Team Edward! :)

I found these pics through a friend on facebook.  She was a guest, not the host. I just fell in serious love with this Eclipse deput party.  Check out these AMAZING pics of this AMAZING party.  Bravo to Joanna and Lauren the hosts, you're amazing, whoever you are!

Check out these pics!

I wish I had some explanation of the details of this party.  I'm trying to contact these amazing hostesses on facebook, so maybe I'll be able to get them to write something up for me. 

I seriously can't get over this party, being a huge Twilight fan myself. 

Popcicle birthday cake!

not in the mood to bake a cake? or buy one? what a super fun summery idea for a summertime bday party! A POPCICLE BIRTHDAY CAKE! My wonderful and always amazing friend chelsea made this cake for her little boy.  She stacked two pieces of foam and simply stabbed the popcicles in, and covered it with cute birthday ribbon! TA DA! I love it!

Cake it pretty!!!

Want to learn how to make this Fathers day "fake cake" and get some fondant practice?? Check out the tutorial I did on Bird Crafts later today.
PS There is a GREAT give away attached to the post. DONT MISS OUT!

Cake It Pretty!!

I am SOOOO excited to tell you all that I will be teaming up with BirdCrafts to start a new cake decorating series "Cake it Pretty"!!! I am thrilled that someone thinks enough of my cakes to even ask me to guest blog.  I can't promise that the cakes I will help you create will be the BEST or the MOST AMAZING cakes you will find.  But I think they're pretty great, and I will do my best to show you what I know, give you any and all tips, tricks, and mistakes that I have learned and made to make things easier on you, and help you to make Beautiful, Wonderful, and Delicious Creations!!  Please go check it out!! While you're over there you MUST look around Birdcrafts!! Her blog is wonderful and she has a ton of wonderful ideas, crafts, tutorials, party ideas, blog tips, etc.  Shes slightly amazing, and you'd regret it if you didn't!!

p.s. The first "Cake it Pretty" cake will have a Fathers Day theme...and soon!! Please be on the look out for it!!

Sail Boat Party, Matey!!

Last weekend Lawson Beau turned 1!  His party turned out amazing.  I can't take credit for all of it, unfortunately, only some of it.  We had a FANTASTIC time crafting and preparing for this party.  It was so worth it, it was adorable and so fun! Here is some of what we did!!

The smash cake was made out of one of those giant cup cake pans with a fondant sail boat on top.  I did a tutorial on the cup cake stand HERE. The banner was cut out with a cricut and hot glued on to ribbon. She made origami sail boats and put life savers in them for treats for the tables, and also gold fish.

She made a "say ahoy to our little boy" box as a keep sake for everyone to write notes to him and she'll keep it until his graduation day.  there was a fishing net under the food.  Anchors hanging outside. She made him a sailor shirt, and gave sweedish fish as the favors. They had slip and slide and baby pools for kids to play on. The list goes on.  I loved this party I think it was soo cute, Thanks Taylor for letting me be a part of you and LBG's special day!!

White chocolate sprinkle cup cake toppers!!!!!

It's Official.  I'm totally in love with white chocolate, and now I'm totally in love with these.  What a great idea from Little Birdie Secrets, and they look FANTASTIC. Find the tutorial HERE~

Well isn't this cute as a button!!

I'm totally in love with this "cute as a button" baby shower done by Brandy from Home Sweet Home. Check out the chocolate button favors tutorial found HERE! SOO CUTE!!

Marshmellow cream filled cup cakes.

I love how simple and obvious this idea is.  Check out Stephanies Sweet Creations for a short explanation on how to fill cup cakes.  You could fill them with anything.  SO CUTE!  Check out the rest of her blog for other adorable cakes and cup cakes. Find it HERE.

Ahoy there cup cakes!!

So I helped my friend make a cup cake tower tonight for her sail boats birthday party coming up this weekend. I LOVE the way it turned out and i have to admit that Im pretty proud of myself for coming up with it.  "toot toot" (thats me tooting my own horn).  Anyways here is how we did it.....

First we cut four strips of card board. 2 shorter than the others.  And taped them together at the ends with duct tape.

Then we traced the top and duct taped that on.

 

(ps please excuse my shirt my sunburn on my shoulder was bleeding.)

We cut up red and blue bandanas and used spray adhesive to glue them to a poster board we had cut out like sails. We laid the squares slightly too close together so we could cut the excess into fringe to give it a patched look.

I covered the boxes with that brown post office wrapping paper (that I CAN NOT remember what it's called right now) which was kinda difficult because of the shape but turned out ok.

Then I poked a hole in the top of the top box and stabbed a bamboo stick through (that we broke off of a butterfly net from the dollar store) duct taped the bottom, and hot glued the top.

Then I used the Cricut to cut out Initials and a 1 and hot glued them on, on top of a white ribbon.

