Bird Silhouette Inspiration

The above tags by Susan's Greetings  inspired a whole table for me.

  I've been keeping an eye on everything silhouette

and knew that I wanted to make something with them,

until of course my little feather friends once again help my imagination flight...

 it had to be bird silhouettes!

Susan had created the tags inspired on the Taxi Timeless Treasure Fabric

and I incorporated those into the table perfectly if I can say so myself! 

Thanks Susan for your creative contribution to my Silhouette Table!

 

Credits

Bird Silhouette Tags - Susan Greetings
Black Cupcake Boxes - Simple Tastes
Invitation - Oh My Gluestick
Candy Wrappers and Tent Card Labels - Love the Day
Lemon Cake Truffles - Lollidreams
Lemon Cookies - Clara's Cookies

Candy Sticks, Assorted Chocolates and Lemonade Drops for treats.  Rosette Embellishments from Michaels.  Dessert plates found at Target go along great with the theme!

Hope you enjoy,

  contact me with your inspirations to help create a dessert table...

I'd love to help!

Featured on Pingg!

In Flight and our Blue Valentine Party were featured yesterday on the pingg.com blog !!!

Pingg is starting to showcase parties that have been started by their online invitations and I had used the wonderful invitation pictured here below for the party!  The design and colors went along perfectly.  Click on the links to go their post, read all about it and check out their wonderful selection of online invitations.

Love Is Real designed by Lisa Barbero

Easy Tomato Tarts Recipe

 

At our latest Blue Valentine's Party

I served heart shaped 'pizzas' for lunch

and it was a hit with the ladies, so I'm sharing

the recipe here with all of you!

 

Easy Tomato Tarts

Recipe from Yum Food & Fun Magazine 

Makes 4 tarts

Prep time: Approx. 7 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

13 ounces ready-rolled puff pastry

4 tablespoons sun-dried tomato paste or olive tapenade

20 cherry tomatoes, each one sliced into 3 wedges

1 ball of mozzarella cheese or 4 handfuls of grated Parmesan cheese

1 handful of fresh basil leaves (I used and prefer oregano)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Sprinkle flour on a clean work surface. Roll out the puff pastry on the work surface and cut into 6 evenly sized squares or rectangles.  Grease a baking tray and put the pastry squares onto the tray.  Spread a little sun-dried tomato paste or olive tapenade over the pastry, but try to leave the very edges bare.  Arrange the sliced tomatoes over the tomato paste and try to place them in a layer rather than piling them up.  Tear the mozzarella cheese into little pieces and put some on top of the tomatoes.  Place the tray in the oven and bake for 15 minutes or until the pastry is golden and puffed and the mozzarella is melted.  When out of the oven, sprinkle with fresh basil or oregano leaves.

Enjoy! And share your pictures with me!

Vintage Valentines

Celebrating Valentine's Day at home with the family with a Vintage Valentines Theme.

 

 

The Vintage Cards came in  a book I found couple years back at Borders.

  I made the banner and topped the paper straws

with the Vintage Cards and Scrapbook paper with similar design.

Small Red Velvet Cake, Cupcakes and Chocolate Cakesters

from my local grocery store. Also the matching lace red tablecloth.

Vintage Valentine Cards Cupcake Toppers from Hobby Lobby.

Wilton Heart Party Pix.

Cupcake Liners, Vintage Lace Heart Pics, and Paper Straws from Hey YoYo on Etsy

Cups were decorated with a printable label from  Free Pretty Things For You

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

We are now on Facebook!

 

 

 

Yes, we have a Facebook Page, come 'like' us!

In Flight on Facebook 

~ Mayra

A Blue Valentine's

I had the pleasure of spending time with friends this past Saturday

on a lunch I hosted to showcase my work. 

I named the event, Blue Valentine's. 

Why? Just because as much as I love Valentine's Day

and all the pink, white and red decorations

that comes around on these days leading to it,

I also found that blue can be as gentle,

beautiful, lovely, inspired, romantic as you want it to be.

  There is actually a lot of blue hearts

and blue colors party related items out there to get you going.

After all, it is a beautiful Wedding color.

  I should say that my heart is not blue

and this party has no relation to the now released movie Blue Valentine,

although I am dying to watch it.

Enjoy!

Boxes from  Lil Anniebell that I embellished with blue twine and

blue heart buttons from  Supplies by Susan

 Candy coated fortune cookies were given on the beautiful bags 

from our sponsor Susan's Greetings

 These fabulous sugar cookies from Lori's Place were given in the boxes.

 Vanilla Mini Bundt Cakes coated with White Chocolate 

and adorned with LOVE flags custom made from Little Pumpkin Papers

 I absolutely love my marshmallow birds from Have it sweet

topped this clasic vanilla cake from my local bakery, Magpies

 The creative and talented face behind Paper and Pigtails, Kori

designed this editable labels for our party.  So excited!

  Burlap Runner from The Shabby Chic Cottage

This cute print is a free printable and in your choice of color

from Sprik Space, visit to print yours and leave them some love in a comment!

 

 Chicken Salad Croissants and Heart Pizzas for lunch...a sweet deal

with Peach Iced Tea

 

 And I have to thank Glorious Treats for sharing her "recipe"

for Chocolate Mousse...it was indeed, too easy!

 

 Sweet Treats...

 

 and crafty ones....I love my tags that Susan's Greetings designed for us!

LOVE burlap banner on dessert table:  White House Black Cat

Thank you to all the wonderful ladies that attended lunch

and encourage my ideas and creativity!

Happy Valentine's Day!

A little flashback...

I recently found these pictures of my littlest one's first two birthdays

and wanted to share with all of you a little flashback...

(By the way, he's now 7 3/4) 

 

 Tigger 1st Birthday in orange and light blue color coordinates. 

We celebrated in Orlando, FL with family and friends 

on a beautiful day at the park.  

 

 

Yummy Vanilla and Chocolate Cupcakes from Publix

(I miss Publix!!!) 

We had little Tigger picture frames with Joel's 1st Picture

for our guests, Orange and Light Blue M&Ms that back on those days

you could only order online....yes, I remember! And I put together

a Birthday Hat for him using a 1st Birthday hat from Party City on 

a round foam and decorated with paper streamer. In the back you can

barely see but I also made Candy Melt Lollipops in orange and light blue

colors with Winnie the Pooh designs.  So fun!

 Tigger figures from Dollar Tree were decorated on small foam circles

and orange paper streamer and I attached a 1st Birthday sign.  

(His gifts in the back matched the party with Tigger wrapping paper).

Second Birthday just as fun with Little People...

ohh ebay was good to me... I found so much there, 

including toddler cups with lids, banners and  place cards.

I made the cupcake toppers out of Little People stickers.

 

 

 Used some of the Little People toys to decorate the cake with

going with the farm theme which was one of his favorite Little People's toys,

there's a little mud puddle for the piggies in chocolate.  

I loved baking and making this cake!...

So his 8th birthday is coming soon in May,

and Yes!  I already started planning for it!  

It's so fun to see what they're into each year,

but for his 8th birthday I'm gonna give his guests

a little insight not on what he's into at the moment

but what he is actually all about,  all day, everyday of the year!

(Stay tuned!...)

Also looking forward to a post all about 1st birthdays really soon!!