With my daughter's 1st birthday approaching I thought I'd try my hand at baking some wonderfully fabulous cupcakes. As I was deciding what flavor and frosting to choose for the simple basic small individual cupcakes, I came across the Wilton® Giant Cupcake Cake Pan. It's awesome.

It's gigantic, it's enormous, 15½" x 8¼" x 3¾". I'm so excited to create a one of a kind masterpiece for my little girls 1st birthday. Wish me luck!

This photo booth is at Chicago's Novelty Golf

About 10 years ago a friend received a save the date in the form of a strip of photos of the nearlywed couple taken in an old fashioned photo booth. On the back, they asked their family & friends to reserve the date of their imminent nuptials in Louisiana with the last line reading, "Details of Merriment to Follow..." I thought to myself, "huh. that would make a great name for my event planning business." Fast forward 8 years, here we are, in our 7th year. Wow, how time flies when your having fun!

These days photo booths are very popular at parties, special events & weddings. What could be more fun then sharing a good time with friends in a photo booth. I loved those things growing up. Every year a couple of friends & I would go to the county fair and fight to get our bums on that tiny little seat. Great memories.

Today photo booths come in all shapes, sizes and colors. The photos aren't b&w anymore - they come in full color, glossy, matte, they can personalized with a name, logo or whatever you can think of. We like this model - this "funbooth" is a funky photo booth for hire in Sydney, Australia. Yup, Australia. Bummer! We love the upgrades. No struggling to share the small seat with your friends there is plenty of room for more then two.

You can visit them online at http://www.funbooth.com.au/

We've fallen in love!! A few weeks ago our wonderful friend Karla, The Card Lady brought us some lovely patisseries from San Francisco's Miette Patisserie & Confiserie. It's all Karla's fault that we have become full blown addicts of the most wonderful Parisian Macarons on the West Coast.

Miette Patisserie is a tiny cake boutique located in San Francisco's famous Ferry Building that carries the sweetest treats and Miette's Confiserie is the quintessential candy shop located in Hayes Valley that "blends penny candy simplicity with the bygone opulence of European sweet shops".

Cakes, cupcakes, tarts, cookies and other confections are all well executed at the Patisserie using fine local and organic ingredients. The Confiserie boasts sweets made by local artisans and they even carry organic cotton candy, Yummy!


And if you looking for a unique venue to host a child's party or even a ladies tea, look to the Confiserie. They can create magical children’s birthdays complete with ballerinas, pony rides, storytelling, magicians or whatever your little one imagines. In the evening-time the adults can socialize with cupcakes, cotton candy and champagne.