Hi, my name is Cyd. I am in love with parties and special occasions and I look forward to sharing that love with you. Welcome!
As a kid I used to spend hours contemplating the perfect layout for my bedroom. I’d map it out on colorful construction paper with big fat Crayola crayons and then pass it off to my father to carry out my vision. I was obsessed with my little Kodak 35mm camera and would set up elaborate setups and fashion shoots and take so many photos my parents eventually refused to keep paying to develop the film. My dolls always attended the most fashionable of events and I made elaborate scrapbooks with clippings from every shelter magazine my child self could get my hands on. I had my first subscription to House Beautiful when I was about eleven years old. Somehow, all of this landed me in college as an architecture student who spent my nights drawing in the studio and my free time planning birthday parties for all of my friends in my drafty college apartment. I didn’t have much in the way of a party-throwing budget, but I made delicious cakes from scratch (my strong anti-cake mix policy has been in effect for years) and used offcuts from studio projects to make handmade party décor. In college I developed a love for paper and all things made from paper – I could literally spend hours in art stores picking out the perfect paper supplies for my next school project.
Now one Bachelor’s degree in architecture and a Master of Business Administration later, I am still just as obsessed with parties, entertaining, photography, interiors, paper, stationery and letterpress. The Sweetest Occasion is a blend of all of those loves with an emphasis on the special occasions that make life oh so sweet.
