Category — food

I saw these adorable cupcake liners a while ago at Cupcake Social and thought to myself, ‘those would be nice to have.’  

And then Kristina pointed me to Bake it Pretty and oh.my.Lord.  I need to have a baking party. Like, now.  This very small sample of what you can get does not even do the site justice. You have to go and see it all.

I think the twisties are my favorite…  or the ballerina toppers… or the peanut bags…  

What do you get when you mix fresh organic recipes with fresh and organic photography?  Sprouted Kitchen.

Such a delicious looking love child Amazing photos by Hugh Forte. Who also just posted a new wedding. Go check it out!

The cellar is a semi-new wine bar in San Clemente and it is one of our favorite new places. It serves delicious tapas style food, serves its water from glass bottles and poured into mason jars.

They also have an awesome looking menu.

The menu changes every few months and during the day they sell cheeses and wine out of the front of the place.  They have live piano every night and stay open late, which in San Clemente means anything open after 9pm I would totally recommend it for a small daytime reception or rehearsal lunch. The place is gorgeous, the food is delicious… it really is a win win.

yes please.

Doesn’t that picture just make you drool?!  My mouth is totally watering right now. If I had my way, I would eat mexican food every day, and drink mexican beer, well, every weekend No beer bellies here please!

And with that I bid you ado. I am off to VEGAS for my friends bachelorette party and I. am. so. excited. I need this weekend.

Have a fabulous weekend, I know I will  

(from here)

… was my name in spanish class And then when I worked as a server and the bussers and cooks would have  a hard time pronouncing ‘Heather’ I told them to call me Sofia. So maybe i just like the name. Maybe it is the pink cans. Maybe I just love champagne. Whatever it is, I love it!

(from here)

Well look at all of you delurking! You must have felt pretty strongly about that bow huh?! haha I love that so many of you commented, you should do it more often! This whole blogging thing is such a community, a support for all of us whose friends have had it with us talking wedding all the time. If I had asked my friends “bow or no bow?” they probably would have said ‘meh’ and I would have had to decide on my own!  So, thank you for your comments, we will for sure be going no bow on the taller thinner jars and I am gonna experiment with bows (around the neck!) on the actual Ball jars, since they have a more prominent neck to hold the ribbon  I will post pictures soon!

Oh, and an update (cause you all are my community ) on the gelato! So we said we would give them till February, it is February, so we dropped them.  The last real email I sent them was over 2 weeks ago asking some detailed questions about the size of the cart, what the set up entailed etc. and I heard nothing back. I mean, I first contacted them in August, and the most I have gotten out of them is a price sheet and finding out we were on their calendar… I do not want to work with a company that has such horrible communication. So I sent them (the store manager and I cc’d his manager) this email:

“Due to a lack of communication on your part, we will no longer be needing your services for our July 18th event.”

Well, who do you think called me yesterday?! The managers manager! Ha  At first he had no idea what they had done wrong. I had to explain to him that sending me a price sheet and saying I am on your calendar isn’t exactly the details I was looking for. He tried to say that they just always say ‘yes’ to their customers so they didn’t think much into it.  By the end of the conversation I had gotten across to him that I am planning an event (a low-key-no-stress-least-event-ever-event) and needed a few more details than a price sheet and a “see you in july!”  He was very nice and very apologetic and maybe we will use them for our kids first birthday party. But not the wedding. Not my big event

SO. We stopped by a local bakery Saturday and spoke to the owner and got a list of their cakes. Want to hear one?

Princess: Three layer white cake filled with fresh bavarian cream and raspberries, surrounded with roasted hazelnuts and topped with fresh whipped cream and a layer of marzipan.

mmmmmmm

I am excited. We are definitely in the ‘reception’ planning stage, so I am reposting my own reception inspiration board, just as a reminder  Have a good morning everyone!!

Back to work Monday I say we move to the 4 day work week here in America. Let’s get a vote going and then I will send it to Obama. 

In other news, the gelato guy has STILL  not emailed me back. We said we would give him until February… which is a mere 5 days away… After that, small cakes it is!

From here.

donuts and burgers?! Yes please.

(from here)

I just grabbed a Watermelon jolly rancher from the management office…. took me all the way back to 1996. Crazy.

Anyways, the recent talk of san pellegrino “favors” got me thinking again about gooco’d napkins. I love the look of these. 

(image from here)

What are your opinions on not giving out favors? I am thinking maybe no favors, and instead getting these (or maybe the orange ones to go more with the color theme) and having the guests greeted by waiters with trays of them when they arrive at the reception. (sneaky idea: this will give them something to drink to hold them off going to the bar for at least a few minutes )

(from here)

So what do you think? Tacky to skip the favor or something the guests won’t notice?