Some of our favorite parties have been featured on our own blogs (or elsewhere on the internet!), but we wanted to feature some Thursday "throwbacks" as well over here!

Here are the party details!

• The party was for a dear friend and sorority sister. The first baby in our Kansas City group of friends.

• But it could also be for a first bee-day. We've had several people order it for the "bride to bee" as well! Occasionally it is used for gender reveal parties with a "what will it bee?" theme.

• We loved the soft gray and yellow, the simple bee graphic and the use of the font Nelly. Lots of swirls everywhere.

• Our favorite little detail was totally the honey stick favor. These are one of the most popular items in our shop, available as an instant download and printed double sided labels.

• We STILL love this party because it's so perfect for gender neutral showers. The baby bee theme is a clean classic. Available here in the RV Parties shop!

Hello RV friends!

You may have noticed we spruced up the branding--and we also took the plunge and joined Instagram! We're both big IGers on our personal accounts, so we aren't sure why it took us so long to hop on board for RV!

We've officially decided that Facebook is unreliable about sharing information--and that Instagram is a much easier way to share and interact with our customers. We're still posting on Facebook, but we're definitely catching more people over on Insta-G! We're really excited to be able to share what we're working on--and have an easy way for YOU to share with us when you use our goodies! We just love seeing how it all comes together.

To celebrate and encourage people to follow us... we're hosting a giveaway! (This is not an April Fool's Day Prank...)

There will be two winners--one for a plate and one for a complete party pack from the shop. You must follow @rvparties to win. You can enter TWICE! One entry for tagging two people in the comments of our giveaway post on instagram and one entry for regramming and tagging us. (We love the Repost app for regramming!)

So head over to Instagram and enter! We'll be picking a winner Friday.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Even though its a somewhat silly holiday--St. Patrick's Day has always been one of my faves. I had so much fun setting up this Top of the Morning brunch--I felt like it was a fitting theme for St. Patrick's Day!



I had a blast trying to pick out foods that were green and gold--and also fit the brunch theme. I tried to use ingredients that were naturally green or yellow, because no one wants to eat something with a bottle of food coloring in it! The pancakes were fabulous--colored with spinach and layered with some cream cheese frosting. The recipe is available here. The scrambled eggs cooked up to a lovely golden color. One of my favorite touches were the bell pepper shamrocks--just slice a pepper, pour in some eggs and cook over low! And there were quite a few green and yellow fruits to choose from--kiwi, pineapple and grapes.



And no party is complete without sweets! Rice Krispies, shamrock macarons, homemade marshmallows and chocolate covered pretzels were a few of the goodies we enjoyed. The pretzels were so fun and easy to make--tutorial available here!



To decorate the table, I grabbed as many green and gold things I could find around the house and played around with the table until I was happy. The background cost me less than $10 to put together and was fairly quick too! I love the way it filled in the wall and mimicked the stripes in our printables. All of the printables are available for free download below. The cute treat bag toppers are a fun gift for friends and the banner is a fun way to spruce up your mantle!



All of the decorations are available for download here! (Free until March 24th, 2015, then available for purchase on Etsy.) To say thanks, we'd love it if you'd like us on Facebook or pin an image to share the love (or luck!) with your friends.

I'm terrible at dipping things in chocolate. It's a fact. I can never melt it to the right consistency and I make a mess and I'm impatient.  BUT--these chocolate pretzels? They are adorable, simple and pretty much impossible to screw up. And easy enough you could make them with kids!



St. Patrick Day Chocolate and M&M Pretzels
Pretzel Snaps
Hershey Kisses or Wilton Candy Melts
M&Ms (green and gold!)

Pot of Gold Pretzels
For these, I used dark chocolate kisses for the pots and peanut butter M&Ms for the gold so that the pots would be a little darker and there'd be a little more gold in the pot.

1. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
2. Unwrap kisses and put them in the center of the pretzels.
3. Bake at 200 degrees for about 7 minutes--you can test an M&M and see if they are soft all the way through or if they need a few more.
4. Press a yellow M&M into the center (M side down!)
5. Wait to cool and enjoy!

