After following all of the buzz around Amy Atlas’ first book, I was excited to receive Sweet Designs in the mail from Chapters Indigo.
Amy Atlas is the creator of the stylized dessert and sweet table concept and is THE Sweet Stylist. Years ago, I fell in love with the dessert tables Amy created for weddings, and as I started my Calgary wedding planning business, I knew I had to bring the sweet table trend to Calgary weddings (and any event worth celebrating!). I was thrilled when my work was featured on the Amy Atlas blog as I respect Amy’s craftmanship and attention to detail, and strive to do the same for all of my work. Her use of colour and pattern is second to none, and her work is respected worldwide.
I was pleased to see that Sweet Designs lived up to the Amy Atlas reputation. Full of gorgeous photos of mostly never-before-seen dessert tables, I was also really surprised to see so many recipes and DIY tricks, including making your own candy wrappers, pedestals and boxes and creative vessel “liners”. This book is really a “how-to” for creating your own dessert tables or just making really cute sweets!
This “accordion”/DIY chevron-style pattern for box pedestals is creative and fairly easy. I did find that the instructions to be a little simplified, à la Martha Stewart, in which less crafty people may have some difficulty following each step. I can understand that Amy did not want the book to be simply filled with too many detailed instructions…there would be no room for the beautiful photos of new sweet tables.
As always, all of the dessert table creations are colourful, clean and exciting. And, look, my nail polish matches this sweet table…
Thank you, Amy, for creating this book and spreading the sweets love throughout the world! You can purchase your own copy of Sweet Designs here.
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Sweet reading,
Calgary Wedding Planner and Designer
Calgary Dessert Table Designer
