I am feeling geeky...

Last week, my sister and her husband invited us to their house for a house warming party and her husband's surprise birthday party.  She asked me to make them some cupcakes for the party and she asked me to decorated some of them to the stuffs her husband likes.  Play Station 2 (PS2), XBox, Honda Civic Si, and books (all the manly and geeky stuffs).

Based on her information, I crafted the cupcake toppers to all the geeky stuffs he likes.  I made two different favors based on my sister's request.  They are lemon-fresh blueberry cupcakes with rasberry frosting and chocolater cupcake with rose water frosting.  They are so summer-y and refreshing! 

Here are some pictures I want to share with everyone:

Precious First Birthday

Few weeks ago, I attended my friend's baby first birthday party at a park; it was a sunny, nice and warm day in April at the park.  First birthday is the most previous for the family and the baby.  I knew my friend and her sisters put a lot of efforts to make her baby's first birthday as perfect as possible=)  I could not believe baby Vai has turned one.  I still remember attending my friend's baby shower last year; it feels like just days ago.  It's so crazy that time has flied so fast that now the baby starts learning how to walk and words. 

Made the paper cupcake toppers for baby Vai's cupcakes

My friend's favorite color, purple!  I put a little bow under the "1" cupcake picker
becauese Vai always has a little bow on her hairs.

I helped my friend of making some paper cupcake picks.  Due to their tight budget, they ordered the cupcakes from a local gocery store and my job was SIMPLE - just dress the store bought cupcakes up nicely.  I also made baby Vai a "I am 1!" sign for pictures (see picture below).  All the settings, decorations, food and cupcakes came out so cute together!  I truely had fun playing all the old school games and enjoyed all the food at the party. 

Here is a little poem I found for my friend's baby Vai Vai:


Posing with the "I am 1!" sign I made her=)

I learned to laugh and squeal,
Then sit and stand,
And I can walk now if you hold my hand.
But the fun has only just begun,
Lookout world, I'm turning one!

My friend included pictures of her dad on the cake table
(her dad just passed away in March).  What a great way to celebrate
baby Vai's first birthday with her Kui (grandpa)

Vai vai likes her tranditional outfit.

Old school games at the park

Super Mario Bros Round 3

I have been busy this week about couple rush orders, Christmas shopping and some Christmas craft projects.  It's been a very productive weekend though.

I am so blessed that I got couple orders from my Etsy Shop.  Even though they are rush orders, but I am so glad that I could finish them on time to have them ready for my customers.  I finished a dozen of Super Mario Bros cupcake toppers for a customer in MI and some cupcake picks and gift tags for another customer in FL (pictures will be posted soon).  It's my third time of doing the Super Mario Bros cupcake toppers in these two months; did I get bored?!  No, every time I found new way to make them look better.

Mario Brothers Cupcakes (Encore)

Last weekend, I made another set of Super Mario Brothers cupcakes for my friend's brother's birthday.  My friend saw the one I made for another client a month ago (check this out if you are interested in what I made the last time.).  She circled the ones she and her family liked the most.  At first, I was thinking just to focus on making the face and minus the body.  However, my friend and her family liked the whole body better.  Of course, I listened to my client and went for it.  This time I adjusted the scale a little bits to make all the characters a little bigger than the last time.  So people could see the details a little better.  They turned out so cute and I am so happy that my friend and her brother loved them.

DIY Cupcake Toy for Your Kid

I found this creative DIY matching cupcake toy from Naptime Crafters website.  It is a smart way to teach your little one about colors through playing the game.  Remember when we were little kid, our parents were a lot more creative than us.  They made things for us to play or encouraging us to make our own toys. 

Also, a lot of kids grow up in a world, which filled with technology.  I don't know it's 100% a good thing for the parents or for the kids (I guess this is a too serious topic to discuss on this blog=p).  If I had kid in future, I just wanted them to have a simple childhood with less technology toys involved.

OK, back to the topic - if you are interested in how to make this cute matching cupcake toy for your little one, go and check out the Naptime Crafters website. 

Picture from Naptime Crafters

Picture from Naptime Crafters

If you are new on crafting and sewing, and want to have a easier instruction of making your toy cupcakes, here another website, you might be interested.  The website calls "Hoogli Art", they have step by step tutorial and easier way to make your cupcakes.  Below is their final production.

Picture from Hoogli Art



Super Mario Brothers Cupcakes for a surprise birthday party

The "BIG" secret/surprise was finally out!  I was so honor to create this happy memory for the birthday girl, Mary.  Mr. G's cousin, Josh wanted to surprise his girlfriend, Mary with 144 Super Mario Brothers themed cupcakes on her 25th birthday this month.  Since August, we had started planning on the design and throwing ideas together.  He had already had specific idea in his mind; he wanted the cupcakes to be like a real game (everything needs to flow appropriately).  He went online and saw a lot of different pictures of the Mario Bros cupcakes, but nothing came close to what's in his mind.  So we exchanged emails back and forward for couple weeks about his ideas and what is possible/what's not practical.  I used 2 days to draw everything out and started making all the toppers since the beginning of September.

I am so happy that the birthday girl liked it!  And everyone at the birthday party enjoyed the cupcakes.  I need to say a BIG thank you to my helpers here:

Mr. G - Thanks for giving me a hand on a Friday night midnight.  You truly did a great job of making couple of the main characters.  YOU ARE SO HIRED!!!

Ashley - Thanks for helping me for making the fondant toppers and sorry for making your hands turn bright red the next day (thanks to the red food gel color).  I hope that I was not too demanding or too bitchy about your works=p  You are hired too.

My mother-in-law, Karen - Thanks for helping me to do the baking and frosting the cupcakes.  You rock!  And once you are retired from your real job, please let me know.  I am going to save a spot for you at my shop (if I had one in future and if you didn't mind working after retiring).

My cousin, Josh - Thanks for giving me another great opportunity to make such a fun big project.  I had so much fun of making the cupcakes, and I was so glad to see Mary's surprising face and teary eyes.

Peep Art

Peep - These colorful and pillow-y marshmallows always catch attention from people during those special holidays.  They are so cute, and you don't even want to tear them apart and swallow them down to your throat.

I found these amazing peep art on the Internet.  Enjoy the "Peep Show"!

"Up" Peep version

The "Peep"son! (the Simpson's)

"Peep" CSI

American Peep Idol

Peep Busters

So cute

Where the Wild Peeps Are

Peep Mario Brothers

iPeep Pad

iPeed Nano

Peep sushi

Peeps love Art

Do you know where this idea come from?

No Country for Peep