Cascarones

Have you ever heard of cascarones!?! They are glitter or confetti filled eggs...considered to be good luck when you break them over someone's head! They are so colorful and fairly easy to make! There are a lot of fun tutorials out there for making these, but we thought this one from one of our favorite French blogs, Griottes, was pretty fabulous! Although, they were made for Christmas in this tutorial, we thought they would be such a fun alternative to regular dyed Easter eggs!

Materials: Eggs, a needle, paint and a brush, glitter

Drill your eggs gently with the needle, a small hole on top and a small hole but slightly larger on the bottom. Shake the egg hard, and then blow into the top hole on top of a bowl, the egg will flow into the bowl.
Wash and dry the egg.
Once dry, paint them with acrylic or spray paint. Let them dry and apply a second coat if needed.
With a sheet of paper, cut a small cone and place it into the larger hole. Create a funnel and pour the glitter into the egg. Close the hole with a small piece of masking tape.



diy and all photo via Griottes: www.griottes.fr/}

"Sweet Sleepover" 11th Birthday Party

This past weekend Kellie's daughter sweet Annabella celebrated her 11th birthday! She had such a successful and fun-filled sleepover last year, that Annabella decided she wanted another one this year! So the theme became, "A Sweet Sleepover"! To set the tone we used our "sweet shoppe" invites! At the party the girls decorated cake boxes, decorated their own personal mini cakes that they got to bring home and share with their families, had a candy hunt, opened gift with oven mits on their hands...yes challenging but so much fun!

For decorations we played off of the color palette on the invites, pink and aqua...always a pretty combination and perfect for an 11 year old! We created our own tassel garlands that we strung in multiple locations! We even put one on each girl's chair, where they sat to decorate their cakes! There are so many great tutorials online for creating tassel garlands, we used on from Visual Vocabulary, found here. We also ordered paper poms from our favorite pom vendor, Paper White Designs! We made a mini letter garland that read, "11 is sweet" and an oversized cupcake flag topped our ruffled caked. We also purchased a super fun metallic, aqua backdrop so that the girls could take silly photos in front of it, of course they loved it! We even took photos of them holding their cakes in front of it.

We didn't necessarily have a "sweet table" but more of a "sweet area"! We set up pink wooden boxes that the girls had their cake decorating supplies in and were able to decorate their cakes right in the boxes. They also helped to avoid a huge cake mess! We really wanted to mimic the illustration on our invites, so in the middle of the table we set up 3 pedestals with desserts that Annabella picked out for us to make! We made a tall ruffle cake, cookie dough cupcakes {umm yea they are amazing}, brownie pops with a shimmered polka dot and of course what party would be complete without french macarons rimmed in pink sugar on top of a bowl full of jelly beans! Above the table we set up 3 apothecary jars on a shelf filled with candy they girls could take home.

The "sweet sleepover" was a success and a great party for an 11 year old girl! Although, I have an idea that Kellie may be taking the next year off from hosting another sleepover ;)

Gosh & Golly

Etsy is where we got our start selling our paper goods and where we got a ton of inspiration before we even started. There are so many amazing vendors and artists selling on this huge online shop! We used to feature an Etsy vendor every Thursday, and we would love to start sharing some of the great shops that inspire us again! We recently came across Gosh & Golly! Gosh & Golly sells the most adorable 3D wall art you have ever seen! All of the hand-made pieces are separate and can be hung and arranged however you want them to be! Each of her pieces are dainty, sweet and so whimsical! They can be used as mobiles in a babies room or playroom! We could even see any of the pieces used as adorable party decor, how about hanging one of these over your next sweet table...how magical would that be!?! I'm not sure we could pick one favorite piece but the kites and clouds, owls and clouds and hot air balloons are pretty darn cute! Which ones are your favorites? You must check our Gosh & Golly, you will just love it!

"Party Popcorn"

We are both iin love with white chocolate popcorn!! It is so tasty and super easy to make! We have made it for multiple sweet tables and even make it blue with Swedish fish in it for a "mermaid party"! We recently came across this blog post by, Amy of "She Wears Many Hats", for "Party Popcorn"! We just thought this was such a great idea...so festive and just screams BIRTHDAY! She even has a great DIY on how she makes it! We just thought her idea was simple, colorful and so much fun! Who would not jump for joy over receiving a bag of this! Or how about making mini bags filled with the party popcorn and filling up an apothecary jar with it for your next sweet table!?! Check out Amy's post and easy directions here!

Mini French Macaron Cupcake Toppers

You may know by now our love for French Macarons and of course our love for cupcakes! So we decided to combine the two in mini form! We were making some pink, shimmery macarons for a very special party tomorrow! We had a little bit of batter left and thought it would be so cute to pipe out some mini macarons just to see how the turned out! Well, we have to admit, they were too cute! So we popped them on some mini cupcakes with blue buttercream frosting and here is the result! How dainty would these look all lined up on a sweet table!?!

French Macaron Recipe Here

Italian Buttercream Recipe Here

Gold and Creme Baby Shower

We were recently asked to create a sweet table for my aunt's gorgeous daughter in law's baby shower. She wanted a gold and crème color scheme! Since we love all of the metallics that are so popular right now, we could not wait to get started! We decided to literally create the whole table around oversized gold paper flowers that we made as a backdrop. We created them from large rolls of brown paper that we sprayed gold, in three of them we added tissue paper flower centers to create some dimension. To compliment them we made crème colored tissue paper flowers with gold fringe centers to top our mini cupcakes. We also made 3 coordinating cake toppers that were placed on top of a shimmered ruffle cake! Under the cake were mini rice krispie treats drizzled in white chocolate and wrapped in gold foil. We also made chocolate brownie pops with gold shimmered gems and gold glittered tiny tim cookies! The table was set with a gold cloth and a crème colored scalloped lace overlay. We completed the table with a “hand-glittered” letter garland that read “sweet bebe”.

Lorax Inspired Party Collection and DIY

We are so excited to share our newest collection with you...inspired by the Dr. Seuss movie, The Lorax! We absolutely adore Dr. Seuss, his over the top whimsical imagination is unmatched! When we heard that they were coming out with the Lorax, we really wanted to do something "Lorax" inspired to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday and the new movie! So going a little bit out of our element with our signature pastels we did something bursting with color and whimsy! We have to admit this is one of our favorite designs to date! We want to thank our sweet friend Courtney from Pizzazzerie for featuring our new collection this weekend! She is doing a giveaway for us which includes: 12 invitations, 12 cupcake flags, 12 gift tags and a "save the trees" letter garland! So hop on over to Pizzazzerie to enter! If you don't win, don't fret we are also offering a 20% discount until next Monday on the entire collection! We hope you like it!

We also thought we would share a little DIY with you! This "Lorax" inspired moustache is super cute to top your cupcakes or cake with or adorable as a photo prop! All you need is stiff yellow felt, coordinating striped straws, mini orange pom poms, hot glue and scissors. Just create a moustache in any shape you like, cut it out and trace it onto your felt. Cut the felt out and glue your straw onto the back. Turn it over and hot glue your mini pom pom on and your done! Super simple, right!?!