{"id":7550,"date":"2009-08-04T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2010-02-16T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:15:26","slug":"nff-qa-3-your-parties-our-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/nff-qa-3-your-parties-our-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"NFF Q&A #3 – Your Parties Our Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

You ask the questions; we\u2019ll give you our answers. Take them, leave them, put a pin in them, or marry them. Do whatever you want with our thoughts, but leave your suggestions and thoughts in the comment section as well! A woman can never have too many ideas. <\/p>\n

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Question:<\/strong> I love your blog!!!!! Ok, to make long story short, I was involved in a car accident a year ago, broke my ankle, been dealing with it since. In April I had surgery to fix the problems of my foot, could not drive for almost 3 weeks and was in a boot for well over a month. My daughters birthdays were in May and June. Since I was out of commission they did not have a party, by the way they are 11 and 8. I was thinking of making up for the lack of party in August by having a pool party for them. I\u2019ve found a few ideas online but not much. I could really use the help with ideas.
\nThanks
\nKolly<\/em><\/p>\n

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Answer:<\/strong> Oh, Kolly.\u00a0 First of all, we love you too!\u00a0 How cute are you for even thinking about planning a belated duo party when you have had such a colossal year?!?!\u00a0You are a seriously fabulous mom!!\u00a0 Secondly, we feel your pain…well, Annie feels your pain.\u00a0 Less than two years ago, Annie (in a heroic effort to save her six month old daughter from concrete and stairs) unfortunately\u00a0broke one leg and sprained the other.\u00a0 Needless to say, it wasn’t pretty and it isn’t easy.\u00a0 She still is dealing with the chronic pain and therapy.\u00a0\u00a0 In my opinion, anything you walk on should never be injured.\u00a0 You are a trooper.\u00a0 We absolutely hands-down get it.\u00a0 What you have been through has made you stronger, but not without a few tears. Okay, so now on to pool party ideas.<\/p>\n

There are so many fun twists you can put on a pool party.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything from pirates or vintage\u00a0beach\u00a0to a nautical <\/a>theme, but I kept\u00a0the above ideas\u00a0classic girly pool party-ish and within a similar color scheme.\u00a0 Here\u00a0are some of the ideas I found and loved.\u00a0 I tried to find ideas that were fairly simple, because a) <\/strong>our site is<\/em> named No Fuss Fabulous <\/strong>and b)<\/strong> although you are back on your feet, I really don’t want you overdoing it and negatively effect your healing process!\u00a0\u00a0 Hope that inspiration sparks through some of these fabulous links!<\/p>\n

Pictured from Left to Right, beginning at the top:<\/p>\n

1. Martha Stewart’s Sand Bucket Angel Food Cake<\/a> and Strawberry Shellies <\/a>– Why was I suprised that Martha had a beach pail cake? Of course, she does. Find how to make it here<\/a>. And you HAVE to check out her Strawberry Shellies here<\/a>. They are easy and adorable. <\/p>\n

2. Cakes by Becky <\/a>created these fun beach cupcakes<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Personally, I don’t have the patience to carve beach towells and sandals out of fondent ( if you do, go for it!\u00a0 They are adorable.)\u00a0 But for the\u00a0less patient woman, I definitely suggest taking the paper umberella inspiration and running with it.\u00a0 Paper umberellas offer a very easy solution to turning ordinary cupcakes into pool party perfection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 If you are a printable-type of girl, you may want to go this route.\u00a0 Paper and Cake<\/a> offer a complete printable Poolside Party Tablescape <\/a>\u00a0that comes with everything from invitations to straw markers for just ten dollars.\u00a0 They also offer a retro Hawaiian theme <\/a>that you may want to check out. Truly no fuss fabulous!<\/p>\n

4. & 7. A little Loveliness with Melissa Lester <\/a>created an adorable Flip Flop Tea Party <\/a>that had a handful of ideas that could easily be transitioned into a pool party. My favorite idea I took from her party were these flip flops shown in box #7. Flip flops can be found at Micheals and Target for less than a dollar a pair right now. Add a cute easy bow on each sandal with bright colored ribbon and you have matching flip flops all the girls can take home! Place them in a fun beach pail labeled ‘flip flops” (box 4) and you have a fun centerpiece as well.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 There are many many many pool party invitations online, but this custom\u00a0invite <\/a>by Sweet Pea Baby\u00a0<\/a>was by far my pool party\u00a0favorite.\u00a0 And I almost died when I realized it was already designed for two little girls and all the wording could be customized to suit your party.\u00a0 If your not in love, check out this little swimsuit one\u00a0 from FineStationery.com\u00a0 It is pretty cute as well.<\/p>\n

6. Favors do not come cuter than this.\u00a0 Monogrammed towels are perfect for a small pool party.\u00a0 Flikr’s house on hill road’s photostream<\/a>\u00a0 Also check out mommawants1more<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0photostream here<\/a> to see her monogrammed towel favors.<\/p>\n

See above for #7.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Vanessa Cavaco Designs <\/a>offers these (as well as other) adorable personalized pool party stickers on Etsy<\/a> for less than six bucks.\u00a0 Perfect for favors, thank you cards, or even decorating plain cups.<\/p>\n

9. I saved the last for best. These little nutter butter flip flops are so easy to make and absolutely adorable. Several online stores sell them premade, but they are so simple I don’t know why you would unless you need thousands of them. Simply pipe a V of frosting on to each nutter butter and add a flower sprinkle if desired. For more pool party cookie inspiration check out, A dozen eggs flip flop cookies here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You ask the questions; we\u2019ll give you our answers. Take them, leave them, put a pin in them, or marry them. Do whatever you want with our thoughts, but leave your suggestions and thoughts in the comment section as well! A woman can never have too many ideas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}