Tis the Season

Christmas is fast approaching! I'm lucky this year, because Christmas is coming a little early for me. I mentioned a few days ago that our shop has the opportunity this year to donate a decorated Christmas tree to be auctioned off, with proceeds going to the hospital. For some reason, I was put in charge of making a lot of the decorations. So this week has been a frenzy of hot gluing and bow tying! I still have a lot of finishing touches to finish up, and an entire tree topper to make, but I thought I'd give you a sneak preview of some of the decorations! The theme of course, is cake and candy inspired, which was a blast to base decorations around. Our color palate wasn't the traditional red and green. Instead, we went with fun hot pinks and teal blues, with a health does of glitter! 

We had to have cupcakes of course, so I decorated some cupcake sugar cookies!

Cupcakes not your thing? Well how about doughnuts? Very fitting, because our shop also makes doughnuts on Thursdays! 

Colorful rock candy, tied with bows. It'll look beautiful and sparkly against the lights on the tree.

A little peak at our ruffled tree skirt, full of fun plaid, polka dots and plaid

Tomorrow is the big day, actually getting to decorate the tree! I'll admit that I'm nervous, my mom is the big tree decorator around here! I'll let you see how it goes!

xoxo

Happy Monday! My favorite day of the week! Although I have to say, this whole daylight savings thing is throwing me off, especially in the sleeping in department. I was up at 7:30 this morning. On my day off. Just terrible. Anyway, today, I thought I'd let you see the finished Lego Star Wars cake! So much fun.

Complete with the Death Star, and the iconic Star Wars logo!

xoxo

Sunday Sweets

Another busy week at the sweat shop. The wintery weather this week is making me anxious for Christmas, and Christmas holidays. I'll get a little taste of Christmas this week with a day off on Friday, and the chance to decorate a cupcake themed Christmas tree to benefit the Regional Hospital. I'll share more about that later this week, but for now, it's time for a cute cake! Baby shower cakes are always super fun, because nothing gets people more excited than a baby on the way! This one turned out super cute, I'm in love.

 Twins are on the way! We went with a "two peas in a pod" theme, and in addition to the cake, we made some cupcake with matching icing colors, with little peas in pods on top

xoxo

May the Force Be With You

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.... 

I'm such a nerd! I will openly admit that I thoroughly enjoy Star Wars. That's why I was extra happy when I got to make some decorations for not only a Star Wars cake, but a Lego Star Wars cake! My little brother would be proud. I only got to make three of the characters, which sadly didn't include Chewbacca, but I think they turned out good nonetheless.

Happy Thursday!

xoxo

Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween everyone! It's all treats and no tricks around here today. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I've never been big on dressing up, mostly because I always leave my costume to the very last minute. But pumpkin carving and watching old scary movies with my family is one of the things I look forward to all year. I've also been looking forward to sharing this cake with you! Halloween themed cakes are always fun to decorate, especially when they can be "cute" rather than "scary".

The only direction as far as decorating goes, was Halloween themed, and Goofy and Max on top. I thought it would be fun to have Goofs dressed up for the occasion, so they I gave them some spooky costumes.

Another thing that I love about this cake is the stripes on the middle tier. I hand painted them on, to give them an imperfect and slightly spooky look. 

Hope you all have a fantastic Halloween!

xoxo

Sunday Sweets

Since I've started posting cakes multiple times during the week, Sunday Sweets is now going to feature my favorite cake of the week. For the past few years our shop has had the opportunity to donate a cake to be auctioned off the raise money for the Boys and Girls Club. The fundraisers theme this year was pirates! Much better than the sports theme last year. I can't take total credit for the cake, it was definitely a team effort. I got to decorate the chest, and paint the cake board like a treasure map. The gold coins and jewels are one of my favorite things about the cake. No chest is complete without treasure!

xoxo

Birthday Girl

Happy Birthday Mum!

 Yesterday was my lovely mothers birthday! Unfortunately she doesn't share mine, or my dad's enthusiasm for presents. Or if she does, she's not as vocal about it as we are. In any case, buying presents for her can be difficult. Lucky for me, no birthday is complete without cake, and cake is what I do best. I didn't want to do anything to garish or bright for her cake, I wanted it to be simple and elegant, just like her.

I wanted the flowers to have the effect of lace, and I added a little brooch, just for a little bling. 

Hope you know how much I love you Mum! 

xoxo