Blossom

Yesterday turned out to be one of those glorious days. After weeks of rain and bad weather finally a sunny day. The warmth and beauty strong of these blooming bulbs is enough to enlighten its surroundings.

Spring is coming...

{photos by Sweet as a Candy}

Lollipops

It's been quit a while since I have seen a new wedding blog as great as this one. Lollipops Events  is a unique, full-service event planning and design company.

This wedding shoot is like none I have ever seen and I literally haven't stopped smiling since I found it.

Everything is so me! If you like to see more check out Lolliblog!

Happy weekend and don't forget to enter my B-Day Giveaway !

Paper Addiction

Let's start our Thursday with something lovely. I found this UK online store called Papermash, they sell so many lovely paper goods.

I stumbled across this shop by pure accident while surfing for paper-goods. And now I love it!

Papermash looks wonderful, great design and products.I have a thing for paper goods and packaging, and you?

I almost forget to tell you that Sweet as a Candy has been feautured in All Things Cottage and SiLoVoglioWeddingPlanner's Blog! Take a look!

Don't forget to enter the B-Day Giveaway ! 

Ends Sunday 28.

Garbo Interiors

Garbo Interiors have a fantastic furniture collection, inspired by the original antiques. I love their swedish gustavian style.

Clean and light element. The color is found in walpaper, fabrics, stripes, and floral print.

{Garbo Interiors}

Vintage simple woven, linens, cottons, stripes, plaids. After white and grey, red is the color most often used in Garbo Interiors decorating. Red color coordinates easily with the other swedish color palette. If I could furnish a new home this would be the style.

A new look! How do you like my new banner and graphic? I love them!! A talented graphic designer friend of mine made it for me, and I couldn't be happier! If you like to contact him feel free to ask me his contact. He also designed my new button, feel free to grab it!

And girls, Sweet as a Candy is also on Facebook, click the button and join!

Bows

Luella did a great job in her last spring collection. I'm in love with the polka-dots...

Beautiful fabrics, adorable shapes, girly colors and pretty pumps. And what about the big bow in the hair? Isn't lovely?

{images via Style.com}

I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to wish me a Happy Birthday over the past few days.  I’ve received so many facebook, posts, sms and email birthday messages that I decided to just give everyone a big thank you on here, so THANK YOU! 

Remember, don't forget my B-Day Giveaway!!

Happy Birthday to me!

Yes, it's my birthday today! First of all, I’d like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who left me a message and wrote me birthday wishes.

Saturday night I celebrated it with some of my best friends. We spent the evening chatting, laughing, eating! My friends gave me so many beautiful gifts!

My birthday this year was particularly meaningful! This was my first time celebrating my birthday in my new home!

I really enjoyed setting my buffet table. Cakes, cheese, sandwich, fresh vegetables, etc...

Thank you to all my sweet friends who spent a very memorable evening with me.

Last week was also Francesca's birthday, she's one of my best friends, and we celebrated her B.day too!

What wish did I make on my birthday? Of course I can’t tell you! Hehehehe…

Fern & Flora ~ B-Day Giveaway

Girls tomorrow will be my birthday!!! Yeah!!! I'm 27 years old now...time passes quickly! My birthday celebrations started on Friday, with a wonderful lunch. Yesterday I had a fun party with my friends (I will show you some pics!) and tomorrow evening I will have a romantic dinner with my guy.

I thought it would be a great idea to celebrate it with a gorgeous new giveaway for all my lovely readers and follower from Fern and Flora.

Emily creates fantastic headbands, flower hair clips and she also dabble with paper with beautiful paper wreaths and vintage collages.

Could you tell us a little about yourself and your lovely shop? 
I'm a floral designer by day with a background in interior design. I love to poke around flea markets and estate sales and look for treasures on the cheap. Once I began making headbands, the trips for vintage goodies became more frequent and that's one of my favorite parts about what I do. I decided to open an Etsy shop last summer to feature my headbands an paper wreaths. I love all things paper too and am contemplating starting a second Etsy shop with my paper wreaths, garlands, baby mobiles and things like that. Hopefully, that will happen one day soon!

