Canada Day party!

Canada Day is an important event in our family and since it is also very close to my hubby's birthday there is a great opportunity to combine these two and a fabulous reason to celebrate!

Red & white - the colours of the day! And such a beautiful day it was - we lucked out with the weather again.

Balloons greeting people at the entrance.

The dessert table was a feast for the eyes - last year we also discovered that a self-service Ice Cream booth is a fun and easy idea for a summer party.

Here I am trying my best at being the hostess with the mostess:)

Cupcakes were decorated with Canada flags in coctail sticks... these were made by my amazing co-worker Jenni, who spent a few hours crafting them.

And the Canada cookies were a big hit:)

What a sweet day!

The buffet table was filled with with pies, dippies and salads:

Tomato-mozzarella sticks in a real Canada style.. 

Cool drinks and hot grill - what more can you ask for!

BBQ master at work..

The kids were being entertained with games, crafts, face painting, bouncy castle...

...as well as the wonderful Pippi Longstocking!

Whereas the adults were entertained by this great duo called Jag. With their cool sound and awesome cover songs they really got the party going - I can warmly recommend! (for reservations you can email them at mygoldminemusic@gmail.com )

And the final song was for the birthday boy - what a happy day for us all!

Summer Party

We hosted a garden party this week to celebrate summer and a birthday. The weather turned out perfectly and dozens of our friends & neighbours joined us. Adults were entertained with food and drinks, and kids had a blast with a bouncy castle, arts & crafts station, games, face painting, and an ice cream sundae bar!


I picked red and white for the party theme colours. All the guests received a red and white lei once they arrived to the party. I also decorated with red and white pom pom's - I tried making these for the first time and was surprised how much time and work it requires - it looks a lot easier than it actually is!



Kids had their own little side-party with an activity coordinator and lots of fun things to do. Parents were able to relax and enjoy so much more while the kids were kept busy!



Adults were quite excited about the welcome drinking game "The Strings of Doom". Our friend Alex came up with it... The game is actually as thrilling as it sounds - pulling a random string will lift up a bottle that is attached to it in the other end.. and you will pour a shot of the selected booze!



We also had an ice cream sundae bar and with a variety of sauces, sprinkles, whipping cream and cocktail umbrellas.


Food composed of bbq meats and sausages, as well as sides and salads. There were washed down with delicious home-made lemonade!










Sweets and cake were served in party theme colours ofcourse.


Big and manly cake candle for the birthday boy!

Summer picnic Baby Shower with sweet Teddy Bears

For our summery Teddy Bear -themed baby shower we surprised our friend and transported her to the most wonderful venue in Lauttasaari (central Helsinki area) with her eyes tied. The place was a beautiful sauna by the sea with gorgeous sceneries, rocky beaches and picnic tables just awaiting us to fill them with colourful summer picnic foods.

Surprise! We have arrived! The place was gorgeous.

Picnic was set and ready to go.

Teddy Bear themed Baby Shower dessert table

For the baby shower I created a purple, lavander and yellow dessert table with a romantic Teddy Bear theme. This theme was chosen as a continuation for a bachelorette party that we had earlier this year thrown to the mother-to-be. Luckily for her this time we did not ask her to dress herself into a bear costume and perform teddy bear poems. Instead she was able nibble on gourmand cakes, cookies and cupcakes with a teddy bear flair...

White chocolate ducks...