{Spa Party} Georgia's Hot Springs Birthday Celebration

Lilian of Lily Chic Events and Olivers Alma Cottage is known as a most creative and talented event designer, entreprenuer, and lovely mother. While I have not had the great pleasure and honor of meeting Lilian {yet}, I can say from all of our correspondence, that she is a tremendously thoughtful, kind, gracious woman.

She often shares and promotes the work of others who inspire her, and doesn't miss a beat crediting artisans and designers she works with and adores.

Lilian is a rare gem and I for one hope she will continue to create and blog, as she inspires me and so many others.

It is a tremendous pleasure to have the honor of debuting Lilian's latest party, a Hot Springs Spa party for one of her wonderful daughters. It is such a treasure to savor all these beautiful images of the details Lilian came up with, and find party inspiration for a slightly older girl--which is much harder to find these days than parties for the little ones.

Thank you Lilian! Here are all the details of the day, as narrated by Lilian herself:

PARTY DETAILS

As a mum of four daughters, I find it quite a challenge to come up with a party theme that is age appropriate and unique! We had taken the girls to the Hot Springs on a couple of occasions and knew that it was great for children as well as adults. Georgia, who was turning 11, loved the idea of taking her friends to the Hot Springs, so it was settled! It was a slight twist on your typical Spa Party. We had eight girls attend the Party and it was a full day of Party fun!

INVITATIONS

I love Loralee Lewis and knew I wanted her to come up with Georgia's Invitations and party paperie so I emailed her, hoping and praying that she would reply back! My prayers were answered and Loralee said she would be thrilled to design the invitation and Printables! I had chosen the colours lavender, citrus and silver and Loralee came up with the design. It suited the party and looked amazing.

PARTY DECOR

The sweet table was based around the gorgeous silk fabric I found. Because the print on the fabric was quite detailed, I chose to keep the table very simple and fresh.

 We has a couple of food intolerant children at the party so instead of having lots of chocolate, I opted for shimmering gumballs, small sixlets, lemonade jelly beans and heart shaped lollies.

The cupcakes were lemon curd flavoured and the gorgeous birthday cake was made by me very talented sister in law Lauren who owns her own business called LOve Cakes.

Georgia chose the flavour white chocolate mud with raspberries for the cake and it tasted amazing!! The pom pom toppers were from Potter and Butler on Etsy. 

 

The main table consisted of a peach ruffled runner made by Vintage Sew and So, topped with white boxes that doubled as the macaron and flower holders!

The purple boxes were made by me and they contained a small gift for each guest of some Mango Body Butter, a loofah, a face washer and some hand made soap which I wrapped in fabric.

All of the guests also got their own monogrammed body towel...

... and a calico bag {which I used one of Loralee Lewis' iron on labels to add the girls names on the front}. I also hand sewed buttons to add a bit of flair! In these bags the guests received some flip flops for the Hot Springs and some sweet smelling deodorant!

 

After we visited the Hot Springs, we started up a bonfire for the girls and they made s'mores using hand made marshmallows by One Sweet Girl.

The flavours were Peach, Blueberry, Vanilla with Choc Chips and Key Lime. They were delicious!

We all had an amazing day and would highly recommend it for this age group. {The mum's of the girls were very jealous and stayed around taking pictures before the party officially started!}

A huge thank you to Lee from Lee Bird Photography for the beautiful photography and patience on the day!

 

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VENDOR CREDITS

Event Styling: Lilian of Lily Chic Events / Olivers Alma Cottage

Graphic Design, Printable Package & Invitation: Loralee Lewis

 Photography: Liat of Lee Bird Photography

Cake & Cupcakes: Lauren of LOve Cakes

Marshmallows: One Sweet Girl

Macarons: Ed of Macarahrah

Tassle Garland: Blush Loves Mint

Ruffle Runner: Vintage Sew and So

Icing Designs: A Monster of a Giveaway + DIY Monsters

Are you familiar with the incredibly creative and talented Melissa and Kellie of Icing Designs?

Many of you may recognize the gorgeous images above and below...

Yes, it would be Icing Designs that introduced you to it (check out the DIY ice cream cone tutorial by their DIY creative correspondent Katie, found here)! I am personally a tremendous fan of Melissa and Kellie and their work. {photography and styling by this dynamic duo}

I had the honor and privilege of collaborating with them on two fabulous upcoming features...one is a personal event, the other a shoot.

They went FAR above and beyond my greatest expectations, working incredibly hard to  create the most spectacular, unique, one-of-a-kind party pretties that will blow you away!!!

Icing Designs creates hand-illustrated and hand-glittered paper party goods.

They also create hand-glittered photo party goods: invitations, cupcake toppers, gift tags, annoucements, cards and garlands.

Melissa and Kellie tell us... "If you look closely you will see that there is a sweet in every one of our illustrations.

 Even our photo items are called "Frosted Photos".

"We also have a blog where we feature innovative DIY projects that we have created, party planning ideas, recipes and photos of our work and the work of others who have inspired us."

Take a peek at this ADORABLE Monster Candy Holder, a DIY tutorial on their blog found here.

 Today I am here to share with you a darling new collection pictured throughout this post: Monster Mash!And a fabulous opportunity for you to win the gorgeous full package! {open internationally, too!}

 Melissa and Kellie tell us: "This was a really fun collection for us to create!

" When we started talking about creating a Halloween collection this year, we wanted to do something that would be perfect for Halloween, but could also be used year round for birthday parties or other celebrations.

"We also wanted to do something that could be used for girls, boys or twins! So the monster mash collection came to be!"

The Monster Mash Collection giveaway package includes {Valued at over $100.00US!}:
All hand-illustrated and hand-glittered and completely word customized products....they are not printables, and the winner will get the packaged fully complete and ready to use!

10 invites{monster mash illustration of their choice: boy and girl; boy; or girl}
10 thank you cards
10 cupcake toppers
10 gift tags
1 cake topper
1 letter garland {either "I want candy" or "Monster Mash"}

To Enter: Leave a comment on this blog post telling us what your little monster(s) will be for Halloween this year!

Open to US AND International Residents 18 years of age and older. One entry per person--if duplicates, we will only accept one of the entries. This giveaway is not affiliated with nor sponsored by Facebook, and I hereby release Facebook of any liability. Giveaway ends on Monday, September 17th, 2012 at 12:01am EST, {US}. One winner will be selected and contacted via e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to reply with requested information, or an alternate winner will be chosen. Kate Landers reserves the right to cancel or end the contest at any time. Kate Landers did not receive any payment, trade and/or products in exchange for promoting the sponsor.