The Friday before Thanksgiving Brianna came home from college. Saturday morning we did the 1st annual Turkey Trot put on by the KHS SADD program. (It was snowing and cold, but we walked it anyway!) Then we had a few hours to put together the shower for Tabbi.
Tiffani is making the cupcakes (Friday night) and Brianna is making the hearts out of Almond Bark.
Brianna working on the hearts. You may notice the top corner of the wax paper says "back" perfectly legibly... Well we'd drawn the hearts on the wax paper, melted the bark and had intended on turning the wax paper over to "trace" the hearts we'd drawn. The "back" was written on there to remind us of that. Didn't happen! (My fault - I was so excited to try one...) Brianna made all those hearts and when we peeled those wonderful white hearts off the wax paper there was brown sharpie marker coming off with it! :( So we went back and redid all those hearts again - on the right side of the paper!!
The finished product. Tiffani really doesn't like to use a lot of frosting and with most of her cupcakes it is just used as "glue" to hold the candies and what-not onto the cake. These were just the fancy, piled high with frosting cupcakes with sprinkles or hearts on them. So in that sense these were the hardest for Tiffani to make!!
Tabbi and Brianna sitting in the Bride's chair while the guests played a game about how well they knew Tabbi.
I forgot to take a picture of the table before people came out to start filling their plates... So I snuck in and got these few... Tabbi's colors are Caribbean blue, olive green, chocolate brown. Those colors must not be in season (really!?) because the only decorations we could find were in the blue. We lucked out there because the blue plates, forks, etc were actually called Caribbean blue. :) Anyway, we add a little splash of the olive & brown with punched out flowers and sprinkled them on the table. Then we bought blue sprinkles and decorated the edges of the serving plates, too. Zurchers sells individual colors of sixlets (Tabbi's favorite) so we bought a bag of white and blue and served that instead of mints and dipped pretzels just because we had all that almond bark melted. And that's what disappeared the fastest.
Tiffani made the little candle decorations, too. The blue sparkly balls were on tree branches and we just snipped them all off, mixed them with a handful of coffee beans & then pushed an LED votive candle into the middle. I found the little glasses at the craft store for 1/2 price and the branches were 88 cents each for 3 of them. We "borrowed" the coffee beans from Les.
Tabbi and Brianna relaxing after the shower.
Tiffani is making the cupcakes (Friday night) and Brianna is making the hearts out of Almond Bark.
Brianna working on the hearts. You may notice the top corner of the wax paper says "back" perfectly legibly... Well we'd drawn the hearts on the wax paper, melted the bark and had intended on turning the wax paper over to "trace" the hearts we'd drawn. The "back" was written on there to remind us of that. Didn't happen! (My fault - I was so excited to try one...) Brianna made all those hearts and when we peeled those wonderful white hearts off the wax paper there was brown sharpie marker coming off with it! :( So we went back and redid all those hearts again - on the right side of the paper!!
The finished product. Tiffani really doesn't like to use a lot of frosting and with most of her cupcakes it is just used as "glue" to hold the candies and what-not onto the cake. These were just the fancy, piled high with frosting cupcakes with sprinkles or hearts on them. So in that sense these were the hardest for Tiffani to make!!
Tabbi and Brianna sitting in the Bride's chair while the guests played a game about how well they knew Tabbi.
I forgot to take a picture of the table before people came out to start filling their plates... So I snuck in and got these few... Tabbi's colors are Caribbean blue, olive green, chocolate brown. Those colors must not be in season (really!?) because the only decorations we could find were in the blue. We lucked out there because the blue plates, forks, etc were actually called Caribbean blue. :) Anyway, we add a little splash of the olive & brown with punched out flowers and sprinkled them on the table. Then we bought blue sprinkles and decorated the edges of the serving plates, too. Zurchers sells individual colors of sixlets (Tabbi's favorite) so we bought a bag of white and blue and served that instead of mints and dipped pretzels just because we had all that almond bark melted. And that's what disappeared the fastest.
Tiffani made the little candle decorations, too. The blue sparkly balls were on tree branches and we just snipped them all off, mixed them with a handful of coffee beans & then pushed an LED votive candle into the middle. I found the little glasses at the craft store for 1/2 price and the branches were 88 cents each for 3 of them. We "borrowed" the coffee beans from Les.
Tabbi and Brianna relaxing after the shower.
1 comment:
Lovely cakes, Tiffani! The candles were a clever idea. I liked them. Nice to rest after the shower, huh Brianna!
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