Cupcakes For All

I've been spending a lot of time lately shopping online.... I can't go out to stores very easily, so why not right?? ;) in my searches I have found so many lovely items. Last night I searched for cupcakes, and I found so many cute things I just have to share, so I decided to put together this gift guide.


Cupcakes for Your Mom







Cupcakes for Your Daughter







Cupcakes for Your Teenager







Cupcakes for Your Friend







Cupcakes for Your Sister

A case of the Mondays...

How are you all today? I'm feeling pretty icky :( I have IBS and it has been acting up lately, especially with all of the Birthday celebrations of eating/drinking. I feel annoyed because I hardly accomplished anything today (so far anyways). I haven't blogged much lately, sorry guys. Life has been busy!

I woke up to an *awesome* email from Tim of Fantastic Toys telling me I had won his white reindeer giveaway, and I just about died! I am so in love with his plushes but I knew I wouldn't be able to afford one this year. Have you seen his stuff? I have shown photos before here... so maybe you have seen some of them. He also has a shop on etsy, and photos on flickr.



Isn't the reindeer adorable?! It's a Holiday limited edition! I just can't get over how lucky I am :) Just for fun, here are some more photos of Tim's cute creations.






Now that I have shared my awesome news, I wanted to mention that my good friend Elizabeth aka Creative Breathing is doing some giveaways on her blog this month - and you should check them out because she makes amazing crafts! Do you remember the embroidered heart I posted a while back with my name on it? Well she is the one who made it! Check out her blog and bookmark it! She writes really heartwarming little stories and shares great photos too. Here are a few of her photos from flickr:




I haven't forgotten about the gift guides.. they were just put on hold for a few days ;) This time I'm going to do jewelery, something I am just discovering on etsy. I haven't purchased any yet but I think I want some cute earrings... or a lovely necklace. Anyways, please do tell me who your favorite etsy sellers are for jewelery. Here are some of my most recent faves.

Gift Guide and some NEW Cards! Yay!

Ok here I am... back for the second time today with some photos of cards I made yesterday! I felt like I couldn't get into my 'groove', so they are not my favorite works.. but still pretty cute I think :)





Today's gift guide is a bit... 'woodsy'. Hope you like!

Only one month left!!!

One month until Christmas!! One month until Christmas!! And some other exciting news: Jude is in his playpen - feeding himself breakfast! He can hold the handles on a sippy or bottle now and do it all alone... aww my baby is growing up. He is also sitting all on his own now, and *just* about crawling...

I missed blogging yesterday, sorry guys. I actually went upstairs last night to have a bath and found it hadn't been drained from Jude's earlier bath... so I layed down while it was draining, and woke up at 8am. I slept from 8:30 to 8am!! I guess I needed that.

I made a bunch of stuff over the weekend, 9 cards and a few more dotty gingerbread ornaments. Here are some photos of some of the cards:








These cards are now available for sale in the Paper*Cakes Shoppe - so check em out.

It's Matt's birthday this weekend, and because he works for an American company and gets American holidays off, he has four days off in a row. Yeah, four days off in a row. I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! He has worked two jobs for sooo long now, and was getting one day off a week if he was lucky. So I will be celebrating American thanksgiving as well this weekend, just not with turkey :)

Here is today's gift guide, featuring stuff for the wee-est of the wee..








I'm going to finish up this post with a question - are you guys thinking of shopping online for black friday? I was thinking of maybe doing a sale this weekend... but unsure of whether or not I should. What do you think? Maybe free shipping, or 25% off, or a bonus w/ purchase? Let me know what YOU think would work best!

Sunday Lovely Sunday

Whew! I just love Sundays, they are usually very quiet days around here. Today is Matt's last day working his second job - finally! I can't wait to have him around for the entire weekened... every weekend. Yesterday we stayed home and made some deeeeeelish food, including this:





It's stir fry, and home made egg rolls! Home made egg rolls you say? Yep! And they're super easy... all I do is shred up some carrot, onions, cabbage, and mix it in a bowl with some cooked vermicelli. I add spices like garlic, salt and pepper, chilis, and some rice wine vinnegar. Sometimes I add ground or shredded pork as well. The wraps are just the pre-made eggroll wraps you can find at the grocery store. I fry them in a big wok using sesame oil. They're super tasty, cheap, and easy! A batch of 15 ends up costing me under $5. A great party snack... try it sometime :)

So far today I've managed to make a few crafts, too! A couple cards, and more dotty gingerbread man ornaments:





These will be up in the shop soon! I have decided to start working on Valentine's stuff since I've pretty much missed the boat now for Christmas.... and I looooooooove pink so I might as well, right? ;) Are you going to send or give out valentines this year? I think that I probably will, being a card maker and all. I did say that about Christmas though, and I don't think it'll happen this year.

And now onto today's gift guide!