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We return for the final installment of our story to find our super friends eyeing the fantastic candy buffet.

A stroke of creative brilliance by no other than, you guessed it, supermom. Super candy with an element of danger and complete with superhero toothbrushes? Seriously, it doesn’t get much cuter than this.

Except for maybe this. Cityscape cake wrappers with hero and villain cake toppers. Complete with flying capes!! How did supermom make this work? Let’s just say, there is nothing Eleanor can’t make happen in her lab. A little fabric stiffener, a cup, a rubber band and BOOM! Perfection.

And yes, these cupcakes were as good as they looked thanks to Kristen of Crumb Gourmet. Check her out even if you are not local to the Jackson area. She also does cookies, and she ships!

There was even one specially designed for the birthday boy and placed on his own mini version of the industrial cupcake stand.

As this super day began to come to a close, guests were asked to fill their bags with goodies from the candy bar. They also grabbed a beginning reader comic book favor. Hero and villain options available, of course.

Truly, no ordinary day indeed. Bravo supermom and Happy 5^th Birthday to our hero, Reese.

Don’t miss the other installments of our heroic adventure.

Tables and balloons

Decorations and food

Invitations

As we return to the story, we find our team of heroes and villains heading back outside….

Our super friends were greeted with tables perfectly outfitted (and caped) for both the good and the bad to pump up their muscles and enjoy some of that SUPER hero sandwich.

WOW! Even the balloons were perfectly outfitted for the occasion.

Let’s pause our story for a minute and talk about how adorable these Pink Peppermint Paper balloon costumes are. A perfect accompaniment to the theme. And our supermom stashed them everywhere—inside, front door and food tables. AWESOME!

About as awesome as the super weights holding them down. GENIUS!

But that’s not all…

Tune in next time to see what sweet surprises supermom has in store.

Click here if you missed the super food and drink or here to see the invitation. And for pity sake, if you’re reading (and we know you are) be one of the good guys and leave us a little comment. Thanks and have a super day!

Hi there. Lauren here again. Back with more from the big day…

Our party begins on an unusually warm October day in the metropolis of Madison. Our birthday hero and his band of super friends began gearing to meet and celebrate Reese’s big day. Why, even our villains were excited about this extraordinary meeting of both the good and the bad.

Outside, the stage was set for the caped tots to face off in supermom’s awesome box village. WOW! What an awesome way to use old moving boxes and guarantee literal squeals of delight from heroes of all ages. In addition to painting and adding the great window details, Eleanor even cut a path through the middle so the kids could hide and play inside, while some super tunes from the birthday boy’s own heroes and villains iPod playlist filled the air.

Opposite the life-size village was a mini creation for some of super boy’s favorite plastic heroes and villains to duke it out in.

Meanwhile, back inside…

Supermom laid out a spread for our hungry heroes and famished villains that consisted of what else—a 6-foot hero sandwich and ONE-TWO Punch to drink. YUM!

Not to mention the plates and napkin sets. Will you eat with the good or dine with the bad? Make your choice….

To Be Continued.

Miss the invitations? Check them out here.

I am on the road, so Lauren graciously offered to tell you about Reese’s Heroes and Villains party last weekend.

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What a weekend for our supermom and party-planning hero, Eleanor. For months she has soared over everyday ideas and leapt past licensed superheroes to create a fifth birthday celebration for her son that was truly out of this world. It all began here with the design, development and distribution of these one-of-a-kind invitations announcing the theme—Heroes AND Villains. KA-BOOM! What a fabulous idea. I mean, let’s face it what five-year-old doesn’t want to see what it’s like to flip their cape every once and a while. Brilliant! So with a theme in place, a date set and a super boy to please, our mom of mystery set out to execute no ordinary party. Did she succeed? Tune in next post to find out.

You know when you’ve never met someone, but you’ve seen lots of them or read and heard so much about them, that you feel like you know them? Well, I finally got to meet my someone, and I found myself kind of giddy. She’s a bit of a celebrity, you see, especially around these parts. She’s been on the news and in the papers. And she’s having a birthday soon. Her name is Evie. Her Aunt Letitia, and now her sweet mom, Dee, are friends of mine. Her 4th birthday party is this weekend, and I was asked (and honored really) to help.

