Donut Donut!

The annual fall donut party was a blast!   Its one of my favorite things to do every year.  I love coming up with new toppings to try.   This year I added strawberry frosting and cereal to the mix!

Pretty in Pink

I helped throw a baby shower for our YW President, Katie. It was a lot of fun! Katie is a big 80's fan and her favorite 80's movie is Pretty in Pink! How perfect for a shower! I added just a few 80's touches here and there and really played up the pinks throughout. I ran out of time and didn't get very many good pictures, but here's what I got!

This was the dessert table. I hung pink cassette tapes for the backdrop and made up lots of pink treats (tapes were from goodwill that I sprayed pink and labeled with songs from the 80').
This was the main food table... Only got a picture before all the food showed up!
This pictures isn't the best, but these cookies were yummy! They are strawberry white chip, the special ingredient is Strawberry Nesquick! I just used my favorite chocolate peanut butter chip cookie mix substituting the strawberry for the chocolate (and cut out some of the sugar since the strawberry is already sweetened.
These were mini brownies with cream cheese frosting and sprinkled with pop rocks!
Pink lemonade cupcakes

Here is a close up of the tapes.

Congratulations Katie! We can't wait to meet your new baby girl!

Snips, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails!

Again, almost titled this one "It's a Boy", but again thought that would be very deceiving! Last weekend I got to host a baby shower for a lovely sister in our ward. And since I've recently become, well obsessed, with party planning blogs I had to have a theme and go all out! (Seriously, dream job alert! Anyone want to hire me full time?) Being my first attempt to create a dessert table, I don't think it turned out half bad!

The theme was Snips, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails and I chose to have lots of primary type colors; blue, red, orange, yellow and green.

Cake stands look familiar? Yep more homemade creations! The backdrop was simply 12x12 scrapbook paper and ribbons. I loved how it turned out and allowed us to open the window but not show just a big tree trunk outside.

I wanted most of the desserts to follow the theme, so first:

Here are the "Snips"

I wanted to get the "Nibs" brand of licorice pieces, but couldn't find any, so I cut up my own! Plus they are red so they work perfectly!

And the Snails:

These little guys were made out of peppermint candies, which by mistake I made the day before and their little red stripes "melted". They were housed on a bed of green coconut grass.

More snails, this time Sugar Cookie Snails!

Don't you just want to bite this little guys head off?

And of course the Puppy Dog!

Chex mix puppy chow (seriously google puppy chow and see if the first thing that comes up is not delicious chex mix!)

Followed by a sweet puppy cupcake.

These little buggers looked easy, but those darned ears had the toughest time staying on! Out of 1 dozen only 4 came out with both ears - all the rest lost exactly 1 ear, none lost both. How strange.

More close up views of the table.

We also had homemade lemonade (thanks again Adam!) and it was also the guest of honors birthday so I made the main cake a little girly, while still keeping in the color scheme.

Isn't that homemade cake stand awesome! And it supported that big heavy cake so well!

The shower was definitely a lot of fun to plan and I loved how it all turned out!