Cupcake class

I'm the sort of person who likes to go the extra mile for family. I will sacrifice just about anything for loved ones, and so last weekend, as part of my gift to my sister for her birthday, I went to (another) cupcake decorating class. Yes, I know. Torture LOL.

Here are my efforts:

The class was with the same people I did a class with 4 years ago, and to be honest, it was worthwhile doing again.

I think my new favourite is the chrysanthemum one (top left). So easy yet visually impressive.

Now, who wants to come to my place for morning tea LOL?

Cupcake weekend

I promised both Rachel and Elouise they could have birthday parties this year. Despite having celebrated their actual birthdays in March and July respectively, last Saturday was P-Day.  Two girly birthdays on the one day. I MUST be insane. But, a promise is a promise, right?

You can imagine the wonderful smell in my kitchen - over 60 cupcakes baked, and around 40 of them decorated. One thing I love about baking is that you eat your mistakes.....which is really no incentive to be at all perfect! My super tight jeans today are testament to that lack of perfection. Anyhoo....moving on.....

Here is the design for Rachel's cupcakes:

 

Quick and easy - chocolate cupcake with purple frosting because purple is her favourite colour.  I sent the cupcakes home in boxes:

 Elouise had some trouble deciding on her design, so we had some of these with a banana lolly:

and some of these:

 Yeah - wichety grubs sticking out of a pile of mud, snort. Cute eh?  Cute, but too tall for the cupcake carrier, so the grubs were pulled out and replaced with this:

 ...a flat freckle. These cupcakes took about three times as long as the first lot because I had a couple of "helpers".  I'll call them helpers, more because they were helping themselves to the lollies than actually helping me decorate cupcakes. And don't believe them when they say they weren't helping themselves to the chocolate frosting  - they were both lying through their pencil thin chocolate moustaches.

Our next birthday is not until December, which should give my pancreas enough time to recover. It has been worked hard this weekend!

Rachel's birthday

I'd like to share the card I made for Rachel's birthday a couple of weeks ago.  Don't panic - I got the card to her in time, it's just taken me this long to blog about it. 

Here it is:

I used paper from my new Basic Grey Green at Heart 6x6 pad, and the stamp and cupcake are from Sassafras Lass.  The rub on words are Melissa Frances. The card was cut using my Nestabilities.

The cake I made was a hit.  Thanks to Jennifer Graham of Crabapple Bakery for her words of encouragement, I got this done in about half an hour.  The cake inside was Green's Buttercake, and delicious!

Rachel was delighted, as any little girl should be when it's a pink cake with flowers on it just for her!

What are you doing today?

I'll be in a sweet sugary heaven:

or Happy Valenday's Time if you're my four year old daughter!  Hope your day is filled with love and happiness.

Jake's Communion...and some cupcakes

The past few months have been very eventful, most of which I won't blog about if it's not craft related. I'm sorting through things on many levels - emotionally and physically, so please excuse some of my blog posts - it's going to seem like I'm stepping back in time a bit LOL.

This is one event I wanted to share - my son's First Communion. It's a pretty big event in our faith, and our son made me so proud on the day. Here's the young man himself:


Here's a pic of the cupcakes I made for the little party we had afterwards:



Don't they look great? I was really happy with how they turned out, and talk about delighting the kiddies (both young and old!).

The week before the communion, I did a class with Jennifer Graham of Crabapple Bakery fame - here's what I made in class:

It was a most delicious experience!