A Little Black Dress Affair

Oh my...where has the time gone?

It's been a whole year and our little one just had a birthday! You know what that means don't you? Yes, a party. Her very first "little black dress" affair as a matter of fact.

It all started with this cute little dress that I found. I built the whole theme around this dress. Right down to the invitations {pictured at the very top of this post}

There are sooooo many photos to go along with this, I'm going to break it up into a couple of posts. I don't want to force them all on you at once.

so...

we'll start with the theme.

The dress.

It is black velvet on top and the skirt is black and white tulle. A pretty little satin bow at the waist finishes the look.

Adorable. Elegant. Timeless. Little Girl. Fun.

That's what I wanted.

I decided to go with black and white damask with lots of pink and touches of grey too.

First...the cake.

I made it all by myself. My very first attempt at a fancy cake.

When I found the damask pattern cake tattoos, I did a happy dance right in the middle of the store. Seriously.

I made a banner out of some black and pink damask fabric that I already had on hand.

I sewed a table runner out of some black and white damask fabric that I found at Walmart. {More photos of the runner in the next post}

I picked up some pink flatware and some black napkins at Target and then tied them up with a pretty pink satin ribbon. I normally prefer to use actual china and flatware but in this case, this just worked better with the colors.

I put the cake on a black pedestal that I had, and I also made cupcakes to go with it.

I found these black and white damask cupcake liners at the grocery store.

and I even found wrapping paper to match everything!

Trust me, I made sure that everything didn't look too "matchy matchy"

It was just enough of a good thing without being too much {In my opinion anyway}.

Okay...enough pictures for today. I'll be back tomorrow with more of the decorations and the birthday girl herself.

Thanks for reading along with me.

xo and God Bless,

Kathleen