Amy Atlas Toppings Bar

I ADORE Amy Atlas. Her work is constantly providing me with inspiration and fresh new ideas. If you aren't familiar with her you can check out her work here. Amy recently teamed up with Kelly Ripa and Electrolux in their Banana Split for a Cause event which benefited the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. Here are a few pictures of the event. We are working on an ice cream bar for a baby shower this month and this event has definitely given me some great ideas. Enjoy!

The Toppings Bar

Ice Cream Cone Cookies

More Toppings

Another View

Kelly and Stephen Bruce (Serendipity owner) making their banana splits

Kelly's Banana Split

Amy and Kelly in front of the toppings bar

What a beautiful event for such a great cause!

Icy Cold Fab Find

The first official weeks of summer in VA have been H-O-T! So, this week's Fab Find was a natural pick for me. Williams-Sonoma has a great gadget to help you stay cool this summer. The Zoku Quick Pop Maker helps you create custom frozen pops in as little as 7 minutes {sorry for sounding like an infomercial, but it's true!}.





You can make plain juice pops, smoothie pops, cream-filled pops, and even pops with bits of fruit in them.



Anything that helps us stay cool is getting two thumbs up in our house this month. Let us know if you try out the Zoku and what you think.

A Lemonade and Sunshine Party

Jess from Pen N' Paper Flowers styled this super cute vintage lemonade and sunshine party for a combined birthday party for her oldest daughters. The colors are great, the theme is age appropiate, and the styling is wonderful. Great job, Jess!

The party was held outside under the tress



Jess used a cupboard to display old fashioned desserts



I love how she decorated the wrought iron chairs...who new that tin cans could look so sheek?

Some pink lemonade for the guest....

Served in mason jars



The birthday "banner" goes right along with the theme...so creative!



The cupcakes: mini lemon cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting

Lemonade sugar cookie sandwiches

A pink lemonade cake

Lemon drop filled jars

And the favor buckets

I really enjoyed all of the details from this party. I hope that you do as well!

A Shower for Baby "Z"

This past May, photographer Wendy Updegraff gave her sister am amazing baby shower with no details forgotten. The Tiny Prints invitation served as the inspiration for the shower's orange and pink color palette. A tent covered the beautiful table setting, and was decorated with paper lanters and a special “baby Mama” banner. They made sugar scrub jars for the party favors which also doubled as the placecards. The large "Z" that Wendy and her mom made using artificial flowers made a HUGE visual statement {the baby's name is Zoe}. I love it! Check out more of Wendy's photographic work when you get a chance.

A Cupcake Summer

I have several events this summer that I plan on making cupcakes for and I am super excited to try out some new creative designs. Here are a few of my new summer-inspired favorties:


Ice Cream Cupcakes
These miniature desserts are dressed up with a refreshingly delicious scoop of gelato

Corn-on-the-Cob Cupcakes
This cupcake creation capitalizes on summer's quintessential farm-stand find: corn! I am definitely trying this one out before the end of the summer.

Huckleberry Cupcakes
Huckleberries are the perfect topping for sweet cream-covered cupcakes!

Shark and Beach Cupcakes
No words necessary. Everyone will love these, especially if you are at the beach.

Strawberry Cupcakes
A fun twist to the traditional summertime Strawberry Shortcake.

Patriotic Cupcake Pops
Bakerella's cupcake pops would be great for this weekend's 4th of July celebrations. You could decorate regular cupcakes the same way as well.



We would love to see your creative summertime cupcake creations. Have fun baking!

Sip & See Shower {Pre-Event Setup}

Sheek Shindigs was busy with 2 events today! The first was a Sip & See Shower for a baby boy named Gavin. Here are a few pre-event pictures. More pictures of the actual event will be posted soon.



The color sheme was blue and brown (with some polka dots).


One of the custom banners made by Sheek Shindigs


Custom "GAVIN" letters


The buffet table decorated for cake and desserts


Custom "mini" banner for the buffet


The topiary food card holders were super cute!


To go along with the Sip & See theme, Sheek Shindigs put together these tea tins for each guest to take home. The custom tins were filled with a set of round Ginger Peach flavored tea bags.



Stay tuned for more pictures to come...

4th of July Fab Find

This week's Fab Find feature is a set of 4th of July DIY printables....for FREE.
WH Hostess designed these tent cards and cupcake toppers to help you get ready for your July 4th celebrations. Click on the links to download the images and print.


Cupcake Topper Printables


Tent Cards Printables