december birthday party...

Here are some photos from a Birthday Party we threw for my sister Megan and my best friend, Christen. We had a small gathering at Black Bottle, in Belltown. They have a great room for parties, and Paul was amazing!

I highly recommended hosting an event there.

Jill Severson, pastry chef at Mistral, made the chocolate cupcakes with gold sprinkles - they were divine. She also made the truffle favors. Maggie Hogan, boxed all of the truffles in gold boxes and ribbon - so cute.

I made the sputnik with styrofoam balls and toothpicks, then spraypainted with metallic gold spray. They turned out great!

boston n.6 ... DIY... homemade wrapping paper

hi there. my best friend sarah just got married, and i wanted to make homemade wrapping paper. So i did... i used a custom potato stamp, craft paint, and USPS parcel paper. Total cost was approx: $5.00 +tax. pretty easy process. i have laid out the steps in photographs. It took about 20 minutes total, depending on how large of a surface you have to stamp, you may have to produce in sections. I recommend doing the paper a day before the wrapping, that way its completely dry!