Emerald City Tour!

Take a tour of DLP's Emerald City transformation! Guests were over the rainbow for this technicolor installation to celebrate a fabulous birthday! Click here for before and after pictures !

DLP Invades Emerald City!

DLP is a-twitter making private birthday bash arrangements for our FAVORITE client! Her request: a shiny and sophisticated Emerald City inspired cocktail soiree! As fun as the Wizard is, we wanted to stray from trying to recreate Emerald City spire by spire, but instead reinterpret and lushness and charm of the film to suit our hostess' entertaining style. The plan? Sleek deco inspired lines, regal floral design, off-beat yet classy jewel toned cocktails and enough dessert to choke a horse-of-a-different-color! So it's sip-sip here, sip-sip there, a couple of scoops of Haagen Dazs-- dance your ruby slippers off in Drippy Lip's land of Oz!

Hello 2011!

DLP rang in the new year with a jewel encrusted, mango flavored, fancy dress Bollywood Affair! Our hostess was looking to warm up her apartment and put on a pretty dinner party for her near and dears, so DLP swooped in to set the scene for mixing and mingling!

The menu featured indian inspired cocktail fare: spicy samosas, tiki masala and mini naan and chutney pizzas! To drink, guests enjoyed classic crisp G&T's, mango bellinis, India Pale Ale, and bubbly.

Table tops were dressed with mounds of oranges, floating mums and flickering tea lights and walls were embellished with a wash of pink light, dramatic peacock prints and rose petal falls.

Luckily, the hostess had a gorgeous collection of antique carnival glass that she wanted incorporated in the party design. We used them to create miniature shimmering water gardens!

Click here for more of the party, plus before-and-after peeks!

Haute Holiday House!

Here it is--Hot photo evidence of DLP's winter woodland home installation! We swooped in with to cozy up a hostess' home for holiday entertaining: seasonal custom artwork, snappy upholstery, charming tablescape, 1,500 lights for a fifteen-foot-evergreen and of course-- a little magic dust! Click to check out the before and after gallery!

Delhi-icious New Year!

Our woodland inspired holiday house hijacking went off without a hitch yesterday! Fueled by burgers and glitter we fabified the entire house in preparation for the hostess's big holiday entertaining plans. Photo evidence to come soon!

Our next project came to us when a close friend contacted DLP about her New Years woes. Our concerned hostess sent us this SOS:

And Silliness you shall have!! Our design solution for an unforgettable dinner bash: A Bollywood New Year! Peacocks and rose petals and bangles, HELL YES. Saturated jewel tones, a spicy main course and smartly decked guests will forget all about watching Dick's Ball drop as they shimmy their saris off in a sultry city hide away!

What are your plans for New Years Eve?

Holiday House Hijacking!

[mood board] DLP is untangling miles of lights and gathering orphans--we mean, ELVES... in anticipation of our woodland inspired holiday home installation! Our client presented us with a large open neutral space and a beautiful forest view. The challenge? Make the cathedral space feel more like a chic Christmas cottage. Our design solution: Comfy, cozy, sophisticated and sugar plumy!

What is inspiring your winter wonderland?

Production Pics!

DLP would like to thank all of their new friends

at Bewitchingbee Magical supply for a doozie of
a Halloween hullabaloo! The store enjoyed a
gracious turn out and top notch entertainments!

[Click to view the Season of The Witch gallery]

Which Way is Witch?

Buzz over to the Bewitchingbee blog for a full schedule of Shenanigans!

Anniversary Halloween Give Away!

DLP is celebrating its one year anniversary with a Halloween Give Away! The Stash includes: sweet skully cocktail napkins, LED pumpkin lights, stick on MUSTACHES, spidey jewelry and some bat s*** crazy cupcake papers as well as a copy of Alfred Hitchcocks, 'Sabatoge' and a slew of other spooky treats. Why? Because we love you.

Want to win it?

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leave us a comment and be entered to win the swag!

DLP will draw a winner October 1st!

A Steamy Weekend at TeslaCon!

Recently DLP had the distinct pleasure of sitting down and getting inside the brain of the mad-scientist-dirigible-captain-convention-creator, Eric Larson (AKA Lord Hastings R. Bobbins!) for the soot on his latest ambitious endeavor: TelsaCon! We won't give it all away...but here's what we'll divulge.

This isn't your grandma's "con".
This is complete insanity.

TeslaCon is a boutique convention--a complete immersion experience for the lot of Steampunk Fandom. Workshops, a fancy-dress ball, panel discussion, fashion shows, live music, readings, tiny hats and MURDER all wrapped in a carefully orchestrated and painstakingly detailed multimedia spectacle designed specifically for lovers of steampunk, clockpunk, deisel, lolita, goth and all things weird and wonderful! This madness will manifest itself November 5-7 in Madison WI!

This is the closest you will ever come to flying over London in an airship. Ever. And thanks to daylights savings, you'll have the unique opportunity to actually time travel...Wicked, right?!

