{"id":314,"date":"2010-10-12T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstonedesigns.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2010-10-12T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T23:19:08","slug":"people-sep-30-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstonedesigns.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"People | Sep 30, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marisol Nichols\u2019 Blog: Party Planning and\u00a0Preparing!<\/h1>\n

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Happy birthday Rain! - Courtesy Marisol Nichols<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n

We hope you\u2019ve enjoyed Marisol Nichols<\/strong><\/a>\u2018 blogs this past month!<\/em><\/p>\n

She\u2019s back in Los Angeles after a <\/em>spring and summer based in Shreveport, Louisiana as she filmed her latest project, ABC\u2019s The Gates<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Although filming has wrapped, the actress is still working hard \u2014 preparing a party for<\/em> daughter<\/a> Rain India<\/strong>, who turns 2 today!
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In her final blog<\/a>, Nichols discusses choosing a fairy theme for the birthday bash \u2014 and how things have taken off since working with a party planning pal.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Hi mamas! My beautiful daughter Rain turns 2 today \u2014 I can\u2019t believe it. Time really does fly!<\/em><\/p>\n

As all you moms know, the second you have a kid it\u2019s all about them. As soon as I became a mom, my birthday stopped having any meaning whatsoever. Now it\u2019s all about her, and I wouldn\u2019t want it any other way.<\/em><\/p>\n

My family is flying into town to help us celebrate so I really want to make this a special day for her and super fun. Being preschool-age she has lots of friends so we\u2019re going for a big celebration.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was just going to have a \u2018party\u2019 (cake, balloons and some streamers) until my friends were asking what the theme was. Who knew birthday parties had themes?! Themes, really? Okay, themes \u2014 here we go! Sesame Street<\/em>? Fairies? Princesses? Elmo? How do you pick? Fortunately, Rain has this fairy mural above her bed which she loves, so voil\u00e0, fairy theme, here we come!<\/em><\/p>\n

I feel like I\u2019ve taken Rain to enough kids\u2019 birthday parties to recognize what the kids enjoy most at each of them. So I decided to do my own version, gathering all the greatest things about all the parties and bringing them together.<\/em><\/p>\n

Incredibly lucky for me, one of my dearest friends, Melinda, who has a little boy slightly older than Rain, also conveniently happens to be a party planner<\/a>. I confess, I kinda called her immediately for some advice. When I told her my idea, she opened the floodgates. I guess in her mind the idea of putting a bunch of balloons out was not gonna fly. So she\u2019s taken over and now we\u2019re working on it together. Yay! Two heads are so much better than one, especially when one happens to do party planning for a living.<\/em><\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve embraced the theme. The colors are going to be pink, green and yellow, like Tinker Bell, her favorite fairy.<\/em><\/p>\n

She had the idea to decorate the house as if you were entering a fairy palace. So we\u2019re hanging tulle (the stuff tutus are made out of) and using pink and green fabric for a tablecloth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then, I went to a local craft store and found fairy wings, little wands, ribbons, sparkles, glitter, tiaras (all conveniently on sale in time for Halloween \u2013 thank you).<\/em><\/p>\n

I got Rain a Fisher-Price Little People Dance \u2018n Twirl Palace<\/a>, which totally goes with the theme. We\u2019ll open it at the party and everyone can play with it.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m still tackling the food but we know for sure we\u2019re going to do fun, kid-friendly fruits and veggies. And the cake! It\u2019s white cake with raspberry filling. I also insisted on a sugar-free option because Rain doesn\u2019t usually eat sugar and I wanted to give moms that option.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh! And the part I\u2019m most excited about! Melinda came up with a great idea as a keepsake for Rain. What we\u2019re going to do is take a large canvas so that we can trace each of the kid\u2019s hands with non-toxic markers, write their names and paste their photos next to each. It will be an activity for the kids to do and when it\u2019s all done Rain will have it in a really sweet picture frame to hang in her room. How cute is that?!<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll send in some photos after the party for PEOPLE Moms & Babies to post, so that you can all see the final result!<\/em><\/p>\n

This will be my last blog. Thanks for sharing my first-ever blogging journey with me \u2014 it has been an exciting ride! I hope you\u2019ve enjoyed it as much as I have. Thanks for reading! Feel free to follow me on Twitter<\/a> and keep up with me on Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

To all you wonderful moms out there, I love you so much! Moms rock!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013- Marisol Nichols<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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