We Love LB

                                  

                                    

                    

                                      

Table Concept Design and Styling:
Sweet Caroline from The Sweet Love Chain Events and Design & Abigail Lodevico from Abs of Cakes

Cupcakes, We Love LB Cake and Cookies: Abigail Lodevico from Abs of Cakes

Photography: Eloisa Nadine Hernandez Photography, www.eloisanadine.blogspot.com

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After my talented cake designer friend, Abigail Lodevico told me about the awesome opportunity to create a fun dessert table for WeLoveLB.org, I was ecstatic to collaborate with her to create a wonderful "cake city" honoring our favorite city, Long Beach! The event would take place at 2nd City Council Art Gallery in Downtown Long Beach. We were excited to partake in the event and help our favorite city and the community!

We Love LB is a non profit organization in Long Beach created to help build relationships and networks within the city, as well as serve the people and neighborhoods of Long Beach.

Abigail and I decided to recreate the 9 districts of our beloved Long Beach (we were inspired by the circle dot map on the site!) with cupcakes topped with distinguishing landmarks, symbols, neighborhoods and streets, that put Long Beach on the map!

Because Long Beach is big on keeping our planet healthy by "being GREEN" with promoting recycling and biking, we had a wonderful time creating the recycled "cake city"! Our cake city was mainly created by reusable and recyclable materials from The Long Beach Depot for Creative Reuse, which is an awesome place for all your crafters and recyclable creatives! Thank you to the wonderful people at The Long Beach Depot for Creative Reuse for supporting us in honoring our beloved Long Beach!

Special thank you to We Love LB for allowing us this amazing opportunity to create a cake city table honoring the great city of Long Beach!

A wonderful thank you to our wonderful and talented friend, Ellie, who took amazing shots of all the cake city details and the gallery! Please check out her work, she is amazing!

A BIG thank you to my talented cake designer friend, Abigail for being amazing to work with again. We did it sister!

Lastly, it was a wonderful honor and amazing opportunity to meet the founders, organizations and people behind the scenes of We Love LB! We had an awesome time meeting both Long Beach natives and lovers.

Goooo Beach!

Mochi's BIG TOP 3rd Vintage Circus Birthday

                                  

 

                                                   

 

                                      

                                       

                 

                                    

Event Design and Planning: Sweet Caroline from The Sweet Love Chain Events and Design

Banners, Cupcake toppers, Treat labels and design, Cupcakes, Cakepops, Pupcakes and Dog Birthday Cake: Abigail Lodevico from Abs of Cakes

Concept Design for treats and Banners: Sweet Caroline 

Photography by: Eloisa Nadine Hernandez, blog: (www.eloisanadine.blogspot.com)

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Come one, Come All! Its Mochi's BIG TOP 3rd Circus Pawty and we had a ball!

I had an amazing time planning this special circus pawty for my sweet pup, Mochi. It was his 3rd birthday and I wanted to do something special for him! To celebrate his BIG TOP 3rd, I planned a vintage circus inspired dog birthday pawty for my sweet Mo. 

I had awesome help from my good friend, Abigail Lodevico from Abs of Cakes who did an amazing job creating and designing the beautiful and yummy cake treats, banners and cake toppers! I also had my wonderful photographer friend, Ellie come out to capture beautiful shots of the circus pawty!

All circus guests enjoyed a variety of circus sweets and treats. Mochi's circus pup guests came decked out in their circus inspired attire and enjoyed a feast of doggy circus treats! We had an awesome cirque de pup treat station full of peanut butter pupcakes (they are cupcakes for dogs!) and beef and chicken treats in beautiful apothacary jars and bone shaped bowls. I also had thank you bags for all the circus pup guests who came to celebrate Mo's 3rd! After the festivites, Mo's doggy friends all enjoyed a cinnamon and banana vintage ball birthday cake that was woofin' delicious! 

The humans at the pawty weren't left out with the cirque de feast of treats!

We had a cirque de sweets human treats table, decked out with awesome red velvet and yellow cupcakes topped with yummy cream cheese frosting, cotton candy, chocolate covered pretzels, a circus candy station, candied apple cakepops (they were really red velvet cakes that looked like candied apples) and delicious caramel popcorn!

The circus feast also included a Hot Dog Station with a variety of hot dog toppings and hots dogs (turkey, beef, chicken and veggie) AND a yummy potluck table full of circus inspired food!

Mo's circus guests paraded around in their circus attire and the best circus costume won a fun prize! My friend Selecia's doggy, Yogi who was dressed as an elephant, won best dressed! After the costume contest, we had circus doggy games and winners won fun toys and prizes! 

A special thank you to Abs for creating and designing all the paper banners and cake toppers, cupcakes, candied apple cakepops, peanut butter pupcakes and the awesome cinnamon and  banana vintage ball birthday cake! Check out her page Abs of Cakes for her beautiful cake design work!

A big thank you also to my friend, Ellie, for taking such wonderful pictures of Mochi's circus pawty! Check out her beautiful photography portfolio on www.eloisanadine.blogspot.com

Lastly, Thank you to Mochi's circus pawty guests, both human and pups AND my friends and family for helping make Mochi's 3rd a BIG TOP circus celebration!