Planning A Breakfast Party

I have made myself this solemn vow that at some point in my little one's life I will plan him a birthday party with a breakfast menu!

You cannot even begin to image the cute ideas for this impending party that I already have in my head and he's only 19 months at the moment.  Plus, surfing the net only makes it harder to contain myself as I keep finding the most creative ideas.

When I say breakfast, i don't mean a brunch party or a breakfast buffet. I am envisioning a full on sleep over party for my son when he's about 10 years old with maybe four of his best buddies or cousins with a full display of All American Breakfast foods.

Take a look of some of the cutest things on my ABSOLUTELY INCLUDED ON THE PARTY MENU LIST!

Yummy, French Toast Kebobs

Banana Oatmeal Sandwiches

Parfait Cups

Mini Pancakes Skewers

Milk served old school style fresh from the Milkman!

 Waffles Dunkers 

My kind of table decor for a Pajama Breakfast Party for a boy.

Bacon,

Scones,

Bagels,

Muffins,

Sausages,

Munchkins

...the works!

Egg & Bacon Muffins

Mini Milk Jugs and Cereal Bowls 

Don't you just want to go out and throw yourself a breakfast party for the fun of it?

Spook-tacular Halloween Treats for Kids

If you haven't realized by now, I LOVE PLANNING EVENTS!

The more creative my clients allow me to be, the better! I've been dying get in on the treat festivities for Halloween but never had the opportunity to do so for Halloween.

Every Halloween I'm just aching to have my own Halloween party but I've never done it.  Now that I have a 1 year old little guy I'm so excited to do all the little Halloween party treats, snacks and ideas that I've seen over the years as well as ideas of my own that I've been wanting to try.

Today, I'm going to share with you 10 of the cutest ideas I've found online that I am planning to try for my little guy this year.  Hopefully you'll try a few of them this year as well.

Happy Halloween!

1. Graveyard Chocolate Pudding

All you need are some small glass or plastic cups. Fill them with chocolate pudding. Crush some Oreos without the filling for the dirt and use some Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies for the tomb stones. Perfect treat for little ones.

2. Spider Web Pizza

It's your traditional Pizza just with a cheesy web pattern. I love the spider made out of black olives. Very Creative! Perfect for all ages.

3. Franken-Treats

Easy to make and cute to display on paper straws. You can either make your own rice crispy treats or use the store bought ones and then decorate with cake frosting.

4. Powered Donut Eyeballs

This treat is literally an eye catcher.  All you need are some powered donuts some red gel icing and some colored chocolate M&M's and you have yourself some tasty eyeballs.

5. Vampire Cookie Sandwiches

Bake a fresh batch of cookies and spread some red frosting on the insides of the cookies.  Stack a bunch of mini marshmallows on the inside and finally for the vampire teeth cut an almond in half.

6. Sausage Mummies

These might just have to be the cutest mummies. All you need is some hot dog sausages and bread doe. Bring sausages to a boil and then wrap with either homemade doe or use the Pillsbury crescent rolls. Genius!

7. Ghost Jell-O Cups

Mix orange Jell-O and gelatin with milk for a orange cream-sickle flavor. Use Cool Whip for the body of the ghosts and mini chocolate chips for the eyes. 

8. Chocolate Cat Cookies and Milk

Get a cat cook cutout and the rest is how can I say, spooky!

9. Stuffed Bread Snake

Use homemade bread doe and shape it into a curvy snake and then bake. Once baked cut out the top center of your snake and stuff with cheese, beef, veggies etc.  Use olives for the eyes and a gummy worm for the tongue.

10. Witch Cupcakes

  

Add some extra cake batter into the baking cups so that the cupcakes rise over the top of the baking cups once baked.  Frost the top with sage green icing. Use mini chocolate chips for the eyes, candy corns for the noses and black cake sprinkles for the eye brows. Top with black Twizzlers for  the hair and chocolate ice cream wafer cones for the witch hats. 

Those are my Top 10 Halloween Treats for Kids.  I'm definitely trying them with my little guy this year.

Leave me a comment and let me know which ones you tried. Happy Halloween!

Saying Yes to Your Dress: Shattering the Myths of Form Fitted VS. Ball Gowns

You've dreamed of it...

You've folded the tips of the pages in your favorite bridal magazine to remember the page on which you saw it...

You've seen it in the window of a bridal store...

Some of you might even already gone into the store and tried it on...

What am I babbling on about you ask?  Why, your Wedding Dress of course!

Often times the bride-to-be already has an idea of the style of dress she wants to wear on her big day.  However, sometimes she has never actually tried on the dress to see if it does in fact compliments her body. There seems to be a huge misconception that a curvier bride should stir far from the figure fitting mermaid gowns and opt for the princess type gowns while slender brides should run to the mermaid style gowns and not even dare to try the ball gown styles.  Personally, I believe that there is nothing more stunning than a bride with curves flaunting a lace form figured wedding grown and a slimmer bride walking down the aisle in a empire cut-ball gown.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that a slim bride shouldn't wear a mermaid gown or that a curvier bride shouldn't wear a ball gown.  What I am saying is that some times you should emphasize what you have as opposed to hiding it.  As long as it looks beautiful on you and it adds to your body type, then go for it!

Take a look below, as pictures speak louder than words:

Say what you want about Kim K. but this woman has an amazing body.  Just look at her in this Vera Wang Dress. A perfect example of how a more form fitting dress can compliment your hips instead of hiding them under a Ball gown.

Another Hollywood lady with a gorgeous body is Ice-T's wife CoCo. She opted for a ball gown as opposed to a fitted wedding dress.  This may have been an attempt to cover up her lower section and emphasize her upper body but no amount of organza and tulle was able to do the job quite well.  In my opinion, flaunting her hips in a designer gown like Kim K. would have been more breath taking and elegant. This is a perfect example of why I believe in flaunting your assets instead of covering them up! The asset you may be trying to hide might still end up making an unwanted appearance causing a unwanted topic of discussion on your big day and in many wedding pictures.

 
It's not always all about Kim K. but you have to be honest that the girl can definitely pull off both styles very well with her body type.  She can go from form fitted to Cinderella in a second and still look stunning.

  
Another slender A-Lister who didn't go the form fitting route was Jessica Biel.  In fact she didn't go the white wedding gown route either but nonetheless her pink empire waist ball gown was stunning and complimented her trim figure very well.

 

If you are still on the fence, go for a wedding gown that gives you a touch of both styles like Ivanka Trumph's wedding gown. 

 

Form fitting at the top and hip line but with just enough poof to be Cinderella for the day!

Whatever you end up choosing, at least try on each style of dress before you dismiss one type altogether because you never know how you'll look in it until you try it.  Grab the girls and a glass of champagne and let the dress up begin!