Featured on The Party Wagon! Our Irish Step Dancing Party

Looking for our Irish step dancing party?  We moved it, and the whole blog, over to Tikkido.com.  Join us over there for all the fun and new content!

A Tradewind Tiaras Silk Tulle Veil on Style Me Pretty!

I just stumbled on one of our silk tulle veils on a spectacular post on Style Me Pretty on Tuesday!

Check out the absolutely amazing wedding, the incredible photography by We Heart Photography, and of course, our absolutely stunning bride, Kimberly.  Oh yeah, and the silk tulle veil.  ;-)

Featured on Amy Atlas! Our Egyptology Party

All of the blog content is now over at Tikkido.com!  Come visit and see what I've been up to lately.

Featured on the Amy Atlas Blog! A Sweet Fall Gnome Birthday

What a great delight and honor to be featured on the Amy Atlas blog today!  I had so much fun designing this Gnome party for my friend's daughter.

Come back tomorrow for all the details--and later this week, of course, many tutorials!

Featured on Catch My Party: How to Make Flower-Shaped Mini Pies

Looking for the flower shaped lemon tartlets tutorial and recipe?  Head over to its new home at Tikkido.com!

Featured on The TomKat Studio Blog: A Secret Garden Baby Shower

Many thanks to The TomKat Studio for featuring our latest event, a Secret Garden baby shower.  Check out the post on The TomKat Studio blog today, then come back here tomorrow for all the details and the start of a string of really fun DIY project posts!

Featured on the Amy Atlas Blog! Our Tykki-dyw Butterfly Birthday

I am beyond excited to announce that our latest party debuted today on the Amy Atlas blog!  What an incredible honor this is; Amy Atlas pioneered the dessert table trend, and does absolutely exquisite, inspirational work.

Come back tomorrow for the start of the party posts.  I'll have tons of pictures, and many tutorials from this party.

Featured on The TomKat Studio Blog--Our April Fool's Day Party!

I'm delighted to announce that another one of my parties debuted today on The Tomkat Studio blog!  It's an April Fool's day party, full of lots of sweet surprises, and all with a Neapolitan ice cream theme.

Neapolitan Ice Cream themed April Fool's Day party--nothing is quite what it seems!

Head over to the debut post on TomKat, and then come back here tomorrow for my full posts on the party!

Giant Quilled Snowflake Tutorial on The TomKat Studio

Looking for the Giant Quilled Snowflakes tutorial?  It's now on Tikkido.com.

 

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Tulle Garland Tutorial on Catch My Party

Looking for the Tulle Garland tutorial?  It's moved to its new home at Tikkido.com.

 

Debut of the Sugar Plum Fairy Party on the TomKat Studio Blog!

Looking for the Sugar Plum Fairy party?  It's moved to its new home at Tikkido.com!

 

We Love Custom Work!

I'm very excited to show you a recent project we worked on.  I was approached by Kate Landers Events, LLC to contrubute a custom tiara for her newest signature party, a Nutcracker Suite Ballet party! 

 Kate knew that her color palette contained pinks ranging to touches of cranberry with silver accents, and gave me free reign on the design.  Something that a little ballerina princess would love!  I used Swarovski crystals in light rose, rose, and fuchsia, and some gorgeous deep pink pearls to fill in the basic structure, which I formed out of Swarovski rhinestone elements in crystal AB.  The Aurora Borealis finish (an iridescent coating) added extra depth and sparkle, and really picks up on surrounding color.   Just perfect for a little girl!

If you haven't yet seen how it all came together, here's a quick glimpse:

 

How absolutely stunning and magical!  I was so proud to have contributed a small part to this amazing party.  Many, many more pictures on Kate's blog, so definitely check it out.

I also want to mention that these gorgeous images were captured by the talented photographer Liza Voll.  I know from personal experience how difficult it is to photograph tiaras, and Liza did it gorgeously!   I wish she were local so I could take advantage of her for all our photography needs!

I'd be excited to share this party with all of you under any circumstances, but I wanted to show these pictures to highlight the fact that we at Tradewind Tiaras love custom designs!  It's so much fun to work with a bride, to hear her ideas, see pictures of her dress, her venue, her hairstyle, her heirloom jewelry, and more.  You never know where the inspiration is going to come from, but it's so incredibly gratifying to create something custom that suits a bride's needs perfectly.  So if you don't see something that fits your needs on our website, please don't hesitate to contact us to see if we can create something just for you.

Featured at Frog Prince Paperie

Head over to the fabulously inspiring Frog Prince Paperie blog for a guest post I wrote on tips for making your very own genuine gingerbread house.  Paula from Frog Prince Paperie wrote a wonderful blog post last week about her adventures making her very first (spectacular!) gingerbread house.  She truly did a marvelous job, and figured out a lot of great insights about the process in her first attempt.

My family has made thousands of gingerbread houses over the years.  We've made every mistake possible, and have figured out a few tips through trial and error that make gingerbread baking go smoothly.  Head over and check it out!   While you're there, stop by the shop to see their amazing printables.  Such marvelous designs!

And you see that decorated gingerbread house in the picture?  That just happens to be a little sneak peak for a party I'm putting together in just a few days.  Keep an eye on the blog for tons of photos, festivities, and how-tos in the weeks ahead!

Giveaway! Plus Featured on the remarkable Kate Landers Events Blog

I'm deeply honored to have had my party featured on the Kate Landers Events, LLC blog last night!  

Kate is an incredibly gifted event planner, and was a huge source of inspiration for the Cornish Fairy Party.  Her Woodland Fairy Party is basically the premiere fairy party out there.

We're also very excited to be doing a BIG GIVEAWAY on the Kate Landers blog!  We're offering a set of 8 of the tiaras I designed for the party for one lucky winner!  That's a value of over $360.

Head on over to our party post on Kate Landers Events, read all the details, and enter!