Pucker Up!

In approximately 5 weeks my Bestie, Ash, will Marry her High school Sweetheart. My husband, my daughter and I are all very excited to be a part of their Wedding Party. Its gonna be a tyymme, for sure!

For the past month or so I've been working with her MOH to plan a surprise Bridal Shower for our Bride to Be. For weeks before that I was searching every party site, and facebook page for different ideas for a shower. Ash has has been a part of pretty much every party I've done so I wanted it to be a little bit different for her, not a regular Wedding Colors Shower. Anyway so I came across a blog one day called Piggy Bank Parties, let me just say...AMAZING! All of her Parties and ideas are just unreal! So I came across this Bridal Shower that was called "Pucker Up For Your Sweetie". It was chosen as a runner up in a party contest, just goes to show how amazing she is. The best thing about this site is how she gives you the party budget for each party and breaks it down for you, so you don't break the "Piggy" Bank.

So here is our rendition of Piggy's Pucker Up Party

Cupcake Portfolio... Fondant

So today I spent the day in the kitchen....First thing this morning I tried out a new white cake recipe...fail! I think I figured out that the recipe calls for too much flour. They are fluffy and feel moist to the touch, then you bite into one....DRRRYYYYY! So anyway I took advantage of this cupcake failure! I made a batch of butter cream and a batch of fondant and went to work practicing decorating cupcakes. So ignore the cupcakes and focus on the decor!

Came up with a few different designs that I was happy with but I still need lots of practice, especially bows. 

 Bridal Shower or just a Girly Birthday

Probably use this for almost any occasion you were celebrating.

top view of Daisy Cupcake

Paired with another design to personalize for the occasion

Baby Shower; can be personalized for Boy or Girl

Baby shower, Outdoor Birthday

Buzz Buzz!

Another Bee, this was one of the first cupcakes I did today so its a little sloppy but the idea is still there. Could pair this with a lady bug cupcake and a cupcake caterpillar

 Tame Bachelorette Cupcakes or Diva Birthday

Charlee's Favorite! Ice Cream Cupcake could be used for any occasion this summer!

So today was a busy but productive day (in the cupcake aspect of my house) . Between baking, making icing and fondant, coloring icing and fondant 8 different colors and creating some cupcakes. Only to then clean up my huge mess, do a mini cupcake photo shoot, upload and edit the pictures and finally ....finally Blog about it all and be able to share it with you...Oh yes, all the while being a mom. =)  It was a good day in my kitchen!