100 Aker Wood Party with "Hunny Pot" Tutorial and Printables

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Winnie the Pooh is a childhood favorite for many. Who doesn't love that sweet bear and all his friends? I grew up watching Winnie the Pooh, it was always one of my favorite Disney movies. I was recently selected to create an project that involves The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh . I was delighted to be picked and had the sweetest ideas in mind.

When you combine an Event Stylist and an awesome Disney movie, magic happens. I came up with the idea to throw a magical 100 Aker Wood party with all of Pooh's friends. Complete with a "hunny" pot tutorial and free printables for you to use for your own party too! Since "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" was just re-released on August 27th in a Blu-ray Combo Pack and HD Digital you can now have your own magical 100 Aker Wood Party too!

One of my favorite traits about Winnie the Pooh is his love for honey. I grew up next to my grandparents and their friend raised bees on their property. Every summer I just loved eating the fresh honeysuckle and getting mason jars of honey after every harvest. I thought it would be fun to create an honey jar tutorial that could be used at your own hero party or 100 aker wood party like you see in the images below. 

Hunny Pot Tutorial:

 Supplies: 

Terra Cotta Pot and Saucer

Gold Paint

Paint Marker

Sponge Brush

Wooden Ball for handle

E6000  Industrial Glue

 Protective cover for surface
 

Steps:

 Lay protective cover over surface you are working on. Remove any price tags from the terra cotta pot and saucer and paint outside and inside of both pieces.

Let it dry. Repeat painting step if necessary for even coating.

While the base and saucer are drying paint the wooden circle piece and let dry.

Once pieces are dry, take the industrial glue and attach wooden piece to top of saucer for lid. Next, take the terra cotta pot and write with the paint pen the words HUNNY as you would like. Winnie the Pooh always seems to have his "N's" backwards.Once dry, place the saucer as the lid on top of the terra cotta base.

 
You now have an adorable Hunny Pot for treasures, collecting things or anything magical. See how easy this craft was? You can see pictures below of the hunny pot I created in action at the 100 Aker wood party.

Party Details:

 

 

 

 

 

Quote Printables can be found Here 

Vendor Credits:
Styling and Paper Goods: Valerie Painter {Greyson Design}
Photographer: {DanyC Photography}
Wooden Name Cutouts, Custom Vinyl, and 100 Aker Wood Sign: {Ten23Designs} Vintage Chairs and Vintage Props: {Refunction Junction} Gold Candlabras, White Chandlier, Wooden Slabs, White Display Platters {Events by I Candy}
Stripped straws, 36” Balloons, Gumball Tubes, Clear Boxes, Wooden Candy Sticks: 

{Bloom Designs Online} Honey Dipper Wands: {Clarke Wood Works} 

Mini Picnic Baskets: {Faniciful Events} Personalized Gingham Platter: Emily {Magnolia Creative}
Honeycomb and Hunny Pot Cookies, Mini Fondant Bees: {Frog Prince Cake and Cookie Design} Bee Cookies on Sticks, Gingham Picnic Basket Cookies and Bee Scalloped Cookies: {The Cookie Jar} Red Gingham Wooden Utensils: {Sucre Shop}
Gingham Ribbon: {Ribbon Revelery}
Tulle Skirts: {Atutudes}  
Felt Character Headpieces: {Cupcake Wishes and Birthday Dreams}



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You can also check out the links below for some crafts and snacks that other bloggers were inspired to create from Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

{Maternity Styled Shoot}:: A Greyson Design and Spark Creative Photography Collobration

This past year I met an sweet Photographer named Rose from Spark Creative Photography. As Rose and I were talking about styled shoots she mentioned a maternity shoot. I jumped on the opportunity to work with her as I have not styled an shoot like this before and it would be a blast. I just adore pregnant mammas -to- be :) We decided to shoot in an apple orchard and have a fun picnic style shoot with some fun personalized touches.

I though it would be fun to take the elements of the actual Apple Orchard and apply them to the styled shoot. I concentrated on apples, floral, and simple vintage touches. I knew that my beautiful wood platter that my grandpa turned in his wood shop for me would be the perfect element to use for the mini picnic setting. I also, had a vintage flour sifter that had hand painted apples on it that looked cute with a pot of yellow daises. The best finishing touch was apple cider in frap bottles with birch wood straws I had leftover from another photo-shoot. Such a fun and simple touch. 

Since my business involves Graphic Design,  I can never seem to do any styling jobs without adding in fun and personalized paper goods :) I though it would be fun to create a fun and new collection for a baby announcement. I designed a fun collection around apples with bold patterns to capture the fun and bright feel we were trying to capture. I just love how the collection turned out and you can find it for sale here. 

 

 When Rose and I originally asked the mamma- to-be of any pregnancy cravings or divulge any information we could use to style the shoot we were left empty. So instead of being able to add in personalized meanings for the couple we added in creativity in other ways. My latest obsession as a creative is calligraphy and hand lettering. I recently took a calligraphy class from the talented Molly Jacques and am a little partial to my new found love. I decided to take a wooden mini chalkboard I had in my studio and hand letter a sign for the soon to be "Baby Ethan." I just loved how it turned out and another simple and personalized element.

Another, one of my other favorite things from the shoot (I have a lot of favs) is the floral crown I designed and created. Floral Crowns are all the rage right now with shoots, weddings and floral design. Back in my days prior to my business I was a florist and never was able to create one of these lovelies. I knew that I would love to create one and haven't seen many used for maternity shoots before. It seems they are now popping up everywhere.

I weaved together some lovely blue thistle, wax flower, freesia and greens for this soft and simple floral crown. Although, this wasn't the only crown I made for this shoot it was perfect and lovely. After, the first shoot was rained out in early April I was not able to preserve the original floral crown seen here. Although, I did make a tutorial with that crown and will soon be releasing that video soon.

I hope you enjoy some more of my favorite shots from the photoshoot below. You can find a whole album here on Facebook to satisfy your appetite for cute preggo moms :) I just adored Erin and Mike, they were so fun to work with. Don't forget to stop by Spark Creative Photography page here and send Rose some love. You won't be disappointed in what you find!

 

 Cheers!