candle party invitation

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Favor Votive on Black
Custom votive-hand painted and engraved for a wedding favor..

Wedding Group
Custom wedding! Handpainted invitation for the gift table, custom engraved and painted toasting glasses, votive favor, gel candle with wedding ring center pieces..

Champagne Gel Pink Roses Top
Custom hand painted gel candle with "champagne" gel and pink rose buds..

Champagne Gel Rings Top
Used as a centerpiece-a custom gel candle with gold wedding rings in the bottom-looks just like champagne!.

Happying at hom
Some of the guests at our small home gathering..

Aargh!
They say it isn't a real party until someone challenges their tummy!.

Mini-minimalist
A minimalist invitation for the little celebration at creche. This was version one. The version we sent out was for a shared party with another of C's class mates. It turned out she got sick, so we celebrated sans.

Wedding Place Setting
Strobist: Vivitar 285HV into umbrella @ 1/4 power w/ 1/4 CTO gel to camera right. Vivitar 285HV bounced off ceiling @ 1/4 power w/ 1/4 CTO gel to camera left..

Tons of character
On the left, the paper with C's name and my gel icing handiwork on the cake..

Cake up close
The banana birthday cake for home..

C up close
The birthday boy unrattled, gets used to his birthday outfit..

I'll huff and...
I'll puff and I'll help you blow out your candle! The cake for home was Chinese themed, topped with his name in Chinese and with a lantern..

Birthday boy
C in his full birthday duds -- faux silk, red Chinese brocade outfit topped off with his first birthday lion chapeau..

At home happening
Fellow celebrants at our get together at Chez C's..

C's baseball banana cake
Little sugar mitts adorn the sides of C's baseball cake, which is topped by a single baseball candle..

Decor
C tries to assist in putting out the tablecloths for his party... except he thought that removing them from the tables was more fun..

Pint-sized guests
This is what hanging at a first birthday party is all about..

Puff!
A baseball candle topped off C's creche cake, which was a baseball. It inspired the selection of tablecloths, cups, plates and napkins..

Hat's off, hats on
A tried on C's birthday hat and managed to keep it on for much longer!.

Hard hat
C tries on and then off, a borthday card hat from friends..

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