A few weeks ago I traveled to Los Angeles, California for a very special day, Zara’s 1st Birthday party!  Daughter and first born of Kelley Lee Gin of Picture Perfect Events created a “glamping” theme for Zara’s 1st Birthday!   It was so fun – Zara had her own glamping tent area, Zara’s General Store with trail mix, head bands, green houses, and kids’ take home goodie bags.  In addition to that, was the Dessert Table, put together by Kelley’s talented & great friends at Fleuretica.  Foods such as mini burgers, pork belly baos, spam and salmon musubi, thai lettuce wraps as well as kid friendly foods such as tater tots, chicken fingers, home made smoothies were all provided by Hungry Bear Catering.

One thing that I found very special about the event, was Zara’s charity book drive for Milk + Bookies!  Rather than birthday gifts for Zara, Kelley and Spencer asked everyone to bring a book to donate to Milk + Bookies on behalf of Zara’s birthday.  This was a wonderful and selfless way of giving, and a total of 217 books were donated!  The books were donated to 2 local elementary schools in the Los Angeles area.

Since we weren’t quite in the forest, I also put a composite together (at the bottom of this post) as if Zara was really glamping in the forest.  According to Mr. Gin (Zara’s Grandfather), he can’t wait to take her camping one day!  It was wonderful to capture a wonderful milestone, especially for Zara’s 1st birthday!  Kelley, Spencer, Zara, and the rest of the family, thank you so much for having me there!

Invitations and printing by Dee from Maude Press, Gen X Graphics

Desserts by: Fantasy Frostings, Mr & Mrs Creamery, Cake Creamery