Zombie Party With Dessert Table

October 03, 2017 in free printable, halloween, Halloween, Zombie Party

This party was a lot of fun to create. Zombie's are currently very on trend with more than a few Zombie Apocalypse movies and television shows available. For our zombie party we created a zombie dessert table using a graveyard theme with tombstones and a grave digger. This party includes free printable products so you can create this at home.

Enjoy Julie

The dessert table was created as a zombie graveyard. We used a plastic rock wall scene setter as the back drop. We then added a black graveyard fence, tombstones and skulls. Our stand out piece was our animated zombie grave digger complete with shovel.

Catering was keep simple but looked fantastic with graveyard cupcakes, eyeball and zombie cake pops, tombstone cookies and layered jelly cups.

We made two types of cake pops. We made crazy green Zombies with bulging eyes and eyeball cake pops which we served with a fork.

The cupcakes were very effective, yet easy to make. I made a basic chocolate cupcakes then iced with chocolate icing. The tombstones were achieved by finding the right shape biscuit and giving them a generous chocolate coating, the ground was crushed chocolate ripple biscuits and a green plastic hand completed the look. We included sugar cookies in tombstone and coffin shapes.

The stone wall extended to the ceiling creating a formidable look for a graveyard

To extend the graveyard look we extended the stone wall and created a cemetery using the same fencing and tombstones as the dessert table, this was completed with swarming bats and large spiders. The front door was guarded by a creepy zombie and a haunted tree completed the look.

The colour palate of green and blue worked well with the grey stone and injected some colour into a dark palate.

We created a small set of dessert table printable products for this party, these are available as a free down load (Download 1) - (Download 2).

If you liked this Zombie party please see our Walking Dead party with a post apocolyspe cafe.

We hope you enjoyed our party

Enjoy Julie

Zombie Brain Shooters

October 01, 2017 in drinks, halloween, Halloween, Zombie Party

The perfect shooter for a Zombie party has to be a Zombie Brain Shooter. These are a great visual shooter and they are simple to make but require a slow steady hand to get the right separation of layers in the glass. We served these at our Zombie party and they went were a real hit.

These are very nice indeed - Enjoy Julie

To make a zombie brain shooter fill a shot glass 3/4 full with peach schnapps. Then very gently pour Bailey’s Irish Cream on top, I have found that pouring over a teaspoon can slow the flow to get a better result. When almost full add a small amount of blue Curacao then grenadine syrup or a good heavy red cordial.

Swimming Pool Party Ideas With Dessert Table

August 07, 2017 in Childrens parties, Dessert Table

In the summer months we always find it hard to extract the children from the pool, so a pool party is always an enjoyable option. For this party we created a carved shark watermelon, beach ball cake pops, mini pavlova swimming pools and a pool styled birthday cake.

For a different type of favour bag, we created small pools from plastic storage containers, filled them with goodies and topped them with a swimmer and umbrellas. A range of printable items were created and are free to download.

A great day overall, a pool party is a must over summer.

Mini Pavlova Pools and beach ball cake pops graced the dessert table. Mini Pavlovas have to be one of the easiest items to make, we used store bought pavlova shells then filled them with whipped cream with a touch of blue food colouring. We decorated cake pops with simple edible glitter and topped with a silver ball. The cake pops were placed in a styrofoam holder covered with blue celephane and a printable boarder.

Fresh fruit is always great for a party and we loved this carved shark with a mouth full of fresh fruit skewers and an old barbie doll with some red syrup on the legs for good measure. The eyes were also simple with olives and tooth picks.

Cup cakes are a must have and are always devoured, we includes some life savers in the spirit of a pool party and some blue jelly cups.

Pool Party Birthday Cake

Our birthday cake was also pool inspired and was simple to make with a garden of crushed chocolate ripple biscuits and coloured gel for the pool. These were topped with some pool sun lounges made from royal icing, palm trees, umbrellas and flowers.

Pool Party Decorating Ideas

As this party was mostly outdoors we tried to refrain on the indoors, just a nice water image table cloth and lots of balloons.

Pool Party Favours DIY

I like to get creative with party favour's and this one was quite simple but very effective. We purchased small blue plastic containers that were filled with goodies and covered with blue cellephane. We added a thank you card, a swimmer and a couple of umbrellas, The thank you cards and swimmers are available as a free down load.

Pool Party Games

Most of our games revolved around novelty pool races including races while sitting in rings or on kick boards. We did have a number of team relays and you can download our team selection cards here. These were laminated and used to create teams . We included one treasure hunt using water proof items and making it slightly harder by naming some of the pieces.

Pool Party Free Printable products

We have created a range of printable products for this party that are available as a free download. We had a lot of fun at our pool party and it is a very easy option for summer birthdays

Enjoy Julie

Christmas Table Setting Red and Gold - Christmas Decorations

December 14, 2016 in christmas

We all absolutely love Christmas, a time of year to relax with family and friends and enjoy great food and company. This year our table setting is rustic red and gold using lots of berries, pine cones and leaves.

