A PARTY CENTERED AROUND AN ACTIVITY If you have a child that’s about 3-7 years old, I’m sure that you’ve had your fill of children birthday parties. You might even consider yourself a birthday party “expert”. The bad part about that is after going to parties week in and week out, things start to get pretty old. But what if I told you that there’s a different way of structuring your party program, centered around an activity that: Is interactive (not only for...
KYLE’S SNOOPY-THEMED PARTY: THE BEGINNING OF A NEW PARTY SERIES Today, I am so excited to share with you a party we styled some time ago: Kyle’s Peanuts Party. Images taken by Cradles by Anne Naig! Welcome to Kyle’s 1st street fair, along with his pals Charlie Brown, Lucy, Shroeder, Linus, Woodstock, Snoopy, and Sally Brown! One of the reasons why I love this theme is that it’s close to me personally: I grew up reading Peanuts comics and identifying with Charlie Brown...
MICHELLELAO.COM’S 1,000,000TH VIEW A few weeks back, something curious happened: this blog was viewed for the millionth time. Considering how this all started, that number is mind-blowing (at least to me). You see, way back when I was still starting Party Magic, I had this idea. I realized that the kiddie party / event styling industry was so opaque that new moms (like myself back then) feel lost and adrift planning their child’s first party. Questions abound. What’s a good theme? Which...
THE MERCENARY VS. THE MISSIONARY Mercenaries are driven by paranoia; missionaries are driven by passion. Mercenaries are bosses of wolf packs; missionaries are mentors or coaches of teams. Mercenaries are motivated by the lust for making money; missionaries, while recognizing the importance of money, are fundamentally driven by the desire to make meaning. – John Doerr There are two types of people in this world: the mercenary and the missionary. And if there’s one thing I’ve...
THE ONLY SKILL YOU WILL EVER NEED The first time I was attracted to the arts was in the backroom of my mom’s office. I was around 5 or 6 years old, and back then, my mom was releasing new products (for kids) almost every week. There were no cellphones, no computers, no Photoshop, so my parents had set aside a room called the “Artist’s Room”, where 4-5 skilled designers sat on a large table, drawing everything by hand. I was hooked. My earliest memories inside that room...