Holiday Gift Guide

Introducing Social Bites Gift Guide 2010. If you have any questions or if the font is to small to read leave your email address so I can send you a larger format. Have a great week!

Acadian Style Photoshoot- Sneak Peek

I had the pleasure of working with Trent of http://trent-bailey.com/, his wife Dara and my fav and oh so talented Event Planner Valerie of http://southernfete.com/ on this wonderful Acadian style photoshoot in Lafayette, La.! Here is a sneak peek of the cake I did, full post coming soon:)

Pinwheels and Cupcakes

Happy September 1st!! I hope everyone had a great summer, I know we did with lot's and lot's of birthday cakes! Here's a great way to end summer with a colorful fun filled 1st birthday!

I had the pleasure of being apart of this little boy's 1st birthday! Maryanne (the birthday boy's mom) did such a great job decorating and thinking of every detail !!! This party look like load's of fun! Special thanks to Crystal Garcia for the fabulous pictures! You can see more of her work here http://www.crystalgarcia.com/

Hope you all enjoy these pictures as much as I did!!

Carnival Birthday!

We had the pleasure to work with Karie Potts for another one of her fabulous parties! Karie is so talented from photography to invitation design! We based most of the design of the cake off of the invitation and add a few other carnival ish items, we had so much fun creating the cake! Here are a few pictures from her party, ENJOY!

To see more of Karie's work visit her at http://www.kandkphotographyonline.com/

We made "cotton candy" out of marshmellows and then airbrushed them. NOTE to all: Real cotton candy will slowly shrink and dissolve into nothing (like it does in your mouth) in this lovely louisiana humidity, we learned the hard way ha ha ha!

They even made funnel cakes! mmMMmm,,,

Wedding Bliss

We had the pleasure to do this sweet couples wedding cake(s) and mini cupcakes. When I first met with Hannah I knew this was going to be a great wedding to work on. She had great style and completely trusted us to come up with a great design. We went off of our beaded rose cake used for this

http://socialbitesofruston.blogspot.com/2010/02/photo-shoot.html

photo shoot as inspiration. We wanted to keep it more classy with pearl beads and a hint of pale pink roses. She was open to mix it up a little by adding mini cupcakes to the display. The wedding cake flavors included: italian cream cheese cake, strawberry cake with fresh strawberries, vanilla cake with buttercream. The mini cupcake flavors were chocolate cake with cream cheese, red velvet cake with cream cheese, chocolate swirl cake with buttercream.

Thanks Hannah and Brian for allowing us to be apart of your special day!

Thank you Kelly Moore Clark for the pictures, you rock! To see more of kelly's work check her out here:

http://kellymoorephotography.com/

T-shirts and a little giveaway!

We now have T-shirts for all you Social Bites lovers!
I think this calls for a giveaway. All you need to do is post on your blog, facebook, or twitter "Social Bites has t-shirts! want one? www.socialbitesofruston.com". Then comment with a link to your post, you must comment with your link, this is your entry to the giveaway.

Sorry, this giveaway is now over.
The winner will be determined by http://random.org/

And the winner is....... Jennifer Tingle!

Adult Small- XL
$15

Adult 2X & 3X
$17

Thank you to Libby Gifford for the awesome design!

Vintage Dream

We were contacted by Valarie from Southern Fete Event Planning about doing another photo shoot. Of course I was jumping up and down.I counldn't WAIT to work with Valerie again. Check out our last photoshoot together: http://socialbitesofruston.blogspot.com/2010/02/photo-shoot.html She directed me photographer's website who's vision was to create this photoshoot and I was BLOWN away. I fell in love with her work. I was stoked that they wanted us to be apart of their vision! After I recieved their inspiration board I started sketching right away! I had just received this button mold I had been dying to use for a cake, and then I went searching antique stores looking through old jewelry to make molds out of. I found a few pieces and began working on my vision for the cake. I used lace, vintage brouches, buttons, pearls, and a hint of ribbon. All of which are my favorite things! Courtney also thought it would be fun to have some desserts. Well... of course I was stoked about doing that! We did mini pecan pies, banana pudding shooters, chocolate chip cookies, and a new item homemade mini peach pies! I am super excited to show you guys these images. I couldn't believe all of these ladies attention to detail from the props to the invitations, and much more. This was truly awesome experience. I want to thank Courtney, Valerie,Katie and David for showin' off our desserts so well, Cherie for traveling, helping, and all of your creativity, and Anne for allowing us to use her kitchen for prep!

Here are a few images. Also visit Courtney's blog for more pictures and storyline :)
http://www.dellafiora.com/blog