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Printable Back to School Labels Round Up (+ Freebie!)

We are just a few weeks away from the 1st day of school here in South Carolina, and the kids are rounding up school supplies, back packs and lunch boxes.  (Where did summer go?)  We are also in the mode of thinking “new teacher gifts“, as well!  (Stay tuned for that round up tomorrow!) Today is […]

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Giveaway Winner for Just Dance Customs

  I’m super excited to announce the winner of  Just Dance Customs giveaway that we hosted on our blog this week.  The winner of the $25 gift certificate to their Etsy Shop and one free custom dancewear set (valued up to $83 including shipping) is:  Madison Konorosky Be sure to check out Just Dance Customs new dance […]

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Outdoor Movie Night Featuring Ikea

We are so excited to showcase Ikea Charlotte Store today in our most recent Outdoor Movie Night birthday party.  If you missed our full party post, you can see it here – we had an amazing collaboration with Jelly Belly, our Ikea Charlotte Store and Great Stitch to create this vibrant teen theme. We want to show you […]

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A Sweet Cookies & Milk Baby Shower

Hello, Anders Ruff friends.  Jen Carver (Banner Events) here, and I am happy to share the details of this sweet cookies & milk baby shower my talented friend Vivian Kerr and I co-hosted for our beautiful friend Rochelle.  While some may think throwing a baby shower for a 5th baby isn’t necessary, we don’t agree. We couldn’t possibly […]

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Dancewear Giveaway with Just Dance Customs

One of our favorite dancewear companies, Just Dance Customs, is giving away a $25 gift certificate to their Etsy Shop and *one free custom dancewear set (valued up to $83 including shipping). We first partnered with Just Dance last August when they outfitted a few biketards for Grayce’s 9th Birthday Party.  We love their dancewear […]

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Outdoor Movie Night Monogrammed Pillows, Blankets & Tshirts by Great Stitch

If you haven’t seen our newest party theme yet, we recently designed and styled  Brynne’s 13th Birthday Outdoor Movie Night featuring a Jelly Belly Consession Stand, decorated movie screen, outdoor seating with monogrammed pillows and blankets and a festive popcorn bar.  We were so excited to partner with Jelly Belly to create the perfect jelly bean display for Brynne’s movie […]

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The Perfect Jelly Belly Concession Stand (with FREE Printable Flavor Voting Cards!)

Last week, we shared the reveal of Brynne’s 13th Birthday Outdoor Movie Night featuring a Jelly Belly Consession Stand, decorated movie screen, outdoor seating with monogrammed pillows and blankets and a festive popcorn bar.  We were so excited to partner with Jelly Belly to create the perfect jelly bean display for Brynne’s movie birthday party.  Today, we […]

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DIY Cork Wine Charms with Evite and Cavit

A special thanks to Evite and Cavit for sponsoring this post and sharing the idea! #EviteParty Adria and I are always looking for unexpected uses of everyday items.  Adria likes loves to drink wine (yep, I said it) and has an entire crate of wine corks and so we LOVE to find use for corks […]

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Lemonade Stand Ideas & Decorations

There is nothing better as a child than the lazy days of summer evolving into spontaneously putting together a lemonade stand.   Most of the fun is in the prep work of  of putting together your business plan….gathering the products, mixing lemonade, and dreaming big about the money you’ll make and what you’ll do with […]

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Brynne’s 13th Birthday – Outdoor Movie Night with Jelly Belly Concession Stand

We are so excited to share with you Brynne’s 13th Birthday Outdoor Movie Night featuring a Jelly Belly Consession Stand, decorated movie screen, outdoor seating with monogrammed pillows and blankets and a festive popcorn bar.  We had the priviledge of partnering with Jelly Belly to create the perfect jelly bean display for Brynne’s movie birthday party.  We also […]

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Fiesta Party (Flowery & Colorful)

This Fiesta Party is filled with lots of color and fun floral patterns.  Styled by Courtney Portner (who also styled last weeks Surf Themed Party) for her daughter’s 9th birthday.  Courtney inspiration and vision for the designs we created were based off of Michael Miller’s “Fiesta” fabric.  The colors and patterns are amazing and were really […]

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Surf Party (with Shark inspiration)

This surf party was styled for a set of brother and sister twins by their Mom, Courntey Portner.  Courtney contacted us to help create some designs for her party.  Sending us the most amazing inspiration photos and ideas we were excited to get to work.  She wanted lots of color, surfer boy and girl silhouettes […]

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Ruff Draft: Patriotic Punch for the 4th of July

  Can you believe it’s already July?  Who is excited for our upcoming 4th of July weekend?  I have a great recipe I want to share today that I recently had at my friend, Calla’s house.. it is the perfect drink for this holiday weekend. I’m renaming this classic punch cocktail to Patriotic Punch in honor […]

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Our NEW Patriotic 4th of July Party Ideas

4th of July is one of our favorite holidays to create party ideas for.  How could you not love summer parties and entertaining and of course patriotic red, white and blue! Well this year we decided to freshen up our 4th of July party ideas by using galvanized accents mixed with the natural look of […]

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Mister Maker Art Party

Yolanda of Kiss with Style, put together a Mister Maker art party.  However, instead of going to the Doodle drawer or art and craft shop to get the needed supplies she asked us to design them.  After putting everything together Yolanda did  a little dance waking this party up and making it come to life.  Just like Mister […]

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