Shoes as Inspiration

I don't know if words can describe how much I would LOVE to do a party inspired by these shoes. So fun, so feminine, so everything a little girl loves. Bright pink butterfly nets as party favors? Eep!
Anyone need their girl's birthday party planned?? :)

Pretty Things

This past week I was at the fabric store looking for a backdrop for my next cake and I was instantly drawn to the aisle with all the laces, fringes and other really FUN, frilly things. So I picked some of my favorite samples for cake bases. I really think the perfect embellishment around a cake base can add a huge WOW factor.



For any of my out of town clients that want options for cake bases, all of these come in a variety of colors. Check out these other websites for more:
www.mjtrim.com
www.masterstrokecanada.com
www.joanns.com

Rings

Here's a sneak peak at my next cake. There's about 500 rings here... it's taken me FOREVER to do all of these, and I haven't even sanded down the rough edges! I think it will be well worth it though, I'm super excited for how this cake is going to turn out. Keep an eye out!

Color

Did you ever have to do those exercises where you were given 100 different colors and told to put them in order from lightest to darkest hue? I was terrible at it. I couldn't figure out the difference between a green with a blue-ish hue apart from the green with the red-ish hue... which one was darker?! I don't know, they're just DIFFERENT, I don't know which one is darker! It was pretty stressful. Thank goodness I don't have to worry about that much anymore.



Last week I went to Home Depot and stole about 60 or so paint color samples. Slowly, I've been putting coordinating hues together in my cake notebook for people who need help with deciding colors for a birthday party, wedding, etc. Having your colors picked out BEFORE you plan everything is key. It helps to bring everything together, to find cohesion, something that pleases the eye and brings the WOW factor. Do you have a favorite color combination?