When Susie was turning 40, I offered to throw her a birthday party and quizzed her about what type of party she imagined herself celebrating at.  Her birthday is in the summer, so the options were endless. A family style BBQ? A colorful Mexican fiesta? A garden brunch? A evening cocktail soiree?

She wanted a cocktail [...]

Happy Friday!

Hopefully you have some fun planned this weekend. Being that it is the first weekend of Summer, it definitely deserves some extra attention, don’t you think? Hanging out outside is definitely on our to-do list. We’re really looking forward to hanging outside by the water at Patchwork Long Beach on Sunday!

Earlier today, we posted [...]

We’ve had many emailed requests for some of the recipes featured in our Cake vs. Pie Party posts last week. You asked and so you shall receive! Here are links to some recipes: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake, Orange Caramel Cake, and Maple Sugar Hazelnut Pie. Below are the recipes for the Lemon Ginger Cake and the Mini [...]

We just received 2 giant boxes filled with these adorable cupcake decoration kits! There are 8 different designs of these “Paper ‘n’ Cake” cupcake sleeve & topper sets. These are collaboration between us and our  friend Timothy’s company called Party Partners. When he first approached us about designing the artwork for a new product he [...]

This coming Sunday, we’ll be setting up our little pop-up retail shop in Long Beach, CA at the Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts Festival. We participated in this event in December and it was so much fun. The location is right on the water at the Marine Stadium Park and Long Beach is such a [...]

Happy Friday!

We’ve been celebrating summer parties here for the last couple of weeks with real life party peeks and ideas for entertaining. It’s been so much fun and thank you for all the wonderful feedback! We’ve gotten quite a few requests from you for recipes of the desserts that were featured in the Cake vs. [...]

Yesterday, we posted about a Cake Vs. Pie party that I threw last July 4th. It was an extravaganza of delicious frosted cakes and flaky-crusted pies all set against what I like to call a “Pop-Patriotic” backdrop.

The party was a competition to decide which dessert was ultimately better: Cake Or Pie?

As guests arrived at the [...]

Of all the parties I’ve had over the years, this was perhaps one of my favorites. It all started with a simple photo posted to my Facebook page.

I had just made a batch of strawberry hand pies. I snapped this photo and posted it with the caption “I think pie kicks cake’s ass”. A flurry [...]

Happy Friday!

Our mouse model today looks like he’s saying “Hip-Hip-Hooray!”. We are leaving the studio a bit early today to have our last “after school adventure day” with our siblings. There are 6 of us and the youngest is graduating high school this year. For 18 years, we’ve picked one (or two or three) of [...]

It’s really easy to get carried away with buying decorations for a party. As we’ve said before, we think that it unnecessary to break the bank, going hog-wild at the party store on things you’ll use once and then throw away. Opening your eyes to the things you already have around you and thinking creatively [...]