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Rainbow dessert table........

My daughter turned ten in May and to celebrate double figures, she decided that she wanted to have a rainbow coloured party. Her only request was that she had a layered rainbow cake. Truth be told, I get a little bit anxious if I have to style a party with lots of colour. I would much prefer to work with a colour pallet of two to three colours.

Of course, in my mind, I had all these crafting and cooking ideas to make it a really pretty party with lots of details. But as always, I had other work on and time was not on my side. My daughter even made the comment on the Wednesday before the party 'Mum, are you going to make my party pretty because you haven't started anything!?!'. So in three days and with the help of my gorgeous friend Zina we managed to pull a very cute little party together.

Love Bec

Vendors:

Styling - RubyJu

Cupcake Toppers - The Cake that Ate Paris

Cake stands - Petite Portions

Flowers - Coco DayDream

Candy - An Affair to Remember

Chevron Boxes - Mon Tresor

Peach Table

Maybe it's the autumn weather or just simply because it is such a pretty colour but I am loving peach tones at the moment. For this dessert table I really wanted to use some gorgeous white hobnail compotes and milk white cake plates to display and array of desserts and candy. Because I used all white vessels and peach candy, I added touches of orange to add a little depth of colour to the table.

You can see this dessert table, my vanilla cookie recipe plus some quick and easy party decoration tutorials in the latest edition of Etzcetera eMagazine.

Love Bec

Vendors

Styling & Cake Pops RubyJu

Hobnail Glass Petite Portions

Flowers by Little Love and Happiness

Lollipops Occassion By Design

Paper Straw Candles Tutorial Icing Designs

 

A sweet little Pink and Purple 1st birthday.

So on Easter saturday we set up a sweet little first birthday for a client's daughter. In our haste, we forgot to bring our camera to get some proper pictures, but thank goodness for iPhone and Instagram ;) The client wanted a pretty dessert table using the colours pink and purple. She had loved the doilies used on this table here and had requested something similar. The lighting wasn't amazing as it was under a tent, but you get the idea!

Have a lovely day!

xoxo

Bec and Zina

What we're working on....

Planning another table....this one is for a 60th Birthday Party. This is the starting point for our colour inspiration....

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and this...

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They've chosen the venue, which is none other than the House of Gabriel {only one of our favourite little places to go for lunch}. This won't be the first time we've planned a table there, but that doesn't surprise us as it's such a beautiful place to have a party....so picturesque! We're sure it won't be the last one we do there either :)

These were the invitations that Zina did for the party. Our client wants bright colours like orange and yellow with dashes of pink or red. It's not a colour combination we've worked with before, but we sure are looking forward to the challenge!

We love this stage of planning a dessert table!

Love

Zina & Bec xx

GC Wedding Expo...in Instagram pics

 

Phew! What a week it's been! We've been baking up a storm getting ready for the Wedding Expo that was on this Sunday past. Baking and rolling and dipping and sprinkling....

We had wanted to do 1000 cake pops for the Expo (to hand out to the brides),  but only made it to just over 600. Still we were happy with that. We didn't really get a chance to take any good photos, so here's some pics from our iPhones using instagram...

We got to meet some of our facebook followers in person, which was pretty awesome :) All 600 cake pops were gone by the end of the day...and i one point someone even offered to buy the ones off our display table! Ha! 

We also met some other cool wedding specialists, and in fact plan on doing a little shout out post on some of our faves from the day (sometime this week) so make sure to pop back and check them out, especially if you plan on getting married on the GC anytime soon ;)

Hope you all had a lovely weekend!

Love

Bec & Zina xoxox

Toy story Party

 Toy Story was an all time favourite with all my kids growing up. Who am I kidding....it's still a favourite with all of us ! So when I saw this absolutely adorable Toy Story Party from my friend Carly ....I just had to share. A mum of two little ones, Carly threw this party with the help of her gorgeous sister for her son Finn's first birthday. 

The table was dressed with stripes and polka dots in yellow and red. Cute little tin buckets hold cake pops in the form of Mr. Potato Head and Ham, and Woody and Jessie dolls adorn the table. Such a bright and fun little table, I'm sure the party was a hit with all the kiddies! Thanks Carly for letting me share your table!

Love Bec

A Vintage Little Red Riding Hood

 One of the things we love about our blog is that we get to share some of the gorgeous dessert tables we come across with you. And this table, styled by Thetis of Little Sooti and shot by Laura Cioccia Photography would have to be one of my favourites to date! Done in the theme of the story of Little Red Riding Hood, this table captures the wonder and imagination of a favourite childhood tale just beautifully.

The detail in this table is just stunning. Thetis created a very earthy and fairytale-ish feel with her wood stump stands and scatterings of moss across the table. The desserts all looked divine but my favourites had to be the macaron apple's and the gorgeously wrapped Chocolate Bars from "Dark Woods Chocolates.... all the better for eating, my dear".

Oh, and we do just LOVE those glittered mushroom cupcake toppers!

We especially loved the boldness of the red against the earthiness of the moss covered trees behind it. There were plenty of red details such as beautiful red blossoms, bags of apples, red books on which lay hand-made party favours and red frames hung on trees. The table was simply decorated with a pink and red hand made bunting which sat perfectly against the natural backdrop of the almost wood looking tablecloth.

 

The table was styled for a shoot for an online magazine called 'Tickle the Imagination'

You can see more pictures and get all the credits here. Well done to Little Sooti and all those who contributed to such a divinley adorable table! 

Love

Bec & Zina

Valentine's Day Party

Last week, we decided to throw a little surprise Valentine's Day party for our children. With limited time on our side, we decided to keep it simple and sweet. We created lots of handmade decorations using pretty papers, book pages and hand-painted lettering. The doilies on the table were painted red and set with paper plates cut in the shapes of hearts and pink paper napkins. Each plate had a little pink heart-shaped cake pop with a felt arrow skewered through the middle. Milk was severed in little mason jars decorated with paper doilies and twine. We made red heart shaped ice-cubes which turned the milk pink....much to the kids delight.

The sweets were kept simple with a strawberry cream cake, cupcakes, mini meringues, heart-shaped fairy bread and lots of pink and red lollies. The tables was simply decorated with a few hand drawn tags and single roses in little jars.

The kids were entertained with a Valentines Card station where they got to make a bunch of Valentines cards , and with photo props for some cute photos. They all had so much fun playing, crafting and filling their bellies with yummy sweet treats.

Hope you have a lovely day today. Happy Valentines Day!

Love

Bec & Zina

It's been a while.....

Oh my goodness....it has been over a month since l did my last blog post! I have had so many good intentions to blog but the last month has been busy with recovering from Christmas, children on holidays and taking a well deserved few weeks off from RubyJu.

But I am now officially back at work and will be blogging again on a regular basis. I am also extremely excited with what I have got planned for 2012 and can't wait to share it with you all!

And just because a blog post is not complete without a photo, here is a photo of a dessert table we styled at the end of last year.

Happy Days!

Bec xx

 

Another mini dessert table idea....

While we were styling our mini Christmas dessert tables, we decided to create a third table that wasn't Christmas themed and could be used for a morning tea with friends or a small birthday celebration. 

We hung a few small empty frames on the wall, added a little bird cage, made some little cupcake toppers and placed a flower on top of the cake. 

Love Bec xx