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With the silly season well and truly upon us, it seems like we are going to friends places for 'drinks' most weekends. I came across this 'chilli spiced nuts' recipe in one of Donna Hay's cook books and thought that it would make a cute gift idea when invited for drinks.
Love Bec xx
Mini dessert tables are perfect if you want to do something a little special for a dinner party or even Christmas day. Here are a few tips to make creating one a little easier.
1. Decide on a colour theme. It is always nice to keep the colours flowing on from what you have used on your tree.
2. Instead of using a trestle table for your desserts table, simply use a small dresser or hall table.
3. Find something to use as a focal point. It may be a frame, vase of baubles, mini Christmas tree, pom poms or a bouquet of fresh flowers.
4. Chose a small selection of desserts such as cupcakes, cake pops and/or slices. Also include a selection of lollies that go with your colour theme.
5. Incorporate a selection of vases, candy jars, cake stands and bowls on your table to give height and interest.
For our first table, we hung some white and silver pom poms from a branch. We used a white and silver colour palette with a splash of light blue.
For the second table, we changed the entire look by simply adding some glitter numbers, baubles and a candy jar filled with aqua lollies.
Mini dessert tables really can be simple, fun and quick to pull together!
Love Bec xx
Christmas baubles! What's not to love about Christmas baubles? I love that they are not just for decorating the tree but make a sensational splash of colour on a dinning table in vases or even as Christmas wreaths.
Here are some colourful examples of Christmas baubles being used to decorate the house or table.
Look at these gorgeous Christmas wreaths. The colours are truly magical!
Love Bec xx
Have you made reindeer food before? If not, I really can't tell you just how excited the children get when they sprinkle it on to the grass on Christmas Eve! It is easy to make and makes a great little gift.
Reindeer Food Ingredients:
Rolled oats, sugar and glitter. Simply mix together.
You can package the reindeer food in a small jar, glad bag or in decorated matchboxes {found these at the craft store and decorated them}. Add a tag with the reindeer food saying on it.
Reindeer food saying:
'Sprinkle this on you lawn at night. The moon will make it sparkle bright. As Santa's reindeer fly and roam this will guide them to you home'.
Love Bec xx
Need a cute gift for a niece, nephews or a friends little one? Well why not make them a little pack of gingerbread playdough? I saw this idea on a blog many years ago and have made it for my friends children many times. Simply make the playdough, put it in a cute jar and include a gingerbread cookie cutter. This year I also made some glitter playdough and put it all in a gift box.
Gingerbread Playdough Recipe
1 cup salt
2 cups plain flour
2 cups of water
2 tsp of oil
4 tsp of cream of tartar
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground cloves
brown food colour {add once dough is made}
Cook all ingredients over a low heat, stirring until the dough forms a ball in the middle of the saucepan. Add brown food colour. Store in the fridge.
For the glitter version, I left out the spices, add a bright colour and then rolled the playdough in silver glitter.
Love Bec xx
I always love making a little gift for my nieces and nephews at Christmas time. A little extra something to go with their gift. I recently came across this cute little idea of 'Sewn Paper Lolly Pouches' on Pinterest and thought that I would make some too. I decided to change mine a little by adding some ribbon to make them look like an hanging Christmas tree ornament and I also stamped their initial on to them.
These are the ones that I found on Pinterest.
I also love this idea of using them as an advent calender! Too cute!
Happy crafting!
Love
Bec
We love Christmas crafting and think that paper Christmas trees are very cute. You can make them from scrapbooking papers, old music books or even from old book pages. Whether you use them in place of a big Christmas tree, as a centre piece on your Christmas table or simply as a decoration, you really can't go wrong.
Love
Bec & Tammi
Christmas is fast approaching and so is the time to book your Christmas dessert table or candy buffet and cake pops. We only have a few spots left for new bookings, so be fast!
Love
Bec & Tammi
We don't know how many days it is until Christmas (nor do we want to count!) but we know it's not long. It's even less until we pull out our Advent Calendars in anticipation for Christmas. If you wanted to do something crafty, here are some great idea's we have stumbled across.
Now, better get cracking!
Love
Tammi & Bec
Well here we are, almost at the end of 2010. I don't know about you but this year has absolutely flown for us! The last few weeks have been especially hectic, so we are really looking forward to enjoying a couple of weeks of relaxation! Christmas shopping for the kids is finally done after constant last minute dashes to the shopping centre for forgotten items {we never thought we would say this but, boy are we sick of shopping!}. And our last dessert table for 2010 has been styled. Given our clients were Scandinavian, they wanted a traditional Christmas Dessert Table. Styling a Winter Wonderland inspired table was so much fun since it's a world away from our summery Christmas on the Gold Coast. No presents for us adults this year, it's all about the kids, but Amy Atlas Events did feature our White Christmas Dessert table on her blog and that is the best gift we could ever ask for! She has been a constant inspiration for us and it's truly an honour. Here are some photo's from the shoot.
Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without Mince Pies.
White Chocolate Mousses served with a dollop of whipped cream.
Snow Balls, chocolate covered Pretzels and Coconut Balls and we just couldn't forget the Egg Nogg!
Bakerella inspired Cakepop Christmas Trees, sat beautifully along side White Chocolate Truffles dusted in icing sugar and rolled in non-pareils.
Stunning blue baubles added a subtle touch of colour.
Chocolate stacks and jelly bean filled glass baubles.
Snowflake biscuits hung from RubyJu Trees.
Thanks for looking and we hope you have a Merry and Safe Christmas!
Love
Bec and Tammi
