Find A Cure

Breast Cancer is something that has personally touched Kellie's life and my life. Kellie's wonderful mother-in-law passed away from this disease 6 years ago. My grandmother had breast cancer and is thankfully cancer free and my sweet cousin is suffering from breast cancer that has since spread to her liver. This disease affects so many women and so many families. Thankfully this is one cancer that has received a lot of recognition and research. However, we can not stop fighting until a cure is found. Even before we officially started Icing Designs, Kellie and I always talked about how we would give back when we started our business. We created these special "Find a cure" invitations, cards, cupcake flags and gift tags. We donate proceeds from the sales of these items to a very special local organization called the Fairy Godmother Foundation. This foundation grants wishes to adults that are terminally ill. Although it is not just for terminally ill breast cancer patients it is a foundation very close to Kellie's heart. Her mother-in-law, Mary, was on the waiting list and sadly passed away before her wish was granted. These items are available in our Etsy shop. Thank you for your support!

Stella and Dot Party!

So, this past Friday we had so much fun with one of our sweetest friends, Courtney! She came in from California for the weekend, she is an amazing stylist, Stella and Dot consultant and total fashionista...so we of course HAD to have a party!!! We really did have so much fun with this one! We knew we wanted it to be a chic and elegant just like Stella and Dot jewelry. We choose a color palette of silver, champagne, black and blush pink! We have been crushing on all of those gorgeous ribbon backdrops, so we decided to try one. We wanted to put a little "Icing Designs" twist on it though, so we created mini Stella and Dot "frosted photo tags" and strung them through the ribbons. The jewelry was so perfect to glitter, and the tags turned out so pretty!




We covered the table with a black table cloth and used silver and mercury glass pedestals and apothecary jars to display all of the desserts. We used a tall mercury glass candle holder with a silver jeweled mini chandelier on top as our centerpiece. Silver glittered tags and pink ribbons presented the names of all of the sweets. We made three different kinds of cupcakes; cookies and cream, banana and turtle filled with caramel. We bought truffles and blush pink malt balls and made white chocolate covered marshmallows with silver chunky silver sprinkles to fill the apothecary jars with. We also made mini shortbread cookies with mini chocolate pink gems that we shimmered with luster dust to go on top of them to create a jeweled look.













We also set up a mini drink station. We used champagne glasses with grey and white striped straws and silver rimmed wine glasses. We made a mini letter garland that said "drinks" to put across the silver cooler filled with champagne, nectars and wines. We also made a mini garland to put across the table with a black twisted ribbon and our DIY tissue paper rosettes.

Now for the Stella and Dot jewelry! We wanted to set everything up to compliment the dessert table but we also wanted to show the jewelry like it was displayed in a shop! So we used cake pedestals and apothecary jars to display the jewelry on and we set most of it up in a china cabinet with open doors. The back of the china cabinet was lined with mirrors so everyone could try on the jewelry and see themselves with it on in the mirrors. Even the Eiffel Tower got a necklace! We set the rest of it up around the house on different tables.







We had so much fun Friday...we hope you all do check out Stella and Dot...the company, the consultants (especially Courtney) and the jewelry are all amazing!!!

P.S. A Special thank you to Amy Atlas for featuring this party!

Most beautiful backyard wedding!

We spotted this wedding on one of our favorite blogs, Ruffled! We just absolutely adore all of the elements of this wedding. Everything from the perfectly sweet color palette to all of the amazing DIY touches to the gorgeous bride and groom, everything is just so lovely! We just had to share with you!

Molly's Cupcakes

Last week I spent an incredible day in the city with my girls visiting the Lincoln Park Zoo, shopping at American Girl and my favorite, visiting Molly’s Cupcakes. I have always wanted to visit Molly’s Cupcakes – they have such a sweet story behind their shop but most recently after watching an episode of Cupcake Wars for the first time I really wanted to go. One of Molly’s Pastry Chefs won!
At Molly’s Cupcakes you can order one of their classic cupcakes, pick your frosting and then put your own sprinkles on the cupcake at the sprinkle station. Or, you can order one of their center-filled cupcakes. I have to say that, yes, their cupcakes are as good as they look. YUM!

Leela’s mini cupcake!
Annabella enjoyed a Cookies n’ Cream Cupcake, sooo good!
I enjoyed a Cookie Monster Cupcake. The best of two world, a yummy cupcake with a buttery chocolate chip cookie dough filling—Heavenly!
I brought a Tiramisu Cupcake home for my husband, lucky guy.
Please visit Molly’s website and read their sweet story and drool over their awesome flavor selection! I hope to visit again soon, hopefully with Melissa.