Showing posts with label pink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pink. Show all posts

Monday, September 14, 2015

wishing everyone a safe, healthy, sweet, and happy new year!

rosh hashanah apple centerpiece . sharonna misha designs  


Friday, August 30, 2013

Let Them Eat Cake! party

dear diary, i am so exited.  my sister will finally be here for the 1st time next month and it's her 50th birthday!!  we have lived here going on three years now so it's about time she came- don't you think?

i am starting to compile ideas for her birthday dinner, which my husband and i will be hosting!  what do you think about these ideas / inspirations?:


layering up the china, beautiful pink flowers, and statuettes

pink depression glass holding treats/for serving desserts

sandwiching cookies cakes or macarons and berries or fruit

DIY labels and ribbon via the crafting chicks

marie antoinette cake topper

labels for table and desserts...

cake stand servers, milk glass, pennant banner...

...see a theme starting to develop?  don't even have to plan these things, they always just end up coming together ☺ as i'm reviewing and editing these ideas, i have a lightbulb moment!  wanting to do a 'pink party' was secretly for me {actually, i wanted to do pink and green- so palm beach, but it's my party}...  but my sis' favorite place in the world is paris and she LOVES versaille and provence, basically anything excessive and decadent and provincial- what could be more perfect than a marie antoinette/let them eat cake theme?!!  and i still get my pink- LOTS of it!! ♥
i still even have a crystal parfum bottle in the shape of the eiffel tower that we put at her table at our wedding- that'll tie in all my crystal- perfecto!  {or parfait}.
i will 'modernize' it a bit with a little paris circus influence since our family rode the ferris wheel and the merry-go-rounds together there!!  i LOVE this flag idea!!  
and, of course, i'm going to have to add some of newly-painted, very coveted animals- i'll probably swap out giraffes for some pumas or something..., along with fabric flowers on the cake!:

marie never would have frowned upon too many cakes.
more ideas to follow...  xoxo

follow up:  okay so it all worked our beautifully.  at practically the last minute i remembered that i had bought a mini porcelain antique 'marie antoinette' bust that i was planning on giving her anyway- a lovely cake topper!  then, my neighbor dropped off a surprise {he had no idea about any of this}- but he just happens to drop off a pair of flocked damask curtains with chandelier silhouettes on it.  isn't that so marie antoinette?  didn't i tell you everything ends up coming together?
so here is the dessert cart that i put together for her, using one of the curtains as a tablecloth:







have you ever seen anything more beautiful?  these are 
cheesecake cupcakes!! 


Sunday, April 7, 2013

lilly pulitzer

lilly pulitzer 10 november 1931- 07 april 2013

lilly changed the face of palm beach forever.  almost everything that people describe as being the epitome of palm beach is lilly's influence {aside from the architecture}.

today my husband and i paid hommage to her by visiting first her home, and then, via mizner in palm beach. 



lilly's home where she passed peacefully in her sleep last night...








one of my favorite lilly designs:


one of my pieces with lilly's via mizner print:

Friday, February 15, 2013

my happy valentine's day!!

hope everyone had a happy day yesterday!!  
i thought i'd share my happy story and i would love to hear yours, too!  did you get a valentine surprise?  feel free to reply with it ♥

my husband and i went to a 'Breakers' restaurant called 'Top of the Point' for dinner.  guess what?  we went on the 13th as we don't prefer large crowds and slow service- we think it was a good choice!  ...if you would like a review of the food, just ask!
then, on the 14th, i finally got my Cartier watch.{!}  my husband and i exchanged cards in the bedroom and then he went to get himself a beer and a glass of wine for me...  i decided to go get it myself and, everywhere i went in the house, there were roses!  i walk into the dining room and there's a bouquet of peachy pink roses on the table along with a plant called 'polka dot'- do you know that one?  so cute, the leaves are all light pink and green!  then, I walk into the kitchen and i see another bouquet of red roses on one countertop, turn around and see a bouquet of white roses on another countertopKiss mark




Friday, August 19, 2011