stuffed strawberries

These are so yummy and so easy to make. We made these for the baby shower we did a few weeks ago but they are so good I had to make them for my mom and sisters when we got together this last week.

The recipe is very basic:
8oz of cream cheese at room temp
1/2 C of powdered sugar
beat together until creamy
cut the tops of the strawberries off to make a flat surface then quarter them but do not cut all the way through.
put the cream cheese in a piping bag fitted with a large tip and stick in the strawberry to fill.
I melted some chocolate chips in a ziplock bag and drizzled that over top.

See super easy yet so impressive, give them a try this season.

Pleasantly Pink Baby Shower

I was lucky enough to do a baby shower with my good friend Dacia for another friend who is having her first girl after two boys. Of course we did all things pink in her honor.

This centerpiece I saw at the Party Dress which I fell in love with right away. We so tried to get an Edwardian umbrella like the one in the picture but they are super expensive from US sites and then ran into problems trying to get one here from the UK. Next time I'll have one.


The food was SO yummy!
These are stuffed strawberries which I found at Kraft, they were so good!


I found a really good recipe for a Caesar Club sandwich from the Barefoot Contessa at the Foodnet Work site. The original plan was to put the sandwiches in Glassine bags with a cute label but the bags ended up being to small. So now I have two dozen bags with tags and I'm not sure what to do with them, oh well I'll come up with something. (please excuse my misspelling)

We made these paper cones which were inspired from The Hostess With The Mostess, we filled them with candy popcorn.


I found these molds at Michaels and wanted to use them to see how they'd work out. We filled them with raspberry mousse and they were a big hit.

It's not a party if you don't have cupcakes.

We served chips and dips. The dips we put in the little party cups and the chips in Glassine bags.

We hung the tissue poms and paper lanterns from dowels that I painted white and stuck them in vases on a bed of rose petals.

sparkling pink lemonade

and the favors were mini cupcakes in a super cute milk carton container.

I LOVE to do a party and had so much fun doing this one with Dacia. If you want to see an AMAZING shower she did for her sister you need to check out her pictures here. WOW is all I can say.

Great Giveaway!

One of my favorite places for meal inspiration is Kara's Kitchen Creations. She has great recipes and I haven't not liked anything I've tried from her blog yet. I think my favorite is the Outback Chicken recipe, so yummy! Well she's having a giveaway and I so need to win, it's a 6 quart slow cooker and I want it!!! hop on over and take a look and enter to win, but if you do win you owe me big!
Good luck!

Transformer Cake

Disclaimer: I am NOT a professional!!!! nor do I claim to be as good as one.

Anyway, a friend of a friend asked if I could do a Transformer cake for her boyfriends birthday So I figured hey why not. This was my first time working with fondant and I was a little nervous. I really don't care for the taste of this stuff so I didn't want to cover all of the cake with it but I knew I had to use it for the faces. I also found the font on line and figured what the heck, it was a lot of cutting. I really did enjoy doing this and can't wait to do my next one.

Finally Something!!

Having all my stuff packed up has made me realize how much I LOVE to create. I miss not being able to go back to my room and do something fun for someone. Well as it is my son's birthday this weekend I was able to do a little something. Of course I had to unpack a few boxes but hey I can't just not do anything. Anyway he brought cupcakes for his class at school and I did them up a little bit.



He is a huge animal lover and I had these cute little guys in one of my digital scrapbooking kits. The paper for the wrappers is from Doodlebug and I tried to make the frosting on top look like grass that the animal cookie could sit in.


Needless to say I don't think the Kindergarteners were that impressed but it was fun to do!

Christmas Treats

It's Christmas time and I've only done a few things this year for the Holidays. Trying to sell a house during the holidays stinks! All my stuff is boxed up and my crafting space is no more, so sad. But I didn't let it completely stop me from creating a little something. I made these frames for my good friends who I am going to have to leave behind once we actually move. So I thought a small memento of us together would be appropriate. I'd love to get a more professional picture in there but the snapshot will have to do.






Also Christmas wouldn't be complete with out my Christmas candies that I love to make and eat! They turned out really yummy and I'm excited to share with all my family that I get to spend Christmas with.

Cocoa Party

I had a wonderful time at our annual cocoa party and even more fun planning and working on it. Our theme this year was a snowy winter wonderland. Inspired from This winter wonderland tablescape from Inspired Bride that we saw on Hostess With the Mostess (one of my all time favorite places for inspiration)

For the invitations we used the "Sweet Treat" cups from Stamp'n Up to add a little more snow to the invitation.



I saw this idea once on Martha Stewart quite a while ago and they turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. I took styrofoam balls and sprayed them with spray adhesive and rolled them in fake snow.


We took the branch idea from Inspired Bride and sprayed these branches with the snow in the can and they "looked" great but when it came time to use them the snow started flaking off. SO, I should have used the instructions from Inspired Bride and spray painted them white- note to self. We also hung snow flakes from the branches for a more wintery feel. Love how they turned out!!



I am a huge fan of Amy Atlas and love her simple yet amazing table scapes she does. So in her honor, I tried.



We tried our hand at cake pops from Bakerella, they're really not too difficult and are super cute so if you ever need a fun new sweet to try you should really give these a go. (I'd do chocolate cake next time instead of yellow)



We also got together to decorate snowflake sugar cookies that turned out really cute. (and yummy)

We also had ordered powdered sugar doughnut holes (cause they look like snowballs) but didn't get exactly what we were hoping for so we improvised and rolled our glazed doughnut holes in powdered sugar.


After last years party we decided we needed something to counter act all the sweet things so I made a cheeseball and we found snowflake RITZ to go with it.


And to finish off the night we sent everyone home with more cakepops to enjoy later. We put these bags together using American Crafts Merry Mint paper and hung a snowflake in the window.


A big thanks to Dacia and Lynne for all the fun times we had putting this together and co-hosting. I can't wait for next years! Thanks again girls.