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Expertise
Are you planning a child's birthday party at home? Want to make it more exciting than exhausting? A little expert advice can help make it a more memorable event. The Party Fairy's strategies for successful parties can help parents turn down the chaos level and turn up the fun. We specialize in fantasy tea parties - but whether you're planning a sweet and nostalgic tea party or a rough-and-rowdy treasure hunt for boisterous little pirates, we have plenty of tips, tools and techniques to share. Need an idea for a centerpiece? A party game? Wondering whether the activities you have selected are age-appropriate for your guests? Not sure what to do with the two little boy cousins invited to a very girlie-girlie tea party? We can answer a variety of questions on many topics. Chances are good that we've heard your question before - but if not, we've created an entire business from the ability to create and imagine workable programs for children!

Experience
As the owner of The Party Fairy, I have personally conducted more than 600 birthday parties for children on a paid basis - and did this free of charge for years before I decided to trun it into a business. All told, I have probably conducted more than 750 parties.

Organizations
None are relevant.:) And don't worry; nothing odd. Just church and school organizations.

Publications
New York Times regional newspapers chain (I was an employee for several years and worked at various newspapers during my 20-year journalism career) I also worked at many smaller newspapers throughout Alabama

Education/Credentials
I was a journalism major many, many years ago - shortly after the world was created. :) Although a journalistic background is not particularly relevant to the business of children's party planning, a communications background could prove useful in answering questions from the public.

Awards and Honors
Hmmm.... The only ones possibly relevant here are several Associated Press newswriting awards

Past/Present Clients
No one of national note or significance (yet!) because my clients are all pretty much under 9 years old! But to their parents, of course, my little clients are all shining stars! :)

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Party Planning - birthday party wording

Expert: Georgia Blair - 10/29/2009

Question
QUESTION: Hi,
I am planning a "baking party" for my little girl's 4th birthday. The kids will be decorating small cakes at a local bakery. I have searched for cute wording (I was thinking a poem) for her invitations and have not been able to find anything.

Thanks so much for your help,
Blakely

ANSWER: Very cute idea for a party! :)

Lends itself very well to lots of fun party favor ideas, too. Wilton makes individual cake decorating kits which could go home with the little girls, or each girl could take home an apron, even a set of cookie cutters.

But you asked about the invitation...How about a play on the old "Pat-a-Cake" Nursery Rhyme:

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake
With ribbons and bows
The icing's the best part
(As everyone knows!)

A few little flowers
And some decorative trim
Can turn a plain cake
Into a work-of-art gem

Squeeze tubes and tips
Work like crayons, you see,
To paint pictures on cake
And make it oh-so fancy

Come learn all the secrets
of cake-decorating fun...
We hope you can join us
To decorate one!

It's a party for CHILD'S NAME
With birthday cakes for all
At INSERT NAME HERE Bakery
A cake-decorating ball!

Date:
Time:
Bakery Name and Address
RSVP By:
RSVP To:

---------- FOLLOW-UP ----------

QUESTION: I just loved your ideas!!! Thank you so much.

My little girl (Abby Grace) and one of her friends (Anna Claire) are hosting a Christmas tea and cookie decorating party during the holidays for their friends (4 year old little girls). Since you had such great ideas for her birthday invitation, I thought you might be able to help me out with wording for this one as well.

The party will be held at Anna Claire's home and we want the little girls to get all dressed up in their Christmas dresses...(Santa might even make an apperance, but we are not sure about that yet)

Answer
Thank you so much for your patience in waiting for an answer while my family was in Disney World! :) I thought about your question on the plane home... Since the girls are all 4, and it's a tea party, would you want to do a Pretty Fours and Petit Fours invitation?

PRETTY FOURS AND PETIT FOURS

A very merry Christmas Tea
Is the very perfect place to see
Pretty fours and petit fours
And cookies all in a row...

Fine linens and laces
And sweet smiling faces
Of little girls dressed
in their holiday best...

Sampling treats so delicious
Making holiday wishes,
Baking and decorating
And joyfully celebrating!

Please plan to come for our Christmas Tea,
Filled with fun and frivolity;
Abby Grace and Anna Claire
Really would like to see you there.

Date:
Time:
Location:
RSVP:

I hope this will work for you.... :)
Georgia

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