Deep Purple & Blue by Samia

This is entirely long overdue.
We'd like to thank Samia of Deep Purple & Blue for featuring our Pink Black Dessert Isle on her journal blog.
It's an honour really ,and likewise, your blog is worthy of mention too!
Love your stories, eloquence, inspirations and dedication to all things creative and beautiful.
Do keep in touch, and stay inspired! :)

New! Wedding Car Decoration

Ok so just before i really sign off for the week, here's just another small announcement.

We're itching to do wedding car decoration, complete with its "Just Married" signage. The ideas are floating around in our head, so you can't ask us for the catalog yet. But then again, if you trust us enough and would love to be surprised with something chic, classy and utterly gorgeous (and especially if you're getting a vintage car for your wedding!), do drop us a mail soon.

We're booked up for other projects, but we're opening up only 2 slots in between (and at promotional price too), for this new project design.

So email us today at mariahnsham@hotmail.com

A new archive

Here're just some minor updates for our site.

Apart from the new topbar icons, our sidebar now bears our Archive of Fine Details.
Just a collection of our past works, designs, posters and even unpublished ideas.

Much time and effort have been invested into this part time family business / hobby, and we'd just love to share these works and ideas, right from their conceptualization to their production, with like-minded individuals sharing the same passion and panache for design, styling and all moments beautiful.

See ya next week (after the kids finish their exams yea!)
Meanwhile, take care and have a great week with family and friends ya all!

New designer cupcake by Mariah & Sham

Last week we collaborated with Haz Workz to come up with a new designer cupcake look for our new client Ashley's 23rd birthday. (Happy Happy Birthday Ashley ~ )



Cupcake and Cupcake Wrapper by Mariah & Sham.
Cupcake Topper by Hazworkz.

We worked on the cupcake wrapper, here featuring a white chandelier silhoutte against our modified Aqua-Tiffany Blue (a shade between aqua blue and tiffany blue) background. Hazrin worked on the monogrammed topper, and we simply love his fine workmanship! (Yes, you can order generic and personalised toppers from him too)

We then designed a new label for Ashley's cupcake take-away box.



Our designer cupcakes, packed in a clear box and embellished with ribbon and crytal beads.

And then of course...because we're always quite the fickle minded lot, we decided to pack the cupcakes in a clear box as well...just for variety :)

And so like always, we would combine all our various ideas and designs...to come up with the all-important harmonized presentation.

This "harmonized variety" has apparently been said to have become one of the distinctive trademarks of Mariah & Sham. So ok we're sticking to that ;)

So anyway, that's all folks!! See ya in our next post...ouh but hey dont forget to check out our constantly updated albums too. Some pics may not find their way to our blog post, but we always put our projects up, no matter how small they may be, for all our clients to see. Just a small way of saying thank you. Thanx for trusting us :)

Collaborating with The Wedding Chateau

We were honoured, albeit slightly skeptical, when my friend Najihah messaged us, at the eleventh hour, to check if we could help take on some wedding cake orders from her.

We thought we had a lot on our hands, but we're glad to have eventually taken the orders. Cos for one, we learned to be more efficient, rising up to the occassion, so to speak. And especially for myself, working with Najihah brought back fond memories of us, back in Pharmacy School, doing our experiments in the lab :)

But best of all, we actually enjoyed working with TWC. True there were some discrepancies and miscommunication here and there, but we were lucky to have been given the trust and freedom to modify and improvise. But then again maybe Najihah had no choice but to be accommodating,  at least for friendship's sake! Heh.

So anyway, here are the pics...

Sorry our dearest photographer sidetracked just a little :)

So again, here are the cake pics...

We were extremely satisfied with our fondant this time round.
Our new preparation technique and top grade ingredients helped us achieve this flawless icing finish.

                                             


Mariah working on the final touches.

Striving to design a cake that would look rich and classy yet subtle and elegant, we decided, after much deliberation,  to use only ivory - one of the colours included in Najihah's colour palette - throughout...

This monotoned three tiered fondant cake would then be embellished with ivory filligree motifs, lustre pearl icing, ivory ribbon trimmings and white chrysanthemums, to elicit that rich yet subtle texture. It was to our horror then, when we found out, after setting everything up, that the bride had wanted a purple cake.

Fortunately, we managed to get over the initial panic, and just like many other times when we were setting up our own dessert isles and things didnt go quite as expected, we would start modifying and improvising.
Here, we added in our purple ribbon trimming, which luckily was a matching shade to TWC's decor, and accentuated the chrysanthemums with tiny bits of purple heather blooms to harmonize and balance the whole look.

Overall, we thought the colours worked well, but much more crucial would be whether the cake had fit right in to the decor. We hope it did.

Tiffany Blue

And then Najihah needed help to make a simple blue cake to match her blue themed dessert bar. But it being a last minute request, we unfortunately could not grab hold of a one-half inch matching blue ribbon, as requested. So there we went again, modifying and improvising. We trimmed each tier with our shorter half inch ribbon instead, and added in a running layer on top, deliberately leaving a slight gap in between. This way, the trimming had an added pattern / effect to it, yet still remained simple enough to complement our simple cake and TWC's gorgeous dessert bar.


Myself, straightening out the trimmings.
Najihah and Sarah setting up their dessert bar.



Sham, Sarah, Najihah and Mariah....
 of Mariah & Sham and The Wedding Chateau.
All looking rather tired here...

So thanks guys, for the opportunity and the trust. Looking forward to working together again. And perhaps, if we ever get overwhelmed with dessert isle projects, and you guys have gotten a new shop with a big kitchen, you all can help make our cakes too?! :)

We were featured in Aquila Asia

"Mariah & Sham personalises everything for your events. From customised stationery and designer cakes, to decor accents, party favors and wedding packages - everything is fabulous. For Ramadhan and Eid, their dessert isle of sweet treats, halawa, dates and kueh makmur is simply perfection. You have to see it to believe it" ~ Aquila Asia