I recently had the opportunity to combine three of my favorite things into one fabulous collaboration with Thomas and Kammar!
A lot of fantastic jewelry, some delicious food and a splash of bubbly made for a great spring afternoon with some of my favorite lady friends.
My kids LOVE the movie RIO. The music, the birds and of course car-na-val!
I’m always in awe of designers who can take a commercial theme and put a creative spin on it. With all the preprinted ,prepackaged supplies readily available at your local party supply, it can be hard to have a fresh take on your favorite characters.
And when there are no party supplies for your favorite characters…it’s REALLY hard. So in general I just steer clear.
Around August I start thinking of a master plan for my kids’ birthdays. This year my oldest turned 5 and was very opinionated on the topic: ” Mommy I want a RIO party”.
I’m back with the final post in the Cirque Du Eden series!
The most difficult part about planning parties for my 2 winter babies IS winter. Finding the right entertainment is a close second- which is why I was excited to book Silly Goose and Val to perform for the kids.
We sang. We danced. We laughed… and my house is still standing.
The dessert table featured an elephant topped chevron cake, macaron tower, elephant wars ( petite palmiers)cupcakes, chevron and elephant cookies and white chocolate mousse.
Chevron bags filled with a memory game, necklace, elephant shaped soap and and elephant shaped crayons were give to our guests as a thank you for celebrating with us.
Now on to Christmas. Happy Holidays!
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Macarons: Norweigian Wood Bakery
Cake: QueDeeCakes
Cookies: Haute Sabrina
Canopy Cover: Beau Melange
Elephant Crayons: Posh Paper Creations
Elephant Soaps: Mel’s Fun Suds
Details! Details!
I’m back to share more details from our Cirque Du Eden birthday party! I have so many great elepments I want to share that I’ve had to break this party into multiple posts!
Today I have photos of the party decor and tablescape. I used lots of vibrant hot pink and orange with a dash of turquoise throughout.
The room was filled with big lofty balloons and the walls were papered with sideshow posters ,ruffled paper streamers and garland.
I used a tutorial by Nicole of Tradewind Tiaras to make fabric covered party hats for each of the kids and set one at each place setting.
Chevron is one of my favorite patterns . Once I saw how great it looked in Eden’s party dress, it was a no-brainer use the pattern as the backdrop for the dancing elephants.
Even the chairs were dressed to dance with tulle skirts.
We dressed up the tables with cheery pink and orange gerber daisies and added lots of ribbon and bling to the paper vases.
The best part to sitting down to the vibrant table was the food! Guests were treated to french crepes catered by the fabulous Matt of the Omelette Guys!
I ‘m considering adding a French spin to all of our party themes just so we can eat crepes more often.
Délicieux!
Be sure to check back for part 3 of Cirque Du Eden! In the last installment I’ll be sharing the details of the dessert table and party favors 
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Chevron table runner: Fine pillow Covers
Ruffled Crepe Paper Streamers: HoopDaLoop
Paper Garland : Swanky Rea Designs
Party printables and styling by Haute Sugar
On December 10, 2009, after a particularly tumultuous year I gave birth to a teenie tiny 4lb 4oz spitfire who is a superstar in her own right. Everyday we’re treated to performances that rival Ringling Brothers’ best show. So when it came time to choose a theme for my baby girl with the larger than life personality, nothing was more fitting than pink dancing elephants.
I seriously cannot believe that it’s been almost a year since my baby shower. My daughter, Aurora, will be a year old next month! Where has the time gone??!! It has been a roller coaster of a year adjusting to being the mother of 2, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world!
On a BEAUTIFUL October afternoon, Aurora was baptized and we had a lovely reception at the home of her Godparents.
We gathered for a nice meal after which we of course had a dessert table which was framed by 2 gorgeous tall floral designs and a pink letter A.
Dessert choices adorning the table were cake, macarons, cupcakes, cookies and mini pastries.
Guests were also treated to a champagne punch station which included a variety of fresh fruits to add to the punch.
I wish I had taken a picture of the guest of honor. She slept through the entire reception! Instead, here is a photo from her Christening photo shoot.
Pink and gold cake, cupcakes, and embroidered cookies by Sabrina of Haute Sugar
Lemon and Raspberry Macarons by Pattisserie Poupon
Mini Pastries by Desserts By Gerard
This past weekend was the first in a long time that Sabrina and I weren’t planning , baking or installing an event– so I grabbed my family and we hit the road to New York to relax a bit and spend time with family. As much as I love my in-laws, I had some other motivations for choosing a road trip to NY on my first free weekend.
A while back I read an article about the grand opening of Ladurée‘s Madison Avenue location and I could hardly contain myself.
Crispy, gooey, sweet, flavorful perfection. Mmmmmmmm.
It’s the first and only location in the United States and three months after the August grand opening, the line is still out the door and the average wait time is 25 minutes.
But soooo worth it….
We’ve discussed the delicious popularity of macarons before and we’ve used them frequently in our dessert displays. These are by far some of the best we’ve ever had.
I’ve been considering more frequent trips to see my in-laws so I can swing by on the way back home to replenish my stash ( which, by the way, is only optimal for 3 days max), but at $2.70 per macaron and the cost of gas and tolls, I’m going to attempt to master making my own.
More on that soon…
There’s probably nothing scarier in the blogosphere than a silent blog. So before real ghosts take up residence in our quiet ( but not abandoned) space, we wanted to share the Halloween party we put together for some of our favorite munchkins.
It was a perfect Fall day for finger food, desserts not-so-spooky fun with the little ones.
We served up some bat wings, creepy crackers, ghoulish guac, sandwitches ( terrifying turkey and howling ham), and slasher salad.
We washed it all down with some ” Roots on you” beer.
For the frightening finale we polished off a spider infested cake, bat cake pops, pumpkin cookies, delicious doughnuts , cupcakes and plenty of candy!
Once we got this wide eyed bunch hyped up on all those sweet treats , we sent them home with their parents before things got really scary.(<—-that’s the trick)
Muwahahahaha!
Happy Halloween!
Dangerous (but yummy) donuts by Dough a Deer
I kicked off my summer with the big BBQ I longed for back in March when winter had more than overstayed it’s welcome.
Warm sunny days always call for a celebration and we couldn’t think of a better time than 4th of july to gather up 70 or so good friends and family, a fantastic DJ and some ‘que.
I’m currently in love with brown kraft paper and designed the invitation and color palette around an excuse to use these adorable brown kraft envelopes.
Since I knew some of my biggest HauteSugar fans would be in attendance, we put together a summer inspired dessert display
complete with Burger cake ,
Strawberry shortcake sliders, Maryland crab cookies, 
berry parfait cups, cupcakes and Smores!
Had a great time with some of my favorite people. Looking forward to another great summer!
Cupcake toppers by my new ETSY favorite : Parker’s Flour Patch
Shortcake sliders, cake, and crab cookies baked up by our very own Haute Sabrina
