Ambrosia Creative

I really get into giftwrapping, so I thought I’d share my secrets to a wildly successful packaging-of-a-product-to-be-given-to-another.

- I like to attach the greeting card itself (no envelope) onto the wrapped gift.
- Fabric and paper are different and interesting substitutes for ribbon. (I used a strip of fabric on the package above.)
- Monograms are always cute. I go about this by hunting down some decorative font on dafont.com, download it, print out the initial onto colored paper, cut (use a craft knife), and affix.
- Kraft wrapping paper is cheap and versatile. You can go all sorts of crazy by layering different textures and colors on plain kraft.

If you don’t want to wrap your gifts this Christmas, I will do it for you in exchange for chocolate.

And another lovely birthday party we attended on Saturday. My friend Andi said she didn’t have a definitive theme as she was putting it together, but to me, it felt very whimsical and fairy-in-the-woods-like.

{Make your own fairy wands}

The gourmand she is, Andi baked not only a Swedish princess cake…

…but a banana-cream cake. Along with dozens of cupcakes for…

…a design-your-own cupcake bar. This was a hit!

{He does frosting and toppings. Only.}

of course.

Family photos done! Thank you, Rileigh and Katelyn for shooting us today. You two are R-A-D.

I’ve been tagged twice already (thank you, miss Krista, miss Dana), so let’s get this done and over with.

Seven things. About me. New to you.
1. Born in Chicago. Grew up in San Jose. I like living where it’s busy and I miss it.
2. To me, dinner is merely a means to dessert.
3. And since we’re on the topic of food, I like to make as if I eat all healthy and stuff to my mom-hippie home-birthing granola friends. But in reality, the perfect meal to me is: Fries. Burger. Chocolate shake. It’s like, the food pyramid of perfection.
4. I won the spelling bee in elementary school.
5. I swear in my thoughts. Bad habit I’m trying to break, but I’m working against some hot Filipino blood running through my veins.
6. I was once a computer science major.
7. Camping scares me. Too dark. Too quiet. Ick.

And now, the part you’ve been dreading.
I tag you local, lucky gals: Aubrie, Kristen, Becky, Miyo, Kaleene, Monique, Susanna, and Stacie. It’s good day to be my friend, isn’t it?!