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Lauryn's Dol :: Korean First Birthday Celebration

Photos by Sooae

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Party planning for a dol? Everything in this party started with an idea. Korean American mommy Susan wanted a rainbow lollipop theme for her little girl Lauryn's first birthday party. She made sure not to miss any detail to make the party extra special.

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A lollipop and candy bouquet on every table.

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 Cutey Lauryn making a cute face while playing with her guests while wearing her fabulous Korean Hanbok (traditional clothing).

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Lauryn's big brother and his friend enjoy the balloons at the party.

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A blessing prayer for the birthday girl and also a hug from the pastor.


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Prepared Korean Rice Cakes which are traditionally served at Korean parties and celebrations. They also make great party favors for all the adult guests.

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She also prepared goodie bags for the little guests.

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Doljabi Board for the Doljabi "Birthday Picking" game designed by Dohl Posters and More. To keep with the theme, they used the same colors from the colorfully twisted lollipops.

{Click here for a free printable Doljabi game guide }

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Mommy Susan was very creative for choosing jelly jars for the raffle tickets stubs - which is part of the doljabi game. Matching printable PDF files for the Doljabi Container Labels are free with most every doljabi poster order.

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Happy Birthday Lauryn, from everyone!!

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Katelyn's 1st Birthday Cake :: Cakes By Chrisitne, NY (Dol/Dohl)

Words and Photos by: Eun Mi Oh of Illumia Photography
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The theme for Katelyn's 1st birthday party was, "cupcakes".  Everything at the hall was decorated in pink
with Katelyn and her mom wearing matching hanboks. The children of the guests even had a chance
to break the cupcake shaped pinada to get candies. Katelyn was in a very good mood for the most part and even made
some new friends.
Cake created by Cakes by Christine NY

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Connor's First Birthday :: Korean First Birthday Dol

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Connors journey into the arms of his mom Jennie and dad is precious. If you'd like to read mom Jennie's story, click HERE to read how becoming pregnant was more than easy. The end of her pregnancy story leads us here. Jennie's first son Connor has turned one and he's a happy and healthy bouncing boy. You're welcome to Connors at home birthday party with a fabulous rainbow candy theme. How sweet it is!

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Happy Birthday Connor! Thank you for sharing your special day with us!

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Katelyn's 1st Birthday | Dae Dong Manor, NY

By: Cakes By Christine NY

I was asked to make a 1st Birthday Cake for a friend's daughter. Theme being "cupcakes."  I was emailed these pictures and asked to make a cake with the same colors, etc.

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So this is the front..

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And this is the back...

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 I love pastel colors. Another happy customer ^_^

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Visit www.CakesByChristineNY.com
 

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Desmond's Korean First Birthday | "Dol Janchi"

My friend Lisa did a great job creating a great carnival atmosphere for her son's first birthday celebration. With tons of sweets & snacks, games, and balloons, all the kid guests were having the time of their lives ... and parents were thrilled to be able to just sit back, watch and enjoy!


Lisa made the name signage using pieces of crayon ~ very clever! The dol go im towers were also personally made by a friend of hers using jelly bellies... too bad they were all glued on!


One thing I recommend to clients having an event with babies in attendance is to be sure the venue can accommodate stroller traffic... there is nothing more annoying for a parent trying to navigate your stroller through tight spaces. So I was thrilled to see Lisa's venue was large and spacious and we had no problem maneuvering our double stroller in the midst of 100+ guests. The most random things will keep your guests happy! Desmond, eemoh wishes you a happy first birthday!



:: Credits :: 
Photos courtesy of Nick Yutaka Photography
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Lila's Dol by Angie Bae

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It’s a colorful “Dol” (traditional Korean first birthday celebration) that Angie Bae {from Meli & Angie Cookies} created for her adorable daughter Lila.

There are so many meaningful & handcrafted details in this party… from the creative cookie invitations and fabulous paper globe centerpieces (representative of family members) to handmade candy pillars (see below), a shimmery cake inspired by Lila’s hanbok, and more!

