Laid back beach lovin Thursday :: Dwight Liam's 1st

And the inspiration for this party was of course the pool in the area and my missing the North Shore's beach shacks and Matsumuto's shaved ice. It reminds me of how laid back (is it?) folks live near these areas. Their homes are just so natural looking, knick knacks accumulated from trips to thrift stores, the swap meat or Pier1. Like! Like! Like! And with that, I hope we can squeeze in a few days visit to the in laws. Calendar, be nice!

 

The little boy created quite a stir when I asked the mister to make him detailed. Too detailed must I say, the mister enjoyed doing it too much! Teehee!

Love the sun kissed mums!

Is that the catch for the day?

 

 

-Kit M.

December warmth:: Zaida and John Patrick

And we started back to back loveliness with the wedding of Zaida and John Patrick. Shoot me for not having a lot of photos to show, I forgot my camera. I know, darn! So I had to grab some photos from the Lauricio's, Shayne and Tito Cesar -who were the official photographers of this wedding.

Out first 23k gold cake with a wine colored rose topper. Sigh! The cake was so simple yet regal. The gold was something.

How nice were the red candle holders when illuminated.

The peony bouquet of our gorgeous bride, Zaida. Loving how the pinks popped really well from the here and there green buds.

And I love how dim Santa Monica church is. Just in case you were wondering, that is the Sarrat church where I one of the Marcoses got married.

Venue:: Arabella's Events Place
Cake:: Ava's Cakes and Events
Floral and Event Styling :: Kit and Ace of Ava's Cakes and Events
Caterer:: La Preciosa
Lights and Sounds:: Martin Audiolite
HMUA:: Mara Manuel

Location:Laoag Airport Road,Laoag City,Philippines

 

-Kit M.

Sesame Street:: Kerth Jacob's 1st

I always had apprehensions working on too many colors, more so if it touches most of the color wheel. So when Kerth's mom, Donna, told me that she wanted to have a very colorful party for his son... I was like, Uh oh! How about Sesame Street? And she agrees. 

So off we went to Vigan City to do Kerth's party.

Don't you like how the red door sets a nice backdrop for the cake? Sigh! I received skeptical looks from our staff when I told them to paint the door red. They knew that after this party, I'll have them scrape it off to its original brown... and they knew that that was way harder to do. Well, they were right, because as of this moment...they are now contemplating how to wring my neck.

We had 3D mylars of Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird and the others. I am not much fan of Sesame Street, and I think I skipped that show when I was little... so the mister reminds me that it was a great show where you could learn ABC's and 123's. If it was, why wouldn't they bring it back now and not have Tom and Jerry dominate the tube? Just saying, don't shoot me. Teehee!

Another party done for July... ready for the next!
Happy birthday little Kerth!

Lovely lemons and lemonades :: Xoan's 1st

When life gives you lemons, make lemonades! Exactly, better yet loveliness.

Let me go off tangent. Like most dysfunctional families, ours is, yes, like yours, perfectly imperfect. We do get our shares of lemons too- in different forms, two legged folks, the weather, fate! But somehow, I think growing up surrounded by strong women, made me resilient. It is not something I talk about everyday because like days, it passes and call me cray, but I like life's challenges. And apparently,I'm loving saying "Bring it on!" quite often. And like making lemonades, if you have just one lemon, it makes one glass, more lemons, more glasses... One challenge, one victory, more challenges, more victories. Oh and with Ava's cakes, we translate challenges to loveliness.











































Going back to this party, a little past seven this morning, we had a visit from Xoan's parents. His dad was quite pessimistic about having us at first, but then last night we hit it spot on... According to Xoan's mom, it was the dad who insisted to see us first thing in the morning to tell us about how lovely their party was. Yay! A lemon made to lemonade again. Couldn't be more pleased.

So thats how we ended one of our loveliest summers.

Hello June 1st! May we all embrace life's lemons and make them to lemonades err loveliness.

Location:Laoag City,Philippines