Lucky Shamrock Pretzels
For these, I used yellow candy melts and green M&Ms--although they'd be just as cute with kisses!

1. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
2. Unwrap kisses (or don't, if you are using candy melts) and put them in the center of the pretzels.
3. Bake at 200 degrees for about 7 minutes--you can test an M&M and see if they are soft all the way through or if they need a few more.
4. Press four green M&Ms into the center (M side down!)
5. Wait to cool and enjoy!




All of the decorations are available for download here! To say thanks, we'd love it if you'd like us on Facebook or pin an image to share the love (or luck!) with your friends.

For our St. Patrick's Day brunch, we HAD to have green pancakes. And I wasn't crazy about dumping a bottle of green food coloring in the batter, so I did what any reasonable mother would do--I threw in a bunch of spinach! (Cue evil laughter.)

1 1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup vinegar
2 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
 2 eggs
1/4 cup butter, melted
handful of spinach
chocolate chips (optional)
cooking spray

1. Combine milk and vinegar. Let rest 5 minutes. This is essentially making buttermilk.
2. Blend milk & vinegar mixture with spinach--adding spinach until you get the desired shade of green.
3. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
4. Whisk buttermilk, eggs and melted butter in a separate bowl. Once whisked, combine with the dry mixture and mix until all lumps are gone.
5. Use cooking spray to coat griddle or pan on medium heat. Pour 1/4 cup batter onto griddle and cook until top starts to bubble. If adding chocolate chips, sprinkle them on before flipping.
6. Flip and cook on the other side until done. (If you want to avoid browning the top, cook on a lower temperature for longer without flipping.)


Since we were eating a reasonable amount of spinach, I felt like we earned some frosting, so I layered in some cream cheese frosting and did not feel bad about it at all. Not. At. All.

All of the decorations are available for download here! To say thanks, we'd love it if you'd like us on Facebook or pin an image to share the love (or luck!) with your friends.

And another set of Valentine goodies! I actually made these for a bachelorette party last year but loved the colors so much that I had to adapt them for Valentine's Day. So bright and fun!



The pack includes cupcake wrappers and toppers, mini candy wrappers, a banner, matching patterned paper, three coordinating signs and treat bag toppers. I think Valentine's Day is even more fun than Halloween in terms of sweets--I was pretty excited to go buy candy and cupcakes to dress up in the printables! I'm just so happy that celebrating holidays always comes with SUGAR.



I found these cupcake stands on Amazon and obviously needed them. Aren't they the cutest? I keep thinking of fun things I want to do with them!



And in case you are still looking for a design for classroom treats--these treat bag toppers would be a cute and easy way to go! You could fill them with just about anything you wanted and you'd probably have the cutest treats on the block.

This is my first year having kids in preschool--and as I've now realized, the stakes are very high for bringing Valentines to school! I took a bunch of our already existing designs and tweaked them for Valentine's Day--and love the result!



These little foldover toppers are great for birthday favors and Valentines too--you can fill little four inch wide bags from a craft store with anything you'd like! I love that you can fill them with random snacks you have in the house... or you can go Super-Pinterest-Mom and fill them with something homemade.



The seasonal cherry M&Ms might be my favorite flavor and look adorable with the tags! Finley and I dipped some pretzels as a Valentine craft--so I threw those in a bag too.  Or if you'd like to go the healthier route, I'm sure parents would appreciate their kids bringing pretzels and goldfish home more than a bag of sugar!



There's a little space on the back for you (or your little one!) to fill out for their special pal. Want to print some for yourself? Get the free printables here! Included is a page of each design, and one page with one of each if you just can't decide which you like best. They print best on plain white card stock either at home, or your local print shop. Make sure you do NOT shrink to fit when you print. Even though I told the FedEx lady not to, she still did and mine ended up a bit too narrow.

Happy Valentine's Day from RV Parties!