Happy Birthday to many in our family
this month!
Grandpa turned 80 and he is here
for a big birthday celebration.
He is one of my avid blog followers
and when he arrived, he asked if I
was going to blog about his
birthday, so in celebration of his
80th
birthday, I set a table for him.
Wanting to come straight from
and practice many of the things we
learned there, Jessica (my oldest) and
I got together and made birthday cake and
cupcake cookies, along with balloons and
banners.
Two things I learned at Cookie Con
were to make a collection of
theme related cookies and
create them with a color scheme.
So since Grandpa is a guy, we chose
aqua and red with white as our neutral.
I can't believe the difference it makes
when you are deciding what to make and
how to decorate them.
I sent a picture of the finished cookies
to Joni, who also went to Cookie Con,
(Red Couch Recipes) and her response
was that it looked like we got our
money's worth out of the classes!
I was pleased too. I had never done much
but wet on wet and I learned that my
frosting was way too thin.
So Grandpa's honorary table is in
aqua and red with white as a neutral.
We have real cupcakes, a chocolate cake
with cooked caramel frosting
and cookies. I know the little kids will
love the cupcakes and the cookies.
Jessica made me take them from her house
so that there were actually some left for
the party.
The frosting on the cupcakes
was one of those items on my
COOKING BUCKET LIST
---
Swiss Meringue Buttercream.
Yummy and wonderful, but it
did take some time. It is a labor
of love. I will post that later.
I combined aqua and red
organza napkins
and aqua and red goblets
to go with the stack of
aqua, red and white plates.
I love how the stack ended up
with cupcakes everywhere.
Textured plates in aqua, red and white
are so fun together.
So the color scheme for the cupcakes
turned into the color scheme for
the tablescape. I love the aqua
and red together.
Happy Birthday to
all those in my family this month
and especially to Grandpa.
Tonight is the big birthday party.
He laughed when Grandma told him
that I set up a tablescape for him.
He said he was just teasing, but
it was fun to do it.
Have you noticed that people love
to be featured on your blogs? They
sure do on mine.
I will be posting this
Cupcake Tablescape on
