Feature: Dots & Skyla's Birthday

Hello! Shirley from Tiaras and Tantrums contacted me for her daughters 2nd birthday party. She wanted DOTS and A LOT of it... pink and green the colour scheme.. I just loved how the theme was taken right through to the filling between the layers of the cake and the prettiest and most delicious cake pops! For the bunting we used a variety of baby & toddler photographs of birthday girl Skyla. Enjoy!

Would you like to have a 'dotty' party? The Printable PDF Kits are now available in my online shop.

Dots: Pink & Green click here

Dots: Blue & Yellow click here

Bedotted Love,

Liezel

Credit: Photographs taken by myself.

New Years Special! Sweet & Natural Stacked Animal Party Kit Boxes

Hello! Today I have a great offer for you...

my Sweet Stacked Animals (pinks & red) & Natural Stacked Animales (greens & browns) DIY Party Boxes for a party of 10 is now available in my shop for only R250.00 INCLUDING normal postage! Yes, you can set up a party for ten kiddies and your invite & decorations will only cost you R250.00. Wow!

Ok, so what's in the box? 
1) A voucher for 1 Customised & matching email invitation
Prints for:
2) 10 x Bunting flags  + 3m string
3) 10 x Thank you tags
4) 10 x Water bottles labels
5) 10 x Party Cones
6) 10 x Mini Flags
7) Instructions

All the prints are done on a high quality 180gsm Gloss Paper.

If you require a quote for a different amount of guest please email me.
This offer is only valid as long as stocks last!
So place your order now : hello {@} matchsetlove.co.za

For more photos & information on the:
Sweet Stacked Animals Party for 10 - please visit the website here
Natural Stacked Animals Party for 10 - please visit the website here

Happy Monday!
Love
Liezel

Credit: Photographs taken by myself

Inspiration: Lyn's 60th Birthday Tea Party

Hello! Today I am sharing a few pics of Lyn's 60th Birthday Tea Party held at the Food Emporium, Broadacres. They chose the Modern Vintage Mad Hatters Theme {available here}. I just loved the one lady's headpiece and look at the cute cake that Jean-Mari from the Food Emporium created for this event.

Suppliers:
Match Set Love - Bunting, Welcome Poster/Mini Flags/Straws & Paper Lanterns
Venue, Food & Cake - D'Ouwe Werf Food Emporium , Broadacres, Fourways  contact Jean-Mari at
brdacres4foodemporium@yahoo.com  or 011 540 1538

Happy {getting ready for the} Holidays
Liezel

Credit: Photographs taken by myself

Inspiration: Wendy's 60th Birthday Tea

Hello! This past weekend Wendy and her family celebrated her 60th birthday with a 'Mad Hatter's' Birthday Tea at the beautiful D'Ouwe Werf -  Food Emporium in Broadacres, Fourways. Due to dark and thundering clouds the party had to be moved inside, however I managed to take some pictures of the set-up in their beautiful, lush garden just in time! Here are a few photographs of the details of the day:

Debbie, Wendy's daughter in law who organised the party had the cute idea for the wording of the thank you tag: 'Thank you for celebrating this 'mad'stone with me' - Thank you Debbie for inspiring me!

Suppliers:

Match Set Love - Invitation, Welcome Poster, Bunting, Menus, Thank you Tags, Mini Straw/Food flags, Paper Lanterns {hello@matchsetlove.co.za}

D'Ouwe Werf - Food Emporium - Venue, Food & Set-up - Thank you to Jean-Marie and her fantastic team {011 540 1538 or brdacres4foodemporium@yahoo.com}

The Selection - Straws & Bakers Twine used on the thank you tags {www.theselection.co.za}

Happy Happiest Birthday Wendy!

with Love

Liezel

Credit: All photographs taken by myself

Inspiration: Lulubelle's Fancy ART Party

Good morning, it is amazing to think that last Saturday we had a real hot summers day to celebrate Lulubelle's Birthday with and today we are freezing after a magnificent thunder and hael storm! Bronwenn, Lulubelle's very creative mom, set up a colourful, arty party with so much detail, love and effort. She made use of a wall to create a fun 'canvas' for the kids to explore their inner Picasso. Each child also got a box full of creative goodies to take home; think green slime, soft & glittery play dough, stickers, waterpaint... everything you need for hours of fun! For eats and treats, Bronwenn went bright and healthy with little tubs filled with fruit salad, yogurt and sausage rolls. Denise from Dotty Delights baked the prettiest cake. Stylishly white decorated with colourful butterflies, just to surprise you with layers of delicious colour as you cut it... have a look and enjoy the pictures!

To contact Bronwenn for anything Creative:

Bronwenn - Paper Whimsy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice8art/

0824187483

To contact Denise for a Cake:

Denise Diedericks - Dotty Delights

Denise@dottydelights.co.za

083 778 7752

Http://www.dottydelights.coza 

with Love,

Liezel

Credit: All photographs taken by myself.

Inspiration: Party Pack in a bucket!

Hello! Today we might have our first spring rain and I am so excited. A little bit cool and overcast; is my favourite weather {maybe because it reminds me of Europe... aaah}. Today I would like to share a very beautiful and creative 'thank you party bucket' that my neighbour Mia made for her gorgeous son, Leonhardt's first birthday. The mask that she put around the tub is such a clever idea and the combination of the ribbon, peg and pretty tag is just perfect. Thank you for inspiring me Mia!

With Love,

Liezel

Credit: Photographs by myself

Inspiration: Lilli's 2nd Birthday - Ice Cream Theme {Part 2}

Good morning! As promised herewith follows the craft and thank you favours we did for Lilli's Party.

