Trick or Treat Tuesday Giveaway

The girls and I decided to have
Trick or Treat Tuesdays
in October.

Our first giveaway is a wooden test tube rack with 6 new unused test tubes filled with all sorts of Halloween goodies perfect for decorating cupcakes or cookies.

Regular candy corn
black and orange sprinkles
a Halloween mix with green, purple, white sprinkles, pumpkins, spiders & bats
jumbo orange, black and white ghost sprinkles
purple candy corn
and black and orange candy skulls.

Leave us a comment to be entered in our draw.
We'll make the draw after school on Friday October 8th.

Make sure you check back next week for
Trick or Treat Tuesday!!
It'll be a good one.... but will it be a trick or a treat?!

Cupcake Stand

I must remember to keep my eye out for treasures and supplies while at the thrift shops to make this cupcake stand by Givers Log.

You can swap out the plates for a completely different look.

Check out how easy the tutorial is to make your own.

(I'll let you know how it goes when I gather

everything all together and try to assemble my own.
Local readers, please remember to leave some treasures for me at the Village!)

~ just imagine the possibilities!!

Kisses for Cupcakes

Little Cakes a la Saucy!

The girls were once again treated to little cakes from Saucy.
CD has Saucy curled around her little finger & is happy to exchange kisses for cupcakes!
Sassy & I agree it'd be a cute teeshirt!

These beautiful little treasures are what
we enjoyed after supper ~
one for each of us.

I tucked the girls into bed tonight, told them to have sweet dreams and think up names for each of the Little Cakes we enjoyed. They really are mini works of art!

We love your little cakes Saucy!
Anytime you want us to taste test them our Mommy will drive us over!

Thank you for my Little Cakes Saucy!

Little Cakes!!

The other night my darling 2 year old
wheeled out her luggage and said,

"Bye Mommy. Saucy's house. Make me little cakes!"

Now, I've made me some cupcakes around here and learned from the best but I guess they just aren't as good as Saucy's!! We ran into Saucy and the Fan on the weekend at the
fancy schmancy garden store downtown
while browsing for Christmas decorating ideas and I told them the story.... well just look what was delivered today!!

Little Cakes!!

She knew right away who they were from and was THRILLED!

What a lucky little girl!!
She definitely loves her LITTLE CAKES from SAUCY!

Thanks again for such a
sweet treat for our little lady!

Cupcake Saturday and A Hootenanny

It was a busy, hot afternoon of baking and frosting. It started with
good old game of hide and seek for our friends to find us... sorry
about the tour you had to take to find the kitchen!
Saucy
walked us through how to make Camo-Cupcakes and
Red Velvet Elvis Cupcakes for Father's Day.
Thank you Saucy for ALL your planning, prepping, and
hosting this great event for us!

Look how great they turned out!

CJ was thrilled to give them to Dad!

Look at the sweet card from Karen. She must have designed it to look great
with the Red Velvet Elvis cupcakes!
She is one crafty lady!!
Thank you!
(Leave me a comment so I can link back to you!)

I must admit that I was running things a little Commando there for a bit,
trying to hurry us along. Sorry ladies! You did a great job and it was nice to meet you!

I had to run off to take CJ to her final guitar lesson... a Hootenanny!
CJ's instructor Duane and his family hosted a campfire sing-a-long for all this year's students and their families. The girls had so much fun and CJ is planning what we'll be singing when we go camping! (Yes, camping Saucy!!)

It was a fun, busy, good day!!

Cupcake Saturday is Almost Here!!

If you want to join us for virtual cupcake Saturday, pop
on over to Saucy's Sprinkles!! It's going to be SWEET!

My "Baby" is One and a Half !!!


Where did time go?? My darling baby is now a little girl!
CD, you have grown so much the last little while.
You are speaking 3 word sentences, you tease us and
make jokes, you can tell us what you want and need.
And you have quiet an opinion!!
You are silly, loving and kind.
You have the greatest giggle and give such warm 'big squeeze' hugs.
Thank you for completing our family!!

We love you so much!


Happy 1 1/2 Birthday!

Down on the Farm

We were invited for supper (and a sleep over for CJ) at a friend's farm
a few days ago. CJ enjoyed playing with friends, finding the cats,
seeing the new baby calves, and horse back riding.
What a lucky girl!!

Inspired to by Saucy I tried
making some cupcakes .... horse cupcakes
like in the Hello Cupcake cookbook... we struggled with finding some
white marshmallow peanuts for heads so had to 'glue' together 2 marshmallow
bananas and dip them in white chocolate. They don't look nearly as
nice as the ones in the book nor as pretty as the works of art
by Saucy but the kids enjoyed them and that's all that mattered.

Thanks to M, D, K & A for a great time at the farm! RED was delicious! Teehee
And thanks to Auntie Viki for staying with CJ for 2 "sleepless overs", hope you got caught up on sleep in Comox!