Catch Up Part 2

Still catching up!  This fall my sister in law got married.  Not only did I get to make the cake!  I got to photograph her wedding!  I had a blast taking photos of her special day!  Enjoy a few!

Playing Catch Up

I have been SO busy since my girls started school that I haven't posted on my blog since September!  Crazy!!  It has been a crazy year!  My cake business has been doing well which super great but doesn't help with the busy-ness. 

We took the girls camping this fall.  I love camping.  I grew up camping.  This was the first time my girls have ever gone tent camping.  Teeter LOVED it.  She was totally in her element, and even though it was chilly, she slept like a rock!  Bulbs on the other hand...woke up with terrible pink eye in both eyes.  Doesn't make for the fun camping trip. 

Smores!

My man!

Teeter

Messy faces and eating some supper!

A beautiful sunset

Teeter telling ghost stories

The Bulb

Bun in the Oven Baby Shower!

Last weekend, I threw a baby shower for my sweet sister in law.  It was the most fun baby shower ever!  It was a gender reveal shower.  As the baker of the cake, I was told if she would be having a boy or a girl.  The mommy-to-be and the guests did not know the sex of the baby.  Gifts that aren't gender specific were brought to the shower by the guests such as diapers, wipes, nursing items, mattress, crib, etc.  When I found out the sex of the baby I made the inside of the cake either blue or pink.  When the mommy cut into the cake everyone found out together the sex of the baby.  She had the best reaction!  It was so, so wonderful to get to be a part of it! 
Since the shower needed to be gender neutral, I went with a bun in the oven theme and used fall colors; red, brown, tan, and gold. 

I ordered these forks off the internet, and used letter stamps to add the baby and the hearts

The cake

A tiny chocolate spatula on the cake

A Vintage oven for the cake



The spread



It's a boy!

The Mad Tea Party

Yesterday we celebrated Bulb's 4th birthday.  How is my baby already 4?!  We celebrated with  an amazing Mad Tea Party that I have been planning for most of the year.  She can't stop talking about how awesome it was. 

Paper lanterns and fans I found at Party City for only $2.99!  Gave the room a great look for the mad tea party!

Center pieces!  I found the giant tea cups and saucers at Hobby Lobby. I got two "small" ones and one huge cup.  I put a dome of floral foam in each cup. The morning of the party I went to Kroger and bought 4 different looking inexpensive bouquets.  I combine flowers from all the bouquets to make these mad, fun, adorable centerpieces.  The dragon fly was found at Hobby Lobby also.

The huge centerpiece

The other "small" centerpiece

We rented 2 long children's tables, children's chairs and bright colored table covers.  It was a huge hit!  All the kids were able to sit together at the same time.  Having a table their height was comfortable for them, and parents weren't having to help the kids in and out of their chairs.  I got all different types of tea cups from a local antique store. 

Some fun party decorations and suckers shaped like tea cups and tea pots.  These were all found at Oriental Trading Co.

Adorable suckers

The birthday girl's tea cup.  I made sure to purchase the most inexpensive tea cups I could find at the antique store, except for the birthday girl's.  I let her pick out her own cup from the store.

I found these beautiful decorative bottles at Hobby Lobby.  I didn't want all the tags to say drink me, so some of the tags had the ingredients that the White Queen says on the Johnny Depp version of Alice in Wonderland, as she is mixing the potion.  And one of the tags has the name of the potion from the book.

I made mini top hats for all the kids to wear.   This was a huge hit!

The special cake I made for my baby girl!

On the table we had some fun little snacks for the kids.  Creme Puffs, cookies, apples, strawberries, grapes, and deli spirals.

The table set up

The sweet birthday girl

A fun little sign a threw together for decoration

I saw this tiny wooden door at Hobby Lobby and it got me thinking about Alice having to drink the potion to become small enough to fit through the door to get to Wonderland

The kids had so much fun!  Not a single tea cup ended up broken.  They had so much fun drinking apple and grape juice from them.  The tea pots were found at Ross.

I found these fun tea pot craft foam frames at Oriental Trading Co.  The kids had so much fun decorating them!  We plan to send pictures of the kids in the thank you notes to put into their frames.

My gorgeous little baby love

Some of our sweet little guests showing off their top hats!

The party was a huge hit not only with the guests but with my Bulbie girl.  She keeps telling Tuck and me thank you, over and over and over.  She'll say "my party was so awesome!"  It was a great time!  Interested in having a mad tea party?  I am happy to share any information from this party.  I will also post a tutorial on how to make the mini top hats.