Bed Head

this is what I walked in on when I heard Kaniela had woken from his nap... I started laughing so hard and decided I better grab the camera. Sorry about the pictures.. They are taken with my phone..

I'm in LOVE!

I am SO 100 Percent, with out a doubt, completely in LOVE with this little Man!

A Quater of a Centuray Celebration!

So this about a week late, but that's ok!

I'm totally in love with this Party! My little sister turned 25 a couple weeks ago; my mom and I decided we would throw her a QUARTER OF A CENTURY PARTY!! How do throw a Quarter-Century Party you ask? Well let me tell you.. We decided to go with a "Quarter" theme.. Quarters are silver and shiny (two things Manda LOVES) so we went with that. Everything we did had to do with silver, shiny and quarters..

Here's the invitation.. I drew all the quarters, and if you look carefully at the silhouette on the quarter is actually Mandee.. Cook huh?!

We decorated the tables with black table clothes, silver table runners (aluminum foil) and LOTS and LOTS of plastic and chocolate quarters.

What's a party without yummy food.

My Mom and I found silver sprinkles. I frosted the cupcakes with gray frosting and then rolled them in the sprinkles. It turned out so cute. This was actually my favorite thing. They were so cute! We wrote 25 with black glitter gel frosting on some of them!

The birthday girl. I know you can't really see the cake, but my mom made a bunch of round cakes, and frosted them gray, and then stacked them crooked (so it looked like a stack of quarters). She did a great job!

Spring Happiness!

I took this yesterday right before the storm... It brought me happiness so I thought I would share it! I hope you all have a wonderful Earth Day! I dare you to do something for the earth today, be careful though, you might get addicted!!!

April Showers..

Well We have had an amazingly busy month. We first found out that Kevin got a new job (a post for later) and that would mean, we would have to move, on top of that I was planning a bridal shower, along with helping my mom with a party for my little sisters (also a post for later). I don't think anyone out there was disappointed, and missed my post.. But I do want to say, I kinda missed it. I have been thinking of all these things that I want to blog about, and yet, have had zero time to actually sit down and do it.

I finally got sometime today and am so excited to show you these pictures. The shower I was planning was for my good friend, Andrea. She is really one of the sweetest people I know, and I'm so excited for her and Kevin (not my Kevin, her fiancé's name is Kevin too). I'm so grateful to Andrea that she let me throw this shower, because I had so much fun doing all this stuff. And of course, I love her to death, and I wanted to show her that!

Luckily, Andrea choose the cutest colors EVER.. Black, lime and yellow.. So I took a citrus route. I also wanted to waste as little as possible, so I had a fun time getting real plates, cups and silverware. Here's the pics.. I hope you like them.. They don't really show how absolutely perfect everything went together! I was very happy the way everything turned out.

I designed this card.. and my favorite things that I've ever designed are these lemons and limes.. I just love them! Like I said before, I wanted this to be a "green" shower, so to eliminate paper usage, I emailed the invites!

Here's a full shot of the table.. I used clear glass plates and cups, and real silverware. I loved shopping for these. It took me about 3 weeks to get the right number. Little tip, I just went to DI.. It was great and very inexpensive, and now I have all these clear glass plates, that don't match.. I kinda want to switch out my dinnerware and just used this amazingly cute eclectic look! I also used all different size Mason jars. I felt these gave the organic look I was wanting.. I borrowed most of these from my amazing cousin Holley.. She had tons!

Can I just tell you I love that I have my own personal general contractor.. My dad can seriously build anything. I just called him up and told him I need crates, and VIOLA! This is what he came up with! I LOVE LOVE LOVE them... I'm thinking about using them in my kitchen decorations. So he didn't sand them or anything, so they looked nice and rough, then I white washed them to give them a vintage look. The label is just something I designed, printed at kinko's. I feel it added such a fun vintage look. And don't they look so good with the flowers in them?.. Again.. Organic feel.. and no waste!

Here's the cute place settings. I really like the way the cloth napkins turned out. I just cut 11x11 squares and sewed the edge with a thick black stitch. I decided I'm going to start using cloth napkins. Aren't they so cute? so economical, and add a fun feel to any dinner setting. I also did the black and white table runner, the same way, just way bigger! :)

We had very yummy food.. Two Salads, some fruit, namasu, and homemade bread with honey.

O and don't forget the yummy cupcakes... OK you have got to try these. They have such a great flavor and texture, your taste buds with be thanking you for days, for feeding them something so divine. They were actually a lime green color (sorry I didn't protray that well with the pictures) and the color is so cute, however the flavor is just perfectly sweet and with the frosting.. O man, it is divinity in a little green baked good. Here's the link to Kara's Cupcakes, key lime cupcakes and cream cheese frosting.

Last, but for sure not least, the party favors. These are baby food jars that I had left over from Kaniela's days. I put cute little old fashion lemon drops and then wrapped with these cute labels and a little ribbon. Below is the label sheet, I thought they turned out so cute! It would be so easy and fun to do this for any occasion.

All in All.. I loved every part of this shower. If my house could look like this every day.. I would be so happy.. I think Kevin might get sick of it though :).. So for now, I just dream of it, and do it for others! :) I hope you enjoy the pictures.. and stay tuned.. I've got a Silver-Sparkle-Quarter party, and some fun spring pics!

sweet and sour stock shots.

So after taking that photog class, taking pictures of my food, just isn't the same... I haven't to set up this whole little studio, just so I can get the right look.. I needed pictures of lemons for a design I'm working on, so I decided to use my mini studio. I also made these cupcakes this morning, and thought I would take a couple of those too. So here's my stock shots...

Easter Fun!

I'm so sorry for it being so long since I posted. I've kinda been on a social media mind block. Can't seem to think of what to put on my facebook, blog, etc.. However, I think I'm back and better.

Anyways, Last week, I spent sewing.. I sewed a little aloha shirt for Kaniela for easter, and his easter basket. They both turned out super cute; however, no etsy shop yet! :)

We had a great weekend with my family, Kaniela had a blast picking up eggs, putting them in his basket, taking them out, throwing them on the ground, then picking them up, putting them in the basket.... and so forth. It was so cute. He loves spending time with his cousins, and they are so cute with him.

I'm not going to post pics here, because they are on the hard drive, and I'm not sure where those are.. BUT if you click here.. you can see the cute picture Kevin posted on the photog blog... Enjoy!