An Owl Themed Baby Shower...

This past weekend I hosted a baby shower for my sister-in-law. As you can see, the theme of her nursery is going to be owls. I took her theme and made it for the baby shower.
I found this cute picture and owl pillow from Target and made them my inspiration colors for the party.

I made a cute dessert bar for her event.

The cake was chocolate with oreo buttercream which the mommy-to-be requested.
I made a little mommy owl and baby owl, which are both out of fondant.

Sugar cookies cut and decorated to resemble owls.

I also made chocolate pops as well as carrot pops.

The caramel apples were giving to each guest as a thank you for attending the event.

The event was held in my backyard. We all had our fingers crossed for the rain to hold off. And it seemed to work. No rain! The celebration took place at 5:30 so my husband added some lights to the tent and made it really magical at night. Good job honey!

Drink station..raspberry lemonade and passion fruit iced tea.

My mother-in-law cut out these cut flowers and we used them as napkin rings. Very clever and it added to the table. Great job Jani!!

This was a very festive event and enjoyed creating it for my sister-in-law!
A special thank you to my friend Amber for creating the invites as well as tags. Also, for helping me work the event. You are the greatest!

Bowling Birthday Party....

We celebrated my daughters 8th birthday at the local bowling ally with a group of her friends. They had such a blast bowling, giggling and running around. A few of the bowling balls ended in other lanes or back in our laps. The girls/boys just giggled the whole time.

After bowling we went back to my house for hot dogs and dessert. This is the kids table all set up. I bought the pink cars at our local Ruby's. Perfect colors!

After they filled their bellies with the dogs, it was time for build-your-own-sundaes!
Happy girls!

My little sundae station all set and pretty.

This little girl was on my daughters invitations. I worked with a lady from Etsy who owns a shop on this site. It's call Party Place. She's great to work with and very fast.
I wanted the girls shirts to match the invitation. We worked with Special T's in Fullerton and they are so amazing with their work. Also they have great customer service!!!

Getting back on track....

I've been busy with cakes and parties over the past two months and just haven't made the time to sit down and post. I felt it was time to get back on track and get posting!

Toy Story...
I had the pleasure of working with a client who was in need of a Toy Story cake for her daughters birthday. We exchanged many emails over the past month coming up with some ideas for this cake. This cake was a 1/2 sheet chocolate cake filled with oreo buttercream. It was super heavy and very fun to make. Thank you Aimee for calling me and trusting me!

Cake was covered in fondant and accent pieces we made out of fondant as well.

The bed was also made out of cake.

Toy box too...

Fairy Cake...

I love this fairy cake. So simple and pretty. My client was having a special birthday for her little girl and wanted a cake with a fairy flair. The cake was strawberry cake filled with cream cheese frosting.

I had so much fun covering the whole cake with fairy dust (edible glitter). A perfect fit for this cake.

Baby Shower...

My name was passed on by a dear friend to this client and I was happy to except this order. It seems like I'm repeating myself but, this cake was a challenge and fun to make. The colors that the client wanted for this cake made me a bit nervous but, they look super cute together.
The baby shoes on top of the cake were made out of gum-paste.

Cute little shoes!

For my Princess....
This client in my number one fan! She is my daughter and loves to see what I can create with each order. For our family celebrations her request was something princess, peanut butter and cupcake pops. I think I covered her request!

For this image I used a stamp set from Stampin Up! and edible ink and place it on dried fondant. I then used edible colored markers and added color to the princess.

The small cupcake are actually cupcake pops.

A Birthday Celebration With Her Class....

My daughter requested cupcakes to be shared with her classmates. I used my stamps again to add some fun accents to the cupcake. The kids were pretty impressed.

In Loving Memory of My Dearest Friend

My dear friend Krista Desatoff went home on August 1st to be with her Lord and Savior. She was my mentor mom, my confedont and my dearest friend. Krista was a Godly women who loved her family, her friends and her job as a 3rd grade teacher. Two years ago she was named "Teacher of The Year" for her school district. Everyone loved her and she always brought a smile to the face of everyone she came in contact with. I'm gonna miss her terribly.
I love you my dear friend! Thank you for being so wonderful to me and my family. Thank you for all the fun talks over coffee, frozen yogurt, and all those yummy dinners. Thank you for teaching me about life. And thank you for all your wonderful advice...even the stuff I didn't want to hear. You are forever in my heart and forever my friend!
I love you!!!

I never got to make Krista a cake and felt it was only right to make one for the day of her celebration service. I made my first 3 tiered cake for the reception. The words on the cake were from her white board in her home. She wrote these bold words describing herself. I later found out it was from the bible. She exemplified every word in the scripture.

"Finally brothers whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things."

P.S. Thank you for fixing my blog journals.

My First Wedding...

My first wedding celebration. I made 200 cupcakes and a small wedding cake. Flavors requested..lemon cupcakes filled with lemon curd and then topped with buttercream frosting. As well as, white cupcakes filled with chocolate ganache and frosted with buttercream frosting.

The event was beautiful and bright! I loved all the colors together.

On half the cupcakes I piped on little sunflowers to fit the theme of the wedding.
I also bought some new stands for this celebration. I am so in love with these stands. I bought them online at thecupcaketower.com. They come in all different sizes as well as shapes. Super nice stands and very classy looking! You can also purchase ribbon threw them with is hand stitched together.

My first professional picture of my sweets! :o)

A Berry Sweet Baby Shower

This shower was for a very dear friend of mine who's expecting her first child. My dear friend Amber pieced this event together. She did a wonderful job!

Vases were actually filled with real berries. The favors were jam jars with strawberry jam inside. Very clever!

My Berry Sweet Table
I need to really work on my photography! I was so happy with how the table turned out that in this picture you can't see all the detail. My goal for the year...photo classes!

I'm sooo in happy with this cake.

I made individual berry shortcakes in jars. This was my first time making these and people seemed very please! They were really yummy and super cute!

Summer Cakes

What a crazy summer!!! I've been trying to post pictures for the last few months but time just kept slipping away. And I'm really not one to journal.
I have had the pleasure of making some special cakes this summer and I've enjoyed every single one.

This little Mickey cake was for a special little boy! His name is Landon and he celebrated his first birthday. I will need to post a picture of him on my blog. He is sooo darn cute.

"Happy Birthday", says Elmo!
This cake was so festive!!!

Mr. Elmo is made out of Rice Krispies and then piped with red frosting.

Happy 60th Uncle!!
My Uncle celebrated his 60th birthday so I had to make him something sweet. He had a golf themed party..which is his third love (his wife first and then his kids and them GOLF). So with that...a golf themed cake was made.

Bridal Shower Celebration...
I received an order for a bridal shower cake and I really wanted it to look wedding-ish.
So below, is the final product. Simple but classy.

Luau

This cake was a bit silly and cute. It was for a birthday celebration and the request was a Luau themed cake. My first thought was to make a grass skirt with coconuts. And here you see I never changed my mind . I was thinking of making the coconuts out of fondant but I felt the birthday girl would have a little fun with the real things.