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My kids preschool had a spring program/graduation ceremony today, and I made these cream cheese/blueberry filled strawberries. I made my husband whip the cream cheese since he is better at baking. Do they look like graduation caps to you? I wanted to make the square top part (graham crackers) bigger, but didn’t have enough room to space them out.

Recipe is from Martha Stewart, and I found the information via Party Starter blog.

The tassels are dried apple and secured it with melted chocolate. I wanted to use white chocolate, but couldn’t find the ones that weren’t packaged in the same facility that processes nuts.

I LOVE cream cheese. Yum~~~

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Sorry to post this late. Here is the winner of Tiffany Doodles digi stamp from the blog hop.

It is Jovita!

Thank you everybody!

Hello!

It is my turn to create for The Greeting Farm Royal Battle – week 4.

Challenge: To create candy packaging using TGF images

Our team name: International Ink

Team members: Stephanie – team leader, Sheena, Tanya, Corinne, and me. Corinne has a huge blog candy giveaway on her blog to celebrate her birthday right now. Happy Birthday, Corinne!!!

MANY MANY THANKS to my team for all the support!

I wanted to create an amusement park. Had about 11 ideas for this project, and only had time to make 4. I think I spent more time shopping for candies then cutting the papers. Over $40 worth of candies! Yikes! You might see more candy boxes from me in the future. Either that, my dentist will be very happy.

Digital papers & fonts: Happy Hour by After Five Designs

Put too much candies in the ferris wheel cups, oh well.

This pinwheel was inspired by Wendy. I used scallop square punch.

Yikes! Too much glitter! Clear glue hasn’t dried yet.

Digital papers & fonts: Happy Hour by After Five Designs

Template: Perfect Pumpkin Template Set by Kelleigh

Lollipop sticks for the pillars. Added red Candy Dots on top.

Yellow ribbon: Amuse

Lollipop holder on top =)

Lollipop holders on the carousel base.

Bumper car lollipop & candy holders. Heehee. I designed the car template.

Digital papers & fonts: Happy Hour by After Five Designs

It’s a shooting game booth(?). Covered the Liqueur chocolate box.

Paper: AMuse

Marvy Uchida Liquid Applique to make her white shawl.

All stamps from The Greeting Farm.

You can only vote for ONE project in the gallery, so please, please, do vote for ours!!! (Need to login to vote. I know, photo is not showing =(

THANK YOU!!!

Hello my friends!

I wrote another tutorial on theHybridChick.com using the plastic Easter eggs.

The hardest part about this project was to find a clean spot for me to hang these to take photos in my house. Ugh! Heehee.

On the bright side (heh?), I got carded at a wine store today! Woohoo! =)

Happy Easter!!!

This past Saturday, I volunteered to set up a dessert table for my kids preschool gala. I was not in charge of the desserts in the planning process, but the most creative mom at school was so busy with other things for the event, I got the job at the last minute.

All I was going to make was few apple shaped cake pops (inspired by Bakerella), and mini cupcakes. But, I was very fortunate enough to be introduced to few moms who can bake better than pros. Without them, my dessert table would have looked terrible.

The theme for the gala was, New York (color theme: apple green & white), and I wanted to create the table inspired by Amy Atlas, a New York based dessert table creator. I love her elegant, modern, trendy, upscale, clean designs. But, it was not easy trying to create poshy look when I’m more comfortable creating cutesy, whimsical, urmmm…. childish stuff.

About 10 days before the event, I went to see the restaurant to see where the table will go and took the measurement. Set up the mock-up at home to see where I should place what. All platters were from 5 different families and this is why dishes don’t match.

I put cut out cardstock pieces (brown, vanilla, red, and green) and wrote the different dessert names and to see which color desserts should go where.

I ended up using different size tables, so had to adjust my set-up plan, but I think it worked out perfectly.

Liberty Island table =)
Do you see the Statue of Liberty on the wine?

Seriously, I felt bad taking all the credit for this wonderful dessert table. A lot of people came up to me to tell me how beautiful it was, but really, I didn’t bake anything. I had four moms (plus my hubby) who could bake so well, contributed to this awesomeness. One mom who baked 7 different foods had a flu and her son had an ear infection. And yet, she baked the most amount. And all of her creations were the best that I ever tasted.

Mint Truffles

Gateau Breton mini-cakes

Mint Brownies
I asked for the brownies in sheet pans. I cut it in mini squares, stack them up, and put some white sprinkles.

Banana Cupcakes
I was planning on baking these, but didn’t have time for it. So, I made my dear husband bake it and made the frosting for me. At the restaurant I piped the frosting with a Ziploc bag. And sprinkled some green jimmies on top.

Chocolate Cupcakes

Almond Cookies

Cranberry Pistachio Icebox Cookies

Mixed Berry Trifles
I provided the mini plastic shot glasses and one of the moms created this yummies.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Dark Chocolate Cherry and Pistachio Barks

Apple-Slice Tarts

Key Lime Pies

Green Apple Donut Pops
It’s totally inspired by Bakerella. I used Dunkin Donut Chocolate Munchkins to speed up the process =)

Chocolate Covered Triple Coconut Macaroons

Pear and Apple Pies

Chocolate-Hazelnut Meringue Kisses

YUM!