April has flown by and May will be here before we know it, which means it’s time to start planning for your Cinco de Mayo fiestas! Whether you’re having a small get together with family and friends or throwing a big backyard bash, we’ve got decor and favors for you.
One of our most popular and useful favors are our Mason Jars! They come in three different sizes and styles and can be used for so many fun favors. Use our Mini Mason Jars or our 4 oz Mason Jars as containers for guests to take home salsa, guacamole, or even tres leches cake! You can even add personalized labels.
Our Drinking Mason Jars with Flower Cut Lids are a stylish way to serve fresh margaritas, lemonade, or horchata to all of your amigos in attendance! Add personalized labels and straws to make these stand out even more.
If you’re planning on having a taco/burrito bar or dessert table, our Dessert Bar decor featuring wooden utensils, flag labels and tassel garlands are a stylish way to present your yummy indulgences! All stickers and labels are available in bright colored print or our new metallic foil print.
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Start the countdown to New Year’s Eve early with our New Year’s Eve Party Decor & Favors from our newly introduced holiday Collection. These decorations and favors are stylish with brand new designs in black and gold, featuring new year wishes. All of our most popular items are available in this collection, including a New Year’s Eve Party Starter Kit: the easiest route to decorating a celebration! The kit comes stocked with all matching favors including a pennant banner, party sign, decorative stickers, place cards, straws, and cupcake wrappers and toppers.
Here are some New Year’s Eve Party Decor & Favor ideas from our new collection:
For those customers that already have their own favors and decorations, but want to add a personalized touch we are now offering a new collection of Just Labels. This collection allows orders to be placed for labels only, no product needed. These can be used to decorate favors, stationary, packaging and much more and they are available in all of most popular lines including our new die cut shaped labels.
This is what you and your customers have been waiting for! Save money shipping your labels by choosing our new Economy Shipping option, complete with tracking information. This new shipping method is a convenient and cost-effective option. You can choose the Economy Shipping method during checkout for a flat rate of $5.50. These orders will reach your customers in 1-3 business days from when they are shipped.
We recently introduced our brand new collection of Holiday Themed Party Decor & Favors. Turkey Day is not far off and we’d like to help your customers’ Thanksgiving Day be a little less hectic. Our decor and favors are decked out in warm, earth tones and fall leaves. We have our new designs on all of our popular favors, including our starter kits and frame labels, which you can use to stick on your very own favors and decor.
Thanksgiving hosts start preparing for their feasts days in advance. Make Thanksgiving week a bit easier on your customers by giving them all matching decor and favors in one kit! Our starter kit comes stocked with a pennant banner, party sign, decorative stickers, place cards, straws, and cupcake wrappers and toppers all decked out in the warm fall colors.
Here are some Thanksgiving Decor & Favor ideas from our new collection:
Be sure to check back soon when we breakdown our Holiday theme.
With the school year starting up everyone knows that the end of Summer is coming sooner than we’d like. Help your customers plan their last send off of Summer before the real work year feels like it’s back in full swing. Event Blossom has tons of favors and decor that will make any end of Summer BBQ or event the most stylish anyone has seen.
Here are a few ideas to help plan an end of summer bash!
Personalized Flag Labels
Our flag labels are an eye catching addition to wrap around many summer bash favors and decor, such as your tasty refreshment straws, cupcakes, or even as appetizer labels on toothpicks. They are available in all of our most popular categories, including our shiny new Metallic Gold & Silver Foil Collection.
Chalkboard Place Cards & Stands
Hungry guests will delight when they see these adorable chalkboard place cards and stands. Party Planners can use them as food labels on a buffet table, place cards, table numbers, or to display special messages.
Personalized Mason Jars
We’ve got three different sizes available that have many different uses. The Mason Drinking Jars with Flower Cut Lids can be used for refreshing summer drinks and our Mini Mason Jars and 4 oz Mason Jars can be filled with goodies and used as favors.
Personalized Lemonade Mix
Lemonade is the drink of summer. Use these mixes as favors along with the Mason Jars so guests can mix their own drink right there at the event.
