When it comes to Christmas gift giving I’m always on the lookout for unique affordable gifts.
So I’m excited to share these fabulous Cookie Mixers in a bottle made by Sweet Health which are the perfect gifts for family, friends, staff and clients. I’ve personally used them at home as well as for gifts and they make creating delicious cookies easy and fun
Today we are meeting Carol from Deliciously Yours who offers a unique service for easy planning for your kids birthday party!
Carol creates custom party stationary AND gorgeous matching cake and desserts (Sydney) . This means everything is coordinated and you only have to deal with one person to create the overall look, feel and theme of your child’s birthday party and have it all come to life in the cake and stationery!
I just LOVE this amazing mermaid cake Carol created:
Carol, tell us a bit about yourself:
I am the founder and owner of deliciously yours. I am a creative spirit, a lawyer and most importantly, a mum. I am passionate about designing and creating – I think it’s one of those things that defines who I am.
How did you start cake decorating and stationery design?
By accident! A friend of mine gifted me a cake decorating book for my birthday. I had never even heard of fondant or ganache at this stage. I first attempted a cake for my son’s 2nd birthday and fell in love with the whole process – perfecting the baking and each of the recipes, hand colouring fondant, mastering ganache – and above all, the designing!
I kept practising on family and friends until I felt comfortable that my work was up to scratch. And so, deliciously yours was born. I was an art student and really missed using my creative side and so deliciously yours has given me the most amazing opportunity to keep using my creative side.
I launched my stationery range earlier this year. I love planning parties for my own family and friends and love the idea of a theme for a party – and it all starts with the invitation. I love teaming my invitations with a unique cake and party favours, thank you cards or back drop (I’m crazy about this stuff!).
Describe your concept and style
So what is deliciously yours – flour and ink?
The concept is simple – unique cakes + matching stationery. I bake your cakes, I design and print all your invitations and party paper. You only deal with me and we work together to create something memorable for my clients and their families.
My style is nice clean lines (my cakes have gorgeous razor sharp edges!) and soft colours. I love modern hand painting and stencilling as well as traditional piping and sugar flowers.
Less is more – I like to stick to a couple of simple techniques to let the cake really shine.
What does a typical day look like?
My day is filled with meetings and family responsibilities. My evenings are usually quite relaxed and that’s when I work on my designs or sugar flowers or learn a new technique.
What is your most memorable project?
My son’s 2nd birthday cake – it was my first ever attempt at a fondant covered cake and he loved it! It really made me stop and think about doing this more often and getting better and better.
What is your favourite aspect of your job?
I love designing and playing with colour. Some days its hand colouring fondant, other days its working on a sketch or new colour palette. I often have ideas racing through my head when I talk to a client about their ideas. I love the collaborative part of what I do.
What advice would you give to a potential client when planning their cake?
Start with a theme – whether it’s a colour, texture, character or anything else that represents who they are. Everything falls in place after that!
Do some ‘research’ to get a feel for what designs they like and what inspires them. After that, I work with my clients and talk through what the celebration is about, what is important to them and how we can best represent that.
What I love about deliciously yours is that each one of my designs is different. They are unique to my client and what they are celebrating. I love helping them create that snapshot in time they want to remember forever – whether it’s wedding, 1st birthday, Christening.
Complete this sentence:
“I am happiest when… I am with my 2 little boys.”
Thank you Carol for sharing some of your business and inspiration with us as well as advice!
Now if you want a little piece of Deliciously Yours in your own home, Carol has shared her delicious vanilla cupcake recipe with us!
I’m looking forward to giving these a try:
What you need…
115g unsalted butter (room temp or warmed a teeny bit in your microwave)
1 cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs (room temp not cold)
3/4 cup milk
1 cup plain flour
1 cup self raising flour
What to do…
Preheat your oven to 170 (fan forced).
Beat the butter and sugar in your mixer until light and fluffy. The colour should be nice and pale and the texture almost silky smooth. On medium to high speed, this usually takes me around 5 minutes.
Add your eggs (one at a time) and your vanilla – beating well after each egg.
Add your milk and flour alternately and just fold. If you over mix your cupcakes won’t be nice and fluffy.
Spoon mixture into your pretty cupcake cases. I use 2 spoons to scoop them in or you can use an ice cream scoop. Bake for around 18-20 minutes. Do not over bake or they won’t be soft and scrumptious!
Thank you Carol!
Find Deliciously Your’s on Facebook here and website here
I have the most amazing businesses listed on the party directory and some have come onboard as Life’s Little Celebration’s sponsors who I wanted to introduce to you! I’ll be sharing a lot more of their work and products with you on the blog, FB and IG over the coming months:
Deliciously Your’s is run by Carol and based in Sydney. Not only does Carol make gorgeous cakes – she is unique in that she also creates party invitations – meaning that she can create matching party stationery and a desserts for a totally coordinated look! You’ll have to visit her website to view her work of cakes and stationery to see what I mean!:
Mermaid Cake – Deliciously Yours (Sydney)
Tiny Tots Toy Hire (Sydney) has been a long time blog sponsor of LLC and over that time their range has expanded to not only include toys and ballpits but a large range of props, cake stands, tables and jars to hire in Sydney! This is an example of some of their range – everything from the kids chairs to the white stands and green hedge!
