We started the summer off in early June celebrating Annabelle’s 14th Bday with a Junk Food themed Pool Party at sunset. It was bright and fun and who doesn’t love a reason to eat junk. All of the giant food pool floats were the inspo for this party.
Annabelle was so happy to get back to her annual friends Christmas Party. This year they baked and decorated cookies in Santa hats and Christmas pajamas. It was a beautiful mess!
Photos by Maggie Russo Photo <3
These are a few of my favorite cheerful Christmas finds for 2020. I think we can all use a little cheer this year!
Swag bags included cute cabana striped towel, yellow polka dot flip flops, sunnies, personalized tumbler and Girl Squad cover up shirt.
Pancakes, Pajamas, Starbucks, Funny Letter Boards and Christmas Movies…..that’s what Christmas with Besties is made of! They may have outgrown cute little parties with over the top dessert tables, but this is just as fun
It’s almost time! Even though we are savoring every last second of summer over here, we are also enjoying a little bit of fun Back to School shopping. Here are a few of Annabelle’s favorite things for the new school year.
LOL SWEATSHIRT // YELLOW HEAD WRAP // PINK VELVET SCRUNCHIES // PINK STRIPED BOW SCRUNCHIE
BEST YEAR YET DIARY // PINK TEE // YELLOW STRIPE DRESS // BACKBACK // PENCIL CASE
This year Annabelle invited a few school buddies to do a Christmas gift swap. We created a couple of fun gift swap games, including a dice game and a card game. Our color scheme was red, pink and white with a bit of mint green mixed in. We bought a few rounds of small gifts, just to keep the fun games going. Be sure to scroll down to see the special guest at this party, Annabelle’s brand new puppy, Louie. Fa la la la la, la la la la!
Dessert was simple, gift shaped cookies and milk.
We gave sugared spruce and juniper scented soaps in the shape of mini mint Christmas trees, by Madison Avenue Soaps as favors. The girls all loved them and they smelled amazing!
We served healthy “merry meal” boxed lunches.
M E E T L O U I E t h e F R E N C H I E ……
gift swapping fun…
Photos by Maggie Russo Photo, www.maggierussophoto.com
Cookies by Little Miss Sweet Tooth
Annabelle is TEN! She is really into this whole slime craze right now so no surprise she wanted to have a Slime Party. She put together 5 easy slime recipes and we hosted a bright and fun Slime Workshop for 10. We used sprinkles and bright colors as our theme. The dessert table was kept super simple with a slime inspired cake made by my talented sister, Little Miss Sweet Tooth and sprinkle donuts. For lunch we served her favorite food, Tacos with chips & salsa.
I labeled everything for this party to keep the look bright and fun. Every girl got a recipe card and container for each type of slime made. We had scented oils and neon colors for the girls to personalize their slime. The table was set with large clear bowls and mixing spoons from the dollar store along with activator & water squeeze bottles and foaming hand soap (needed for all recipes). The instant snow, beads and floam beads were packaged in mini containers and displayed on translucent cake stands down the center of the table.
You can purchase the ENTIRE printable set here!
The bright colored squeeze bottles were a fun find in the target dollar spot. I have regular inexpensive squeeze bottles linked below.
RESOURCES:
INSTANT SNOW | THE BEST SOFT CLAY PACKETS | FLOAM BEADS | JELLY CUBES | NEON FOOD COLORING
SLIME CONTAINERS | SCENTS | CLEAR GLUE | WHITE GLUE | DRINK CUPS WITH LIDS | LINKABLE BALLOONS
ACTIVATOR BOTTLES | BORAX | UNSCENTED FOAMING HAND SOAP | MINI CONTAINERS & LIDS
SLIME RECIPES
First, make an activator by filling squeeze bottle with warm water and one tsp Borax
BUTTER SLIME: white glue, activator, packet soft clay, foaming hand soap| optional: scents & coloring
JELLY CUBE SLIME: clear glue, activator, cubed magic erasers, foaming hand soap | optional: scents & coloring
CRUNCHY SLIME: clear glue, activator, beads, foaming hand soap | optional: scents & coloring
CLOUD SLIME: white glue, activator, instant snow, foaming hand soap | optional: scents & coloring
FLOAM SLIME: any glue, activator, floam beads, foaming hand soap | optional: scents & coloring
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! This is Annabelle’s 5th year celebrating Christmas with these ladies. We chose cookie decorating as our theme long ago and my head went straight to cute and sweet, green, pink and red with scalloped aprons and gingham prints…and as we got closer, Annabelle had a different vision. She thought it would be so fun if they all wore ugly sweaters. So, I ditched all of the cute ideas and went straight up red and green with tinsel and sweater poms to really match the crazy sweaters. It was still adorable, and very festive! The girls listened to Christmas music and sang along while they decorated stacks of cookies to bring home. This party was hosted on a Sunday morning so there was a breakfast cart filled with sweet goodies like donuts and cinnamon rolls with bottles vanilla milk. Each guest went home with a gift, matching Christmas jammies, for Christmas break sleepovers. I hope these girls never stop celebrating together!
Merry Christmas!
photos by Maggie Russo Photo