Enjoy Julie

Christmas Table Setting Red and Gold Design

Table decorations include a large gold moose, red and gold pine cones, gold leaves and red berries.

We alternated the table settings between gold and red with opposing bon bons. This Christmas we used gold flatware.

Small brass deers and gold tea candles were used among the foliage.

Christmas Table Setting Rustic Red and Gold Design

We decorated stemware with berries and holly leaves. Long strands of berries were twirled around tall red wooden candles.

The table looked wonderful both during the day and the evening when the candles all started sparkling.

Christmas Table Setting Red and Gold Rustic Design

A lovely vintage glass pedestal dish was a great option for mince tarts.

We decorated the sideboard with red and gold deers and a wonderful gold Christmas tree.

Christmas Table Red and Gold Design with Deers

Metallic chain and red string lights where thread into the design, this also looked wonderful during the day and the evening.

Halloween Vampire Party Game - The Blood Donation Room

October 12, 2016 in halloween, Printables, Vampire

At Halloween parties I always have an area dedicated to "keeping the children amused" so the adults can enjoy a quite, or not so quite drink. This year was a vampire theme so we created a Vampire Blood donation room. This had children dressed in bloody white coats taking blood donations from a group of happy donors. A small set of printable items have been developed for this game.

Enjoy Julie

**Halloween Vampire Game - The Blood Donation Room**

The Blood Donation room had lots of small bottles of blood (coloured water), blood bags, bloody bandages, syringes, white coats, face masks and bandaids. Finally we included a reclining chair for the victims.

We used a very old dresser as the counter for our blood collections, and a large black candelabra to hold the blood bags, the blood bags are easy to find on-line.

**Halloween Vampire Party Decorating ideas**

The decorations included a mix of vintage pieces including silver, glassware and bottles and modern halloween props.

Our young victims patiently waited their turn before being subjected to the blood drawing.

**Halloween Vampire Game - Blood Types**

We developed a small set of printable items for the party, the waiting room had a sign, queue number and small circles for blood types. The blood drawing room had small cards for the blood drawers to complete. We found some blood syringe pens on-line. This printable set is available in our shop.

**Halloween Vampire Party blood decorations**

We collected a lot of small bottles for this party, they were filled with water and red food dye to look like very dark blood.

Halloween Vampire Party Syringes and bandaids

Syringes are easy to find on line. We included some small tweases and lots of bandaids in a vintage silver and glass serving dish. The dressing table had lots of small shelves that were decorated with a few modern halloween pieces.

This was a great game for a vampire party and many an adult ventured into the blood donation room to emerge with a few artfully applied bandaids. You may also like our other Vampire Posts: Vampire Dessert Table and Gothic Vampire Party.

The printable items we used for this party are available from our shop.

**Halloween Vampire Game Printable Set**

Halloween Dragon Blood Punch - Alcoholic

October 11, 2016 in Halloween, Vampire, drinks

Halloween Dragon Blood Punch, this is a delightful combination of Malibu Rum, Cointreau, tropical soda and ginger ale. Great for a Vampire Halloween party, recipe below.

See the full party here.

Enjoy Julie

**Halloween Dragon Blood Punch - Vampire Party**

Recipe

Ingredients

1 bottle Malibu
1/2 cup Cointreau
6 cups tropical fruit punch soda
6 cups Cranberry Juice
6 cups apple juice
2 litres Ginger Ale
Lots of vampire teeth iceblocks

Method

Combine everything except the ginger and iceblocks in the punch bowl.
Top with the ginger ale.
Add ice blocks.
Enjoy

Halloween Dessert Table - Vampire Party

October 08, 2016 in halloween, Printables, Vampire, Dessert Table

What more could a young and young at heart Vampire want from halloween than a halloween Vampire Party with a Vampire dessert table laden with Dracula Cake Pops, Castle Cup Cakes, Blood Jelly and Coffin and Bat Vanilla cookies.

We trust you will enjoy our Halloween Vampire Dessert Table.

This dessert table was a lot of fun to create and quite simple. The backdrop for the dessert table was a large wall of flying bats, this was achieved with a lot of card bats that we found on-line. We used a lot of black and red elements on the table

I positioned the bats to look like they had just left their roost for the night, soaring across the night sky in search of victims. The moon worked well as a centrepiece.

**Halloween Bay Cookies - Vampire Party**

Coffin Vanilla Cookies and Bat Vanilla Cookies worked well for a vampire theme. They were simply decorated in red or black icing with small silver and gold cachous to add definition and sparkle.

We made Dracula cake pops for the party and used a combination of large and small cake papers to make capes. The cake pops were placed in styrofoam that was covered with small bones and bats and wrapped in a castle printable from our Vampire Dessert table package.

We served Blood Jelly in LED cups with the colour set to red, these looked really effective in a dark room.

