Crystal and Akiko

Smores Cupcakes

I just wanted to do a quick post on these delicious Smores cupcakes that I made for my sister Jack and Jill. They were gobbled up in seconds!!

I got the idea from another amazing blogger. For the life of me I cannot find the link to their site! As soon as I do, I will post it.

They are chocolate cupcakes with a marshmallow butter cream icing, graham cracker crumbles and a hershey chocolate square stuck in the top. MMMMM!!!!!

 
 Here we are all done up 50's style! Left to Right: Tiffany, Moma, Sabrina, and me! 
 
I have a CRAZY post coming up next week...be sure to check back for it!

Happy Belated Halloween

Handing out candy to all the cutie-pah-tooties didn't help my excitement for Halloween 2011, when it'll be our sweet potato's first Halloween...<squeal>  In the meantime, we still dress up our furry babies in the same costume every year...lol

Presenting, for the 4th year in a row, Spidey & Miss. Lady Boogie.....

   

 
Lemme just say, it was definately appropriate weather for cute doggy eskimo kisses....brrrr....I melted when they started doing this.

My El Cheapo $6 centerpiece...haha  Wrapped some vases I had in gauze and plopped in some flowerie stuff from the dollar store.

 

My favourite decor in the house, where the goodies are!!!  Well...whatevers left of them that is ;)

 

Surprised a friend in the hospital with some home baked Halloween goodness.

 

 
RECIPE:
Paper (SU!):  Cajun Craze, Basic Black, Old Olive and Wicked Fun Designer Paper
Stamps (SU!):  Wicked Cool
Inks (SU!):  Cajun Craze and Basic Black
Punches (SU!):  Large Oval and Scallop Oval

My mom is a Silpada Rep (LOVE THEIR JEWELLERY) so she saves all her boxes for me so I can use them for gifts.  By the way, I just held a Silpada Party and received $900 in FREE jewellery....WHAAAT!!!  Get my mom to represent your next party.

Oh ya...went to see Paranormal Activity 2 with my brother, Akiko and the hubbies.  Wow!!  So maybe I tinkled a few times....what?????  I'm pregnant okay?!  hahaha

Bree's Little Black Dress Bachelorette!!

Sabrina, my older sister, is getting married in December in JAMAICA (Yes - two weddings in one year! And I wonder why my life feels so insane right now!!) and we just had her bachelorette party on saturday. WOW - was it ever F-U-N!!!! Her MOH (Shanna) and I worked together to make an unforgettable event!

The theme was little black dresses, and what matches better to that than sex and the city! It was a sex and the city - little black dress party, complete with cosmopolitians!

Of course I cant show you pictures of the evening - but I will share with you some of the decorations and the things I made for her special day:

 

 

 

 

 

MMMM.... who doesn't love girly cupcakes? A word to the wise.... If you are a cupcake beginner like me, Don't make black icing. It is Waaaaay to hard!!! Mine turned out purpley-grey and apparently were tingly to eat because of all the icing coloring!! Ooops :) I guess we have to learn the hard way sometimes!

 
 

I also painted these martini glasses in all different styles, with matching theme colors: Zebra, black polka dots on pink background, pink polka dots on black background, and white polka dots on pink background (I didnt get a pic of those ones) Each girl got one. We drank our cosmos in them!!!
 
I also made water bottle labels, but I forgot to take a picture of them :( But everyone had such a good time, especially the bride to be!!! (Maybe a bit too much fun ;))

Hailey's Twilight Birthday

Team Jacob or Team Edward?

It was Hailey's 11th birthday party on Saturday, and when she told me she wanted a Twilight birthday I drooled in delight - what could be more fun than planning a party around vampires and wolves?? With red, white and black as the color scheme, I quickly jumped into action and planned a twi-hard party in just 2 days. phew! But what fun it was!!!

I have to give huge props to blogger http://www.hostessblog.com - she gave me TONS of ideas in the short little time that I had!

Here is what I did:

I used crystals from my wedding and scattered them on the table tops

I got the red globes from the dollar store!

 

I went a little crazy wtih the streamers...but they looked so cool!

MMM....treats!

I just put drops of red food coloring on the "blood cakes" with twilight tags on them. There seemed to be a lot of Team Edward cupcakes left over...... I guess it was a Team Jacob group!!

These awesome drink labels I got from the blog I posted above, she includes a downloadable pdf version of these labels. Thanks!! They were a hit!

