tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89000982473803735892024-03-14T16:14:45.972+11:00Blissfully SweetBlissfully Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13866425225335171313noreply@blogger.comBlogger489125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900098247380373589.post-51689749837363673322012-11-22T10:19:00.004+11:002012-11-22T10:19:53.723+11:00Liam's First Holy Communion Dessert Table<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Last weekend, we had the pride and privilege to share our eldest son Liam's First Holy Communion. It is such a special religious milestone, and we brimmed with pride at our young man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We wanted a small but special celebration and decided to invite our very nearest and dearest family and friends to celebrate with us at home after the church service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When thinking about themes, because that is what I do, I wanted something symbolic but not overtly religious. I toyed around with using patterns and colours as a theme and then I thought of stained glass windows - no more symbolic than that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Onto the invitations and of course Nicole at Pretty and Print knew what I wanted immediately and her papery were nothing short of spectacular. I boxed up with the invitations and they were a simple and elegant start to our event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Onto desserts! Stained glass theme needs to have a stained glass cake and desserts. That was easy enough to think through, but I wanted to match that with lots of crisp white. For the backdrop, I went backwards and forwards with many different ideas - but while chatting with my design buddy, we came up with "string art". That took me way back to school. So with a big bit of MDF, some nails and a hammer and different coloured string - the backdrop was made and I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it! It was the perfect silhouette for the table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Always trying to find a DIY project or trying my hand at my own thing, I wanted to make some of my own risers and cake plates. The main riser at the back of the table is a long wood piece that I added some decorative wood feet to each end and painted white. The rectangle cake plates at the front of the table were made in the same way. This way I could design my own table and design the tableware around my thoughts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The green cake stands on each side are simple white candle sticks from IKEA with wooden circles secured on top and then painted in my lime green colour. All of it came together to make the clean look of the table that I wanted. My table was not a huge table and I needed to utilise my space and I did not want it cluttered at all. My riser at the back was used as the display piece for the coloured candy in my design colours. All the candy was supplied by Leanne at Sweet Style. No fancy glass candy jars here, just plain tall drinking glasses.</span></div>
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Then onto the actual sweets for the sweet table. The cake – I wanted to make a stained glass effect cake and WOW I loved how it looked. The black lines were all piped on in their various lines and then all the windows were hand painted in different shades of the design colours. This was the perfect centrepiece for the table. I wanted to have a simple and uncomplicated array of coordinated desserts. Handpainted watercolour cookies were a colourful addition and the marbled macarons were sensational. The macarons were made by the macaron goddess Its a Cake by Jhoanee. Layered and coloured petit cakes stood at the front of the table and were topped with royal icing stained glass disks. Then the only other desserts were pannacotta shots topped with mini macarons. </div>
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Lastly, our celebration was a small family and friends affair and this allowed for small and intimate table arrangements for the guests. Flowers for each table were the centrepiece and arrangements of blue hydrangeas and baby hydrangeas were natural looking and bought colour to the table. Little glass jars filled with little flower buds completed the table flowers. I included the printables into our table setting in the form of placemats for everyone. I loved how these set off the blue china perfectly.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All in all, we had a beautiful day with our nearest and dearest. It was a day filled with laughter and love and joy at seeing our boy become a young man.</span></div>
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Cake, sweets, tableware, styling and photography by Blissfully Sweet</div>
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Papery by Pretty & Print</div>
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Candy, Milk glass cake stand and white compotes by Sweet Style.</div>
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It is now coming into the warmer months and hooray, we are welcoming all our summer fruits. Nothing screams summer to me more than days at the beach followed by sticky hands and arms after sucking all the goodness out of a box of mangoes!</div>
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An impromptu family BBQ last weekend had me at the shops that morning and wondering what I could make for something sweet. Mangoes were in my trolley and as I walked down the dairy aisle, mascarpone soon joined the mangoes. Seeing these two now best buddies sitting side by side in my trolley, I knew what I wanted to make for dessert. A few more ingredients and homeward bound we were.</div>
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My grand plan for dessert was for an open tart of stacked rectangles of puff pastry that was layered with a mascarpone cream and then slathered in juliennes of fresh mangoes and if you know me, you know I love texture, some chopped freshly roasted hazelnuts also.</div>
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Lots of ooohs and aaahs when I bought out dessert and I was pretty impressed with myself. So I took a couple of happy snaps and onto the cutting. Needless to say - this dessert ate MUCH better than it was plated! Trying to cut through the puff pastry as well as the fresh mascarpone was not a pretty plating experience for the guests, however this was not their concern, as soon enough their faces were dipped firmly into the tart!</div>
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The next day, there was a smidgeon left over {gasp!} I left this last vestige of the dessert for my hubby (such a caring wife) for an after dinner treat. Being the nice hubby he is, he allowed me to take a piece off the corner ;P! I was happy to note that the next day, the tart was even a little better (if possible) than the day before and MUCH easier to serve. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Place the puff pastry rectangles on baking paper in an oven at 160oC for 10-15 minutes. After 10 minutes take out of the oven and very carefully using an oven mitt, press the rising puff pastry back down and then put back into the oven for another 5 minutes or until slightly golden.</span></div>
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This cake was made for an extra special person! John, my old next door neighbour, feels like a part of our family also. When I was asked to make a cake for his 60th, I automatically thought of a tool box - because he is the handiest handy man around! He is oft times off doing odd jobs for me when the time arises and he is the salt of the earth! Cannot speak highly en<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ough of this family!</span></div>
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May God Bless You always Valentina!<br />
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<br />Blissfully Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13866425225335171313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900098247380373589.post-73800431553750898482012-07-05T14:18:00.002+10:002012-07-05T14:18:31.012+10:00Cowboy Themed Birthday Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Happy 2nd Birthday Ashton!<br />
<br />Blissfully Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13866425225335171313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900098247380373589.post-6341002955172860372012-07-05T14:13:00.003+10:002012-07-05T14:14:16.261+10:00Oh Sweet Mum ... in Print!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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A gorgeous day with wonderful and talented ladies!<br />
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Happy Birthday Charlissa!<br />
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Congratulations Bren & Dani!<br />
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Happy 1st Birthday Matthew!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The red eyed tree frog</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L5qaxnS8iFs/T_PZ1yS53VI/AAAAAAAAFkY/VOgFg_EcRXA/s1600/Spider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L5qaxnS8iFs/T_PZ1yS53VI/AAAAAAAAFkY/VOgFg_EcRXA/s640/Spider.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The red back spider</td></tr>
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