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Text by Kim Ratcliff • Styling by Sunday Hendrickson • Photography by Rick Szczechowski


HAUTE CHOCOLATE BARS
(a) Handmade gift wrap inspired by vintage musical sheets. (b)Chocolate bars rewrapped in vintage wallpaper, scrapbook paper, or other outside-the-candy-box materials make delectable party favors.  (c) Birthday crown, Dee Sharp. Party hat, Goldbug Studio.

PASTEL PARADISE
(d) Once birthday queen Mary Smilove (with party collaborator and floral artist Marina Drasnin Gilboa) chose the “feathered feast” theme, she fashioned festive party decorations with paper from her chic scrapbooking parlor, Sweetpeas & Snapshots. (e) A blue birdcage holds a flock of vintage family photos.

TOWER OF FLOWER
(f) After Mary decoupaged the tiered hatbox centerpiece, Marina embellished it with French tulips and ranunculus.

(g) To create cupcake flags, cut pennants from vintage paper, add two holes with a 1/8” punch, then thread a toothpick through the holes. (h) On the menu: egg salad in phyllo bird nests and (i) hugs from Mary’s daughter, Liza.

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