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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Miscellaneous Girl Parties

Every year we hope to have more time to spend on organizing things for Thanksgiving and Christmas and every year when November hits, it's CRAZY! We usually go to California at the end of November, come home, have 2 days before we go to OKC for a couple of days for a nephew birthday, come home for Hanukkah, then Christmas. When do I sleep? Usually on the rides at Disneyland. HA! Totally kidding. I actually get a decent amount of sleep now.

So we're back! This month's blog post is about some miscellaneous girl parties that More Peas, Please has contributed items to.

This banner was very special to a friend of ours. She LOVE the Little Mermaid that year so here is a banner inspired by Ariel herself. The Cooper family is dear to us. More Peas, Please helps out during times of design for price tags with their shows that they do. They are very talented with custom embroidery, vinyl and rhinestones on pretty much any medium you throw at them! You can check out Joiful Creations on Facebook

We have also made an Emoji banner and Frozen banner for her that can be found on our Facebook Page.

The next Party contribution we did was for a Doc McStuffins party. These cake toppers turned out perfectly with the strawberry flavored cupcakes. The sign "The Doc is In" Is a perfect addition for her to tell her guests that they can come in! They even had syringes filled with Strawberry Yogurt. The girls had a blast at the party.

Our favorite chick pea had a birthday every year that is super cute in theme. Her momma does it up nice. This time, she bought stuff from Etsy and I just cut and put it together. It's a LOT easier to not do it by hand!!

Another Chick Pea of ours had daughters whose birthday's were very close together and they were doing a Bat Mitzvah. The theme was kind of Kate Spade in feeling. Their moms had pretty big ideas including the 24" Balloon centerpiece. More Peas, Please got out the sewing machine and did the hanging paper garlands that attached to a giant black ribbon that attached to the balloons. We also did little hashtag cards for each table to tag their photos with on instagram. It was a cute little addition to the already beautiful space.

Do you have a party that you would like to have featured where you used our products? Please email Ashley about 10-15 photos to MorePeasPlease@yahoo.com. Be as detailed as possible and include any recognition to businesses that you have used along with their websites. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter or www. If you have any questions, please contact us. We love designing new things!

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Miscellaneous Boy Parties

This month, we are preparing for another baby shower that will happen next month and we are super excited for it! While we prepare for that, you enjoy this month's post about the boy parties we have designed things for over the past year. These are not parties that we have a lot of involvement in, yet we designed something for them.

A Darth Vader inspired Banner for a 40th Birthday Party.

Note how Darth's eyes are the number 40. It's all about the detail. The other is a door banner for the party.

My Nephew and his super cute Octonauts Party at at the local Gymnastic gym. The cake was awesome! I love that my sis-in-law finds things that can accessorize the cake without spending a lot of money! We are all about saving money when we can!

This is the Banner I designed for him. It was super fun to do an underwater/ocean banner that was boy related and Disney!

My other nephew had a Paw Patrol birthday and This is the banner I made for him. It was definitely a challenge as I am not familiar with Paw Patrol, but it was worth it! He loves them!

Here's his cute self and his awesome cake! He REALLY enjoyed it!

Monday, September 12, 2016

Mermaid Inspired Birthday Party

Hello from the Pea Pod! We have had quite the summer and while I thought I had this blog already done, when I discovered I didn't, it had to wait until the first quarter of school was done. So here I am. This post is dedicated to all the Mermaids out there. Sweet Pea is a HUGE fan of anything Ariel. We even bought her a Christmas present the other day: a talking Flounder. How cute?! Her party (complete with almost 75 people) was the highlight of my March. I love throwing parties and I love that she had such a good time. We even died her hair red (with some chalk spray).

Let's begin with the Invitation (made by More Peas, Please -yours truly).

You'll note the red starfish (That was a nod to Ariel's hair color and the flower she wore in her hair), glitter tail and all of the individual circles to mimic scales. The back had all of the details.

The AMAZING staff at Solomon's Porch took all of my ideas and made them a reality. From Crab sandwiches, down to the dinglehopper cake pops. Those are hand crafted chocolates on brown sugar. The M&M's I got from a groupon! The starfish shaped pizzas were a HUGE hit. Of course Sebastian on the candelabra completed my vision for a treasure trove. See the giant balloons? Those are 24" clear balloons to make bubbles. Along with the seaweed bubbles (which instantly became a game with the children). The jellyfish are SO easy and cheap to make - just get a paper lantern, a plastic table cloth and some hot glue. Maybe buy a glove that can withstand the heat - oops. My fingers.

Here's a Menu I designed using clipart from Jessica Sawyer Design.

Here's the decor and some more goodies. Her cake was adorable with a mermaid tail splashing up out of the cake. The party favors were each child designed their own Treasure box and filled it with gadgets and gizmos a plenty. More signage made by us. The vinyl is made by a friend who does custom vinyl pieces. They have done quite a bit of work for me and I LOVE everything they do. You can contact our shop to get in touch with them to place an order!

Sugar Pea's bow was found at Hot Topic and her dress was made by the fabulous Gypsy Geek - Sugar wears her dress at least once a week! The Balloon arch was done by a Hawaiian friend who is a local for us now and I did the streamers of glitter dots in the background. I also found these free masks online and thanks to owning a business, I didn't have to cut them out by hand. SCORE!

