cupcake love

My oldest daughter was confirmed this weekend.  True to form, we threw a huge party, with everyone we know and had tons of food, lots to drink and some super-cute-time-consuming-but-totally-worth-it cupcakes!  We had to pick a symbol to represent her for confirmation and we chose the sunflower because it has heliotropism.  That fancy biology word means that sunflowers follow the sun-always looking forward and into the light, which we thought was just perfect for this independent and courageous girl of ours.

The bonus was that sunflowers are crazy gorgeous and I got to decorate my house with them:

We also used some paper flowers that I got on clearance at Michaels a while back (thank you Martha Stewart for this little project).  And, thanks to Target, I scored all the cute paper products and cute little paper balls for cheap:

And then, there were these little goodies that grew in my refrigerator (right next to the Mike's if you notice)

Oh, for cute's sake, these were adorable!  As I mentioned before, totally worth the time it took to make them.  And, really so easy.  With a few lessons in piping from my talented sister-in-law and a little trial and error, these weren't too hard to make.  It's just an oreo cookie and some canned frosting on top of a cupcake from a mix!  so cute-here' a close-up:

And, strangely, the light in the refrigerator is good for taking pictures-I will have to remember that.  I wanted to take more shots of these because they are so crazy cute, but I decorated them at night and then we were short on time yesterday before the party.  I really didn't want to greet my guests by saying, hold on-just one more close up of this really cute cupcake!