden trim detail was simply beautiful! Heavenly Blooms created stunning floral arrangements complete with feathers that gave the perfect Victorian feel. The mini pink cupcakes with gold embellishments, blue and gold French macarons and hand-decorated cookies are spectacular! We are always so impressed with everything that comes out of Melody's kitchen, and this display was no exception!

Happy Holidays

We will be taking a short break from blogging to spend time with our family for the holidays! We hope you all have a wonderful and blessed holiday surrounded by family and good friends.
Sweetly, Melissa and Kellie
image via Country Living

DIY Snowflake Chandelier

We were so excited to have our diy snowflake chandelier featured on Design Dazzle this weekend! We wanted to create something that would look wintery and beautiful over a small sweet table and that could be re-used as a decoration later. We used glittered silver and white paper so when the light hits the snowflakes it shimmers and twinkles...its looks so pretty! Check out our easy step by step diy instructions here!

Candy Cane Ice Cream

Oh how we love the holidays and all of the amazing sweets that accompany the season! We also love a gorgeous Swedish baking blog called Call Me Cupcake! {We are sure you are all familiar with it} Linda is an amazingly talented baker and photographer....which make a perfect pair! Her blog is simply lovely and never ceases to inspire us! She recently posted a perfect holiday treat...candy cane ice cream! The photos are so wintery and beautiful and who can resist a homemade ice cream recipe!?!

100 Ideas of Christmas Wonderful

We were recently asked by Toni of Design Dazzle to come up with a diy project for her "100 Ideas of Christmas Wonderful"! Of course we were delighted to come up with something for her blog and we are really excited to share it with you as well. But...you'll have to wait to see it until it is featured on Toni's blog! We would love for you to take a peek at all of the great holiday ideas that Design Dazzle has been featuring, and we thought we would at least give you a hint as to what we created!

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY SWEET LEELA

Today is Kellie's youngest daughter's 5th birthday!!! Where did 5 years go!?! I just want to wish her the best birthday yet, with a year full of happiness and joy! We are so blessed to know her and have her in our lives! She is just the sweetest and such a very special girl! She is so beautiful inside and out...just like her momma! We can not wait to celebrate with her today! Happy Birthday Sweet Leela....we love you!!!

Glitter Ball Ornaments

We just thought we would share a super simple DIY with you today! It is kind of a combination of two previous DIYs we've shared! {The fairy dust pots and tulle pom poms} We used it as a gift idea with our "Nutcracker Sweet" table! They are just simple, clear plastic Christmas bulbs (that you can buy at any craft store), filled with the glitter color of your choice. We added a little tulle pom pom and a pink satin ribbon and they are a perfect little gift, decoration to add to your beautifully wrapped holiday package or of course a traditional Christmas tree ornament!

Materials:
Clear plastic Christmas bulb
Glitter
Satin ribbon
tulle pom pom

Just take off the ornament top and fill your bulb about half way with glitter. You can make a little paper funnel to put the glitter in the bulb. Then just put the top back on, tie a satin ribbon on and glue a tulle pom pom {diy for poms poms here} on the front! How simple is that!?!

Sweetest Cinderella Birthday Party

Ok, get ready to swoon over this absolutely adorable Cinderella Birthday party created by Jenni of Dear Lillie for her sweet little girl, Lillie! This party is so enchanting, charming and just perfect for a little princess! We just adore all of the details and if you can believe this Jenni did this whole party for just around 50.00!!! Lillie turned 3 years old this year, could she be any cuter!?! Look at her gorgeous pink dress that Jenni's mom made her, her little white gloves and her beautiful princess crown that Jenni and Lillie made together! We love the vines and white lights together, it adds such a magical feel to the room! How darling is the Cinderella garland that dances across the mirror!?! The little mouse by the clock is the perfect fairytale touch! The Cinderella silhouette plates are so beautiful...what little girl would not love to eat their sweets off of one of those!?! Every little detail created the perfect amount of magic for the sweetest Cinderella party!