The inspiration? This newly completed Under the Sea wall mural at their house.

I hear Evie is great in the water, and she loves princesses, so for the party we went with a mermaid theme. Here are the invitations I designed.

Well, wouldn’t you know I was headed to beautiful Orange Beach, Alabama that very next weekend after we spoke, so I dropped by a souvenir shop and picked up some nautilus shells for a party craft, Ariel-style. The kids are going to make their own necklaces.

And in a strange twist of fate, I had grabbed two sets of these foam bath toys months ago on clearance at Target.

They were just so festive that I could think of several “Aha!” uses, and I just loved the color combinations. Like a primate with shiny objects, I couldn’t pass them up. So I bought them, not really knowing when I’d get a chance to use them. Then, Evie’s party came up. Take bath toy, insert sucker stick and there you have it. Cupcake toppers!

I was so tickled to help with the fun. Party planning it just so catching. I love when everyone gets caught up in the enthusiasm.

This is sweet little Evie seeing the new mural in her therapy room for the first time. She and her family are a different kind of inspiration. You see, in addition to the most hypnotic blue-grey eyes and mile-long lashes, Evie has Spinal Muscular Atrophy. They have founded a non-profit called Stop SMA and tirelessly host events to raise money for research.

SMA was something I’d never heard of before it affected the family of someone I knew. It is the number ONE genetic killer of very young children.  There is currently no treatment and no cure, but researchers are close. They estimate that with funding they could find a cure in the next five years. So effected families all over are taking it to the streets to raise awareness and funds for the research to find a cure! Just like most of us, these moms and dads brought home happy, healthy, thriving babies, and then down the road received the SMA diagnosis. Can you imagine?

You can watch this video created by another SMA organization, The Gwendolyn Strong Foundation, for a better understanding. What else can we do? See below. Please vote and share this info with everyone you know.

• You can vote once EVERY DAY from now until September 29th at 5 PM EDT
• Go to VoteForSMA.com, select the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation, enter the two security words, check the Official Rules box, and then click “Vote Now!”
• That’s it! It’s really that simple.
• Don’t forget to add your name to the DailyVoteReminder.com list so you don’t miss a $20K vote.
• And…don’t stop there — SHARE!

Here’s wishing the birthday girl a wonderful deep sea adventure. Happy 4th birthday, Evie!

Not once, but twice this week our parties have been included in the Party of the Day feature over at Catch My Party! What else would we be, but tickled pink? A big thanks to Jillian for featuring our Carousel First Birthday and our All in Due Time Couples Baby Shower. If you missed them the first go round, why not check them out now. You can leave a comment, then pop on over to Catch My Party where you can share details from your own soirees or get inspiration for parties in the works. Happy Friday!

I am SO excited to share with you all some big news! I’ve been collaborating on parties for almost a year now and providing made-to-order paper goods for almost four! Party planning is honestly something I didn’t realize I had an aptitude for until last summer. I was working with my friend Lauren on some custom artwork for her son’s first birthday. It started with the invitations. Then we moved on to favor tags and quickly got wrapped up in the fun of it all. It’s completely infectious! We seemed to feed off of one another—shooting ideas and links back and forth—an ideal union of two recovering perfectionists with enthusiasm for planning and a shared belief that the tiniest of details can be what makes a party truly special. She and I have been unofficially collaborating ever since.

Lauren’s Carousel First Birthday continues to be one of my top selling party themes, and that’s due, in no small part, to the inspired ideas and images she shared with us. In fact, the reason I started blogging was to have a place of my own to share the parties I’d helped with. Putting your words and ideas out there in the blogosphere for me is quite like junior high–painful but necessary. What’s kept me going is the marvelous response from those of you who are fans of Pink Peppermint Paper or who’ve just happened upon my blog in search of inspiration for your own parties. So for those of you who’ve said, “Oh my gosh! Can I hire you?” the answer is now a resounding, “Yes, please!”

Lauren and I are partnering up to bring you a candy-coated party planning experience like no other! Fun. Reasonably priced. And most importantly, sweet! Pop on over for a peek at Pink Peppermint PARTIES! You can peruse our sweet party planning tiers.  Each party plan builds on the offerings of the previous one. They are email-based so locality is not an issue, and they start as low as $25. Pretty sweet, huh?