The hippest party planners from around the world are taking the humble balloon and making it the chicest decorating accessory of the moment.  Take giant bulbous balloons filled with helium and use them to decorate your room and each table.  Secure with your floral centrepiece or in a vase of lollies for a truly whimsical look.  Cheap, beautiful and fun!

Australia’s most stylish party shop, Pink Frosting, has just taken delivery of a whole new range of chic party balloons, perfect for kids parties, Christmas and other holiday celebrations, adult birthday parties, swanky soirees and even weddings.  Some of our favourites include:

• Chocolate Brown Party Balloons – we are so excited to finally offer this very chic colour in a party balloon;
• Jungle Assorted Party Balloons – perfect for a jungle themed birthday party or a safari adult celebration;
• Polka Dot Pastel Assorted Party Balloons – we love these balloons for kitchen teas, baby showers and Spring party celebrations;
• Rainbow Sprays Party Balloons – gorgeous for a rainbow party, garden party or a shower of any kind – oh so sweet;
• Tropical Hibiscus Beach Party Balloons – make your next BBQ or beach party more colourful with these beachy themed party balloons in tropical colours.

Whatever you’re celebrating, beautiful party balloons really are the central decoration packing a punch on a budget.  The Pink Frosting balloon range is all professional quality – perfect for inflating with helium (you can hire helium canisters locally) or simply inflating with good old fashioned lung power!

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Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

The personalised chocolate bar favor has had a revamp and hip, hip, hooray!  They are amazing!

For only $3.55 each, they won’t break the bank either.  Available at Pink Frosting’s online celebration shop.  Perfect!

And on a very serious note, these chocolate bars are produced in a nut free U.S. facility and are guaranteed safe for anyone with a nut or peanut allergy.  Phew…

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

As a Mum of a technology-interested toddler, I am often searching for great Internet sites for my little girl to have a play on. One of our favourites is Disney which is entertaining, informative, fun and easy to use.

But, not only is this site amazing for everyday play, it also can provide some amazing free tools for your kids party. This weekend, for example, we hosted a gorgeous Princess 16th Birthday party where Cinderella was our chief inspiration. On the Disney site, we found amazing colouring templates which we enlarged to use for wall decorations and games, mobile templates which we colour printed, laminated and used as decorations hanging from balloon strings and gift card templates which we used as gift tags for the loot bags.

All of your favourite Disney characters are there to choose from, whether you’re looking for princesses, fairies, Pooh Bear or High School Musical!

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

Winnie the Pooh parties are very popular with little kids, up to about 6 years of age. The characters are great fun to create a party around, and the Hundred Acre Woods is a perfect central decorating theme for your fun day.

We’ve organised a few Winnie the Pooh parties. Here are some of our ideas:

Create Rabbit’s Garden in your backyard for a treasure hunt. It’s much less messy if the carrots are paper and the soil is black plastic! Use some hardy cardboard as your white picket fence and don’t forget to put up some signs straight from The World of Pooh to make it authentic: ‘Rabit’s Garden’.

Play the old-standard “Pin the tail on the donkey” with a large cutout of Eeyore, making the tails out of grey and pink ribbon.

In one of my favourite childhood books, The World of Pooh, A.A. Milne writes about a party Christopher Robin throws for his best friend, Winnie the Pooh. Christopher sets a long table and the friends all have a grand picnic in the sunshine, under a shady tree. Take this as inspiration and host your party outdoors, even on picnic rugs and serve finger food inspired by pooh – carrots, honey sandwiches, beestings, cupcakes and homemade lemonade.

For the cake, go all out and make precious little beehive cupcakes using a standard vanilla recipe for the base, decorated with yellow-dyed frosting spiralled around the top. Wind tiny strings of black-strap licorice around the spirals to create the beehive look. Top with a pipecleaner bee which you can pick up at your local $2 store.

For some crafty fun, have the kids paint some “drippy honey pots” to take home. Pink Frosting has some great painting pot kits for you to use for this.

Most of all, have fun with this theme. Gardens, puddles, bears, ‘roos and more should be your inspiration!

Happy celebrating!

Kathryn