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Read on for lots more images and all the party details, as told by Angela…

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“For Lila’s dol/Korean first birthday party, the inspiration came easily when I first saw her hanbok (traditional Korean dress.) I loved the combination of pinks, white and lime green. They reminded me of Lila’s bubbly and happy personality, so we incorporated them into all the party details.

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Invitations/Cookies
Along with invitations from Tiny Prints, we included a set of “button” sugar cookies in pink and green from Meli & Angi. Guests either received a set that read lila/1 or chook/dol (1st birthday) in Korean characters.

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Cookies were placed in a plastic case and filled with white tissue shred for cushioning.

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Elevator Photo Greeting
Since the party was on the 4th floor, we printed out photos of Lila and taped them in the elevators to greet guests. It reads “Oh! You made it. I’m on the 4th floor!” I love Lila’s “oooh!” expression in this photo:

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Photo Wall
When you enter the space, there is a blank wall so we filled it with large sized photos of Lila. They were from different months in her first year, and displayed like a gallery setting. We used 3M temporary hooks so we wouldn’t damage the walls/paint.

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What Will Lila Pick? Board
The “doljabee” is a traditional element of the Dol. Items are laid out in front of the baby for her to choose from. The item that she picks will foretell her path in life. Money = wealth. Pencil = scholar. Thread = long life. Rice = never go hungry. We also added in a Mic = musical and an Abacus = intelligence.

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Guests wrote their names on ballots and put them in the pocket they thought Lila would choose. From the selected item, we randomly chose guests to win prizes. Lila picked the abacus first, followed by the rice.

Centerpieces & Banner
These paper globes were made by following Heather Bailey’s template. Each centerpiece includes globes of varying height to represent our family of 3.

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The “planter” is a white bakery box with green scrapbooking paper and pink ribbon arranged to look like 3 stripes of varying widths. The “stems” were trimmed down wooden dowels (purchased at Home Depot) and bbq skewers wrapped in green tissue paper. We stood them in floral foam and topped each planter with green crinkle cut paper shred (from Michaels).

The globes themselves were made from various scrapbooking papers found on Amazon. For Lila’s birthday banner, we used the same scrapbooking paper to have consistent colors.

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Birthday Cake
Lila’s “hanbok” cake was made by Ruth Shin of Brooklyn Cake. It was strawberry shortcake with buttercream filling, and so delicious! We love that she was able to translate Lila’s hanbok into a cake… especially the ribbon detail.

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Go-Ims
The birthday table traditionally has go ims (pillars) on display. To personalize them, I used red beans and Korean rice puffs to make: 1) a mouse because Lila was born in the year of the mouse, 2) “Sora”, her Korean name and 3) “chook dol” in Korean characters.

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I also made 2 more using white, green and pink Mentos in stripes and flower designs.

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In front, we have plates of fruit and dduk (Korean rice cakes) which later get packaged for guests to take home.

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Dduk To Go
To package the dduk for guests, we used plain white take out boxes and printed out thank you labels with pink stripes from Avery.

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Lollipop Garden
Guests were also welcome to take lollipops from this “garden“. All the materials used to make it were found at Michaels – a wooden CD crate, floral foam, green crinkle cut paper shred, individual letters that spell out her first and middle/Korean name, paint and craft glue.

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We are so glad that Mary Jane Photography and some of our very talented friends (Albert, Sandy, Susan and Sam) were able to help us remember Lila’s dol through photos. I still can’t believe Lila’s 1st year has come and gone. It really did fly by, but I remember every moment like it just happened.

I love you Lila!”

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Cakes by Christine - About Christine

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Hi Everyone!! My name is Christine and I am the founder and owner of ~ Cakes By Christine NY ~ I was graciously asked by KokoLiving to write blogs so that everyone can get to know me and my cake business a little better.

A little about me: Obviously, I am a cake decorator/designer and a pastry chef. I've worked in just about every aspect of the business - restaurants, bakeries, cafe's - you name it, I've done it. I’ve worked in hole-in-the wall café’s to Michelin star restaurants in Manhattan – specifically Gordon Ramsey’s at The London. Ironically, cake decorating isn't something I planned on. If someone told me ten years ago that THIS is what I’d be doing right now, I think I would’ve laughed… REALLY hard.

I graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with a degree in music performance and I’ve been playing the violin since I was 7. I come from a musical background – both my parents are opera singers and both received a graduates degree from the Juilliard School. My dad graduated from Seoul University at the top of his class with a degree in voice and is now a music professor at Kyungwon University in Korea. My mother graduated from Ewha Woman’s University – also with a degree in voice at the top of HER class. SO, needless to say, they were both very heartbroken when I decided not to continue teaching violin to little children… From there, I bounced around– wondering what I should do with my life. I dabbled with a couple of different jobs – I even got went back to school and got accepted to the University of Bridgeport for the chiropractic program. But… like many others, I was lost. I just wanted a job where I’d be happy – and not do it for the money, you know?..

My husband is a baker – and no, that is not how we met. He’s been baking since he was 13 and back in 2007, he decided to open up his own bakery. I decided to help him – I enrolled in the French Culinary Institute and in 2008 graduated with lots of knowledge and the love of baking.

Things were rough. While I was attending FCI full time, I worked at my corporate job full time as well. The bakery was in its first year so it wasn’t making any money. We had our wedding coming up and a new apt with no money… so I got ANOTHER full time job at a restaurant as a pastry cook. I got paid next to nothing, but it was still a paycheck and it paid the rent and put food on our table. My day started at 5AM and I didn’t get back home until 1AM. I worked 7 days a week between opening up the bakery, working my corporate job (switching the hours from 9-5 to 8-4) and then running over to my restaurant job from 4:30 to midnight. And then my day started all over again when I woke up 4 hours later… I was tired and got sick often.
Long story short, the bakery didn’t work out. We sadly sold it but my cake orders kept coming in. I was tired of working 20+ hour days so I quit the restaurant job and concentrated on my cake decorating.

I wanted to sharpen my skills in decorating so I got my portfolio together and applied to a couple of internships with well known cake decorators - but they all turned me down! They all seemed so skeptical and suspicious of me... First they asked: Why I wanted to intern - and then went on to say that there was nothing for me to learn and that I wouldn't get anything out of it... what the hell? There's always something to learn. I tried a couple of other places - and got turned down from there too so I decided to go off on my own and started my own business. *Shrug*

Oddly enough, that's my story and here I am. And so... ~ Cakes By Christine NY ~ was founded...

I officially started my own cake business in May 2008 and it’s been almost one year. Thankfully, customers love my work and I’ve been getting such great feedback from everyone. I’ve also been getting offers for sponsorship/investments – to open up a storefront for my business. And as thankful as I am, I’ve turned down many offers – for the sole reason that I want to stay and continue to be Cakes BY Christine. Not Cakes by Christine and workers. I want every cake to be made and touched only by me. So that it’s no one else’s fault than my own if a cake isn’t next to perfect. I never want to be a mass produced bakery, where I hire 10 people to do the work and I just slap my name on the box. I put love and my undivided attention to each and every cake. I make it like it’s for my own party and before I wrap it up to deliver, I ALWAYS ask myself… “Do you love it? Are you proud of it? If YOU were the customer, would this cake make your jaw drop?” And the answer ALWAYS ALWAYS has to be YES. And not only that, but it MUST taste good too. How many times have you gone to a party where a cake looks BEAUTIFUL and you take a bite into the cake and it’s just SO disappointing? DRY and GROSS? I never want to be that cake decorator. I have a motto “Cakes should taste just as great as they look.” And not to toot my own horn but they do!

I also thought I should add one more thing. I DO have a cardinal rule. I only make enough cakes per week where my quality won’t be any less than perfect. That means if I have a certain number of cakes booked for that week, I will have to (unfortunately) turn down other cake orders. And it doesn’t matter to me if that means turning away another $1,000 worth of orders. Quality over quantity, right?

With that said – I will start posting blogs of my work! Hope everyone has some time to read them!

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