King {Tritan} Pea, Sugar Pea, Sweet Pea and I (as Ursula) had an amazing day. I have to give a HUGE shout out to my girl, Jessica, for doing the photography. Why? Because for real, she has an amazing eye. You can find her at Aish; Photography

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Wine Dinner Party

2015 was full of parties and great celebrations. A friend of ours contacted me about helping him pull of a surprise party for his wife. We totally pulled it off with the help of Kim and her awesome team at Glory of Zion in Solomon's Porch. It was a dinner party with a few of her closest friends, drinking wine and laughing. We know where the party was held, now let's give a shout out to the awesome photography by Aish Photography. Without her, I wouldn't have the awesome ability to showcase the work of yours truly along with Kim and her team! We also had wine pairing done with each course by The Barrel Room. Each wine was specially chosen by their amazing team. If you're in the area, be sure to schedule a tasting with them. It's pretty special!

We'll start with the invitation. This custom piece was inspired with a Napa Valley feel to it. The fork prongs have wine bottles built into them along with cork and mostly wine colors for a natural feel. Lots of nature browns and burlap were added but it still has an elegant feel.

This is the personalized menu with wine pairing for each course that everyone had on their plate. Mimicking the invitation colors and feel.

Here are the rest of the decorations. All of this was made possible thanks to the help of Kim's team. Barrels were brought in to add to the feel along with wood rounds, grapes, and fresh flowers in crates. The colors were soft. We had a bottle of wine for the guests to sign so that we could give her a memento to cherish for years to come. Also, I cut out circles and had everyone sign them so that we could group them into grapes on a framable art. Here's a photo of the finished art piece of her signed grapes.

The food was SO good. I seriously cannot express this enough. I can't even pick a favorite course because it was all so delicious. The decor change was a huge help to the space!

Nothing is complete without people to celebrate it with the birthday girl!

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Star Wars {Dark Side} Theme Party

Any time the King Pea hears one of my friends' kids wanting to have a party that involves ANYTHING geek, he wants a part of it. When we were asked to help with a scavenger hunt, King Pea dived head in and even made me learn how to use my iMovie to make a holographic image video in a....yes....Star Wars Theme. He made a video to introduce the scavenger hunt, then went around to different businesses asking if they would hold a package for Chick Pea to pick up. He learned how to make his own lightsaber and then broke the pieces apart and had her get the boxes to rebuild it. He etched out the Sith creed on her handle and hand dipped it to make it marbleized. It is a fully functioning lightsaber built for a true Star Wars fan.

First, I'm going to show you the places where they had to pick up the clues. Chick Pea's friends had a blast figuring out King Peas' riddles. We want to give a HUGE shout out and Thank you to the businesses that allowed these tweens to invade their space this past Summer: Movie Tavern, More Fun Comics and Games, and Barnes and Noble. Our little city is so awesome at allowing things like this. Sweet and Sugar even got involved. King Pea dressed them up, made signs for them to hold, all while they waited to see the birthday girl. One guy thought they needed money...and gave Sweet Pea $20. Wow.

The birthday girl's mom was needing a place to hold the party so we did it at our house. I decorated in the "dark side" colors, put together components to make lightsabers and froze Death Star ice cubes. Here's the "setup". The girls made their own lightsabers with glow sticks and they had some other cute little things from Chick Pea's mom. A Darth Vader head filled with candy and

The birthday girl enjoyed her play time, cupcakes made by Solomon's Porch team, and her newly put together lightsaber!

In the Sith language, this is the thank you tag More Peas, Please made for the girls.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Minon Themed Party

Sweet Pea has a lot of friends that are VERY close to her age. It takes Sweet some time to figure things out. She likes to figure things out. Now, Sweet's friend had a party and that made Sweet bond a little more with Chick Pea.

Solomon's Porch at Global Sphere Center is headed up by Kim who is awesome at throwing events. We love having our parties there as well. She has been a lifesaver for our parties! If you need an event center, this is the place to have it. Newly remodled!

For the Minon Party, More Peas, Please made the invites, tags, signs and menu. In the following photos, you'll see the stuff we made plus some other things that made this party special!

Here's the invite:

Here's the menu and thank you tags along with the cupcakes that were made at Solomon's Porch had super cute little minions on top as well.

Staples came through again and made the print I designed into an engineering print for $4 (seriously awesome). We also did some photo booth props, designed the pictures that went in the photo frames on the tables, and Chick Pea's momma found some awesome movie posters and coloring books for activities to do during the party. The bottom right is where they all played pin the pocket on Kevin.

The photo booth was a HUGE hit. All 3 year olds were hanging out over there taking photos forever! This is the birthday girl in the box of FAME (not like the box of SHAME on the first movie).

Here she is while we sing happy birthday to her and we all eat the awesome cupcakes!

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Butterfly Themed First Birthday

This Pea family has some pretty awesome neighbors. We finally have a comfortable block of people that mean more to us than just friends. They are like family! You may remember the Monkey themed baby shower we threw for one of our neighbors. A few months after baby chick pea was born, King Pea and I were asked to be Godparents. We were literally super blessed.

A few months more flew by and baby chick pea was turning one. So her mommy called and asked for a banner and cake topper for her smash cake. Baby is VERY shy and take a while to get used to people. She was not the least bit excited about the large crowd, good food, cake...but the presents, she was into! I took photos for our neighbor pea so naturally I have photos of the products I made.

First, here's the birthday girl and her cake. More Peas, Please didn't make the butterfly garland in the background, but I can upon request! The cake topper was made by More Peas, Please.

Here's some shots of the party space with the menu, banner, and cake topper made by MPP. Chick Pea's mom had some chocolate covered oreos there too. Everything was so awesomely good!

Here's the banner I made in the color scheme to complete with some pop up ones.

Close up of the menu.

Mommy had a really cool face painter!! Look at these beautiful pieces of art on their faces!

And lastly, mommy with the baby chick pea who is now walking and moving to age two a lot faster!!