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Our gorgeous friend Zina recently celebrated her beautiful little boys 1st birthday. She wanted to style a vintage themed party incorporating blues, browns and creams. Through out the various food table, she cleverly used gorgeous wooden crates, silver trays and cake pans.

The dessert table was draped with brown, navy, blue and white pom poms with a Pumpkin Spice cake as the focal point.

A silver tray was lined with glass jars that were filled with yummy chocolate mousses which were decorated with aqua dipped wooden spoons and cotton twine.

Rice krispy treats and chocolate brownies {recipe here} filled a two tiered metal cake stand.

Aqua jello shots were also lined up on a small silver tray.

A three tiered cake stand held an array of cupcakes which were decorated with chocolate, blue and white icing and a mixture of different sprinkles.

Mini lemon meringues were placed on a vintage glass cake plate.

Bowls of chocolate dipped strawberries, cake pops, tim tams and caramel corn were also included on the dessert table.

Instead of a traditional birthday cake, Zina had her heart set on a Pumpkin Spice cake with cream cheese frosting. You can find the recipe on the a gorgeous blog called Cake.. For all those cakies out there, this cake is SO good!

The birthday boy and his gorgeous family!

As the guests arrived, they were encouraged to sign the guest book with their fingerprint. Zina had set up a little ink station where guests could ink their finger and place their their fingerprint on a tree. They then had to write their name next to their fingerprint. The fingerprint tree is going to be framed and will serve as a record of who attended Tylers' 1st Birthday! We love this idea so much!

Zina also styled an amazing food table. She hand wrote a cute little sign which hung next to the table to encourage her guests to 'dig in'!

The main food table had the most amazing spread of food. It included bread rolls, cheese and dips, lasagna, chicken legs, spinach & feta parcels, sandwiches and salads. Little flags which acted as food labels were placed in all the different dishes.

Zina also set up the cutest little table for the kids only. They very instructed to make their on sandwich and had the choice of a few different fillings. They also were able to make their own fruit skewers.

A drink station was which had the cutest moustaches on drinking cups took centre stage. Guests had the chance to make themselves a cup of tea, coffee or soft drink.

A games board informed all the children of what games were installed for the day.

The pillowcase races were a big hit and highly competitive as well!

Musical chairs is always a favourite and of course there was lots of "too close to call" moments.

A photo booth was set up and guests each took turns in grabbing a prop such of a moustache or pair of glassed and have a photo taken with the old fashion polaroid camera.

The polaroid photos were laid out on a table near the front doors so everyone could theirs on the way out.

Zina had baked Tyler's favourite cookie and bagged them all up for her guests to take home with them. She had also printed out the recipe on cards so that everyone had the recipe as well.