REAL PARTIES: Pinwheels & Pom Poms
categories: baby shower ideas, bridal shower ideas, real parties
I’m totally swooning over this new Real Party! It’s a super-stylish, intimate baby shower brunch featuring adorable pinwheels, festive tissue poms, fabulous paper patterns, and a fresh & colorful palette of yellows, greens, browns and blues.
The 3-dimensional invitations are also ridiculously amazing! And added bonus for us – you can find the entire DIY Tutorial for the pretty pinwheels featured in the invites right here on Style Me Pretty!
Read on for TONS of gorgeous pics and all the party details, as told by hostesses Kari Herer, Christina Wnek, and Pam Albert…
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“Our pregnant friend Tracy is on bed rest and so we wanted to do something extra special and over the top in celebration of her and her “little peanut”. Not knowing the sex of the baby, they refer to their little one as “Peanut” – so we decided to run with that and made “Oh Peanut” our tagline.
The invitation started the whole thing off – it was a really small shower (just 8 people) giving us time to create something that we wouldn’t have been able to for a larger number of people. We wanted the invitation to make a statement and thought pinwheels would be something we could make and could carry through to the rest of the shower.
From there our theme was born: Pinwheels and Pom Poms!
Tracy has chosen Robert Kaufman’s Metro Market Chickens fabric for her bedding and color scheme for the nursery, so we drew our inspiration from that and stuck with greens, yellows, blues and browns.
After deciding on the color scheme the rest was a piece of cake! As long as you have a color or group of colors to work with keeping an event cohesive is easy.
We made smaller (less complicated!) pinwheels to decorate the cupcakes, hung pom poms from pomlove on the ceiling, adorned the doorway with a cute “oh peanut” banner printed by Papier Gourmet, and made some scrumptious sugar scrub with the line “from our shower to yours” on the tag.
We even had our own personal caterer (Kari’s oh so talented husband) to cook us brunch!
The shower was a hit – it was a great group of ladies, an amazing meal, a fabulous atmosphere all in celebration of a great friend and her little peanut!”
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Thanks again to Kari, Christina, and Patricia for the fabulous inspiration!
And here’s another link to the wonderful DIY Pinwheel Tutorial featured over at SMP!
I love the colours…yellows are always uplifting and fun in any shade. The pinwheels and pom poms are great ideas and the invitations…how pretty!
Dec 22, 2009 at 11:57 amWhat a fabulous party! Everything looks so fresh and inviting… Does anyone know what font was used for the words “the peanut” on the green/yellow coasters and also on the word “baby” on the invitations? I just love that scripty font…
Dec 22, 2009 at 12:02 pmSo Vibrant, Unique and FUN! Oh, and now I am totally pinwheel obsessed:) Beautiful shower.
Dec 22, 2009 at 12:04 pmJenny – the script font on the invite is from the font family, Bickham Script Pro.
Dec 22, 2009 at 12:33 pmWhere can I find straws like the blue and white ones? I need green and white ones for a shower I am throwing in January. Perfect little touches. Great job!
Dec 22, 2009 at 12:35 pmHello, I’m wondering where the straws were purchased too – I would love some pink and white ones for my daughter’s b-day.
Beautiful!
Thanks!
Dec 22, 2009 at 12:48 pmAdorable, love it!
Dec 22, 2009 at 12:49 pmKatie – we purchased the straws at an adorable little shop in Portsmouth, NH called Gus and Ruby Letterpress. http://www.gusandruby.com.
Dec 22, 2009 at 12:51 pmlove the colors. love the theme. love the sweet ladies that i’ve gotten to know a bit. love it all:)
Dec 22, 2009 at 1:04 pmLove it!!!
Dec 22, 2009 at 1:09 pmWhat a gorgeous party!!!
Dec 22, 2009 at 1:35 pmThis is so vibrant and festive looking. I love it!
Dec 22, 2009 at 1:55 pmThis is SUPER adorable! It’d be perfect in the spring!
Dec 22, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Those paper straws are my favorite!fabulous.. i love the colors…
Dec 22, 2009 at 7:03 pmSUPER CUTE!!
Dec 22, 2009 at 9:35 pmThese pinwheel invites took my breath away! Perhaps, the cutest I’ve ever seen!!!
Dec 23, 2009 at 12:44 pmOMG, that is so adorable. I absolutely love the pinwheel invites, so unique! Jenn hon, I love the font you used ffor the word Pinwheels, do you mind sharing the name? Hugs and TIA!
Dec 28, 2009 at 7:55 amWhere did you get the cute jars for the sugar scrub?
Dec 28, 2009 at 9:19 ambella –
Dec 28, 2009 at 9:36 am
The name of that font is “Fling”. one of my favorites too
I have that font! I just haven’t gotten around to using it! I am a bit of a font collector…some may say even a font addict…lol! Thanks hon!
Dec 28, 2009 at 6:15 pmCan you please tell me what the invitations say? The are soooooo cute.
Dec 29, 2009 at 3:04 amHow do u make the poms or were they purchased somewhere? Also what is the recipe/directions for the sugar scrub? Love the pics of the shower!! Great ideas
Dec 29, 2009 at 6:16 pmas ususal, got lot’s of great ideas from the pics! i am also wondering about the straws. i need either red and white or turquoise and white for my baby girl’s second birthday!
Dec 30, 2009 at 12:42 pmmy sister is having a baby in spring and i would love to know if you would share your recipe for the sugar scrub. such wonderful ideas.
Jan 6, 2010 at 4:07 pmthis is adorable. love it!
Jan 13, 2010 at 2:24 pmLove it ,,, its so so cute : ) !
Feb 7, 2010 at 5:49 pmI love all of your ideas! Where can I find your sugar scurb recipe?
Mar 15, 2010 at 7:55 pmI love this! Just wondering what those amazing yellow and green flowers are called?
Apr 3, 2010 at 7:59 pmHi Jane –
Apr 6, 2010 at 7:56 pm
The flowers are called Button Poms. They’re a favorite of mine tooI am also wondering about the favors – where to get the jars and if the recipe for the sugar scrub can be shared?
Apr 19, 2010 at 12:46 pmi love it, so cute… does anyone know what font was used for the word sugar scrub on the favor tags?
Apr 19, 2010 at 5:08 pmHey Guys,
The sugar scrub was really just made up. I bought a bunch of oils from Whole foods and mixed them together between 12 jars. The jars were from Crate and Barrel (I got them at the outlet store in Kittery Maine). I bought almond oil, grape seed, avocado. I also added a bottle of vit E to the mix. I just used plain white sugar and filled the jars. Superfine sugar will dissolve too much. If they needed a little extra oil I used baby oil. Easy peasy.The scripty font on the diy is called “Albemarle Swash”
the scripty font on the favors was “Bickham”
cheers,
Apr 20, 2010 at 11:21 am
kariThe poms were from Pomlove’s etsy site. She is fab!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/PomLove
xoxo
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