Radiant Red Ikat Party on Hostess with the Mostess!

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Radiant Red Ikat Dinner Party featured on

 Hostess with the Mostess today!

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Radiant Red Ikat Holiday

The inspiration for this holiday party came from the Ikat fabric featured on the wall behind the dessert table. Ikat is a dying process similar to tie-dye, but the threads are dyed before construction. This red and white repeating pattern was in the shape of a glass blown Christmas ornament. It had just the right touch of holiday color and modern, natural aesthetics.


We handmade the magnolia leaf wreaths and spray painted them lacquer white. If you follow our work long enough you'll see that there's nothing we won't spray paint! We found the red books at an antique store and some other pieces on this table were found at our favorite stores, West Elm and Crate & Barrel.

 We kept the color story easy and modern, but brought out the details in the textures, from the woven strands of the Persian fairy floss that adorned the pudding, the shredded flakes of the coconut cupcakes, down to the smooth and uniform petals of the succulents. Persian fairy floss also known as Pashmak proved harder to get than we thought. We tried to order from pariya.com and were told that they were temporarily unable to ship the the US. We weren't able to find any other US company who sold it. I turned to an etsy seller from the store iPashmak who didn't even have pashmak as an item at the store but agreed to make it for us! Thank goodness because it looked amazing on the milk pudding.

The ornamental Ikat reappears in paper with the name cards pinned to the backs of the dining chairs. A white lacquer branch and ribbon polish off this festive touch. These marvelous succulents bring in a soft sprinkle of green while the vibrant red peonies and gold candlelight radiate the warmth of the season.


Finding flowers for this table was another adventure. We didn't want the traditional look of roses but the only other "bushy" looking flower available in red were carnations. The florist we work with said that it's sad that carnations were seen as the "iceberg lettuce" of the flower world because she likes them. After a few unsuccessful trips to the San Francisco flower mart we decided to get silk flowers. We were nervous about how they would look they turned out great.

The real fun and whimsy of this party is found at the hot cocoa bar, where guests are invited to grab a mug of cocoa and customize it to their liking with caramels, whipped cream, toffee chips, homemade marshmallows, and chocolate and peppermint dipped spoons. A DIY for the homemade marshmallows is coming soon! All of this atop vintage board games that can be played while enjoying a one-of-a-kind chocolaty creation. The hearty succulents were so beautiful that we had to give them away as favors, so our friends and family could take a little bit of our holiday with them.

The beautiful invitation and all the tags and labels to create your own hot cocoa bar are available at our etsy shop.  Click here to see the printable collection!

Vendors & Credits

Event Design: Honeycomb Events & Design

Menu, Invitation and Printables: Honeycomb Events & Design Etsy Shop

Caramels: Iris Estell

Rock Candy: RockYourMouthGB

Wooden Sticks with Ball Ends:Wood Candy Sticks

Vintage Games: Penny Pickers

Persian Fairy Floss: iPashmak  

The House of Minnie Mouse

One of our biggest challenges to date. Transform a backyard into a Disney paradise. Our client wanted a very large assortment of goodies for her daughter's 3rd birthday party. We needed three full size tables just to accommodate all the desserts.

The head table featured our zebra cupcakes, rice krispie pops, enormous Mickey and Minnie cookies, chocolate dipped Mickey oreos, chocolate drizzled popcorn and fudge dipped caramel pretzels. Let the sugar coma commence!

Look at those cookies! Jennifer painstakingly created these sugar cookies. That frosting is flawless. Also, check out the pop out ears on the food labels, adorable.

The second table featured our candy confections. More of the incredibly popular and delicious popcorn and fudge covered, caramel pretzels. Our cake pops are always a show stopper. I'm not sure what you would call these, but incredible works of art, is a start. Jennifer raised the bar with the Mickey and Minnie versions.

Our client also wanted other cereals turned into marshmallow pops, like cocoa puffs and Lucky charms.

All the children loved our candy buffet. More licorice, gummi bears, and jelly beans than they could handle.

The third table polished off the wonderful decadance. What better way to finish off a party than with milk and cookies. Each child got their own bottle of milk with decorated straw. 

We added balloons in the theme colors of black, white, and red and theme patterns, polka dot and zebra print to fence posts as well as create these custom table centerpieces.

A Berry Sweet Farewell

We were asked to put together a dessert table for Carol who was retiring after a long career with a local branch of a bank. She had been with the bank for 32 years! We definitely wanted to make her final day feel special and worthy of her dedication.

The Strawberry Fields theme was a fun and cheery way to celebrate Carol.  To allow the strong berry red color to shine, we went with a cool mint green and a rustic craft paper brown. Jennifer went to work on creating her fabulous rosettes, and Jeff made the picnic style pennant banner with country style patterns that read "A Sweet Farewell".

Guests could not believe that the strawberries sticking out of the green crates were not the real thing. Jennifer crafted these mouthwatering cakepops with strawberry cake, cream cheese frosting, and candy coating, complete with a sour straw stem. The chocolate cupcakes were made even more devine with red and mint green wrappers. The real berries were all picked fresh from local farms, just in case you wanted to know.

Jeff created the "Parting is such Sweet Sorrow" invitation that went out to the 80+ coworkers that wished Carol the best, now that she can spend her summer days relaxing by the pool.

 All the best Carol and thank you for letting us be a part of your day!