Are you drooling all over your mourning gown yet? Want tickets? Strap on your goggles and visit www.teslacon.org for details. Space is limited! DLP will see you there!

In The Mood For Magic!

The gears at the DLP Factory are whirly-gigging at a breakneck pace to bring you the Third Annual Season of The Witch! Here's a peep at our launch-pad mood board for our friends at Bewitchingbee Magical Supply. We can't wait to dive into a swimming pools worth of Papier-mâché! So sticky...

While herding black cats, DLP is also preparing for an all-killer-no-filler give away to celebrate our one year anniversary! Stay tuned!

Season of The Witch!

DLP is proud to present the Third Annual Season of The Witch! Join us and our good friends at Bewitchingbee Magical Supply for a Hocus-Pocus Halloween Hullabaloo: a spooky seance, tasty seasonal delights, fire ritual, the ghost of Edgar Allen Poe and an array of eerie entertainments!

Click the image below to peep the teaser trailer!

Stay tuned for more details, kittens!

Steampunk Shenanigans in Bay View!

DLP had their driving goggles rocked off at Hyde Bar's blast-from-the-future gorgeous and grimy steampunk get-down! The entire venue was brimming with local characters, Leather, Lace and Static eLeCtRicitY! Here's a peak at the questionable and costumed activities...

The notorious DLP crew in their finest steampunk
threads, kindly provided by Skallywag Fashions.

Waterstreet Bridge shredded on tunes staring Lizzy Borden
and other notable murderers, villians, inventors and nutcases.
Needless to say, they rocked our pantaloons off!

A few friendly adventurers and gentleman scientists.
DLP was thrilled to see so many of our RenFaire and
reenactment friends out on the town!

SCIENCE! The Tesla coil was sputtering
through out the evenings festivities. A perfect
backdrop for a dark outdoor carnival,
gas masks and theramin recitals!

The infamous Skallywag herself joining us
for a dance and a drink...or three...


Deadman's Carnival set off our steamships with
their amazing fire swallowing spectacle!


This clever Ghostbuster costume ticked us--
talk about being ahead of your time...or behind...whatever....


More Fire!


An awesome effort to make functioning mechanical wings!
This is why we love the Midwest--
we're people who make things!

Our very own professional scoundrels after a
hit of absinthe and airship induced insanity!
They are actually traveling through
time at this very moment...


DLP gives this steampunk shindig 5 out of 5 drips!

A Riddle...

What does Drippy Lip love more than atomic cocktails?
More than a spontaneous wet t-shirt contest?
More than all girl Japanese surf rock bands?

More than cake?!

We'll give you one guess...

Halloween, kittens!
DLP Productions is in full trick-or-treat swing
and giddy as all get-out to be collaborating with
our friends at Bewitchingbee Magical Supply
to bring you an unforgettable vamped up vintage
Halloween! More details to come--
but for now...

just a tease!
Stay tuned my pretties...

72 days to go...

A Midsummer Mad Tea

Here's a peek at DLP's latest soiree, a balmy summer
evening bridal shower for our very own Kelly!

The space before we attacked:

And After:

Centerpieces were constructed using mismatched china,
vintage jewelry and antique paper goods.

This charming dining space was created by pulling
together wabisabi retro linens, borrowed dining chairs
and pendants cut from vintage textiles. Lawn furniture was
pimped out with patterned pillows and antique velvet throws.

At dusk our beautiful bride happily opened her mountain of gifts!

Amid twinkling fairy lights and the crackle of a
great-grandparents phonograph guests were whisked
away to a whimsical thicket full of desserts and white rabbits!

These goodies went so quickly we couldn't even
photograph them before guests couldn't help themselves!
The ladies enjoyed a spread of not-so-dainty bacon cucumber
tea sandwiches, quiches, lettuce wraps, fresh cherries and of course
in classic DLP fashion--at least 3 kinds of cake!

Drippy Lip decked out in our tea time duds...

Guests were asked to write words of wisdom
on a brightly dyed butterfly that were pinned to an
upholstered antique frame as a keepsake for the bride-to-be.

We achieved a rich rummage-sale texture by using
nearly 100 doilies and tea towels!
*no doilies were harmed in the making of this mad tea*

For more stills of our mad tea, visit us on Facebook!

[A Mad SummertimeTea!]

[Our Mad Tea-time inspiration board]

DLP has been down the rabbit hole planning a decadent mad tea garden party bridal shower! What better way to spend a summers evening than sip sipping, nibbling sweets and sporting silly hats? With the re-release of Alice In Wonderland there has been an enormous (and admittedly trite) demand for through-the-looking glass tea parties. With this understood, DLP is leaning less towards the Hot Topic fingerless glovelette approach and employing a highly saturated vintage tactic with an emphasis on recycled material detail: Old hand-made doilies (preferably those that have been stained and stashed away in a trunk) , baubles, bistro lights, Persian rugs and mountains of petite fours. Thematically, We like to think of it as, "The House You WISH Your Grandma Had..." Here's an invite sneak peek! Shh! It's a suprise! ;)

DLP Presents a Panty Party