Elephant Baby Shower

An Elegant Elephant Babyshower

(As featured on the Little Big Company Blog)

We recently created and styled an Elegant Elephant Baby-shower for a client who was hosting her sisters 2nd baby-shower. With the chosen theme of "elephant" using pink tones we created the following dessert/candy buffet. With only a small budget we were able to create a dessert station that was perfect for an afternoon tea.

Dessert Station Menu:

Mini Vanilla Cupcake

Pink Raspberry Macarons

Oreo Cakepops

Rossette Style RedVelvet Cake

Candy - Persian Fairy Floss, White Toffee Bonbons, Pink Jellybeans, Pink Choc Drops

Using a simple pink backdrop with themed bunting and adding a few eye catching pieces such as a decorative silver cake stand, a birdcage, a beautiful drinks dispenser and rises we were able to achieve exactly what the client was after.

The client and the mother to be were very excited for the guests to arrive. Again proving that the team at The Inspired Occasion are adaptable and can create a beautiful talking point on any budget, from a customised DIY to a styled event managed event

Styling, Baking, Props - The Inspired Occasion

Printables/Stationery Design including bunting by Love JK

Drinks Dispenser - Little Big Company

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Circus Themed 5th Birthday Party

We had a lot of fun event managing this very special 5th birthday celebration. With the birthday boy's request of a "Circus Theme" the hunt for the perfect venue started and what an amazing venue we found. The 22 invited children were taken for an hour of circus acrobatic activities before being spoilt with a table full of customised lunch boxes and a dessert station full of sweets and treats.

We designed and custom made a circus “Big Top” canopy in the traditional circus colour pallete of red and white stripes which was complemented by a bright yellow, red and blue ruffle table cloth, together with a themed lemonade stand which was also constructed for the occasion and served as a drinks station.

Our Dessert Station Menu included: 

• Rainbow Vanilla Push up Pops - The inspiration and idea for adding push up pops to this table came straight from Pizzazzerie (Courtney Whitmore) - Push-up Pops book!!
• Vanilla Cupcakes
• Sugar Biscuits with custom designed icing toppers 
• Popcorn Cups
• Cake-pops

The Lunch Boxes contained

• Packet of Crisps
• Grapes and Strawberries
• A Savoury Roll
• Fairy Bread
• Customised Poptops

The birthday cake was also design and made by The Inspired Occasion and incorporated the Big Top Tent together with fondant topper elephant and clown in keeping with the colour palette.

All guests took home a miniature gumball machine and giant chupa-chup as a thank-you gift. 

Credits to the following:

• The Inspired Occasion - All edibles, themeing and styling including construction of the circus tent, lemonade stand and ruffled table cloth - https://www.facebook.com/theinspiredoccasion
• Love JK - Stationary design (invitation, menu tags, decorative toppers, candy jar labels, lunch box labels, pop top labels, thank-you tags, lemonade stand signage and milk bottle labels) - https://www.facebook.com/LoveJKAustralia
• Love JK - Photography
• Little Big Company - Miniature GumBall Machines and swirl lolly pops - https://www.facebook.com/Littlebigcompany
• Circus Spot - Circus party Venue - https://www.facebook.com/circus.spot.

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Vintage Superhero - Client Feature

Featuring a few edibles from The Inspired Occasion. 

We could not resist doing a quick photo blog on this fantastic party that our client Candice styled this weekend for her sons 6th birthday celebrations. 

Cake-pops by The Inspired Occasion

Sugar Biscuits by The Inspired Occasion

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Wiggles Inspired Edibles

How much fun did we have creating some Wiggles edibles for a wonderful client whose son was turning 3?

We are looking forward to seeing the client’s photo’s, showing how she themed her Wiggles Dessert Station with the edible items we provided.  These included:     

• A Big Red Car Chocolate Mud Cake

• Red Jelly Slice

• Yellow Balloon Sugar Cookies on sticks

• Blue Oreo Cakepops

• Vanilla Cupcakes featuring Henry the Octopus, Wags the Dog and of course, Dorothy the Dinosaur 
 

If you'd like to create and theme your own dessert/candy station, or simply have some sweet treats at your next function, we can assist with some customised edibles. Please contact us here to receive our full edibles price list for your next occasion.

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The Inspired Occasion - Easter Special Part 1

The Easter celebration at The Inspired Occasion starts on Good Friday when the entire family gets together for a three course extravaganza which involves a classically set dinner table laden with an array of easter inspired goodies, Entree - Seafood Platter, Main - Salmon Steak and Dessert this year a French inspired Pear and Almond Tart with Butterscotch Glaze.

Our family tradition of grazing all day and sipping on a variety of great Australian wines also includes naps on the couch whilst the young ones play Monopoly, followed by a family game of Pictionary between courses.

This year's Easter dessert station was an Enchanted Picnic inspired theme.   Complete with fluffy bunnies, moss bunnies, picnic baskets, grass runners, hanging bird cages, nesting chics and a variety of edible delights including the following items:

• Pear and Almond Tart with butterscotch glaze
• Vanilla Surprise Cupcake with buttercream and chocolate egg toppers
• Cakepops 
• Themed Sugar Biscuits
• Personalised Chocolate Bars

and no Easter table would be complete without lots of chocolate easter eggs.

Preparation started early last week with the children having great fun blowing and dying eggs in assorted colours including etching their names and creating patterns.  We then progressed to colouring fondant for sugar bunny cookies all the while trying to keep the little ones amused whilst we continued to source and create elements for the final masterpiece.

 Our lovely little moss bunnies found at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Expo.

Our Alice in Wonderland Mushrooms / toadstool props perfect for adding that pop of colour and working fantastically with the enchanted theme.

Tomorrow night our menu and photos....

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