The Craft:  I made a template {that you can download for free below, yay!} of popsicle shapes. Copied it onto coloured card board and glued two-two together with an ice cream stick in between. Then I put together little packets of coloured confetti {yes, yes, I punched away one evening} and stick-on shapes as well as shapes that had to be glued on. Lilli's principal was so kind to borrow me a table and chairs, so I set up a craft station for the kids on the balcony.

Download the template here for free!

The Thank you Favours: I wanted to do something from the heart and not only sweeties. So there were 'real hot chocolate' stars with mini marshmallows. Each girl received an Alice band with a purple felt flower and when I saw the wooden tetrus blocks, I had to get that because Lilli just loves puzzles. To make it a handy toy to go with where ever they do, I made little string-bags. It was packaged in plain white paper bags with personalised matching 'Flag Tags'.

What do you think are nice gifts for the kids in their Party Packs?

Love

Liezel

Credit: Photographs taken by myself.

Inspiration: Lilli's 2nd Birthday - Ice Cream Theme {Part 1}

Hello! Ooh I am so excited to share ALL of these photos with you today. There are lots, so bare with me. Our precious daughter Lilli turned two last week and as we were not home on her 1st Birthday {read the post here}, I had to make up for it now {chuckles}. It all started with the picture of a cake I saw on Pinterest. It was a light pink cake with a 'fallen' chocolate ice cream on top. Now that I had my theme, all the ideas raced towards me and here is the end result:

The Invite: As an Evite the invite is square, however if it is printed; it is double sided, front to back and rectangular. {This Party Kit is also now available in my online shop here}

The Savoury Snacks: I tried to make nice and {relatively} healthy savoury snacks to try and balance out all the yummy sweet things {as if such a thing is possible}. There were colourful crudite served in shot glasses nested in a  spoonful of caramelised onion dip. Baby Marrow, Pea & Mint Soup Shots, served chilled.  We made small portions of nachos {hot and not ;-} in cupcake cups and Veggie and Ham baguettes wrapped in the 'water bottle labels' to finish of this section. 

The Sweet Stuff: Lilli was so sweet to help me prepare these 'marshmallow pops' and the 'rice crispy treat cones'. It was quite a challenge for her not to eat it all and every now and then a marshmallow went a stray. 

Off course there had to be ice cream. I bought in the Belgium Chocolate ice cream, then made a dairy free Pina Colada Flavour. A heavenly Vanilla and Coconut and ended with Strawberry Frozen Yogurt that the kids loved! I set the ice creams in little tubs and in shot glasses to make small pops so that you could try more than one...

I baked a marble cake {yes, yes... to continue the colour theme.. hie hie} with a butter cream frosting. I found the recipe in my all time favourite magazine ... Donna Hay. To make the ice cream ball for the top of the cake I made a big ball of the 'rice crispy treat' and dipped it in chocolate. After the cake was iced, I placed the 'rice crispy chocolate ball' on top of the cake, poured some more melted chocolate over to get the 'melting' effect and mounted the wafer cone....mmm and it was so delicious!

The Details: I just love paper lanterns. In summer with all our magnificent thunderstorms it is impossible to hang them on our balcony, however, August is perfect. Don't you just love the pretty paper straws that I found at The Selection?

I read this quote by Voltaire... "Ice cream is exquisite, what a pity it isn't illegal". A-ha, new poster for the guest bathroom. Also,  I made a special poster for 'Lilli {age 2} Loves' with all the things she loves to do now and used it as the centre piece of the savoury buffet. To bring in a bit more girly pink I framed two of the Pink Theme Nursery pack posters available here. 

Tomorrow I will share the craft we did as well as the thank you favours!

Thank you so much Elsali for all your time, willingness to help and your lovely Soup Shot Recipe. You are so appreciated and we are very blessed to have you in our life.

Thank you Rainer for making all of this possible!

Love,

Liezel

Credit: Photographs by myself, Rainer Glaubitz, Debbie Buchanan & Claudia Warchal

Inspiration: Jazy's 2nd Birthday!

Hello! This past weekend we celebrated gorgeous Jasmyn's 2nd Birthday with the fun 'Monkey Around' Theme. They have a beautiful garden and lots of space to climb, run, jump and Monkey Around!

I just loved the creative monkey cupcakes her grandmother made and the cute monkey thank you favours! Someone even drew a Mr. Monk on the black board, Oh, how I love detail! Her mom also baked a monkey cake with the cutest banana paws and arms! Here are a few images of the day:



The 'Monkey Around' theme is available here in my online shop.

Have Monkey Monday,
Love
Liezel

Credit: All photographs by myself

Feature: NEW Bohemian Paisley Party

Hello! Today I would like to share my new 'Bohemian Paisley Party' theme with you. If you are planning an elegant, special birthday, this one could work for you. The main two colours are purple and green and features an Indian Paisley Print, combined with a nice, scripty font it looks really beautiful and fresh. This set consists of Invitations, Envelope Design (if required), Favour Boxes (2 x after eight choccies fits perfectly), place cards and mini flags.This Party is now available in my shop here.

Happy Wednesday,

Love Liezel

Credit: All photographs by myself

Inspiration: Twins Welcome Celebration

Hello!

Francoise, lovely mom to gorgeous twins Trey and Tyler received a Match Set Love Voucher as a gift to celebrate the birth of her babies from a friend. She chose to use the 'Blue & Red Pram Baby Shower' Theme as the colour Red is regarded as lucky in the Chinese Culture. She was so kind to submit a few photo's of the the tea that they held in their babies honour. As a mom to only one, I am completely amazed at how she gets anything done with two (no three!)... 

Thank you for sharing!

Love,
Liezel