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Homemade Gifts in a Jar

Friday, 8 December 2017

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We collaborated with blogger Nicole from Simply Nic Nutrition to create a number of handmade holiday gift giving ideas. Nicole created all of the homemade gifts and packaged them using our glassware, ribbons, twine, holiday stickers and gift tags.

Cookies in a jar.

Who doesn't like freshly baked cookies? Give the joy of baking with this Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oat Balls holiday gift jar. Nicole shares her recipe for the dry ingredients on her blog and the gift tag download contains the instructions for how to make the cookies. You can package the cookie mix in 16oz mason jars for this project but we liked the idea of using a mug. Did you know that we have custom printed mason jar mugs online?

Featured Products: mason jar mug, baker's twine, moose & buffalo plaid stickers are available in store only.

Jello in a jar.

Nicole shares her simple recipe for making a healthy holiday jello using cranberry juice and gelatin. The jello was packaged in 4oz quilted crystal jars and decorated with stickers and burlap ribbon. We think that these would be perfect for holiday entertaining and would look wonderful stack up for guests to serve themselves.

Featured Products: mason jar mug, burlap ribbon, moose & buffalo plaid stickers are available in store only.

Apple Cider.

Make your own apple cider using this recipe and package it in tall swing top glass bottles. These glass bottles make great single serving containers. Perfect for holiday entertaining, just add straws and let guests serve themselves.

Featured Products: swing top glass bottle, twine, moose & buffalo plaid gift cards are available in store only.

Peppermint Hand Salve.

Gifts in a jar don't all have to be something edible. We love this peppermint hand salve holiday gift idea. Swing top jars or mason jars can be used to package the hand salve.

Featured Products: large swing top glass containers and moose & buffalo plaid stickers are available in store only, satin ribbon.

Nicole is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist who blogs about recipes, food information and

inspiration that is simple and wholesome. You can find all of the recipes for these projects and more on the Simply Nic Nutrition blog.

Special thanks to Heidi Lau Photography for all the the photos in this post.

holiday entertaining inspiration: hot chocolate and sweets bar

Monday, 6 November 2017

The most merry time of the year is almost here. Entertaining with family and friends is one of our favourite things to do during the holidays and over the next few weeks we are going to share some of our party ideas.

Bring the outdoors in with this cottage wilderness inspired hot chocolate and sweets bar.

A hot chocolate bar is a great idea for young and old alike. Wood slabs, fresh greenery garlands and a vintage buffalo plaid thermos gave our set up a woodland vibe.

Mason jar mugs were rimmed with melted chocolate & candy sprinkles and personalized with guest names. Wrapping paper and ribbon made whipped cream dispensers look a little more festive.

Sources: mason jar mugs, birch pattern paper straws, ribbon, wrapping paper, candy scoops, glass containers, chalkboard, faux antler card holders, wire cage string of lights, personalized napkins.

Sweet treats become part of the party decor especially when they are as beautiful as these ones that were designed and created by Cakelaine.

Sources: wood market tray, chalkboard signs, faux antler card holder, baker's twine.

Here's a few more festive details from our set up ...

A self standing rustic wood frame chalkboard sign was embellished with fresh greenery garland from Flowerly and a hand lettered holiday message by Love Lettering.

Fresh greenery and a battery operated candle were placed inside this rustic wood and glass box.

Gifts were stacked in the shape of a tree as holiday decor. Wrapping papers and gift bags from our Everitt Cottage Collection worked perfectly for our wilderness themed party. Posecards and handcrafted toys were added as decorative details to the gift wrapping.

Stay tuned for more holiday entertaining inspiration!

Styled Shoot Credits:

photography Heidi Lau Photography
hand lettering and Posecards Love Lettering
florist Flowerly
cake and Sweets Cakelaine
handcrafted gifts -
bunny  Milo and Ben
toy camera  Little Rose & Co
moose teether  Sweetie Pie Design Co

photography by Heidi Lau Photography

Party Inspiration: Modern Wilderness Baby Shower. Let's Eat.

