Sweet Pastel Palette

With spring in full bloom, what better time for using all of those gorgeous pastels! We just love the soft, dreamy, feminine feel of a pastel color palette. With Easter this weekend we thought we would do a little round up of some of the most beautiful pastel desserts and party decor for you to enjoy!

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Pomme d'amour

Have you seen the previews for all of the "Snow White" inspired movies coming out!?! Oh what a classic fairytale...one of our favorites! We are sure there will be lots of Snow White inspired parties popping up, and we can't wait to see them! {We are kind of obsessing over all of the stunning French baking blogs we have been coming across} We found this blog post by Carnets Parisiens on how to make these gorgeous candied apples! They are so pretty, we just love the dramatic red of the apples, the red and white twine wrapped around actual branches and the paper hearts, all of these fit perfectly into the details of the fairytale! These candied apples would make a lovely addition to a Snow White inspired party, don't you agree!

"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 ;)

"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!

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”.

DIY ombre sugar hearts

So last week we fell in love with a gorgeous cake created by the amazing cake artist, Erica O'Brien! It was featured on The Wedding Chicks blog and lucky for us there was a DIY on how to create the ombre sugar hearts! We thought this was such a cute idea for Valentine's day, we just had to share! Those sugared hearts look pretty fabulous on that cake...don't you agree!?! {To see the DIY go here}

Photography: Brooke Allison Photography

Sweet Designs: Bake It, Craft It, Style It...

Oh my goodness, we are so excited...we just pre-ordered our copy of Amy Atlas's new book, Sweet Designs: Bake It, Craft It, Style It!! We are really thrilled for Amy, as she has inspired countless people! She is the "Queen of the Sweet Table"! So many of us are simply in awe of her talent! Amy has created some of the most beautiful, imaginative sweet/dessert tables ever! Her eye for design, color and style is simply off the charts! Although, we have never had the pleasure of meeting her, from the interviews we have read she is incredibly humble and kind! Amy's blog, " Sweet Designs" is an amazing place for tons of inspiration, insight and advice for readers, from Amy herself! It has been an honor and thrill for us to have been featured on her blog a few times! Her new hard-cover book is filled with recipes, diy projects, style secrets, display advice and so much more!! This would make such a fabulous gift for anyone you know who loves to create parties and of course one for you too!! Good luck to Amy with the sale of your book, we know it will be a huge success!