Sweet sushi tutorial

For Mila's party we made sweet sushi, it was real fun to make, it tasted jummie and it looked really cute on the party table.

I've got some questions on how we made the sushi so I made a photo tutorial so you can make your own!

tip: don't know how to make buttercream here is a recipe

 tip:for rolling out the fondant I used a little bit of cornstarch so it would not stick onto the rolling pin or table, use only a little otherwise your fondant will look white instead of black

 tip: If the buttercream  is not soft enough to apply add a little bit of hot water and mix well

enjoy making and eating the sushi!!

Party Time...

  on saturday I did a little test shoot with Mila 

This weekend was Mila's kids party, she invited 6 girls to celebrate herr birthday with.

The party started with a 'japanese kawaii' high tea with sweet sushi, rasberry cheescake, macarons, strawberries, sweet popcorn and lemonade.

To decorate the table with used paper doilies and lots of confetti! Mila made the cute cat glasses from simple glass jars and a special glass marker, the girls loved the glasses! 

After the cake eating and unwrapping the presents the girls dressed up in Harajuku style and we did a photoshoot inside the house ( the plan was to go outside and do the shoots infront of some cool street art but in was raining and storming ;-(

And then it was time to see a manga film ( wolf children) and eat sushi....

Mila loved the party and I think her friends did too, now it's time to clean up all the confetti and get back to normal life!

Cool gifts....

 

When you turn 12 you need a cool gift and when I saw this polaroid camera in this sweet light blue color I knew it would be the perfect gift for Mila. She loves pictures and always screems out OMG when she sees a polaroid camera ( like a real teenager) She has a few penpals that she love making Happy mail for and the  polaroids that she will take with the camera will be a great addition to her mail.

We bought the camera here, I love the colors they offer and they have some great accesories for the polaroids as well like cute stickers, enveloppes, printed straps and a mini photo album where you can keep the polaroids in.

Mila pretending to take pictures in her birthday outfit

Party time!

Today my sweet Mila turns 12, it is hard to believe she is that big already! I'm so proud of her and love her to bits !

This morning I made her a special birthday breakfast together with Sofia. Of course the breakfast and the gifts had to be cute and Kawaii. 

I'm off baking cake and decorating the house....

She made treats for her class, party popcorn ( popcorn mixed with white chocolate melts with sprinckles) in cute cat bags.
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Party preparations

The party preparations are in full swing, lots of things to do and make. I love DIY parties, making the decorations, party treats, gifts make a party more special and is half of the fun.

Preparing Mila's party is real team work, we work together on creating the party and choosing the theme, it's a fun activity to do together and at the same time it's a great way for Mila to learn new skills and learn how to work with a deadline and because she is involved in the whole process she appreciates the party more and will feel very proud of the end result!

Almost party time

 Its almost party time again, Mila will be celebrating her 12th Birthday very soon. Her last year in primary school, high school here she comes! 

So this party will be her last kids birthday party so we are working hard to make it a good one.

This year she will have a Japanese party, inspired by Harajuku ( Harajuku is the name of an area in Tokyo with a lot of cool shops where the youth hangs out in over the top Kawaii outfits) and also about cats because they are just so cute.

Preparing a party starts with collecting ideas and images, for us that is starting a pinterest board and taking a little notebook to collect all our ideas. Then we start planning the party....

( links to images can be found here)

These are some images we found on pinterest, as you can see the harajuku style is very sweet and girly with lots of accesories and the food is very Kawaii. 

We will make lots of things for the party and I will try to share some party diy ideas here on the blog.

Japenese Flower party

Yesterday was my birthday and I and very last minute I decided to organize a little tea party for my family, I came up with a flowery Japanese theme.It was so nice to see the faces of the girls when they got home from school, they didn't expect a party like that, they just thought there will be some tea and cake ;-)  I had a lovely day, got some lovely presents ( including a family day to Antwerp !) Now back to work...

A tutorial for Crescer

A little while ago I was contacted by a Brasilian kids magazine Crescer asking about our kids birthday parties, they asked if they could do a little interview and publish some pictures of Sofia's Japanese party. The magazine is out now ( I haven't seen the article yet ) and the tutorial I made is published on their website here. I can't wait to see Sofia's party in print.

Japanese doll

I made Sofia this 'Japanese Doll' as a birthday present.

The Party.....

Yesterday we had Sofia's Japanese birthday party, in the morning we had her friends over and we decorated kimonos with stencils, they had some japanese treats ( and ate them with chopsticks) and we made some origami cats, rabbits and boxes.

In the aftrenoon we had the party for friends and family with a japanese buffet ( salads, sushi, teriyaki, tempura and more.....).

...more party preparation...

Sofia and Mila in the bakfiets on our way to school this morning...

treats for classmates and teachers


goodie bags for the party tomorrow

paper cut outs

preparing some decorations and thank you cards

birthday preparations

We are busy preparing for Sofia's Japanese birthday party this saturday, making banners from origami paper and treats (origami boxes with Japanese candy) for her class mates.

invitations 1#

Yesterday we had so much fun doing this photo session, now we have to choose the photo for the invitation, I can not decide yet.

Japanese inspiration

These coming weeks you will see a lot of Japanese (inspired) pictures here on my blog, why?

Miho from Sakatodesign will come to my house/Atelier this week and we are planning a Japanese inspired party for Sofia's 7th birthday. I Also will try and make some pictures in Paris of my favourite Japanese stores with adreses etc... oh this will be so much fun.