Tiny Tots Toy Hire
Ruby Rabbit Partyware has such a fun and unique range of partyware! When you’re online party planning you absolutely must stop by this gorgeous store who I love having as a sponsor as it is so easy to showcase these products! Just look at this gorgeous pastel collection!:
Ruby Rabbit Partyware
Apples and Jams is a unique venue in Melbourne who I am so pleased to promote – we definitely need more kids party venues like this! Versatile to suit a range of themes and a venue which can put together a fun and styled kids party!:
Apples and Jam (Melbourne)
Sugarlicious offers such a fantastic range of party paperie and if you love glitter than you will love Sam’s range of cake toppers, cupcake wrappers, custom paper garlands and more! See more of Sam’s work here.
Sugarlicious Parties
If you’re after your party backdrop to be designed and printed (or perhaps you have a design and you just need it printed) – then Jo’s Signs by Designs is the place to go! Jo also can create and print signs for small businesses for market stalls etc and I love her Instagram photobooth prop! You’ll have to visit her Facebook page to see all of what she can do!
Jo’s Signs by Design
It is wonderful to find a business that can create a range of desserts such as My Petite Sweets (located in Perth) who can provide everything from macarons to cupcakes, cookies to a gorgeous cake as well as styling! Katerina can create a beautiful dessert table for you with a range of amazing desserts. Make sure you visit her website to see more:
My Petite Sweets (Perth)
Mums are always on the lookout for fantastic kids party entertainment and Fairy La La Land (Sydney) has a range of characters for both boys and girls – everything from fairies and princesses to clowns, superheros and pirates! Use code “lifeslittle10” when booking for a 10% discount!
Fairy La La Land (Sydney)
For gorgeous and fun party printables have a look at Giggles and Grace Designs. Belinda has a fantastic range of already designed party printables or you can work with her to create something custom to suit the party theme! I love her work – view her range here.
Giggles and Grace Designs
I am loving the fun partyware available through online boutique Love the Occasion! A wonderful mix of partyware to suit a range of themes and including some gorgeous handmade items as well (feather garlands, glitter spoons and more) and you must check out the new gold foil range! Shop here!
Love the Occasion
Two Little Jay’s Events & Vintage Hire (Melbourne) provides an amazing range of props and tables for events as well as offering a styling service. However they also create some wonderful party stationery and printed decor – keep an eye out on their Facebook page for all their stationery collections and new printed items !
Two Little Jay’s
I hope you discovered some wonderful new businesses through this blog post! I am so grateful to be supported by these lovely businesses whose work and products I am proud to promote!
Each week in the private Facebook group I have for my vendors on the Directory – businesses share any new products, styling or creations they have from the last week.
It is always fantastic to see new items every week so I thought every now and then I’ll do a post sharing some of these new items on the blog. Here you’ll find a real mix of items to suit different themes and colour schemes and a great way of discovering a few more of the businesses on the party directory!
Here is a round up of some of the shares from last week of new party items:
Giant unicorn tassels – Dd brand
Pink and gold glitter bunting – Little Miss Charlie’s Treasures
Tassel garland available at Ruby Rabbit Partyware
Woodland balloons – Party Splendour
Superhero cookies – Best Dressed Cookies (Post Aust Wide)
Cake and desserts – Savvy Cakes (Sydney)
Princess cake – Devour Cakes (Sydney)
Cakes – Cake Pops and More (Melb)
Aztec cookie bouquet – Petite Cookies (Melb)
Gold foil cake topper – Paper Face
Cake topper – Sweet Coco Events
Handmade teddy bear baby shower invitation – B Studio baby invitations
Holy Communion invitations – Lou Lou Pie
Pink and Grey damask printables – Kel’s Gift Labelling
Party stationery – DIY parties by Renee
Invitations and spoons – Barbe a Papa
Vintage sweet shop backdrop – Giggles and Grace Designs
Alice in wonderland partyware – Favor Lane
Baby shower by Opulenticity Party & Buffet styling
Some of the vendors were busy at Confetti Fair Junior last weekend and here are photos of some of their displays!:
Stand at Confetti Fair Junior – Frosted by Nicci
Confetti Fair display – Sprinkled
Confetti Fair display – Sprinkled
Confetti Fair setup – Easy Breezy Kids Parties
Other fantastic party setups!:
Woodland party – Lovely Occasions and Styled Events (Qld)
Snow white kids party setup – Bett’s Candy Buffets and Kids Entertainment Sydney
Hire items for various kids themes – Two Little Jays Events and Vintage Hire
Rocking horse prop for hire – Tiny Tots Toy Hire
I hope you enjoyed this round up of some of the new items on offer from vendors on the Directory and it helps you discover more fantastic businesses you could use when planning your kids parties.
If you’re looking for party supplies and decor online, you cannot go past visiting The Little Big Company ( and if so make sure you receive 20% discount by using the code LIFE15 at the checkout!)
If you’re in Melbourne you are also able to shop in store at Clifton Hill.
It is hard to provide an overview of ALL the products available at The Little Big Company – their range is enormous! Everything from decorations to cake stands, candy to favour boxes, props to party plates.
They have all the big and little items you need for a party – all the basic essentials as well as the more unique pieces!
I’ve chosen some items to share to give you an idea of the broad range of party decor they have available such as these pineapple drinking cups!:
They also have a range of toppers for cakes and cupcakes and other baking accessories:
Find a range of candy and lollipops available including their popular candy sticks!:
If you’re looking for stylish tableware you’ll be happy to find a large range of beverage dispensers, cake stands, tiered stands and more:
As well as fun party decor for popular kids party themes:
All your essential items for your dessert table are also covered. Love their range of mini dessert cups!
This push pop set including acrylic stand is fantastic!:
And this is all just a brief glimpse and snapshot at some of their partyware !
Make a stop by The Little Big Company online store next time you need some party supplies – I guarantee you will love their range – and don’t forget to use the code LIFE15 at the checkout to receive your 20% discount!
