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Katie Daisy has forever been one of my favourite artists. Her work is just stunning. I have been coveting some of her prints for awhile now. So i was really excited when i found out she (along with 7 other artists) now has an iPhone app!
You can find it here. I've already got mine, and i've been having fun sending cute little messages to anyone i can think of!
Love Zina
Planning another table....this one is for a 60th Birthday Party. This is the starting point for our colour inspiration....
and this...
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
....from Pinterest.
Wow, that's almost a tongue twister! Can you say it 10 times fast? ;)
Maybe it's the because it's getting cooler, maybe it's because Easter is slowly approaching, or maybe my inner girlie girl is just wanting to come out. Whatever the reason, i find myself oddly attracted to pastels lately....
What's inspiring you lately?
I saw this gorgeous butterfly bell jar in Design Sponge at Home. But it's made with real butterflies and they are really expensive, and delicate to boot! But i loved the look of the jar. Not thinking i could ever make one, i forgot it for awhile until i stumbled on some cute little fake butterflies at House and Garden. My sister's birthday was coming up, and i remembered the bell jar i first fell in love with and decided to try and do something similar for my sisters birthday gift! So here's my version of a DIY Butterfly Bell-jar....
Oh....and how could i forget!? You need a bell jar!
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3: Glue fabric to foam, and then hot glue fabric covered base to the bottom of the bell jar.
IMPORTANT: Just make sure the bell jar glass top fits over the foam base once it is covered!
ETA: Glue your covered foam base to the bottom of the bell jar using your hot glue gun.
Step 4: Again with the hot glue gun, start gluing your butterflies to the tops of the wire.
Step 5: Decide where you want your butterflies to sit and using a wire cutter, trim your wire accordingly. Place your wire in the foam base and then add more glue to the base to secure it in place.
Step 6: Add your message. I hand drew mine onto kraft paper and coloured it in using a white gel pen. I then cut it out and hot glued the bottom of the paper to the base.
Put the top of your bell jar back on and ta-da! You now have a gorgeous statement piece for your table. Or you can give it away as a gift....mine went to my sister for her birthday. Although, once it was complete, i fell in love with it and it was really hard to give away! Shhhh....don't tell!
Love Zina xoxo
We had a quick chance to sneak away and meet some of the other vendors at the Wedding Expo. There were some really great stalls!
Bree from The Cake That Ate Paris ( Facebook). Her cakes were quite simply....amazing! Wow, the work that must go into each cake, we could only imagine! Actually, we can't even imagine...
This is one of our favourite stationery stores on the coast. Sarbe (facebook) is always filled with gorgeous papers and invites and cute party/wedding supplies. We got to meet the girls again on Sunday, and can we just say that they are gorgeous too!
This was their cute little stall...
We also loved this stall called Friendly Fire Photography (facebook) . Their website super cool and we fell in love with their pin-up shoots! So much fun!
And last but not least were the crazy fun girls in the stall just beside us from Epic Exposure (facebook) ! They had a photo booth, which seemed to be a hit on Sunday because they were constantly busy :) We were supposed to jump in for a photo ourselves, but never got the chance. Oh well...maybe next time. Anyway, it was so much fun to have them hanging out beside us all day.
So be sure to check them out, especially if your planning a wedding sometime soon. Oh, if only we'd known what we know now when planning our weddings.....{sigh}.
Have a fabulous day!
Bec & Zina xoxo
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 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
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
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
Here's another little Valentines DIY for you!
You can make it into a child-friendly treat too, and fill it with hot chocolate and marshmallows...yum!
This is what you'll need. You can use any kind of paper to cover your cup. I used book pages, but newspaper, cute scrapbooking paper, or even one of your kids drawings would be cute!
What you do:
Once you've covered your cup, decorate it with cute labels and love messages! I just stuck mine on with double sided sticky tape .
There you have it... has coffee ever been so cute?
Only 4 days left till Valentines!