I incorporated each book. Bloody feathers for new moon....

....apples for twilight.....

...and a ripped ribbon for Eclipse!

The girls had a great time, with Twilight theme bingo, Kiss Taylor Lautner (THAT WAS HILARIOUS!) and Twilight Scene it! Game. They also had facials and manis/pedis while watching Twilight (well, attempting to, but after so much cake/cupcakes/licorice/popcorn they were off the walls!!! Oy....)

There's Hailey trying to Kiss Taylor blindfolded....I think she is a bit off!

And there they are with their masks on! Hailey is in the front with the chocolate mask, or as she called it, the "Poo mask" HAHAHA!

The Perfect Pair

Soooooo happy Akiko loved her bridal shower - phew!  Of course she has the WICKEDEST bridal party, so every single detail was thought of...brag much? haha  Kinda sad it's over though, making the decor really fed my crafting urges....your turn Mr. Bunny Wabbit...bring it Easter!!!

Coming up with a theme for her shower came to me quite fast, they met dancing so why not decorate with their dance shoes as "The Perfect Pair".  I got the idea HERE and was the perfect fit.  So of course I had to make banners and pom pom's in their wedding colours (I luv you cricut).  My black ink pad grew legs and went on vacation so I doodled everything on the banner by hand.  I ran out of ribbon after cutting out the hearts so I ran them through the sewing machine and Voila!

We brought our BESTEST pumps and decorated them with Bree's little pom poms - soooo darn cute!

The Perfect Pair Banner AKA "in-between-classes decor"
   
 
   
  
 

Gluten Free Cupcake Yumness!  What girlie party would it be without cupcakes?????  Mmm...de-lish!  I designed the cupcake toppers on my puter, printed them and punched them out with my wide oval punch from stampin up! then sandwiched extra long toothpicks in between the punch outs. 
 
 

Now I SERIOUSLY had to get creative with these bridal shower favours.  30 of them at a cost effective price???? hmmmmm  I wanted to keep the theme consistent so decided to do something for feetsies.  Every lovely lady left with a Moisturizing Foot Spa package....ohhhh yeah!  Each baggie contained a soft fluffy pair of socks, a bottle of cocoa butter foot moisturizer, two large bags, 2 rubber bands and a Spa Recipe Tag (read the tag to find out how the ingredients work together).  I couldn't find small enough containers for the moisturizer at a decent price, so I bought salt & pepper containers, punched out circles to cover the top and designed the bottle wrapper on the puter.  Time consuming, but finally gave Oprah and I some time to catch up =P

Bridal Shower Favours

 
   

After all this prep, it was the day before the shower, I was totally packed and ready to go decorate when I realized....whaaaat?  no card for the Bride????  How could I?  So I whipped up this simple card with my FAVOURITE little birdies - looks like I was a little intoxicated when I was stampin "for your shower" hahaha

Akiko's Bridal Shower Card from moi
 
 

Here we are!!....how ridiculous are those pom poms?????  Akiko's creative sis, Bree, slaved over those!

 

What a lovely day it was - now onto the Jack & Jill  =)  Psst.....don't forget about our giveaway going on...and come Tweet with me....tootles

Mmm...something smells dee-ri-shus

lickity split barba trick!  Hahaha...my eldest brother, Marcel, use to say that all the time, he's hilarious - I swear he did all the Jim Carey facials before Jim Carey was ever noticed.  When Ace Ventura was released we were in SHOCK...Jim Carey stole all my brothers ja-larious facial & vocal expressions...serious!

N e who, Marcel's famous line above reminds me of these dee-ri-shus cupcakes I made this weekend for our funny Portuguese family gathering.  They were devoured!!  I promised myself I would only eat one but somehow a second ended up in my mouth...yummy.  I LOVE icing baked goods, although, my tools are slightly ghetto..haha  I slap some icing into a ziplock bag and cut a small slit off the corner and VOILA...you've got your own icing bag...haha  I told you, ghetto!

I love taking photos of pure goodness =P

 

 

I was a sad puppy this weekend but somehow came off of that train real quick when I got my new keys!!!!!  Yup yup, gave my silver Mercedes B200 one last hug before we departed... but said HELLO to my brand new white Mercedes B200 baby.  Told ya, me no sad pup for long =)  I LOOOOVE MY RIDE!!