Precious First Birthday

Few weeks ago, I attended my friend's baby first birthday party at a park; it was a sunny, nice and warm day in April at the park.  First birthday is the most previous for the family and the baby.  I knew my friend and her sisters put a lot of efforts to make her baby's first birthday as perfect as possible=)  I could not believe baby Vai has turned one.  I still remember attending my friend's baby shower last year; it feels like just days ago.  It's so crazy that time has flied so fast that now the baby starts learning how to walk and words. 

Made the paper cupcake toppers for baby Vai's cupcakes

My friend's favorite color, purple!  I put a little bow under the "1" cupcake picker
becauese Vai always has a little bow on her hairs.

I helped my friend of making some paper cupcake picks.  Due to their tight budget, they ordered the cupcakes from a local gocery store and my job was SIMPLE - just dress the store bought cupcakes up nicely.  I also made baby Vai a "I am 1!" sign for pictures (see picture below).  All the settings, decorations, food and cupcakes came out so cute together!  I truely had fun playing all the old school games and enjoyed all the food at the party. 

Here is a little poem I found for my friend's baby Vai Vai:


Posing with the "I am 1!" sign I made her=)

I learned to laugh and squeal,
Then sit and stand,
And I can walk now if you hold my hand.
But the fun has only just begun,
Lookout world, I'm turning one!

My friend included pictures of her dad on the cake table
(her dad just passed away in March).  What a great way to celebrate
baby Vai's first birthday with her Kui (grandpa)

Vai vai likes her tranditional outfit.

Old school games at the park

Love is in the Air

2/14, tomorrow is Valentine's day.  All the TVs, radio station, newspaper, magazines...are all over about this holiday, but how many of us know where this holiday came from, when, where and who are we celebrating for?!  Here is a website I found online: click about the history of Valentine's Day (If you are interested, go check it out).

This week is a busy week for me - There is a big deadline coming up at my full-time day work and couple Valentine's Day cupcake orders, of course, my birthday and my mother-in-law's birthday are also coming up this week too.  O well, I guess sometimes busy means productive, right?! 

 I am such a bad wife - my husband complained about how I make cupcakes for others all the time, but never for him.  Finally, Valentine's Day is a PERFECT reason for me to not to make up excuses for not making him anything, so I made some AWESOME horchata cupcakes decorated with everything that remind me of him JUST FOR MY HUSBAND!  As many of you know that I have a very art-sy husband; he is very into music.  He is a lead singer and a guitarist in a punk rock cover band, called the Knockoffs.  When I was thinking about what I should make for him, immediately I think about guitar pick and his guitar.  Except for music, he is also very into tattoo arts too.  So I just made a heart shape with frame inspired by the tattoo on his chest. 

 

The inspiration of the other two cupcake toppers - I always like the beautiful and colorful hand painted skulls from the Día de Muertos (Day of Dead), every time when I am looking at these skulls; it reminds me of "Love till death do us part" (that's what love and marriage about=)).

The last but not the least cupcake topper - Even my husband is a social smoker (only smokes when he is drinking on the weekend).  But smokes are smokes, and they are bad for you.  I LOVE him and I want him to live healthier and longer.  So I made this topper with a very special note on it.  

In return, I have received a lovely cupcake necklace from Tiffany & Co from my husband as a "Balentine's" gift (Birthday + Valentine's)!  OMG!  I could not ask for more than a better husband in my life and my next life.










To my dear husband,


I know I am not a perfect wife (I could be better)!  Sometimes, ur texts and some stuffs u said to me really touched my heart.  When you told me when u had a hard day at work, as soon as you saw me at home; u feel MUCH BETTER!  That really touched my heart and make me have a very complicated facial expression (smile and dropping happy tear drops)


Thanks for everything, Mr. G!  I love you more than you know.


XOXO,

Say Yes to the Dress!

Spring season is coming very soon; which means that wedding season is getting closer too. Finding a wonderful man is hard, but sometimes searching for the perfect wedding dress for the big day is even harder.  Are you or any of your friends are searching for "the perfect one"?  Would you consider these stunning wedding dresses I found from the Internet? 

What style of bride you are?
 A. a wild and romantic style?  (or should I say it in French, romantique)

Or B. a dreamy and classy style?

Or C. a laid back and modern bride?

The last but not the least, or
D. Sexy and like to show off the body you have been working on so hard for the past year?

No matter what type of bride you are.  Please remember to relax, have fun and enjoy the whole process of finding your perfect dress.

Safari Theme Baby Shower Cupcakes

I got to admit that ever since the first day of 2012, I have not blogged as much as I wish.  There are few reasons, but the major reason is my full-time job has been keeping me extremely busy these days.  It seems that it is slowing down a little bits; I could have more spare time to blog and share sweet things I saw, I made, I tasted with all of you.

Last weekend, I made some very cute and tasty cupcakes for my customer.  Since the expected parents-to-be don't want to find out the gender of their future baby.  The mom of the mommy-to-be picked a very neutral theme for the baby shower, a Safari theme it is!  I think this is a beyond wonderful idea.  Since they have a strict budgets for the party, I suggested to make some matching paper animal cupcake picks to go with the theme.  That way it could lower the cost, but still make the cupcakes stand out.  The customer loved the idea.  She also like some tropical favors to go with the safari theme.  After our consultation, I suggested pina colada cupcake with fluffy coconut buttercream frosting, chocolate cupcakes with dark and milk chocolate frosting and the last but not the least was banana cupcakes with creamy honey frosting.

Everything turned out wonderful and I am so glad my customer, the future parents-to-be and their guests loved everything.  They told me they ever saved the cute animal cupcake picks to show their baby in future.

*PS:  If you are interested in these cute Safari theme cupcake picks, please go to my Etsy shop.  I have the same set of 12 cupcake toppers ($10.00usd not included delivery fee) for sale on my shop.

I got my idea from the invitation.

Bridal Shower Supplies

7 more days till Christmas and 13 more days till the new year.  I am so excitied for Christmas and my vacation, yay! 

It's been two very hectic months - Thanksgiving, Christmas and new year. I got several orders from my Etsy shop these 2 months.  I am so happy that my Etsy shop is doing pretty good since I opened the end of October.  I will have more items listed on my Etsy shop, so stay tuned!

I got an email from a customer out of California about a custom order.  At first, she wanted to order 3 dozens of fondant cupcake toppers for her friend's wedding shower.  However, due to the limit time (it's a very rush order), I didn't think I could finish the fondant cupcake toppers on time.  So I suggested that I could make some cupcake picks and matching favor tags for her friend's wedding shower.  She gave me the theme colors and also what they want for the shower (the bride and groom's first initial).  She was very open about any idea I have.  I ended up making some very elegant cupcake picks and favor tags for them.