Sweet Winter Wonderland

Today marks the first day of Win­ter! I have offi­cial­ly been on vaca­tion this week and admit there have been sev­er­al naps involved in my week’s itin­er­ary, just like my good ‘ole friend, Snoopy! The tem­per­a­ture has been fair­ly mild here in Vegas, which has been pleas­ant, but I would­n’t mind it get­ting a bit cold­er to make it feel more like the hol­i­days are here! When grow­ing up in Brazil, we spent our Christ­mases in the Sum­mer sun, but I always longed for a Win­ter Won­der­land with a blan­ket of snow out­side and sip­ping hot cocoa inside by the fire… just like in the movies! But alas, it rarely snows here in the dessert, though last year we did get a tad and we were for­tu­nate enough to expe­ri­ence it until it melt­ed two hours later!

As I enjoy my time off to relax with the fam dur­ing the hol­i­days, I thought I’d share some of the designs I worked on recently…

The amaz­ing Hol­i­day issue of Bird’s Par­ty’s Mag­a­zine was released ear­li­er in the sea­son and I was hon­ored to have made these pen­guin top­pers for the fab­u­lous Mindy at Cre­ative Juice, who styled the most gor­geous par­ty inspired by Bird’s Par­ty’s Cool Igloo col­lec­tion! My four-year-old also want­ed in on the action!

I was also thrilled to have col­lab­o­rat­ed with Michelle at I Do Invi­ta­tions by Michelle for her absolute­ly adorable Mer­ry & Bright shoot for the Hol­i­day issue of Baby Lifestyles Magazine!

Wendy at Green Bean­sie Cards designed a beau­ti­ful Ski­ing Snow­man Fair Isle col­lec­tion, which was fea­tured on Kara’s Par­ty Ideas, for which I cre­at­ed these sweater and mit­ten toppers!

One of my amaz­ing clients, Anne, was not only throw­ing a “San­tas Around the World” hol­i­day par­ty, but she also planned on sur­pris­ing her guests by get­ting mar­ried!!! I was so priv­i­leged to have been asked to cre­ate these fes­tive and inter­na­tion­al top­pers for such a spe­cial and joy­ous occa­sion! Con­grat­u­la­tions again, Anne and hubbie! ♥

The fab­u­lous and nine months preg­nant (at the time!) Tonya from Soiree Event Design threw an adorable Whim­si­cal Christ­mas Soiree par­ty for her daugh­ter’s Girl Scout troop and used my top­pers to cre­ate a cup­cake bar where the girls could dec­o­rate their own cup­cakes! Tonya always uses the top­pers in the most cre­ative ways!

I had the absolute plea­sure of meet­ing Miran­da from Whim­si­cal Print­a­bles in per­son over the Sum­mer and besides being a pis­tol, she is also the sweet­est! Miran­da threw two Christ­mas par­ties over the last cou­ple of weeks for her kid­dos: An adorable Pink Elvis Christ­mas Par­ty for her daugh­ter and the cutest San­ta’s Work­shop Party for her twin boys!

I also shared the Mele Kaliki­ma­ka trop­i­cal Christ­mas par­ty we threw to com­mem­o­rate my hus­band’s birth­day ear­li­er this week. I seri­ous­ly had such a fun time cre­at­ing the good­ies for this par­ty, includ­ing these cup­cake top­pers and just think­ing of how much fun San­ta and his friends would be hav­ing on a post-Christ­mas vacay!

Sweet May­lene from Malu Bou­tiques con­tact­ed me to cre­ate some top­pers to match a snow­man dec­o­ra­tion she had for a par­ty, whom she named Char­lie! Snow­men need to keep warm, too!

And last­ly, edi­ble fon­dant hol­i­day card that orig­i­nal­ly debuted in the Hol­i­day issue of the Bird’s Par­ty Mag­a­zine! Bird is the “tweet­est” ever and when she con­tact­ed me to cre­ate an edi­ble card, I thought it was inge­nious!!! She gave me full cre­ative free­dom, with the only stip­u­la­tion that it should reflect my “style”, so I decid­ed to make a sweet cup­cake tree card, of course!

Hope you’re hav­ing a won­der­ful hol­i­day sea­son, no mat­ter the weather! ♥