**Castle Cup Cakes - Halloween Vampire Party**

Halloween Dessert Table with Bats - Vampire Party

We decorated the cupcakes as Dracula's Castle. We used a slice of Licorice Allsort for the front wall that was trimmed at the top to create a parapet. The wall was then edged by two licorices pieces and topped with two large cachous balls to create castle towers. These are easy to make but you will require icing to hold the elements together. They looked great on the cup cakes.

The castle cup cakes were topped with a cup cake topper from our printable range. We also created a blood donation room game for this party, this was a great game that kept the children occupied all evening.

**Halloween Vampire party dessert table printable set**

This was a fun party and the vampire theme led to lots of great costumes. We have created a small number of printable products for this party, they are available in our shop.

We hope you have enjoyed our photos

Enjoy Julie

Halloween Bloody Eyeball Punch (non alcoholic)

October 06, 2016 in halloween, drinks, Vampire

This year we had a vampire themed halloween party so a "Bloody Eyeball Punch" was created. This is a really nice punch enjoyed by young and old, recipe below.

See the whole party here.

Enjoy Julie

Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Caster sugar
8 tablespoons of water
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
red food colouring
4 litres red creaming soda
2 litres good vanilla ice cream.

Method

Combine the sugar and water in a saucepan and cook string over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved,
Remove from the heat and add the milk and almond extract.
Transfer to a large jug and allow to cool to room temperature, then move to the fridge to chill.
When ready to serve, transfer the mixture to the punch bowl.
Add food colouring a bit at a time until you reach your desired colour.
Add soda, leaving space for the ice cream.
Add ice cream using a scoop
Pop in some washed eyeballs
Enjoy

Halloween Vampire Party - Gothic Inspired

October 04, 2016 in Halloween, Vampire, Gothic

My attraction to vampire stories started long ago when I opened my first vampire book, Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire. Who could resist Louis?. Since then, I've read a lot of vampire books and watched a lot of vampire movies but tend to always gravitate to the image of the gothic vampire, the suave and sophisticated creature of the night.

This party is set in the 18th century and involves a select group of stately vampires enjoying a blood tasting that includes a small sample of Count Dracula's blood. The party is very vintage and includes lots of crystal, silver and very old books with a small set of printable elements that are available in our store.

A great option best suited for an adult audience.

Enjoy, Julie

**Halloween Vampire Party Gothic Inspired**

This party was planned a good year in advance that allowed me to collect some wonderful vintage pieces including Crystal decanters and glasses, silver platers and lots of very old books. Each decanter held a different blood type (aka Red Wine), tasting notes were provided.

**Halloween Vampire Vintage Decorations**

The decanters were arranged on piles of vintage books and vintage silver pedestal trays reminiscent of a stately drawing room or library. Vintage stemware in crystal and silver was arranged for the wine tastings.

**Halloween Vampire Wine Tasting Table Decorations**

Tall candles provided height for the table. the only modern element on the table was some select bats placed on candle sticks and books.

I included some old Chinese and Egyptian pieces on the table to make the host appear well travelled. During the evening we served a Blood Tingle Cocktail with a Syringe. Safe useable Syringes are available on-line and our blood tingle cocktail was a standard fruit tingle with a Cherry Advocaat substituted for Blue Curacao.

Halloween Gothic Vampire Party - Vintage

Small battery tea lights were placed around the decanters and glasses to caste an ernie glow over the table.

When creating this look it's important to source a variety of old books with different covers and widths, just ensure they are stable to support the decanters.

The room was kept quite dark for this party that allowed the glow from the tea lights and candles to caste shadows over the table.

To add to the drama I created "blood Tasting Notes" depicting the unfortunate individuals who freely or not so freely made blood donations for the evening.

Catering

This was a late party so catering was as simple as drinks and simple finger food. I always make a couple of large bowls of punch at halloween. We served a non alcoholic Bloody eyeball punch and an allocholic dragon blood punch.

A cheese platter is always great for halloween and a tray of assorted niceness such as olives, wasabi peas and dragon balls with a couple of red dips.

Vodka Jelly Shots have became a staple at my halloween parties and are always consumed. A small collection of printable elements were created for this party, they are available in our shop.

A Halloween Gothic Vampire Blood Tasting Party is a great option for a Halloween Party, especially if you love vintage pieces.

We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and I hope you have enjoyed the photos.

Time to think about next year!

Cheers

Julie

Chic Party Ideas

Owl Baby Shower Cup Cakes with Free Owl Printables

August 05, 2016 in Baby Shower, free printable

This week one of our favourite teachers left us to move into the special phase of motherhood and while we will miss her dearly we wish her all the best. To celebrate this special occasion the class held a farewell party with some cute owl cup cakes.

Given we do not know the sex of this baby we created half pink and half blue. To celebrate this special occasions we are offering our owl cup cake toppers as a free download.

Enjoy

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