Thursday, 20 July 2017

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Welcome to our Modern Wilderness Baby Shower.

We teamed up with an amazing group of local entrepreneurs and makers to create a styled shoot filled with unique details that are sure to inspire. This is the first of three posts and today is all about our sweet table set up because honestly, who doesn't love a sweet table?!

The party colours were primarily black and white. It's a perfect palette for a gender neutral theme and you can add pops of colour with the food and flowers. As you will see, a few pink elements will be revealed during the party.

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A modern wilderness themed nursery was the inspiration for the party. A few baby gifts were left unwrapped and incorporated into the party decor. The black and white striped play tent will make a wonderful gift. We placed it beside the sweet table so party gifts could be placed inside. Balloons and paper lanterns are easy to set up, take up a lot of space and are available in colours to match almost any colour palette.

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Our adorable two tier cake was inspired by a handmade fox doll and the hand drawn graphics printed on a onesie. We added a striped paper straw to the acrylic love cake topper to add a pop of colour.

The toy camera is a reminder to grab a real camera for the cake cutting.

The cake cutting reveals an ombre pink filling - a clue for guests that a little girl was on the way.

Find it here: Cake serving sets. Wrapping papers to cover books and to laminate for cake liners.

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Find it here: candy cups, chalkboards, paper straws, faux antler card holders, baker's twine, eat cake acrylic sign, gold foil edged gift boxes, round boxes, striped ribbon, printed napkins.

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Our beautiful floral arrangements were created using our exclusive gold foil edge gift boxes. They were topped off with "eat cake" acrylic signs and an adorable felted bird.

Our Mama-to-be above is wearing a teething necklace that is as practical as it is fashionable.

You can find more photos and details about our styled baby shower shoot in the current Mingle Magazine. We're pretty excited that our party is featured on the front cover so we are doing a giveaway on Instagram. The giveaway is going on until July 30, 2017 so hurry over and enter to win!!

In our next post, we'll be sharing more details from the baby shower. So stay tuned.

Modern Wilderness Baby Shower Collaborative Team:

Photographer - Janet Kwan from Janet Kwan Photography

Hand Lettering Artist – Doris Wai from Love Lettering

Flowers – Ashley Lannes from Flowerly

Cake and sweets – Caitlin Elaine from Cakelaine

Packaging& Party Supplies – Creative Bag

Handmade fox and raccoon and felted birds - Melissa Lowry from Milo and Ben

Embroidery kits - Michelle Galletta from Kiriki Press

Handmade wood toy cameras & skittles set - Mandy and Brad Batty from Little Rose &Co

Illustrated tote bag (and Mama-to-be) - Lichia Liu from Gotamago

Onesies and animal pillows - Adriane Duckworth from The Wild Kids Apparel

Silicone rattles and teething jewellery - Alexa Nielsen from Sweetie Pie Design Co

Play tent - Yana Solakha from The Teepee Store

Shoot at the Noble Crafthouse

Creative direction and DIY projects - Lorrie Everitt

you can do it yourself - throw an anniversary party (part 2 of 3)

Monday, 20 July 2015

drink station at anniversary party by Lorrie Everitt for Creative Bag

This is part two of my diy anniversary party and today is all about the drink station.

I think that you should be able to enjoy your party so unless you plan hire someone to tend bar, a self serve drink station is my favourite way to go.

I created this blackboard sign and hung it above the drink station so that everyone would know it was a self serve bar. I glued the same ribbon I used on the sweet table to the frame.

The art to recreate the sign is included in the printables you can download for free in my last post. You may recognize this blackboard sign from another party set up.

Signature drinks are a nice way to personalize your drink station. I created the signature drink signs on larger blackboard signs on sticks.

More gold spray painted mason jars spray were added to the set up to display paper straws and succulents. I used the birch paper straws to decorate the cake pops on the sweet table so it made sense to use them again at the drink station. Another decorative detail from the sweet table set up that I incorporated into the drink set up is the use of rustic wood slabs.

Lorrie's tip: Don't set up complicated signature drinks at a self serve bar. Make it something personal that is easy for guests to mix themselves.

