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What’s Your Sign? Chinese New Year Party

February 8, 2013 By Lynlee

My grand­moth­er’s birth­day is at the end of the year and due to a com­bi­na­tion of work and hol­i­day crazi­ness, I promised her a big­ger cel­e­bra­tion in con­junc­tion with Chi­nese New Year, which this year falls on Feb­ru­ary 10th with the com­mence­ment of the Year of the Snake. Since my moth­er’s side of the fam­i­ly is from Chi­na, I thought it would be mean­ing­ful to com­mem­o­rate my grand­moth­er’s {belat­ed} big day, as well as the start of the Lunar Year, with a savory and sweet spread!

For the table back­drop of our Chi­nese New Year par­ty, I made a paper fan wall, inspired by ori­en­tal fans and umbrel­las, and accent­ed it with a tra­di­tion­al drag­on pup­pet. The table was cen­tered by cup­cakes and top­pers, based on the Chi­nese Zodi­ac. Some oth­er sweets includ­ed “Longevi­ty Peach” steamed buns and “Pros­per­ous Orange Mac­arons” dis­played in gold ingot cups.

The main dish­es includ­ed some of our fam­i­ly favorites, as well as sym­bol­ic offer­ings, served on fun, whim­si­cal serv­ing plat­ters, along with some tra­di­tion­al chi­na. Red and gold were preva­lent in the col­or scheme, but the infu­sion of many sup­ple­men­tal col­ors added a play­ful­ness to the dis­play. With some adorable clip art from Elsy Design, I cre­at­ed some food labels, held up by minia­ture take-out boxes.

Since oranges and tan­ger­ines sym­bol­ize pros­per­i­ty and hap­pi­ness, I incor­po­rat­ed them into the decor by fill­ing hur­ri­cane vas­es with the fruit and top­ping them off with a Chi­nese fire­crack­er push pop!

The tra­di­tion­al red envelopes not only served as vibrant decor, but we were also for­tu­nate to be gift­ed with these pack­ets, typ­i­cal­ly giv­en out at cel­e­bra­tions and espe­cial­ly dur­ing Chi­nese New Year, con­tain­ing mon­e­tary presents!

I am so very for­tu­nate to be able to teach my daugh­ter more about her her­itage and expose her to Chi­nese cul­ture and tra­di­tions, as well as share and cel­e­brate these spe­cial occa­sions with four gen­er­a­tions in our fam­i­ly! We had a fab­u­lous and deli­cious time and wish you a sen­sa­tion­al and stu­pen­dous Year of the Snake! Hap­py New Lunar Year! ♥

What's Your Sign Chinese New Year Party ~ Lynlee's

Merci Beaucoup!



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Comments

  1. Southern Belles Charm says

    February 8, 2013 at 9:27 am

    Seri­ous­ly — gorgeous!

    • Lynlee's Petite Cakes says

      February 10, 2013 at 9:50 am

      Thank you so very much, sweet friend!!! Love ya! ♥

  2. Unknown says

    February 8, 2013 at 11:01 am

    So many cre­ative details, Lyn­lee! Espe­cial­ly loved the gor­geous back­drop and your Chi­nese zodi­ac top­pers. I was born the year of the pig : )

    • Lynlee's Petite Cakes says

      February 10, 2013 at 9:51 am

      Thank you so, so very much for your incred­i­bly sweet and kind words! I tru­ly appre­ci­ate it! We have lots of pigs in our family! ♥

  3. Tonya says

    February 8, 2013 at 1:28 pm

    love­ly!

    • Lynlee's Petite Cakes says

      February 10, 2013 at 9:51 am

      Mer­ci beau­coup, Tonya!!! ♥

  4. peggy vincent says

    February 9, 2013 at 8:30 am

    Lyn­lee, you are one of the MOST tal­ent­ed women I know! Absolute­ly amaz­ing what you can do:)

    • Lynlee's Petite Cakes says

      February 10, 2013 at 9:52 am

      Thank you oh-so very much for your incred­i­bly sweet and hum­bling words, Peg­gy!!! I tru­ly appre­ci­ate it so, so much! ♥

  5. Party Patisserie says

    February 11, 2013 at 11:45 pm

    Every­thing is just won­der­ful Lyn­lee! So col­or­ful and creative:)

    • Lynlee's Petite Cakes says

      February 12, 2013 at 9:58 am

      Oh, thank you so very much, Deb­bie!!! I tru­ly appre­ci­ate it, sweet friend! ♥

  6. kikssimplelife says

    February 12, 2013 at 6:48 am

    every­thing’s awesome…the back­drop is amazing!

    • Lynlee's Petite Cakes says

      February 12, 2013 at 9:58 am

      Awww! Thank you so, so much!!! I real­ly appre­ci­ate your kindness! ♥

  7. Brittany Schwaigert says

    February 18, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    This is so gor­geous Lyn­lee! I can’t believe I am just get­ting around to com­ment­ing on it! And those cup­cake top­pers are out of control!

    • Lynlee's Petite Cakes says

      February 19, 2013 at 11:54 am

      Awww, Britt! Thank you so, so much, friend! You know how much I appre­ci­ate your sweet com­pli­ments!!! Can’t thank you enough! ♥

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