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=)

Love is in the Air

2/14, tomorrow is Valentine's day.  All the TVs, radio station, newspaper, magazines...are all over about this holiday, but how many of us know where this holiday came from, when, where and who are we celebrating for?!  Here is a website I found online: click about the history of Valentine's Day (If you are interested, go check it out).

This week is a busy week for me - There is a big deadline coming up at my full-time day work and couple Valentine's Day cupcake orders, of course, my birthday and my mother-in-law's birthday are also coming up this week too.  O well, I guess sometimes busy means productive, right?! 

 I am such a bad wife - my husband complained about how I make cupcakes for others all the time, but never for him.  Finally, Valentine's Day is a PERFECT reason for me to not to make up excuses for not making him anything, so I made some AWESOME horchata cupcakes decorated with everything that remind me of him JUST FOR MY HUSBAND!  As many of you know that I have a very art-sy husband; he is very into music.  He is a lead singer and a guitarist in a punk rock cover band, called the Knockoffs.  When I was thinking about what I should make for him, immediately I think about guitar pick and his guitar.  Except for music, he is also very into tattoo arts too.  So I just made a heart shape with frame inspired by the tattoo on his chest. 

 

The inspiration of the other two cupcake toppers - I always like the beautiful and colorful hand painted skulls from the Día de Muertos (Day of Dead), every time when I am looking at these skulls; it reminds me of "Love till death do us part" (that's what love and marriage about=)).

The last but not the least cupcake topper - Even my husband is a social smoker (only smokes when he is drinking on the weekend).  But smokes are smokes, and they are bad for you.  I LOVE him and I want him to live healthier and longer.  So I made this topper with a very special note on it.  

In return, I have received a lovely cupcake necklace from Tiffany & Co from my husband as a "Balentine's" gift (Birthday + Valentine's)!  OMG!  I could not ask for more than a better husband in my life and my next life.










To my dear husband,


I know I am not a perfect wife (I could be better)!  Sometimes, ur texts and some stuffs u said to me really touched my heart.  When you told me when u had a hard day at work, as soon as you saw me at home; u feel MUCH BETTER!  That really touched my heart and make me have a very complicated facial expression (smile and dropping happy tear drops)


Thanks for everything, Mr. G!  I love you more than you know.


XOXO,

Louis Vuitton Inspired Cupcake Toppers

This post is ways overdue...thanks for understanding my busy schedule and allow me to update my post a little bits later than I originally planned.  One of my favorite customers had ordered some Louis Vuitton (LV) cupcakes from me.  I was beyond excited; first of all, Louis Vuitton is girl's best friend (Diamond too).  Secondly, I have never done a challenging project like this in the past.  These are the perfect reasons for me to practice my skills and use my creativity to step on the road of perfection of an ultimate cupcake decorator and baker!

At first, my customer wanted all bags in 3-D.  So I did spend quite a good amount of time of molding each purses (4 different styles [see pictures below] were her original idea). Few days later, my customer told me that she found some very cute LV key chains and they will look great on the cupcakes.  I took a look at the website she sent me...O MY!  They are even cuter than the purses.  The combinations of the colors of each key chains made them really POPPED!!!  After my customer and I talked, we decided making six 3D bags and six 2D toppers.

After about a week and a half of crafting, I could finally deliver to my customer and put a big smile on her face.  It's a great idea to give your girlfriend, your wife or your date these cute LV cupcakes.  Admit that LV bags or even their key chains ($ 450.00 per key chain) are quite pricy, these are more affordable=)

The 3D LV purse cupcake toppers
(everything is made with edible materials)

A super mini Speedy LV purse 

A super mini Alma purse

3 2D LV inspired cupcake toppers

Key chain (picture) on top and cupcake topper on bottom 

I love the color combination.

My customer's favorite topper

Cupcake - Chocolate with orange zest
Frosting - Nutella fluffy frosting
YUM!

You make my day!

Receiving positive feedbacks from my customers are one of my goals.  Seeing my customers and their beloved ones smiles are my REAL goal though!  I love to make the day for my customers

I am so happy to receive positive feedbacks from my previous customers on my Etsy Shop.  And one of them even left me a very nice comment; it surely brighten up my day...and maybe night!

Today, my previous customer made my day, and now I have a big smile on my face just like my customers and their beloved ones=)

From one of my previous customers on my Etsy Shop:

Carmen was a lifesaver.. I live in Northern California and I am traveling back to So Cal for my sisters 50 Bday. I was looking for a Beatle cake or cupcakes . All I could find were places in UK and pictures on the web. Through my search, I found C4cupcake. Carmen emailed be back to let me know she was on vacation during the time I would be looking for a cupcake order. She offered a Plan B to me and suggested cupcake toppers with an extra george and Beatles name and she could do this prior to her vacation and mail out to me.... I just rec'd package today and I just love the work she did... I cannot wait for my sister to see this. I know who I will call for my next party in LA.

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.

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.