{fluff & stuff} presents...ALIS IN WONDERLAND

nope, that's not a typo error. sweet little Alis turned one and her mum asked for an Alis in Wonderland theme. we'd done this theme before but with a more grown up approach so we were thrilled when we received this request ;)

the party took place a year ago but you know me...lots of delay in updating my blog posts! this year's resolution is to be more disciplined with my updates *keeping my fingers crossed here* 

anyhooooo, i forgot that i hadn't posted this yet and only just remembered cos it's that time of year again...ilaika's party! gosh...she's turning five soon. how time flies! now she has a mind of her own and a very strong will to go with it (!), she wanted to pick the theme for her party. her first choice was a swimming party (or rather a mermaid one) but i really think ilaika and her little friends are a tad bit young to be swimming on their own in the pool and i doubt our pool is large enough to accomodate all the kids and parents together!

so i showed her pics of alis' party and she's now excited to have (in her own words), "a flowers and alice and wonderland" theme!

i uploaded most of them to our facebook page but here are some of the pics i showed her. hope you're as easily impressed as my lil missy ;)

some of you may recognise the super cute designs of the flag bunting, toppers, tags etc. anis, alis' mum had them customised from lovely Kim of the tomkat studio ...aren't they just perfect? 

{fluff and stuff} presents : A YELLOW & GREY BABY SHOWER

as you know, we've been quiet for a long time and haven't taken up any orders for parties for over a year now. gosh...how time flies! 

when my cousin called me to ask for help to organise a surprise baby shower for his wife and sister who are both pregnant and due just a few weeks apart, the party girl in me just couldn't resist it! and unsurprisingly, mel felt the same way ;)

so we went ahead with the short time frame that we had to put together a small joint baby shower for the girls. as one is expecting a boy and the other a girl, we chose two neutral colours, yellow and grey, which turned out beautifully well. these pics were taken from my iphone...will upload better ones from the camera once i get them from mel.

notice the gorgeous food label above? it's a freebie courtesy of Cupcake Express and was just perfect for the look we wanted. 

oh and my most favourite item from all the things we put together was the nappy cake...made of just nappies, ribbons and a pompom, it looked so simple yet elegant. the best part of all was that it was so easy to put together and who needs a real cake anyways? the dessert spread was more than enough to feed our sweet cravings hehe.

i'm so glad i agreed to help organise this baby shower. firstly, the girls were so pleased and definitely surprised! and secondly, it made us both realise how much we love parties and how much we've really missed working on them! sigh...we really ought to sit down and brainstorm on how we should move forward with this ;p

{fluff and stuff} presents : ALICE IN WONDERLAND

yes, this post is waaaaaaaaaaay over due! the party was back in august 2010 and you might recall a sneak peek, as posted here. drawing inspiration from the movie as well as from the links mentioned in a much earlier alice feature, we came up with a whimsical theme, playing with the colours orange, turquoise and fuschia.

the party was for tunku alana's 25th birthday and the original "order" was for an alice themed dessert buffet. however, dear alana loved the moodboard we presented and so with much glee, we ended up decorating the whole venue!

here are some pics we snapped amidst the chaos...

- registration at the entrance - 

- the tables - 

   

- the dessert buffet -

   

   





   

- the bar counter -



   

credits: 1. the party took place at the pink sage diner, which i've mentioned before here. 2. we baked all the desserts ourselves except for the birthday cake and macarons. we already had a design in mind for the cake but we had a dessert buffet for a wedding of 600 pax to set up just hours prior to the alice party. with the mad hatter rush we knew we were in for, the cake was the last thing we wanted to take a risk with. hence, we commissioned satira diana to execute the cake-making for us. 3. as for the gorgeous macarons, we just haven't gotten round to mastering this particular art of baking, so we ordered them from whisk ;)

the overall night was named "alana in wonderland" and of course, we labelled the tags eat me and drink me. just for laughs, the biscuits were labelled bite me and the lollipops, lick me! we got a lil carried away, bought extra props and flowers for decor and most likely spent more than our budget...did i also mention we were mad hatters setting up two events back to back? yes, it was most definitely a mad day for us but it was oh so worth it!

MR MEN & LITTLE MISS...

amongst my favourite books whilst growing up was the mr men and little miss series...

i loved how the cute characters were so well illustrated based on their names and i always fancied myself being little miss sunshine ;)

of course, many would differ and probably say i was little miss chatterbox, more than anything else! but...i digress. the whole point of this post was to share pics of the bollipops we made for a friend's son and daughter. we matched the artwork to make them look like the cover of the story books...they turned out super cute!

square bollipops for all the mr men...

   

 and rounds ones for the little misses...

 

happy belated birthday, mr rayyan and little miss ranya!

BAMBINI, ANYONE...?

in my bimbo moments of weakness, i sometimes justify purchases for ilaika by telling myself that just like me, most mums are suckers for cuteness and it's just beyond our control when we splurge on our lil princesses ;) and like most mums that fall in this category, i immediately fell in love with these bambini shoes, recently launched by shoes shoes shoes...

*aspiring feet model - ilaika & yours truly ;p

hers & hers! aren't these just absolutely adorable...?

when yiu lin, the mastermind behind this local brand, invited me to the launch of bambini, i popped by her store the very next day to purchase these two pairs ahead of the launch! i also jumped at the chance to offer our biscuits as a gift for all the other young mums who were to attend the launch. 

we prepared boxes of customised vanilla butter biscuits that bore the bambini logo as well as the names of each child & mum. we also threw in some polka dots, inspired by the brand's shoe boxes...these are the pics i snapped and edited using the iphone. will post more later ;)

yiu lin tells me these were a great big hit...both the shoes and the biscuits...but of course, you can never have enough ;)

PRETTY DARN PRETTY...

it's been a while since i've posted anything on my baking projects.  

to be honest, i haven't baked much as year-ends are always hectic and true enough, it was mad this year with the festivities as well as my handing over of work at the office. i'll get around to updating more on sweet stuff but for now, here's a cake i'd like to share...

i seldom take orders for whole cakes as my icing skills are no where near perfect...but my mum insisted i made a cake for her good friend and so i could not say no.  with the d.i.y. banner as a contributing factor to its prettiness, am happy to say that this cake turned our pretty darn pretty...!

(fluff and stuff} presents : SSSHHHHH....IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!

we celebrated mel's birthday last night. it was a surprise party organised by her boyfriend and he asked us to help with him with minimal decor. minimal, because he didn't want us to go overboard  - it was a small do but it was a {fluff and stuff} birthday so that really was asking for the impossible! teehee...

but respectfully, we honoured his wishes and decided to put together all of mel's favourite snacks which literally meant a whole load of junk (food) ;)

the theme was a catchy play of words - it's all about ME - with ME being mel's initials...

here's the unassuming staircase with the balloons posing as a dead giveaway!





the modest "dessert spread" filled with cupcakes (baked by yours truly) and mel's favourite snacks...

who'd have thought local junk food (these are fish sticks) could look so pretty!

do excuse the not-so-perfect pics. i snapped these using my new iphone 4 (yes, hubby dearest was ever so kind!) and edited them using a few new apps i just recently discovered - instagram & diptic.  considering it's a phone, technology really is marvellous that way, huh?