The very beautiful actress Jennifer Freeman chose the COOP to throw her daughter Isabella’s second birthday party. The ‘My Wife and Kids’ star, wanted a princess and pirate theme for the party, which is one of our more popular themes. We made the main table up as our gorgeous princess table with lots of pink – all the sweet little princess’s went home with a tiara a beautiful tutu and white gloves, the little pirates left with pirate vests scarfs and swords. It was a very magical party, Jennifer loved it so much she said next she will be doing her very own party at the COOP.

Curious George was the first movie I ever took my eldest son Dashiell too so it holds a very special place in my heart, which is probably why I had so much fun preparing this one. I love how this Curious George party turned out and the birthday boy could not have been happier especially when he saw all of those fabulous red balloons. As our birthday boy was turning three we had adorable cuddly monkeys with a banana on their heads as party favors along with curious George masks a barrel of monkeys a safari hat and of course a red balloon. We played the movie and all the kids had the BEST time ever – George would have been sorry he missed it.

A not so spooky — very COOP -ie Halloween to you all!! xoxo

Pretty Cute UGLY Party, right? My youngest son LOVES Ugly Dolls — luckily for sweet Sadie who wanted an UGLY DOLL theme party. Because of Grants love for the ugly — I happen to have at my disposal quite a few actual Ugly Dolls that I was able to use for decor on this one! The only caveat (my poor children have had treasured treasure chests and many other of their toys ruined by the COOP and it’s parties!!) was I had to be sure nobody thought HIS dolls were up for grabs… That’s how I decided to make the Ugly Doll banner out of actual stuffed dolls! Isn’t it darling? I think it tuned out great — and really made the party look special! I really just wanted to go for fun and colorful for this party — and I just LOVE how it turned out. I used my new favorite turquoise table runners — and then cut colored foam pieces in different sized circles to add some more color to the tables. The real punch of color came from the flowers — dahlias in many different shades. Love how they turned out (put an Ugly Doll mask around the main arrangement to really “theme” it up!) The kids all go an Ugly Doll backpack clip, a bunch of Ugly Doll goodies and a fun light up ring — just in time for safe Halloween-ing! I just love a room full of color — and this party room certainly did not disappoint! Nothing ugly about it!!

Scooby Dooby Doo… where are you? At the COOP of course! We had a great Scooby Doo party for two brothers (they of the “Cute Critter” party last year!!) this past weekend. It turned out so great. It was like a 70’s flashback with all the orange, green and brown — I LOVED it! Felt like it was a Saturday morning looooong ago. Funny aside…. Ana who works with us — and is now on the TV show “Secret Life of the American Teenager” — well, she happened to be working this morning — and texted a pic of her in her Scooby mask to the actress who plays her mom on her TV show — MINY COHEN!!!! Mindy Cohen — aka the voice of Velma! Isn’t that funny? Anyway — back to the party. I wanted to keep it cool and pretty simple… orange flowers on burlap runners — with all the Scooby Masks (which were soooo cute on the kids) on the main table. WE kept everything gift-wise bagged up from the beginning as it was a pretty large party. Sorry — there are no pics — but each kid got a really cute dog nose, dog ear headbands and then some cute branded Scooby goodies. It was a really cute gift — for a couple of really rad brothers — who just happen to LOVE Scooby Doo!

Ohhh – I started off this party in SUCH a great mood. I was already thrilled with how it looked — but I was BEAMING when the birthday boy showed up and before he even stepped in the door he started making monkey noises and scratching under his arms when he saw the set up. It was officially my best ever stamp of approval! Just darling. Mom wanted a straight up monkey NOT Curious george theme. I found these cute little mod monkey plates, napkins, blowers and hats which set the color scheme and the mood for the whole party design. I used our great turquoise table runners — which matched the monkey plates perfectly! I used the monkey centerpiece we use for jungle parties (can you believe that darling little guy is a kids trash can! so cute.) and – my favorite part… our glass cloches filled to the rim with bananas. It’s such a great way to add a theme-ie POP… and it looks so chic (and it’s not pricey!). The best part was the kids were all asking for bananas at cake time!!!! Amazing. The goodie bags all had — a banana, a stuffed monkey, a monkey mask and a “barrel full of monkeys” game. Lots of happy little monkeys swinging out of the COOP at the end of this party!

This party started off the BEST way possible…. mom waltzed in and the first thing out of her mouth was “Oh MY — you really outdid yourself Juliet!” So sweet. And I kind of agree. I just love how this party looked. Any party that is in the orange , yellow and white scheme is always fab — probably why I love the COOP Classic party so much! This was a COOP Classic THEME party though — so the fabulous quotient was even higher than usual! I love love love the new nests I got for the table … and those darling paper mache birds! How gorgeous are they? I painted them in our colors to make them super COOP-ie… but they already were pretty COOP-ie…. Look how much they look like the bird in our logo! They are just perfect. The nests were sitting atop our favorite moss runners — and I did yellow and white flowers too! The girls all got tutus and boas (very bird like!) and the boys got yellow capes and gold masks. All the kids got a chineese take out box filled with a little green paper shred (grass) a musical shakie egg and a wind up hopping chick. Oh — and how lucky was mom that I have so many supplies laying around…. she walked in with those darling cake pops — but no way to display them. I quickly made this low ribbon wrapped vase filled with paper grass. The caterer was actually quite impressed by that one! It was a great party — with a great crowd… and a very very happy birthday COOP chickadee!