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This post is brought to you by the 1930′s & Sutton Gourmet Paper.

I know you’ve been missing the cupcakes, so here they are. The lovely Kellie at Sutton Gourmet Paper sent me an assortment of these beautiful liners, and coincidentally the next day I received a gift from my mother of a vintage 1930′s white enameled metal cake carrier, with hand-painted detail.  I think I’ve mentioned before [...]

Garden update!

Since my last post about my little garden, which was about a month ago, things have progressed nicely. I’ve gotten some new additions and I thought I’d share them with you. I finally got my cilantro! You have no idea how happy that makes me. I’m a Mexican food fanatic, so having that on hand [...]

They say it’s your birthday… it’s my birthday too, yeah…

Yes, my darling readers. Today is my birthday. My 29th birthday, to be exact. And while it’s probably considered déclassé to do so, I have baked myself cupcakes for my birthday. No, not because nobody else would, or because there would be a lack of cake or treats. But because nobody knows quite what I [...]

My little victory garden.

I’ve always been into gardening. Ever since I was a child, and my mother planted her petunias and geraniums every summer and taught me how to dig the hole, pop the plant out of the flat, loosen the roots and “tuck it in” to the soil I was hooked. The older I got, the more [...]

Jay’s birthday “Car Bombs.”

As I said the other day, tomorrow, May 23rd, is Jay’s birthday. And every year for his birthday I ask him what kind of cupcakes he wants, then I make him an entire batch of whatever he requests all for himself. Usually he shares them with his family or co-workers, since he’s not going to [...]