Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!  Have a lot of sweet treats and cupcakes.

(more cute cupcake and Halloween postages could be found here.)

Our Schedule for next month: 

Nov 1 - Booked for a baby shower

Nov 3 - Booked for a tea party

Nov.  9-30 - Out of  town

Start accepting orders for December.

Totally Random Totally Cupcakes

OMG!  I can't believe that it's October already.  This year went by so fast that we only have 2 months left.  It's been a blessing year to me and C for Cupcake Cupckaery.  We've been done so many new and challenging projects and have been working with so many lovely clients.  Thanks for all your supports!  If you have not done so, please go to our Facebook page and click "Like" to help us to reach 100 "Likes".

Just want to share some random things (of course they are related to cupcakes) with you.

C for Cupcake Cupcakery's T-shirt!  Aren't they cute! 
Thanks to Homegrown customized t-shirt company to making them
A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

My 1st water color painting, not bad, huh!?  LOL

What to expect at the fair this year?

I mentioned that OC Fair (July 13-August 12) is around the corner on my previous post.  I am looking forward to eat my favorite fair food and also try some new "heart-attack" deep fried items at the fair next month.  This year, Chicken Charlie's, southern California's famous king of the deep fryer, will have a brand new deep fried item to offer at the fair this year - deep-fried cereal! Two cereal options could be chosen from Trix or Cinnamon Toast Crunch, both are fried in batter and sprinkled with more sugary cereal for extra crunchy texture.  It might be a good idea if they could serve us milk too=)

Home Sweet Home

The Orange County Fair is coming very soon (Mid July), we are so excited to go there to enjoy some fair food and see some farm animals again this year.  Besides the food and animals, I love to see the exhibits of table setting and food too.  This year, I decided joining one of the many contests they offer - the fondant decoration cupcakes contest.  I registered about a month ago and started putting ideas together immediately.  Since their theme this year is Home Sweet Home, I "kind of" go along with the theme.  Being a home owner is one of the biggest American dream people are having for many years - New Home Sweet Home is my theme for my creation! 

I made the toppers first and then spent about half day to finish some faux cupcakes.  For decorating cake/cupcakes contests, it's required to submit faux cupcakes/cake rather than real ones because the exhitbits will be showing at the fair for about a month, I guess that make sense to keep the cupcakes/cake look as good as on the first day.  I will share with you of how to make my faux cupcakes next time (stay tuned!).

In the process of making my creation, it reminded me of all the painful and sweet moments of getting our first house.  I still consider getting our first hourse is the most stressful moment I have in my life so far.  We need to put tons of documents together to get loans and submit to the bank.  We used tons of boxes to pack our belongings.  We sweated from head to toes to get our house painted.  We spent days and nights to read all the documents we received from our realtor and made our decision carefully. But after all that, everything was done and settled, and we finally got to enjoy our new home and new lives together. 

So here are my new creation, and I will let you guys know how it goes.  Hopefully, you will see my creation at the fair and don't forget to snap a pictures of my creation and share with me and everyone=)

New Home Sweet Home

Sold Sign

I tried to get as detail as I could.  I even put some "dirt" (cookies) on back.

Singed DEED and Got the key

Fixing up the house

Unpacking

Changing address

Finally got to enjoy our new nest!

LOVE is a Four Letter Word

I am so excited that we finally got our tickets to see Jason Mraz's concert at the Hollywood Bowl this October.  Jason Mraz is one of my favorite musicians and have been longing to see his live performance for ages.  I am now listening to his songs every morning when I drive to work and every night when I go to bed, just to get familiar with all his songs, so I could enjoy even more at his concert. 

From boring...

...to what not to LOVE

Yesterday, in order to show my love and support to Jason and his music, I crafted 4 fondant toppers inspired by Jason's new album, "Love is a Four Letter Word" to decorate some dull looking Oreo cookies.  This is a wonderful (and easy) way to show your beloved one how much you love, care and appreciate them or it will even make a great surprise proposal idea.  If you want to turn your Oreo cookies to be a cookies with mission or a special cookie with messenge for the one you love, but you have no time or no idea how to make it.  Contact us or check our C for Cupcake Cupckaery Etsy shop, we could HELP!

They are not ordinary cookies. 
They are cookies with mission to show people LOVE.

It's very hard to pick only 10 favorite songs from Jason Mraz because a lot of them are really welly made.  Here is my TOP 10 list:

1.  Butterfly (my all time favorite, so sexy and mystery)
2.  Man Gave Names to all the Animals (it's a cute revision from the Bob Dylan's version)
3.  I'm Yours (what not to love?!)
4.  Lucky (Mr. G and I sing this song at karaoke all the time)
5.  Remedy (First song I knew from Jason Mraz)
6.  Curbside Prophet (Very refreshing new music)
7.  You and I Both (Sad love song)
8.  Did You Get My Message (Love the melody and lyrcis)
9.  Make It Mine (Meaning song)
10.  Please Don't Tell Her (another sad song from him)

What are your favorite songs from Jason Mraz?  Share with us=)

Happy 2012!

After a nice long vacation, I am back to work.  It's the first work day in 2012, and I hope everything will be great this year.

I got an order before Christmas.  Unfortunately, I was out of town, so I could not make cupcakes on the date my client wanted.  I came up with a awesome Plan B though.  I suggested that I make cupcake toppers on my Etsy shop, so if my client was ok with the idea, I could make the toppers for her before taking off for my vacation.  She loved the idea and I was happy to serve her even though I was not in town on the date she wanted the cupcakes. 

She told me her sister's birthday and she loves the Beatles.  She randomly found me on Google, and immediately sent me an email.  This was my second time of making the Beatles' cupcake toppers.  I made it the last time just for fun (because I am the big fan of the Beatles too), and this time is for someone else.  Both sets I made are quite similar because I got the same idea from the Beatles' cartoon.  However, this one was a little more details than the first one I made.  I also made an additional George Harission since he is the birthday girl's favorite one.

The Ultimate Vacation for all the Cupcake Lovers

Picture from Cupcakes take the Cake

Who doesn't like vacation?  and what make your vacation upgrade to the ultimate one?  Of course, it has to involve things you enjoy doing, food you love, and sights you want to see...

If you are an ultimate cupcake lover, and you are reading my post...YOU need to pay attention NOW because this is one of the life time chance you could turn your vacation to an ultimate vacation by joining this cruise.  One of my favorite cupcake websites "Cupcakes Take the Cake" recently announced that they have been organizing a cupcake cruise to Bermuda on August 19-26, 2012.  Couple of the speakers have been confirmed, including Hello, Cupcake! and What's New, Cupcake? New York Times bestselling authors Karen Tack and Alan Richardson on board to show you how to decorate cupcakes into all sorts of adorable shapes; and Baked bakery owners Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, authors of the cookbooks Baked and Baked Explorations.  I am sure they will have more exciting annoucements coming out throughout this year before the cruise.  If you are interested, go to check out their website:  http://cupcakecruise.com/. 

PS.  Jessie O. from Cakespy did another amazing artwork for the cruise poster.