Retro Baby Shower

Holy cuteness, Batman!  One of my favorite clients requested this fun and cheery dessert table for a friend's baby shower and this is what we came up with.  When we initially consulted there were a lot of disparate elements discussed: pin up, rockabilly, retro, nautical, cherries, kewpie dolls, polka dots and sparrows.  I was a little nervous about how to meld all of these elements so I wound up paring down and really focusing on kewpies, polka dots and nautical elements.  Here are the super sweet results.  Enjoy!

Fan background - sometimes you just KNOW you will "use it someday," as was the case with these polka dot beauties from the 99 Cent Store.  I found them in February (a Valentine's Day Special) and finally got to use them in June!  Totally worth the wait.

Cupcake liner centers.

Vintage baby carriage filled with chocolate kisses.

Cinnamon Buns in the Oven.

Baby Powder Donuts.

Chocolate chip cookie tower.

Cherry bomb cupcakes.

So cute!

The hostess requested a ruffle cake.

Pints of popcorn.

Yellow, Black and White Baby Shower

Donkey Kong Cookies

Why do I have the most creative customers ever? A Donkey Kong themed birthday? Genius! I had to do some research on the new version because I definitely don't remember these silly pirate-type crabs back in the day.  Throw in some barrels and bananas and we've got a cool collection on our hands.  Check out the rest of the pictures for all the fun details.  Enjoy!

The entire collection.

Donkey Kong 2.0

Fab wood grained barrels.

Mod Monkey Birthday

I'm sure everyone's familiar with this sweet Mod Monkey design (available on line and at party stores everywhere), so when my client asked for a Mod Monkey birthday cake and coordinating cookies for her darling one year old's first birthday, I knew exactly what she was talking about.  I was happy to be working with such a cute and simple design.  My real problem was that my client didn't want a cake decorated with sugar cookies, which is becoming a specialty of mine.  Uh oh.  Luckily she wanted something simple so we decided on stripes and polka dots with a Mod Monkey cookie cake topper (had to throw one in somewhere!)  Here's what we came up with.  Enjoy!

Alright, alright.  I snuck in another cookie!

She also wanted a small smash cake for the baby.

Alternating ruffles.

Here are the coordinating cookies to go with Miss Presley's cakes.  Monkeys, bananas, flowers and cookies that look like the birthday girl herself, including her party outfit!  Enjoy!

Presley - in cookie form!

Happy Birthday Presley!