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While we were styling our mini Christmas dessert tables, we decided to create a third table that wasn't Christmas themed and could be used for a morning tea with friends or a small birthday celebration.
We hung a few small empty frames on the wall, added a little bird cage, made some little cupcake toppers and placed a flower on top of the cake.
Love Bec xx
With the silly season well and truly upon us, it seems like we are going to friends places for 'drinks' most weekends. I came across this 'chilli spiced nuts' recipe in one of Donna Hay's cook books and thought that it would make a cute gift idea when invited for drinks.
Love Bec xx
Mini dessert tables are perfect if you want to do something a little special for a dinner party or even Christmas day. Here are a few tips to make creating one a little easier.
1. Decide on a colour theme. It is always nice to keep the colours flowing on from what you have used on your tree.
2. Instead of using a trestle table for your desserts table, simply use a small dresser or hall table.
3. Find something to use as a focal point. It may be a frame, vase of baubles, mini Christmas tree, pom poms or a bouquet of fresh flowers.
4. Chose a small selection of desserts such as cupcakes, cake pops and/or slices. Also include a selection of lollies that go with your colour theme.
5. Incorporate a selection of vases, candy jars, cake stands and bowls on your table to give height and interest.
For our first table, we hung some white and silver pom poms from a branch. We used a white and silver colour palette with a splash of light blue.
For the second table, we changed the entire look by simply adding some glitter numbers, baubles and a candy jar filled with aqua lollies.
Mini dessert tables really can be simple, fun and quick to pull together!
Love Bec xx
Christmas baubles! What's not to love about Christmas baubles? I love that they are not just for decorating the tree but make a sensational splash of colour on a dinning table in vases or even as Christmas wreaths.
Here are some colourful examples of Christmas baubles being used to decorate the house or table.
Look at these gorgeous Christmas wreaths. The colours are truly magical!
Love Bec xx
Have you made reindeer food before? If not, I really can't tell you just how excited the children get when they sprinkle it on to the grass on Christmas Eve! It is easy to make and makes a great little gift.
Reindeer Food Ingredients:
Rolled oats, sugar and glitter. Simply mix together.
You can package the reindeer food in a small jar, glad bag or in decorated matchboxes {found these at the craft store and decorated them}. Add a tag with the reindeer food saying on it.
Reindeer food saying:
'Sprinkle this on you lawn at night. The moon will make it sparkle bright. As Santa's reindeer fly and roam this will guide them to you home'.
Love Bec xx
Need a cute gift for a niece, nephews or a friends little one? Well why not make them a little pack of gingerbread playdough? I saw this idea on a blog many years ago and have made it for my friends children many times. Simply make the playdough, put it in a cute jar and include a gingerbread cookie cutter. This year I also made some glitter playdough and put it all in a gift box.
Gingerbread Playdough Recipe
1 cup salt
2 cups plain flour
2 cups of water
2 tsp of oil
4 tsp of cream of tartar
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground cloves
brown food colour {add once dough is made}
Cook all ingredients over a low heat, stirring until the dough forms a ball in the middle of the saucepan. Add brown food colour. Store in the fridge.
For the glitter version, I left out the spices, add a bright colour and then rolled the playdough in silver glitter.
Love Bec xx
Last month we styled a Pirate party for Tammi's son Kai. We wanted to move away from the traditional pirate colours of black, red and white. So we incorporated a mixture of browns, blues and a splash of red on the table.
We hand made a ship mast and tied bunting from the mast tip to the other side of the table. The bunting was made from old book pages and stamp with foam letters. We found a wooden treasure chest which we filled with gold coins, lolly necklaces and plastic rings. We then used different sized wooden crates as our raisers. Instead of using glass candy vessels, we simply folded down brown paper bags and filled them. We made pirate cake pops, blue jelly cups and anchor biscuits. The Littlest Cupcake and Cookie Shop supplied us with cupcakes and we printed off some mini red and white striped sails and wave cupcake wrappers. Lastly we included some glass bottles filled with chocolate milk and muslin loot bags which we stamped with a skull and cross bones.
As the birthday guests arrived, they were asked to don a pirate patch, bandanna and a name tag.
We also set up a photo booth with pirate props.
The tables were set pirate paper plates, bamboo boats held a mixture of berries, old lanterns, bottles with notes in them and gold coins littered the tables.
Thanks for looking and we hope that you enjoyed our pirate party.
Love
Tammi & Bec
Vendors List:
Party Styled by Bec & Tammi of RubyJu www.rubyju.com.au
Glass drink bottles from Sarbe: www.sarbe.com.au
Signs and Photo Booth Props and Backdrop by Zina: www.zinawright.typepad.com/messyart
Cupcakes by The littlest Cupcake and Cookie shop:http://www.cupcakeshop.com.au/
Muslin loot bags & toffee bon bons from: www.sharneldollardesigns.com.au
Printables: Cottage Industrialist: http://www.cottage-industrialist.com/blog/2010/5/2/aaargh-pirate-birthday-party-free-printables.html
It is with a VERY heavy heart that I write this post but I am writing to let everyone know that my dear friend and wonderful business partner Tammi, will be leaving RubyJu at the end of this month. Tammi has decided that due to her husbands work commitments and the need to focus on her young family that she will not be able to continue to work at RubyJu.
For me, it will mean that I will work a little harder to achieve my goals and dreams for 2012 but I intend to continue to build RubyJu. I will miss Tammi for so many reasons but none more than our funny jokes and fits of laugh in the wee hours of the morning. So thank you my darling friend for all your wonderful ideas, hard work and laughter over the last year! I will dearly miss you being involved in RubyJu!
Love Bec xx
I always love making a little gift for my nieces and nephews at Christmas time. A little extra something to go with their gift. I recently came across this cute little idea of 'Sewn Paper Lolly Pouches' on Pinterest and thought that I would make some too. I decided to change mine a little by adding some ribbon to make them look like an hanging Christmas tree ornament and I also stamped their initial on to them.
These are the ones that I found on Pinterest.
I also love this idea of using them as an advent calender! Too cute!
Happy crafting!
Love
Bec
We love Christmas crafting and think that paper Christmas trees are very cute. You can make them from scrapbooking papers, old music books or even from old book pages. Whether you use them in place of a big Christmas tree, as a centre piece on your Christmas table or simply as a decoration, you really can't go wrong.
Love
Bec & Tammi
