Pretty In Pink

My darling niece turned 2 this December!  We decided to throw her a "Pretty In Pink" party based off of my Pink Christmas Tree.  (Yes, I am just now blogging this, it's been a crazy year so far!) Working full time, we didn't have enough time to cook so we visited all the local bakeries and bought pink items. The Birthday cake was from: Top- Cupcake Chic

                                                         Bottom- Magleby's Fresh 

Peppermint Pink Cookies- Smart Cookie

Raspberry Mini Cake- Dippidee 

These are my all time favorite cookies. They are pink sugar cookies from- The Slurp

The Eclairs are from- Schmidt's Pastry Cottage

Donuts from- Beyond Glaze

Strawberry Vanilla Cupcakes from- Cupcake Chic

This is an overall look of the party, with little pink gift baskets, and a darling pink Christmas tree.

Darling fairy garland that we found, and darling one of a kind ornaments from- The Gatehouse No. 1

 One of her presents was a mini pink wing back chair just for her, and plenty of presents to spoil her!

The birthday song was sang twice to her, because she loved it so much. Pink candles and pink flames, and plenty of presents to spoil her rotten! Family and friends giving her all the attention a girl could ask for. Along with a darling outfit from Janie and Jacks. What more could a two year old ask for!

English Garden Tea Party

I love my parents backyard.  Both of my parents love to garden, and have created a lovely retreat to relax and enjoy the flowers.  I know I havnt blogged a lot this Summer, its been a little busy.  So on a lovely rainly afternoon, I decided to do a little tea party with edible flowers, and my Mothers beautiful English tea set.

For my tea of choice, I decided to do my lotus tea that I got in England.  Its so tasty, but also beautiful when it blooms!

Rose glass lightens the look of the tea set, adding an unexpected elegance.

With the tea, I decided to make a sparking lemonade with a lavender simple syrup.  I will give the recipes with the next post.

I knew with this tea party, that I had to make pavlovas! My darling sister-in-law introduced our family to pavlovas last Christmas, and I absolutely love them.  So I decided to try it! It turned out wonderful.  I then dipped edible flowers in egg whites and sugar, to give them a crystalized look.  Not sure if the roses are edible, but they were cute so I added them.  

You cant have a proper tea party without a tea cake. So I made these with the leftover Almond cake that I made.   The top tea cake, was rolled in some darling sprinkles that my Mother brought me back from Paris.   The Rose tea cake was rolled in fine coconut, and the petal was dipped in sugar.  The Raspberry chocolate tea cake was rolled it sprinkles that I picked up in Holland last year.  So excited to use all my darling, yummy sprinkles!!!

I made a simple almond cake, with a buttercream frosting.  Wanted it to have pearls and look very girly.  I think I pulled it off!

The scones turned out amazing!  Sour Cream scones with lavender.  Couldn't get enough of these! Ill post the recipe on the next post as well.

Sugar Plum Fairy 1st Birthday

Last year, my darling sister surprised us all with an early delivery of my little niece making her have a December birthday.  So we wanted to do a fun play on her first birthday, using the Sugar Plum Fairy as our theme.  So we collected ornaments throughout the month, and pulled this little shin dig together!

 We pulled out our cute vintage chairs, recently painted white, and created a play on the Candy Castle, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, and all the characters seen in the ballet.

 I hung cute finger puppets around the chandelier along with a beautiful sugar plum fairy hanging in the middle of all the icicles.

 Darling ornaments were on the silver tree, along with whimsical stockings, gumdrop sprays, and icicle garlands.

The Mouse King Nutcracker adorned the table, along with extra large lollipops placed in a sugar vase to create height.

 Dance of the Sugar Plum fairies was the theme of the trees, with sugar plums and snowflake ballerina ornaments hanging on the tree, with a bight blue tree skirt to add a fun punch to the table.

 She was given two special dolls, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Clara, made by my amazing friend Andrea at IT's The Life blog. If you would like to purchase these dolls, or other darling dolls, check out her blog HERE for the details!

 We had a simple vanilla birthday cake, with sugared gum drops to keep with the theme. We also had delicious macaroons for the guest.  The cake plate was fitted with a darling tutu to keep with the ballerina theme.

 Chocolate cupcakes with reflective sprinkles adorned the cupcakes, with dancing ballerinas.

 Purple glass helped bring in the Sugar Plum Fairy Theme. Candy stripped ribbons along with gum drop garlands flanked the front of the table.

This is the Birthday Girl and her darling Sugar Plum Fairy outfit, that we got bits and pieces off of ETSY.

This was her reaction to her new Sugar Plum Fairy doll, that she cherishes and carries around with her everywhere!

 She preferred to pick each frosting ball one at a time, it was quite hillarious and time consuming.  Eventually she did stick her hand in the cake, and then was annoyed that her hand was dirty.  She was the cutest little thing, and I cant wait for the fun parties were going to have with her this Summer!