When your sister is a professional florist, there are always beautiful flowers for every birthday in abundance! And the flowers are in your favorite colors, of course.
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Birthday Flowers In Abundance
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New Year's Eve Birthday Cake
Every year there is a world-wide birthday party on my sister's birthday. A huge crowd gathers in Times Square in New York City; indeed in all major cities around the world. Party goers count down... 10, 9, 8, ... 2, 1... to the instant her birthday ends, and a huge glittering ball drops. Fireworks erupt, streamers descend, champagne corks pop, and strangers kiss one another.
She is another year older.
The birthday celebration is a little more subdued at our house, but nonetheless joyous. We celebrate with cake, presents, and flowers. This year the cake was coconut cake topped with raspberries and wax flowers.
Our secret between us... start with a cake purchased from a bakery and add fruit and flowers to decorate it. The cake goes from just being a cake to a special cake for a special occasion.
La Madeleine, a French bistro and bakery in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, makes delicious cakes that are moist and flavor-filled. This coconut cake has creamy, pudding-like icing between the yellow cake layers and tastes heavenly... homemade.
Better than homemade.
TIP 1: Check whether the flowers you plan to use are toxic before putting them on a cake. Just search online. "Are wax flowers toxic?" Insert the name of the flower you want to use in place of the underlined wax flowers in the sample question.
TIP 2: By using some of the wax flowers in a bouquet of peach-tinged roses, the party bouquet coordinates with the cake. Subtle details like repeating colors, textures, or flowers create a finished look to party decorations. Most people are not aware of the details that make the difference in final touches, but their minds sense the unity created by repetitive use of colors, textures, or flowers.
With just a little extra added to a ready-made cake, the cake and party become very special... worthy of a spectacular new year's eve celebration... with a minimum of time, money, and expertise.
Happy New Year
and happy birthday, Sister.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
An exquisite
Birthday Party
Pour moi
(for me)
given by my sister!
My creative, generous, talented, loving sister
gave me a belated birthday luncheon on Easter Sunday.
She went all out...
Cake
This special, just-for-me cupcake was chocolate with strawberry jam inside.
Yum!
The fresh mint and blue muscari flower made my heart sing.
Fresh flowers
Perfectly color coordinated with the cake, presents, dishes...
Place cards with menu
Gourmet food
Appetizer course
Too beautiful to eat, but we did!
The other courses were delicious, also.
Beef bourgignon, green beans, rosemary roasted potatoes
Spring salad with goat's cheese and pears
Chocolate cake with strawberry sorbet served in chocolate wafer shells
Presents
A shadowbox was a present, filled with other presents...
Love those straws!
Each gift was wrapped in such a special way.
Specialty chocolate Easter eggs...
A gorgeous shopping bag tied with a peach ribbon...
Such an exquisite bird on scrapbook paper...
My sister knows me...paper is one of my passions...
Exquisite wrapping paper with an elegant sealed wax fleur de lis...
Fleur de lis sealed feather and ribbons adorn a beautiful package.
Such an elegant party with good friends...
A belated birthday celebration to recall forever...
Sisters by chance,
Friends by choice
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Sweet Magnolias Farm has a great Give-Away in progress until
April 27, 2013.
In honor of Ball canning jars' 100th anniversary,
Sweet Magnolias Farm is giving away
6 sets of 6 commemorative canning jars.
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