We have an assortment of mason jar mugs with a metallic finish daisy lid and plastic straw in select stores (until quantities last). I tied gift tags from my party printables to two of the metallic mugs to add to the signature drink theme.

I filled one of our drink dispensers with lemonade and placed it on top of a stack of books that I covered with wrapping paper book jackets. I placed a bowl under the spout to prevent lemonade spills on the burlap table runner and furniture.

Lorrie's tip: The lemonade chalkboard sign was attached to the ribbon on the drink dispenser using magnets. I glued a magnet on the back of the chalkboard sign and used a second magnet behind the ribbon to keep the sign in place.

Our mason jar mugs are perfect for parties and they make great favors. Guests take them home and you don't have dirty dishes to wash in the morning - bonus!

We will have marquee letter signs arriving soon. Marquee signs are a great way to light up a drink station at night.

Here's a closer look at the mason jar mugs. I added blackboard sticker labels for the guys and added their names using a chalk marker. For the girls I added gold glitter letter stickers to co-ordinate with my black, white & gold colour theme.

The chalkboard sign lets guests know that they can keep the glasses and reminds them that they can serve themselves!

I also set up a small snack table beside the drink station with peanuts, pretzels and popcorn.

Square glass containers were filled with snack foods. Ribbon decorated the glass containers and small chalkboard signs with clothespins helped identify food for people with allergies. Our new line of party food containers are the perfect size for guests to fill (and refill) with snacks.

Above are some more close ups of the gold spray painted mason jars. I added this gold sparkle cake topper to the succulent floral arrangement.

Lorrie's tip: If you have room to serve lemon and lime slices to your drink bar use additional square glass containers to display them.

I hung an ornate vintage inspired frame and filled it with black and white photos. After the party you can use the frame as it is or as a way to display whatever you want.

Lorrie's tip: Convert all of your photos to black and white to co-ordinate with the colour theme. I considered spray painting the frame gold as well to work with the party colour theme but ended up leaving it white to match my home decor for after the party.

drink station at anniversary party by Lorrie Everitt for Creative Bag

I added black and white balloons filled with helium to the drink station. The gold mylar tassel is from this tassel kit . If you want to add a long strand of tassels to the balloons you need to have lots of small balloons (way more than three) or one giant helium filled balloon to hold up the additional weight of the tassels.

I tied the balloons to a mason jar to keep them from floating away and so I could position the balloons wherever I wanted.

Here's one last look at the drink station. If you missed my anniversary party sweet table post you can find it here. Check back later this week for the third and last post about this diy party.

BTW - you can grab the party printables here.

See it on YouTube - two ways to add popcorn to your sweet table

Friday, 30 May 2014

popcorn sweet table on YouTube - retro themed movie night

Petite & Sweet has just released another sweet table YouTube video and this one is all about popcorn! Elle Daftarian takes you through two different ways to add popcorn to your party or event.

The first sweet table is themed as a casual movie night with a retro vibe in red and white.

An assortment of our retro striped popcorn boxes and glass containers are featured in this set up. Our popular paper straws in the classic red and white stripe go perfectly with the small coke bottles. Did you notice the plain boxes covered in red wrapping paper or the red satin ribbon that was add to a plain white table covering?

Visit Petite & Sweet's blog to download the free movie night printable.

Want to add popcorn to a more sophisticated party or a wedding? Elle shows you how to dress it up in the second half of the video with a pretty purple and lavender theme.

popcorn sweet table on YouTube - pretty grown up lavender theme

Customize our white scallop edge boxes by painting abstract flowers on them. Use wrapping paper to cover our serving cones. Ribbon bows were added to the cones using a glue gun .

Glass bottles, satin ribbon, rhinestone brooches and paper lanterns add a special touch to the set up. Notice how two paper straws were used in each of the tall glasses.

Visit Petite & Sweet's blog to get the recipe for making the white chocolate lavender popcorn.

We hope that you will "like" the YouTube video!

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Friday, 8 December 2017

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Thursday, 20 July 2017

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