Hand Fans
Keep guests cool with one of our many types of hand fans: Colored Paper Fans, Colored Silk Fans, Personalized Paddle Fans, Colored Rosette Paper Fans, or our Sandalwood Fans.
We’ve even got some great themes in our MOD Party Collection that scream Summer: Nautical
Rubber Ducky
Ladybug Party
Beach Party
Pirate Party
Decorating and planning has never been easier than with our MOD Party Collection!
Cure Summertime sadness with an end of Summer bash in style!
Now that we are in the month of May, there is plenty to celebrate including Mother’s Day. According to Block Talk on HRBlock.com, $14.6 billion dollars are spent on Mother’s Day for about 85,400,000 Moms. Thankfully, we’ve got favors that will help your customers show their Mothers how appreciative they are.
A great small gesture you can offer your customers is making their Mother’s favorite baked goods and presenting them in our Mini Cookie Jars. Add baked goods or candies to these jars and adorn with decorative embellishments such as ribbon or twine, which are both sold separately for an added touch of personality.
For customers looking to give their Mothers multiple, small gifts, suggest our Sweet Shoppe Candy Boxes. These boxes can be filled with sweet treats or pampering goodies, such as nail polishes, nail filers, or our Hand Cream.
For those customers looking to have these favors at their Mother’s Day event, they have the option of including a stylish personalized label sharing a special message or leaving them blank to add their own creative touch.
Our Tuesday Tip today is a gift idea that any Mother is sure to appreciate. We found a fresh Lemon Mint Sugar Scrub by Keri from ShakenTogetherLife.com. Her bright scrub will relax and rejuvenate and fits in 3 of our 4 oz Mason Jars.
Find Keri’s Lemon Mint Sugar Scrub & other creative mason jar projects on our Mason Jars Pinterest board.
Now that the product launch is over, the celebration can really begin! I’m starting out our summer of fun with an exciting series of posts inspired by a new favorite of ours: Mason Jars! What I love the most about these jars is that they are so versatile and there are so many ways to put these vintage style jars to use. In fact, Life Hacker recently challenged readers to “Hack Something Using Mason Jars,” and the responses were awesome! It’s just one example of many how a little bit of creativity can turn these ordinary jars into something extraordinary.
So, my dear Blossomers, for the next thirty days we’re going to be sharing 30 different ways that these versatile jars can be used. Many of them will be great pins we’ve found on Pinterest, but we’ve also got a few ideas of our own. Let’s start off day one with one of these of our own creations:
Day 1: Cookie Mix in Mason Jar
Who doesn’t love the smell of cookies baking in the oven? Cookie mixes in a Mason Jar make a great DIY gift for every occasion. Our friend Kate over at the Sugar Therapy blog came up with a cookie mix recipe that fits perfectly into our new Mini Mason Jars.
1. Gather your ingredients:
1/4 cup flour, combined with 1/4 tsp baking soda and a pinch of salt
2 tbsp packed brown sugar
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 -tbsp oats
3 heaping tbsp mini chocolate chips (or similar sized candy of your choice)
2. Layer the ingredients into the jar in the order listed above (flour goes at the bottom, brown sugar on top of that, etc.)
If you find yourself at the receiving end of one of these delicious favors, here’s how you turn your cookie mix into a yummy treat:
Yield: 4 mini cookies
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Combine 2 tbsp butter, 1/4 tsp vanilla, and 1 egg yolk
3. Stir all ingredients into the dry mix until evenly combined
4. Form four small balls of dough and place at least 1-2 inches apart on cookie sheet
5. Bake for 4-5 minutes or until golden brown
Beautiful gowns, sharp tuxedos, shining accessories, and memorable speeches.
