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Friday, July 26, 2013

Pirate Madness:: Jacob's baptism


Quick post!





And of all craziness, we did book this party for today... the day we fly off to do some loveliness elsewhere. There was no escaping doing this because it has been planned way back December, yet had to be postponed for today. So with a few concessions (a moved time from dinner to lunch and  venue must be closer to home), we agreed.





Pirate party for little Jacob. When his parents saw a half done styling yesterday, was so pleased that they were already gaping on what we did. Sigh! So I hope when they see the venue just now, we get to please them more and their guests as well.













































gold coins























































 Ghosts on a pirate themed party! Lovely and chic!
















































That's it! Welcome to the Christian World little Jacob!




Monday, July 22, 2013

BMW or Toyota?


When something is gnawing inside me for at least two days, I think it merits a post.

Two nights ago, I was asked for a cake quote. So I did, then the client asks me "why is it that you are pricier than X?"

To be honest, I was appalled... yet I had to compose myself and not go on a tirade. The benefit of the doubt that maybe she didn't know truly why except for the obvious (which I hoped, but then I guess not) that when you put our cakes side by side... you'd know.

So I am going to answer why would our cakes be pricier than maybe other bakers. It takes a day to bake the cakes, and another day in preparing its frosting. Now if we are lucky, we can finish decorating one wedding cake in a day. Time translates to costs, on top of the other resources you consume.The pillow cake below was rushed, and when you do something "RUSHED" you double all your resources - that is  the number of people working on one project just so you catch up with the deadline. Now on a non-rushed cake, it takes myself, the mister, 3 of our staff to work on a cake. What more for a rushed cake, right? And in making these cakes that we do, we put in so much time in working on them. Believe me, there is nothing that comes out lovely without so much thought and effort.

Why? Why do we go through all of that? Because we have to be worth every penny you pay. And I do not champion mediocrity. If it can be an allergy, then by all means, I have an allergy to that. As much as I am pleased with praises on what we do, if I hear even the most minute criticism on what we do, it gets to me. But no worries because I do not fight back with catty remarks or so, but rather, it gives me the stronger need to be better.

I guess, I went too lengthy on my thoughts where in fact, the easiest to illustrate this scenario would be... would you ask why a BMW is pricier than a Toyota? No I suppose not and we may not yet be a BMW but I intend to be one, one cake at a time. And in my opinion, we are not pricey at all... it is even cheap with the quality and effort we put  in on whatever custom cake you want us to do. And please... if we compare, can we at least try to compare a Beemer from a Mercedes. Wink!






And lest I forget, my answer to the question was "We don't do things half baked". I hope she did understand that and not take it literally. 

Friday, July 19, 2013

Bow or Bowtie? :: Tin's Gender Reveal Party

I kinda believe that it takes a lovely party to come up with another lovely one. You see, this gender reveal baby thing has been scheduled when we we're doing Jesus Carlisle's Monogram party which you can see here. And I do remember how it all started... Jojami Alcid, Tin's sister in law and Arianne Franco, a friend, approaches me and tells me something that goes "We are throwing a party which Laoag City hasn't seen before!" Ok... now you have my attention. So we did have a few meetings over our homemade 5 minute pasta every now and then, accomplishing 1 of 20 in the list every time because every now and then current events about our small city would be brought up. Teehee!

So it's bow or bowtie gender reveal. The printable's  dictated the colors we were using, the patterns and most if not all everything! We limited the colors to white, pinks and purples, blues and greens. You can say I was in pastel heaven for a few days.




 Our first time to do meringue, easy but daunting at first. And what better way to show it off than have checkered blues and pinks tied with bakers twine?
We had a small nook for baby stuff in one side, an old wives tale chart, a black board to tally the teams we were on, a list of Tin's cravings and a writing area. Everything was part of the dinner program. And I won a game by listing the most of Tin's cravings. I know, what a cheat! Teehee!
 Lovely isn't it? Sigh!







Can you read the letter? If you do, then you'd agree that kids just say the darnedest things. Teehee!


 Bow and bowties, pink or blue to show which team are you on. By, the way... the blue team won. Tin and Kevin are having a boy. I regret not being able to take a photo of the reveal, I was too preoccupied with how tender the moment was, I was holding back tears. Yay!


Guess the number of pins and list the items you remember seeing in the baby suitcase. How hard could that be? Very hard!



 We had baby bottles with very nice paper straws for the pink and blue lemonades.



 I cannot be more pleased with how the guests were "in love" with what they saw. And the rest of the pictures will show how everyone was having a great time at the party.

Yanna Alcid taking videos or photos of everything?

Dear Ako Tintin...

The mister... yes drinking in a baby bottle. He ages backwards.

Team pink!

Glenn Tumaneng, the official photographer of the party. 

The bride and her bridesmaids... go figure!
Ariane Franco, Jojami Alcid, Joel Dul-Loog, Maan Albano

John, Dr. Babsie, Tin and Bryan Alcid

Caroline Barbers, Tin Alcid and Jojami Alcid


Most of the whole shebang
Now forgive for not having taken a lot of  photos... that would be Glenn's duty already. We were guests, and like other guests, we were busy enjoying the party. Teehee!

Thank you to the Alcid's for another lovely party you threw our way. Tin, you have the best sister in law in the whole wide world. And I mean that.

Congratulations on the little boy coming real soon.

Party planners:: Jojami Alcid and Arianne Franco
Floral and Party Styling:: Kit+Ace of Ava's Cakes
Venue:: Balay da Blas
Photographer:: Glenn Tumaneng