Sunday, October 25, 2009

Spring Time Cake - Perfect cake for your bridal or baby shower

My sister, Nancy, made this very "dee-lish" cake...Nancy calls it "Spring Time Cake."
Here is the recipe...it is so yummy for your tummy!
1 Box of Yellow or White Cake Mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup of oil
11 oz can of Mandarin Oranges (don't drain)
Topping:
9 oz of Cool Whip or whipped cream
3 oz package of instant vanilla pudding
20 oz of crushed pineapple (not drained)
Mix together the cake mix, eggs, oil and the liquid from the mandarin oranges.
When mixed together, add the oranges and mix briefly to break up a bit.
Pour mixture in a cake pan (9x13 pan or two 9x9 round cake pans)
Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 25-30 minutes

When cake cools, it is ready to top off.
Mix the Cool Whip or Whipped Cream with 1/2 pack of the pudding mix, and crushed pineapple.
Spread on top of the cake
Keep cake refrigerated until ready to serve.
Enjoy!!

Mary
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Freshening up for the Bridal Show season

New wedding stationery lines are arriving at Occasions They are so fresh, so crisp. Totally unique and scream style and sophistication.

My goal is to provide the very best in wedding invitations so that when your guests receive your invitation, it provokes a sense that your event is going to be very special. Occasions offers you the ability to customize your invitation. No longer are you limited to simply changing ink colors and fonts. You can choose from an array of beautiful papers to layer, motifs, embellishments and awesome die cuts and embossments. Letterpress is very hot right now and embodies the feel and texture of wonderful papers and inks.

I recently took on Demby+Solomon, a company here in Michigan that produces truly cute-cute return address labels. You can select from a huge variety of address labels that can be themed oriented and customized as you like. And the price point is very friendly to your pocketbook!

Calling cards are very hip, especially if you are a social bee. Put your name, email address, phone number and whatever else you choose. Sized as a business card or a little larger, keep these in your purse to hand-out to new business contacts, friends and family. Choose bright colors, motifs or letterpress designs to make your calling card very unique. Again, friendly price points!

Have a great Sunday, and don't forget to call Occasions for your holiday, wedding, and other party invitations needs. We will help you make a perfect first impression. www.occasionsandinvites.com

Mary
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Testimonals from Customers

June 6th 2009

Autumn and Ryan get married on 8/7/09, Hudsonville, MI

Hi Mary!

Ryan and I wanted to thank you for the awesome invitations you designed for us. You made this process stress-free with yourprompt service and helpful advice. You had a wide variety of invitations to chose from that fits every budget. Again, we would like to thank you for providing us with a quality product and excellent customer service!
Autumn & Ryan

Thanks again & have a great weekend.

Autumn

Mary was very great at helping us find the style that we were interested in. Mary was prompt at sending a breakdown of the expenses to expect. We were able to make changes and Mary quickly expedited those so we could receive an updated preview as soon as possible. Our invitations were beautiful and we were so very pleased with our selection and the help that Mary provided for us. We would recommend everyone to use her because of the service that she provided with handling all the ordering, editing changes, and the behind the scenes work that she does. Mary was a true professional, very courteous and extremely helpful to us.

Dana LaMacchia

8/12/08
Mary, with Occasions, knew her products well and showed us many examples of invitations that met our "style". She was good at communicating with us the extra costs, when necessary, and never said "this is final" so we knew the total cost would go up or down. We also put ourselves in a pinch with timing our order and Mary was excellent at making sure we got our invitations by the date we specified at the beginning of the process - even if that meant having to push buttons with the company!
All in all, we did not stick to the budget we had set but we received beautiful invitations. Many of our guests have stated they are the nicest they have seen and feel that they know the "tone" of the wedding already.
We would recommend Occasions to anyone looking for unique invitations that has a flexible budget. We also suggest giving yourselves plenty of time to decide and leave room for editing and proofing - Mary can push things along but things take as long as they need to take to get done.

Lindsay Lee

09/05/09 - Wedding Reception celebrating the marriage of Sue and Vern S.


I had the pleasure in working with Mary in ordering invitations for my wedding reception. I was impressed that Mary provided me status updates and proof changes statuses regularly without ever having to ask her for a status. Her follow up to the customer is wonderful. Her experience in helping me decide between hundreds of styles, colors, etc. was so valuable as there are so many options and choices when purchasing invitations. I would never hesitate to recommend Mary to anyone needing help in purchasing invitations. She is a valuable and knowledgeable resource and took a lot of stress off me as I tackled my list of things to do for the wedding!

Sue Race (now Scheck)