Oh Too-Doodles!! A Mickey Mouse Birthday

Happy Monday everyone!  I had the pleasure of creating a Mickey Mouse birthday for my niece that turned the fun age of 2 last week.  She has a certain love, as many do for the classic Mouse, Mickey of course!   I enjoyed making this commercial character into our own to make it cute and unique!  Not every dessert table needs to be all out with an over abundance of desserts,  you can create an easy yet colorful and memorable dessert display with special details.  

Coordinating cookies of square & party hat shapes

DIY Party Hats! Everyone must be celebrating Micky Mouse style because there we no hats in stock at the stores.  No worries with simply cutting out black circles out of construction paper and finding colorful hats at Target we were in Mickey Mouse business.  Kids loved them and they all look great wearing their ears!  See~

 Oh-two doodles wearing her hat!  

PARTY DECOR~ 

Window sign welcoming guests

 Oh-Two doodles personalized 5x7 framed sign 

 DIY printable banner

The famous song "hot dog hot digity dog" 5x7 personalized sign.  

You should see her dance for that song.... priceless.   

CUPCAKES~

 Vanilla buttercream cupcakes with fondant toppers

Cupcake Toppers

Chocolate Fudge Icing Cupcakes

I will be sharing the recipe & how to make the hats on my blog later today.  The frosting is delicious and the party hats were very easy to make.  

Peace, Love & Mickey Mouse Birthday,


Stacy

Easter Inspiration {Part 3}

I am sure you are getting everything together for Easter this weekend!  Last week I shared with you flowers & table setting & decor inspiration for Easter.  Today~ the scrumptious part!  Food!  There are many different types of food that are traditional to serve at Easter and actual symbolize different signs from with in the Christian beliefs.  I found this article to be interesting, if you wish take a click over and read some of the different meanings for the food.  

We wanted to put together something easy & inspirational for you to re-create or add to your Easter celebration and decor by putting these tables together for you!  

Using all your pretty cake stands to serve your treats to celebrate! 

Deviled eggs garnished with thyme, parsley & pansies

 in the back a red potatoes, green onion, mushroom egg frittata

Scrumptious banana cream pie garnished with pansies

Hot Cross Buns

Get extra use out of your glass dome from your cake plate. 

Adding character to your table by using it to cover another food.

Stack mini pancakes secure with a tooth pick pour syrup and place a strawberry on top.  

I was inspired to do this from a photo I saw on Pinterest. 

Everything Chocolate on Easter after a long 6 weeks of not having it!  

Mini Chocolate cupcakes top with fondant circles 

& party circles from Fresh Chick Studio

Add simple decorated eggs around the table

Fill a bowl with decorated sugar cookies & chocolate eggs for your guests

Pot pretty spring flowers!  Top them off with moss to cover the soil

Use pretty cloth napkins and align them down your table to create a table runner

There you have it!  I will be sharing 2 recipes this week for Easter!  

I sure hope you come back.  Don't forget about my first two posts of Easter Inspiration!  

 Easter Inspiration {Post 1}

Easter Inspiration {Post 2}

I certainly enjoyed styling this inspiration shoot with Jane from The Garden Girls! 

 We hope you enjoy it! 

Peace, Love & Easter Celebrations,

Stacy

Cupcake Runway {Tween Inspired Birthday Party}

What a fun & scrumptious birthday party my 11 year old daughter Haley & 26 of her friends had a last month!
Here are all the photos& details from "Cupcake Runway" ~ a mix of the reality shows "Cupcake Wars & Project Runway".  The girls absolutely had a fantastic time!

I need to pay a HUGE thank you to Michele of Michele Hand Photography.  She did an amazing job at capturing so many candid photo's of the girls!

Enjoy & any questions let me know!  These photos are property of Scrumptious Swirls, if you would like a copy of any please email me stacyk17@comcast.net!  I'd be happy to send it to you.  Thank you!
The Invite- I love the color combo we used....Fuchsia, Navy & Lilac~

Here we go!  The party was from 2pm - 5pm so we had snacks bags of popcorn & soft pretzels, along with a candy bar. Both water & fruit punch with fun & super cute paper straws that I absolutely love~
The striped paper bags & paper straws were from one of my favorite Etsy shops Fort & Field.  I just adore the simplicity of the things she sells in her shop!  The other bags I got at Michaels and used one of  Martha Stewart's Craft Punches around the edges.

The birthday girl~ 

We played a few games~

The Marshmallow Game  

(Put one marshmallow at a time in your mouth and say "fuzzy bunny")  

All of the girls laughed so hard playing, it was great to see & hear! 

And a little volleyball in the backyard

What is Cupcake Runway you ask?  

The girls were the designers & the cupcakes were their model forms. When they entered the "Workroom" they "Piped it Posh" with the icing bags with 2 different style tips & the toppings.  Then they needed to "Make it Work" with the Posh cupcake wrappers from the one & only Bella Cupcake Couture.  We broke up the groups evenly and had the girls come to the workroom where I would demonstrate how to pipe the icing.....and the rest was up to them!!

While the designers were hard at work creating...the others were playing outdoors having fun!

When the designers completed their projects, they placed them on the runway.  I had slips of paper with their names for them to put their finished cupcake on until the time of judging. 

Pretty good right!?  These fine girls are our future cupcake designers for sure!  They piped them posh and neatly I might add!  (Which was an added perk of what could have been a total mess!  Because their cupcakes were being judged they kept the area and their cupcakes nice and neat ;)

From there 4 random judges were chosen with another game we played.  We shuffled around the cupcakes for the judges to be extra fair for the designers and they were not allowed to pick their own.  

There were 4 winners!  All which were displayed on the darling cupcake stands from Hello Hanna!  

Super Posh & Fabulous cupcake designing if I don't say so myself (maybe it was their super cool instructor...LOL totally kidding!) And BTW it is not too cool to say "super cool" I found out ;)

From there it was nothing but PEACE, LOVE & SWEETS~ 

For dessert they each enjoyed their cupcakes OFCOURSE!!!! Along with chocolate covered pretzels & birthday cake made by me, doughnuts & chocolate covered oreos!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY AWESOME, AMAZING, WONDERFUL & VERY BEAUTIFUL

Haley Rose! 

Last but not least!!!! My 11 yr old and her fabulous friends were all hero's for this party!  

Each guest brought books to donate to the organization Project Night Night.  We found this wonderful organization through my darling friends at the Children's Party Network.  That day we received 42 brand new books to donate for the totes they make for homeless children across the country in shelters.  Thank you both to Project Night Night and CPN for making this part of the party the Icing on the Cupcake!!  

Speaking of Project Night Night, when planning my party I had asked the Kristy of The Posh Pixel Design Studio to create custom labels & cupcake toppers for the party.  I decided to cut back on costs so that we could donate & purchase additional tote bags for the homeless children.  One of the costs were the labels so in lieu of I did donate a tote in Posh Pixels name to Project Night Night ;) 

Hope you enjoyed the post and pictures! 

Peace, Love & Tweens!!

Stacy