How did you get started making your cute headbands?

I began making headbands when I decided to promove my floral design business throught some local boutiques and craft fairs but needed other items to sell also. I love vintage fabric and jewelry and thought making one-of-a-kind headbands with old elements would be an interesting creative endeavor. When people strated buying them, I was happily surprised and decided to open an Etsy shop. Etsy has been a lovely way to launch my headbands. I've met so many create and fabulous people.

Do you have any advice for friends who are starting their own shop?

For anyone who is contemplating opening a shop on etsy, my advice is simple: do it! My friend Betsy often says "nothing ventured nothing gained" and it's so true. When I opened my shop, it was a Saturday afternoon an I had been at a boutique all day and was feeling tired. I only had one image of one item, but I put it up anyway and slowly added more and more items. It's ok to take your time. Building any sort of business is a process and I remind myself of that every day. Also, I think it's important to spend time on Etsy looking at other shops, conversing with other sellers, making treasuries and getting involved in forums. It does tike time, but it's also rather fun and when you open your email and see that you've had a sale, it's a fabulous feeling.

The lucky winner of this giveaway will receive this beautiful headband! 

 {a mocha colored fabric band with a vibrant peacock feather

and vintage burnished button} 

  Anyone who leaves a comment on this post during the next 7 days 

is automatically entered in the draw!

For an additional entry, you can blog about my giveaway,

just leave a comment with the link! 

Giveaway ends on Sunday, February 28 at 8 pm (local time).

Winner to be announced on Monday, March 1.

~ If you have a company or an online store and you desire to allow Sweet as a Candy to host your giveaway, feel free to send me an email at federica.piccinini@gmail.com ~

Party Planning

 

Next Monday will be my B-Day and I'm planning my  birthday party! This Saturday evening I will have a dinner with some of my friends. I'm drawing up a list of my requirements and I'm working on this pretty project.

I have so many thing to do! Clean my house, set the table and the atmosphere, we are more than ten person so I have to prepare many things to eat. I will prepare three new salads cake that I want to try. My new birthday gift (from my grandma) will help me!...

Aren't these so cute? The project is soo simple but so pretty!

Preparing a perfect birthday party is probably more difficult than I thought. You need to do a lot of preparations like  deciding upon the best cuisine, and getting the invitation list ready.

{You can easily download these pretty template via  Morning by Foley and Ruffled Blog}

And now it's the time to celebrate the winner of the gorgeous Petite Coterie Giveaway!

The winner is....

Congratulations to Laura Trevey from Bright, Bold, and Beautiful!!


Girls, don't miss my next B-Day Giveaway, 
this Sunday on Sweet as a Candy!

{I haven't counted doubles and comments out of time}

Mercury Glass

 

Anyone else love mercury glass candlesticks like me?? I have quite a few pieces, and I had decided to start my new collection.

Using silver in your accessorizing is an easy way to create a french atmosphere. Mercury glass vases, candlesticks, and other accessories can bring more light and charm to a dark corner of your home.

These pieces provide instant light and brightness. The other day I brought home two new additions to my ever growing mercury glass collection. I was in a little shop, looking for a birthday gift for a friend of mine, and I found them. Love at first sight. I love the old mercury glass, but the new, less expensive glass is pretty nice too!

{photos by me}

Dreamy Whites

When I stumbled upon Dreamy Whites blog I was istantly inspired. You will be amazed, her blog and her home are stunning.

All these pictures look like they are out from one of my fave magazines! She did an excellent job. She's really talented and so sweet as well.

 Her blog is full of precious inspiration. Isn't her photography amazing as well?

 Dreamy Whites

 

I really can't get enought of these photos...