Homemade with Love

Heart Peppermint Patty Centers

Chocolate Covered Peppermint Patty Hearts

Homemade Vanilla Marshmallows

Chocolate Cover Marshmallows

Homemade Candies

I have never been overly excited about Valentine's day, but this year I decided I should practice some of the techniques I've learned in class. We recently learned how to temper chocolate and what better way to say I love you than chocolate on Valentine's day. Both Ian and I have class tonight so I prepared these chocolates and a handmade card to surprise him with when we both get home later tonight. I hope you get to spend today and everyday with the person you LOVE!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Croissant, Danish and Puff Pastry...oh my

What better way to kick off the weekend than homemade croissants, danish, and puff pastry. I have never been more covered in flour than when working with laminated dough, but all the calories and flour are totally worth it when you bite into a warm, fresh chocolate croissant or a buttery cheese danish...yummy!!!

Vintage Posters

I absolutely love the look of these vintage posters found over at A Vintage Poster, the only problem is that they have 50 different posters to choose from and each comes with 25 color options; I can't even begin to narrow it down. I may end up designing a completely custom poster, which is also an option. I clearly have no reason for the animal prints, but I am totally in love with the dotted giraffe (no big surprise given my obsession with yellow and dots).

Sunshine

It may be the beginning of February, but the weather in San Francisco feels much more like summer. I bought these colorful flowers to brighten up our engagement photo shoot and I have to say they made a great addition. The combination of beautiful weather, bright flowers, and a brilliant photographer made our engagement shoot so fun! I can't wait to share the pictures.

Let's Float Away

Life has been a little stressful lately and in the midst of everything I gained a new obsession with hot air balloons. I love their vivid colors and the idea of just floating up, up and away. I am especially crazy about the engagement shoot Oh Joy covered above, probably because we are finally taking our engagement pictures this weekend. I don't expect them to turn out anything like these, but I do hope they reflect our life and love.

Images via Pinterest and Oh Joy Blogs

What to EAT?!?

I have food on my mind and have been struggling to figure out how and what to serve 200 of our closets family and friends at our wedding. I think food is one of the most important elements of a wedding and often doesn't get the attention it deserves. I have a meeting with our caterer tomorrow to talk about all the options. I've been having trouble deciding both how to serve the food (buffet, stations or passed) and what to serve (chicken, fish, steak, vegetarian). With a guest list of picky eaters how do you please everyone? Suggestions welcome!

Images via 100LayerCake

Love is Sweet

When deciding on Save the Date's we knew that we didn't want anything too traditional. In order to play up our theme of Love is Sweet we decided to send Kisses along with the Save the Date. I designed and printed the Save the Date and address labels myself and my mom helped to stuff all 100 packages with kisses. I was surprised at how easy these were to pull off and I absolutely love how they turned out!