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Mother Hen Brunch

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Moth­er’s Day is in a cou­ple of weeks and what a fun way to cel­e­brate with a brunch hon­or­ing the Moth­er Hen that lov­ing­ly watch­es over her chicks in the chick­en coop?! I orig­i­nal­ly styled this shoot for the Spring/Summer issue of Bird’s Par­ty Mag­a­zine uti­liz­ing the adorable and coor­di­nat­ing print­a­bles from Bird’s Party.
The over­all feel was that of a rus­tic farm­house, cou­pled with strong and vibrant pops of red and yel­low and pol­ka dots. I infused nat­ur­al ele­ments, such as hay and wood crates through­out the table and uti­lized them to dis­play the dif­fer­ent food and offer­ings. The use of burlap added to the vibe in the table­cloth, as well as the food labels, which were backed with the fab­ric and glued to wood­en sticks. To aid in stand­ing them up, I decid­ed to make mini burlap bags to resem­ble chick­en feed and filled them with rice so that I could eas­i­ly insert the sticks. I also want­ed to use chick­en wire in dif­fer­ent ele­ments on the table, which is espe­cial­ly promi­nent in the frame hold­ing the ban­ner let­ters with clothes­pins. The chick­en wire was spray paint­ed black and sta­pled to the back of the frame.
It was def­i­nite­ly a depar­ture for me to style a table that was­n’t extreme­ly sym­met­ri­cal! I found this great post from Chris Nease at Cel­e­bra­tions at Home out­lin­ing some basics to cre­at­ing dessert tables and was inspired by Chris’ advice for putting togeth­er “eclec­tic and asym­met­ri­cal” dis­plays, which real­ly lent itself to the coun­try decor. I imple­ment­ed sev­er­al tips and real­ly enjoyed uti­liz­ing my cre­ative skills to put it all together!
I want­ed the food to essen­tial­ly be a bite-sized brunch buf­fet with a coun­try menu. The cere­al bar includ­ed fruit and gra­nola top­pings inside plas­tic con­tain­ers pur­chased at Michaels to resem­ble chick­en coops.The indi­vid­ual cere­al cups were embell­ished with burlap and rib­bon and filled with plain cere­al so that top­pings and milk could be eas­i­ly added.
I filled push pop con­tain­ers from Cup­kate’s Event Design with yogurt straw­ber­ry par­faits and topped them off with fon­dant hatch­ing chicks!
The ham dev­iled eggs were dis­played in ceram­ic egg crates from both Home Goods and Tar­get. I re-used the white crate from the East­er Egg Hunt par­ty and pur­chased the addi­tion­al red one to add col­or to the presentation.
The mini egg and bacon pani­nis sat upon a red, rus­tic cake stand I had picked up at Hob­by Lob­by on clear­ance months ear­li­er think­ing it would be per­fect for a barn­yard par­ty in the future! Mini bis­cuits and sausage skew­ers sat upon ramekins filled with gravy to make it easy to dip and eat with­out the need for silverware.
Hard-boiled eggs were found in a tall, embell­ished hur­ri­cane vase, which also served as coor­di­nat­ing decor. The straw­ber­ry muffins were topped with but­ter­scotch nests and fon­dant hens and eggs. And last­ly, straw­ber­ry pie pops and choco­late flow­ers and eggs added more sweet­ness and com­plet­ed the table.
Fresh milk and orange juice were offered on a sep­a­rate table in glass jars to be poured into embell­ished mason jars.
The favors were all found at Michaels and includ­ed teapot egg timers, whisks and col­or-coor­di­nat­ing but­tons in small wood­en bas­kets for the moth­ers and the rest of the guests would be able to go home with choco­late eggs, dis­played sep­a­rate­ly in recipe boxes.
This shoot was real­ly fun and whim­si­cal that not only allowed me to play around and step out­side the box with my styling skills, but also pro­vid­ed a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to bond with the Moth­er Hens in my coop! How for­tu­nate am I to have FOUR gen­er­a­tions of chicks in the fam­i­ly?! Wish­ing all you Mama Hens a Hap­py Moth­er’s Day! ♥

 

Merci Beaucoup!



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Comments

  1. You are seri­ous­ly a fon­dant and styling genius! I adore this par­ty and want to squeeze those lit­tle chicks in the push pops (in the kind­est way pos­si­ble, of course!) I wish you were clos­er .. you could teach me soooo much! hugs

  3. Lyn­lee your details are so incred­i­bly cute, I love how you used burlap on tags and ban­ners and even lit­tle bags. And the col­or com­bi­na­tion is fab­u­lous! Your fon­dant hens are the cutest thing ever and I can go on and on =)

  4. I tweet­ed and pinned this! Fab­u­lous! I think it would be so cute for a gen­der nue­tral baby show­er. Fun, fun, fun!

    Sheila
    Green Kan­garu Events

  5. AWESOME, and I loved see­ing you and the gen­er­a­tions of your beau­ti­ful fam­i­ly!!
    Thanks you again for includ­ing me in your stun­ning par­ty!! 😀
    XOXO
    Bird

    • Oh my good­ness, ami­ga… thank YOU for the absolute­ly adorable print­a­bles and for the hon­or of being in your incred­i­ble mag­a­zine!!! Beijos! ♥

  7. WOW! I just ran onto your ADORABLE Moth­er Hen Brunch post while look­ing for Moth­er’s Day brunch ideas. I AM BLOWN AWAY! So clever! So bright and cheery! I am def­i­nite­ly doing this! Thank you so much for shar­ing your tal­ent and pho­tos!! (My co-host says that I must make barn shaped invi­ta­tions with a chick­en that pops out when the door opens! I’m in SUCH TROUBLE!)

    • Thank you SO very much for your incred­i­bly sweet and kind words, DJ! Those invites sound absolute­ly adorable! Good luck!!! 🙂

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