No, I am not talking about a wedding. Although I will always enjoy weddings above all other events, I’d like to talk about another event that will be taking place this Sunday no more than an hour and a half (in good traffic) from where I sit: The 85th Annual Academy Awards. Yes, this weekend I will be setting up shop in front of my television and watch as Hollywood’s finest make their grand entrance onto the red carpet and listen as winners of the esteemed Oscar give their acceptance speech before a combined live and television audience of millions. Talk about pressure. Excuse me while I take a moment to visualize the moment I receive an Academy Award for Best Actress…
The Lovely Julia Roberts TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
My vision would have me accept this honor with grace and with an incredibly eloquent speech thanking everyone I had ever met. The reality of course is that I would probably stumble across the stage (heels and I don’t get along), and I would proceed to give a speech comprised mostly of the not-so-eloquent sounds of “umm” and “uhh…” And since we’re talking reality now, I must admit that I am not an actress nor have I been asked to be in any major motion pictures. Surprising, right??
The many Oscars won for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. DEAN TREML/AFP/Getty Images
The point is, I am not well equipped to give any sort of speech at an event of such magnitude. Maybe that’s why I enjoy Awards Season so much; I get to watch and admire those who are much more well-spoken in front of an audience than I am. As much as I enjoy seeing all the gorgeous ensembles and catching up on the latest trends, the thing that I love the most is listening to the speeches and catching some profound moments in Hollywood history.
Alas, it all has to end. The Academy Awards brings a close to this season, but I’m not too broken up about it. Actually, I’m quite excited because it means my absolute favorite season is just getting started: wedding season. You know what that means? More speeches! If you’re anything like me, public speaking can be an incredibly daunting task. If you’re expected to make a toast or give a speech at a friend or family member’s wedding — well, you can already feel the nerves setting in. Never fear, I have a few tips that I’ve gathered to help you write that perfect toast!
Having trouble getting started? Just remember that it’s for the bride and groom. It’s their wedding, let them be your inspiration. Another thing to remember, this day is a celebration of love between two people. Even if you are closer with one over the other, make sure you include both of them.
Practice! Practice alone in your room, practice in front of a close friend, and practice whenever you get a chance. The better you know your toast, the less chance your nerves have of taking over.
Keep it short. A toast shouldn’t really be longer than a couple of minutes. Unless you have a very engaging speech written and no short amount of confidence in your public speaking abilities, keep it short, simple, and sweet.
Avoid these references: those crazy college parties, any past relationships, and inappropriate jokes. I don’t think these need any further explanation, do you?
Any speech stories, extra tips, or comments in general?? Post them in the comment section below!
First stop, wedding toasts. Next up, your Oscar acceptance speech! I’ll see you on the (pretend) red carpet.
Something magical used to happen whenever I bought a new suitcase. I’d find one that I absolutely adore and have to have. It was usually perfect for me: big enough for my over-packing, easy enough for my petite frame to lug around, and colorful enough to stand out on those airport carousels. The magic doesn’t end there. I’d proceed take my brand new suitcase on its first flight and know that all the other passengers will be so envious when I’m able to spot my suitcase right away without having first taken someone else’s baggage and awkwardly placed it back on the conveyor belt. Where does magic come in all of this? After making my way to the baggage claim, I would always discover that everyone seemed to magically fall in love with the same suitcase I did.
Okay, that was an exaggeration. Not EVERYONE had the same luggage. But it only took one very similar looking bag for me to find myself in that uncomfortable situation at the baggage claim I mentioned earlier. I’ve since learned my lesson. It’s all about the luggage tag. I make sure that my luggage tags are the brightest and most distinguishable little tags you’ve ever seen. Having a customizable luggage tag like this one helps:
Happy travels, Blossomers!
Need help with Event Blossom products? Shoot me an email at Kim@eventblossom.com!
I love when one thing can serve multiple purposes. Some examples of my own multitasking objects:
Coffee mug/paperweight
Pen/hair clip
Paperclip/Luggage Tag opener
Planner/receipt holder/post-it note holder
Bulletin board/photo album
And of course, the general of my multi-tasking army: my cell phone. These things save me time, energy, and sometimes even money. I think that finding ways to utilize objects for more than just their intended uses is a fabulous idea. If you recently ordered some of our Chair Place Card Holders, we just might be on the same page and we should be friends. Place card holder and party favor? Why not?
Email your how-to requests directly to me! Kim@eventblossom.com