To put the sail on we hot glued the white ribbon between the sails, then behind that hot glued some card board so the sails would stay the right distance apart, and hot glued that on to the stick.  Then we tied some white ribbon into a hole we hole punched to make it look like it was tied on. 

We had to hot glue another white ribbon from the back of the stick to the back of the top boat so that the sail would stand up straight since it was heavier on one side.  And TADA! I LOVE IT.  I can't wait for the party saturday its going to be adorable.  YAY

Seriously Genious!

I'm dying over how cute this is!! What a great idea.  It is, after all, all about the presentation!  Check out the tutorial HERE by The Decorated Cookie.  I dont drink tea, but how fun would this be for Cookies and Milk, or Hot Chocolate.  Yay.  Actually I found a really cute Cookie first birthday party not long ago that this would go GREAT with. You can find that HERE. Wouldn't a cute dollar store coffee mug with a rim full of these cookies make an amazing party favor for this party?? SO IN LOVE!

Sunflower cupcakes!!

I LOVE THESE sunflower cupcakes from Janel at Mackenzie's Crafty Mom.  They are such a fun idea for mothers day, and SO Springish!  You have to check out the tutorial HERE!

Mad Scientist Party

How cute is this Made Scientist party from Homemade Mamas? I love all of the fun activitites they planned.  5 is such a fun age, old enough to participate and pay attention to organized activities but still young enough to think everything you do is amazing and super fun!! I love this party theme!! Check it out HERE!

She's about to POP!!

This is soooooooo cute!! I love this soda POP themed baby shower by Shanda and her sister Kendra at My Insanity! So cutsie and creative!  I love the cake POPS!

Find it HERE!

Sweet as Candy!!

Katherine threw this ADORABLE Candy Land themed birthday party for her sons 5th birthday. She made a REAL candy land in her home. I can't get over how cute it is.  My favorite part is the Toothbrush Party Favors.  Check it out HERE!

ready for take off!

Man, I'm on a roll tonight!! Amazing parties just keep finding me.  Check out this adorable airplane themed party by Amy Atlas HERE. I LOVE the runway table. SOOO CUTE!

Polka dot baby shower cake!

I made this cake for my friends baby shower.  She was having a little boy.  I used the cake recipe in the last post, and covered it in fondant.  I used ribbon to cover my messy bottom, and just used a sterilized pin to hold it in place. and set a ribbon bow on the top. TADA!

Best Cake Recipe EVER!

My friend Heather gave me this recipe when I was going to try and make my first cake for Alyvia's first birthday party.  I have NO idea where she got it from or who to give proper credit to, but whoever or wherever it came from I LOVE YOU.  here goes....

1 box cake mix
1 package pudding (4 serving size)
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups of water
1/2 cups of oil
1 Tbls vanilla

Mix the cake and the dry pudding mix together. (Get as many lumps out as possible...i use a flour sifter because im psycho about lumps but really probably not needed.)
Add eggs, water, oil, and vanilla and beat together.

Bake @ 350 degrees for usually around an hour or untill done. 
The time will have crazy variations depending on pan size and shape.  It is VERY wet when going into the oven so it takes quite a while to cook.  Dip a wooden skewer and when it comes out clean its done. 

Variations:
Chocolate: Devils food cake mix and chocolate or fudge pudding
Lemon: Lemond cake mix and lemon pudding
Spice: Spice cake mix and butterscotch pudding

ENJOY!!


oh and ps. it rises TONS!! and i mean TONS!! leave at least an inch maybe an inch and a half from the top of the pan. or youll end up with this.....

Lady bug Birthday!!

Seriously, not many things get cuter than this Lady Bug themed Birthday by Nichole.  It is SO thought out and put together!! What a dedicated mother..and party planner! Check it out for ideas and explanations HERE! SO CUTE!

E-I-E-I-O

Holy Moly am I in love?!? Like I have said before, I love the cowboy, barnyard, farmer theme!  This cake and cupcake tutorial is so AMAZING!! Find it HERE! from Better Crocker.  I LOVE THIS!!! .....AND to make this even better, you could use this type of layout for SO many other themes....you could do a castle and princesses, a pond and frogs, a bassinet and babies for a baby shower, backpack and little dora and boots, a little bed and the monster that live underneath it, the list is never ending!! So cute!

My favorite part of any party....

no matter what kind of celebration it is, is ALWAYS the CAKE!! I love making cakes.  (and honestly, I think I'm kinda good at it.)  One of my favorite websites for cake ideas is Coolest Birthday Cakes.  It is a compialation of all home made cakes and tutorials!  I LOVE IT!! I find myself searching through it when I'm bored....even when I have no parties or events anywhere in the the near future!! lol.  Anyways, the previous posting got me searching out horse cakes and I found THIS.  My favorite is number 34 by Anna H.  You have to check out this website the next time you need to make a cake! It's the best!