Favors

I am in charge of favors for a bridal shower in June. Favors are one of my favorite parts of showers and weddings. I mostly love when they are in adorable packaging. It is going to be a male/female bridal shower so I thought I would do some sort of edible favor that guys and girls would be able to enjoy. I've seen some really cute things online lately.









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Martha Stewart

Spring Sale

I am so excited because I made my second sale for my Etsy shop "Sweet Peas For Sale." I sold one of my favorite items which was a marble cake stand with a glass cloche. 

My very first sale ever was this stack of vintage Italian post cards! The lady who purchased them used them as part of her guest book for her wedding! How sweet, right?

 

I would love to get some new inventory for the shop so I am offering a sale through the end of the month...just enter the code SPRING15 to get 15% off any item!!

Happy Baking!

We have been doing a bit of baking this week. It all started with my dad's birthday earlier this week. I was surprised to hear that his favorite homemade cake is actually a simple yellow cake with chocolate icing. Simple enough. I wanted to decorate it with chocolate shavings, but Maddie voted for the obnoxious blue sprinkles for her Pop! 

This was the first family member's birthday that Maddie could actually sing Happy Birthday really well, it was so adorable.

My best friend's son will be celebrating his first birthday in a month and I am bringing the cupcakes! I wanted to make something special for my favorite little boy, but I get nervous trying a new recipe for an event without doing a trial run first. So Maddie helped me practice making chocolate fudge cupcakes with homemade cream cheese icing with oreo crumbs mixed in. Unfortunately I do not have any pictures of the finished product because I didn't have nice cupcake liners and they just did not look that pretty to be honest. But let me just say they are my absolute FAVORITE baked good I have ever made. I will hopefully have pictures of them for you along with the recipe around Brody's birthday. For now here is a picture of my favorite helper doing a "baking project" as she calls it...

And of course my other favorite helper watching intently from her bouncer...

Claudia's birthday is coming up this July and being so close to fourth of July we will be doing a BBQ. Since all of the kids will be to young to do actual smores I wanted to copy this idea I saw on pinterest that is marshmallows on lollipop sticks, dipped in melted chocolate and sprinkled with crushed up graham crackers. I didn't have lollipop sticks on hand but Maddie and I had fun doing a trial run on the marshmallows. I definitely like the look of the ones dipped in graham cracker better than the oreo and sprinkle dipped ones so that is what I will use for her party. Also glad I did a a run through because for next time I know to keep my fingers really clean so they don't leave chocolate prints on the marshmallows (you will notice smudges on the marshmallow with pink sprinkles...woops.) I also learned that they look better if you sprinkle the graham crackers on top of the chocolate, rather than dipping them.

Now my only challenge is not gaining 10 pounds by sampling everything!

Soooooo......it's been a while.

I am sorry I have not been blogging lately. Almost a month ago, my husband and I lost a very dear friend of ours. He was only 28 years old and he and his wife are expecting a beautiful baby girl on the way any day now. I guess I am fortunate enough to have not suffered a great deal of loss in my life so far, but that also has left me at kind of a loss with how to process everything. So I guess that coupled with the fact that I have been extremely busy with two sick little girls (yes...apparently they are sick for every major holiday) can sort of explain my absence lately. But, I will try to do better in the future and you should know that we ordered some cabinets to add to the empty walls in our kitchen and while we are waiting for them to arrive (3-5 weeks...aaahhh I can't wait that long) we are going to begin the sanding, priming, painting process of the existing cabinetry.


For now, here are some pictures of our Easter.

 Maddie decorated some Easter cookies with her favorite Aunt!

The girls in their pretty Easter dresses for Saturday night. Can you tell Maddie has a fever??!! She is such a champ!

More pretty dresses for Sunday...

And probably the highlight of my Easter was watching Maddie find all of the Easter eggs that the Easter bunny dropped off in Gigi's yard!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!