Winter Wonderland Cake Pops

Here are the cake pops we gave at our

Winter Wonderland Teacher Appreciation Event.

The theme was "Thank You for Making A Difference"

so I added that to the tags.

More photos and details from the party will be added soon!

Smiles!!!

Twilight Cake

Client requested white "sparkly" cake with a tent for her Edward figure.

She also wanted the three birthday "girls" names on the cake separated by hearts.

Please don't throw stones, but I have never read or seen the Twilight series.

I was a little anxious that I might miss the mark on this one.



Fortunately, the client is super sweet and reassured my this was exactly what she had wanted.

Happy Birthday to the Twilight Girls!!!

Smiles!!!

Advent Book Basket

This is a great idea I picked up several years ago. 

Start with 25 Christmas/Winter themed Books.  (You'll be surprised how many you actually have!!!)

(Half Price Books is a great place to pick up some inexpensive Christmas books to fill in your collection.)

Let your child (or children) open one a day until Christmas! 

We've accumulated so many that each of my boys can open a book each day!

They enjoy seeing favorite books from years past and discovering new ones I've added to the collection.

When Christmas is over, I use the left over gift wrapping scraps to wrap the books for the following Christmas.

I also keep my daily advent activity book in the basket...that's just so I can easily find it among the rest of the chaos going on! 

My sincerest wishes to each of you for a joyful and blessed Christmas season.

Be sure to stop back by Dec 5th thru 11th

for the last Pretty Packages Party of the year!

Smiles!!!

Linking to:
Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts

Chocolate Party Cupcakes

Chocolate Party Cupcakes

Chocolate Velvet Cake with Classic Chocolate Buttercream Icing

The Perfect Party Treat!!!

Click here to see the whole party!

Smiles!!!

Mall Scavenger Hunt Birthday Party

I was requested to make the cupcakes and party favors (cake pops,) for a 9 year old's birthday party.

She was having a mall scavenger hunt.  Isn't that a great idea!

I just had to share it with you.

Here is the invitation...really cute!

It gives you a lot of the details.

Scavenger Hunt List

And here is the list the mom gave the girls.

They each had a mom with them as they searched for items through the mall.

Of course they had some yummy cupcakes to finish it all off with!

And they went home with some sweet cake pops!

Happy Birthday C!!!  Your mom is awesome!
To see what other amazing things C's mom is up to, stop by her blog and say hi!

Smiles!!!!

Football Cookies

Here are some cookies I made this week for a football team's end of season party as requested by their cheer squad.  Pretty sweet girls on that cheer squad!!

They are my favorite sugar cookie recipe decorated with Royal Icing.

Packaged them up with a little shredded paper in a cellophane bag with tied with wraffia.

Hope they enjoyed them!

Go Chargers!!!

Party Cake Pops

Chocolate cake pops coated with Ghiradelli chocolate.

These cake pops were used as party favors for girl's party.

Click here to see the fun party idea!

Smiles!!!