Birthday Cupcake Tablescape

Happy Birthday to many in our family

this month!  

Grandpa turned 80 and he is here

for a big birthday celebration.

He is one of my avid blog followers

and when he arrived, he asked if I

was going to blog about his

birthday, so in celebration of his

80th

birthday, I set a table for him.

Wanting to come straight from 

Cookie Con 

and practice many of the things we 

learned there, Jessica (my oldest) and

I got together and made birthday cake and

cupcake cookies, along with balloons and

banners.

Two things I learned at Cookie Con

were to make a collection of 

theme related cookies and

create them with a color scheme.

So since Grandpa is a guy, we chose

aqua and red with white as our neutral.

I can't believe the difference it makes

when you are deciding what to make and

how to decorate them.  

I sent a picture of the finished cookies

to Joni, who also went to Cookie Con,

(Red Couch Recipes) and her response

was that it looked like we got our

money's worth out of the classes!

I was pleased too.  I had never done much

but wet on wet and I learned that my 

frosting was way too thin.

So Grandpa's honorary table is in 

aqua and red with white as a neutral.

We have real cupcakes, a chocolate cake

with cooked caramel frosting

and cookies.  I know the little kids will

love the cupcakes and the cookies.

Jessica made me take them from her house

so that there were actually some left for

the party.

The frosting on the cupcakes

was one of those items on my

COOKING BUCKET LIST 

---

Swiss Meringue Buttercream.

Yummy and wonderful, but it

did take some time.  It is a labor

of love.  I will post that later.

I combined aqua and red 

organza napkins

and aqua and red goblets

to go with the stack of 

aqua, red and white plates.

I love how the stack ended up

with cupcakes everywhere.

Textured plates in aqua, red and white

are so fun together.

So the color scheme for the cupcakes

turned into the color scheme for

the tablescape.  I love the aqua 

and red together.

Happy Birthday to

all those in my family this month

and especially to Grandpa.

Tonight is the big birthday party.

He laughed when Grandma told him

that I set up a tablescape for him.

He said he was just teasing, but

it was fun to do it.  

Have you noticed that people love

to be featured on your blogs?  They

sure do on mine.

I will be posting this 

Cupcake Tablescape on

Tablescapes Thursday