And Everything Sweet

Today I threw a little Valentines Day party for my little Olivia's playgroup friends. We had 13 little toddlers (most under 2) over here this morning which translates into lots of chaos, cuteness and fun! :) Here are some pics from today's festivities!!

Me and my crazy Olivia!

A perfect craft/party activity for 2 year olds...sticking anything on anything! For this party I got little mailboxes, spruced them up them with owl printables and ribbon and had the babies stick heart stickers on them.

Olivia, hard at work on her mailbox...

and then enjoying her cupcake. :) (notice her little owl shirt...cute Etsy find!!)

All the babies...can you believe we got them ALL in a picture!!! (and no one really crying?!?!)

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Go STEELERS!!!!

My husband is a HUGE Steelers fan (which I guess makes me one too) and tonight we're throwing a little Super Bowl Party with some of our neighborhood friends. My original plan for the party was to have half Steelers colors/decor and half Packers colors/decor and thank God I shared my plan with hubby ahead of time b/c he was appalled that I would include Packers decor in his home! ;) He basically forbid me from coming up with any Packers desserts or decor of any sort. So apparently this party is not really a Super Bowl party, but more a "Celebrating that the Steelers are in the Super Bowl AGAIN" party. ;)

I don't care who wins, (looking around nervously to make sure hubby didn't hear me say that!) but I'm certainly excited about getting together with friends tonight. :)

There are going to be a few kids coming tonight so I wanted a way to get them excited about the game (and recruit them as Pittsburg fans). ;) So I set up a Steelers treat table complete with cupcakes, football juice boxes, cookies and Lil' Steeler fan kits. :)

Juice boxes for the kids...had to cover them in card stock to make them more "football-ish". Gotta theme it out folks! (and yes, of course, its totally neurotic, but thats me!!)

Little football cookies! I'm pretty proud of these b/c this was my first time decorating cookies with royal icing. I love how they turned out and I had a lot of fun with them. Definitely want more reasons to practice!! (as if I don't already have enough on my plate!!)

I made this cupcake stand using a shoe box and another tall box I had around the house. Covered the bottom in green wrapping paper and added ribbon for yard lines...

Definitely blinged out in Steeler colors!!!!

These little football toppers are cake balls. Yummo!

The Lil' Steelers Fan Kits include a mini clapper to cheer on Pittsburgh, a whistle to annoy all the adults, a penalty flag to throw for any of the Packers' infractions, some M&Ms, and a Super Bowl Championship ring...

Go Team!!!!!

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Lego Cake

Friday, January 28, 2011

Farm cake

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A Valentines Day treat!

I have a HUGE order of cake balls to fulfill by this weekend so I started working on them today. After rolling 100 (which isn't even half way through) and covering about 50 of them I got side tracked...bored actually, and I started playing around with a Valentines Day treat idea. This one I'll definitely be using at my Valentines Day party for our toddlers next week!!! :)

All I did was use my little heart cookie cutter to cut through a cake ball then covered it with candy melts. Easy and so cute! And I finally have a use for those plastic heart containers I got on clearance sale last year! ;)

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Pink Cupcakes!!!

Cupcakes made to coordinate with the 3 shades of pink in these tissue poms.

And a simple 7 inch round for a centerpiece...love the simplicity of this cake!

Friday, January 14, 2011

Where The Wild Things Are Cake

I remember loving this book when I was a little girl. Its a great book! A little bit scary, but not too much so...with a lesson to be learned, but still a fun book. It's a classic. Who would have known that 20 something years later I would be using my memories of it to recreate a cake for a sweet little boy's first birthday?! Even as a child I'm not sure I could have imagined a cooler "job"!!

So here it is,

Weston's 1st birthday cake

In the book Max has a private boat that takes him to where the wild things are.

Let the Wild Rumpus start!

This should be a fun smash cake for him to tear into!!!

The smash cake

A close up of the topper.

Is the cuteness killing you????

And of course, I've fallen in love with this theme for a party! I always do this...wish I had a boy whenever I come across a cute boy party theme. (not too sure my husband will think its a valid reason to try for a 3rd child) ;) So instead of having another baby in hopes that its a boy so that I can throw aWhere The Wild Things Are party, I decided to just plan a pretend party. :)

That oh so cute/totally cool wreath came from THIS party. Love it

And for this type of party you've got to create lots of vines. Easy enough to do with paper. I found this kind of paper vine here. There are all sorts of tutorials out there for paper vines.

And check out those paper bag monsters. What a great party craft! I found that idea here.

And right under the paper bags are the crowns...gotta have crowns. Find more party pics from that party here.

Right under that picture is the cutest party outfit ever!! Gotta dress your little one up in a max-like costume so he can be king of all wild things! Source

Counterclock wise is one of my favorite quotes from the book. I think it would be so cool to make posters of some of the classic quotes from the book, scatter them around as decorations for the party. This one would be great on the door guests will be exiting out of.

And last but not least, a dessert table, junble/woods theme would be totally appropriate. Source

I Carly cake...no wait...its an I Mia cake!

I just finished my first cake in a few weeks. The break was nice, but it sure did feel good to break out the ol' spatula and get to work. :)

Kates in the houuuuze...or the kitchen I should say!!!

And my first cake of the weekend is is for our neighbors' little girl Mia. Mia is turning 6 and apparently she is a big I Carly fan. :) Hopefully she'll enjoy this cake as much as she enjoys her show.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Ole Miss Grooms Cake

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Who's up for tacos?!

Yummy!!! These tacos are most likely not on your New Years diet! :) Shells are made from yellow candy melts w/ oreo crumbs tossed in. "Meat" is brownie, "lettuce, cheese and sour cream" are all icing and the "tomatoes" are chopped up Twizzlers.

Sweetest tacos you'll find this side of the border! :)

I know its a while away, but wouldn't these little guys make a great Cinco De Mayo party treat!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Owl Valentines Day party