I don’t think I have SMAD, I just really enjoy flexing my artistic muscle.  After all it isn’t really art and I really have no special skill except to copy and modify with the best of them.   Birtthdays like Halloween were always a big deal in our family.   Even for a family party my mom would go all out… games and amazing food a special cake and LOTS of balloons!   So when Ana Turned TWO and to keep in the bee theme of our family this year we did a honey bee theme.

The Decor:

Yellow and black polka dot and hot pink  balloons and table clothes  (From Amazon and Party City) about 50.00

The Outfit:

I found the outfit on Ruffle Darlings on Etsy and they were fabulous and the quality was worth every penny.   And it was a few pennies…sigh but dang did she look cute!!

The Cake:

I typically by my cakes from a sweet sweet girl in Georgetown but this year I thought I would try my hand in making the birthday cake.  So now per Gabe I am on the hook for his cake and he wants WASPS (OH DEAR)

The pan was purchased off amazon.com here.

The top was the Williams and Sonoma Recipe for Beehive Cake to the T but be careful it was a little bit dry this go round so glaze extra heavy and let it sit for a while to really soak in.

The bottom was devils food cake that was crumbed with butter cream then piped with Buttercream which firms

The little bees were all me.  I bought Black, White, Yellow and hot pink Fondant off amazon (Wilton is great to work with) and using mini cutters crafted these little guys and the flowers and her name.

I used floral wire to make they hover around the hive and it was a spectacular hit!!

I also did coordinating cupcakes and my famous Brown Butter Chewy Chocolate chip cookies.

The Food:

Soul food…not sure how this happened but it was 2 years in a row and everyone seems to really love it!

Fried Chicken

Hot Dogs for kiddos

Baked Mac and Cheese

Corn Puddin 🙂

Green Beans

Water Melon

Biscuts and HONEY from our Beehives

And here is my little helper who was so awesome and helping her mama cook!  I love this little doodle bug and pray for may more birthdays where I can create memories for her like my mom did for me!!