Wandering the Strand Arcade in the city yesterday. Christmas looks real pretty in there!
A Berry Beautiful Wedding...and a cupcake tower!
My gorgeous girlfriend Melanie married her handsome man, Antony a few weekends ago.
They chose the idyllic setting of Berry for their nuptuals and their lucky friends (including me) got to spend a lovely long weekend down there.
I was also honoured to do their wedding cupcake tower.
There is a 10" cutting cake on top and below we have cupcakes in boxes as bonbonierre. This was a great idea as guests could take them home at the end of the night as a thank you from the bride and groom.
Mel is a talented designer so designed and printed the 'thank you' cards herself.
We had Chocolate Mud with Choc Swirl and Vanilla with Buttercream Swirl cupcakes in clear perspex boxes. Topped with our rose decorations that are exclusive to Sweet Little Things we then wrapped them in a beautiful vintage-inspired striped ribbon and tied on Mel's tags.
I think they look pretty fabulous! As does the entire bridal party......
CCxo
Acumen Corporate Logo Hampers
Acumen is one of our lovely clients. As we do with all our customers - we designed a special branded hamper for them.
Often recruitment companies send their new starters a little gift to say 'good luck' in their new role.
Lucky people who get placed by Acumen receive our cupcakes:
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Beauty Heaven's 4th Birthday
The fabulous girls at Beauty Heaven celebrated their 4th birthday this month.
In honour of the occasion they sent out some of our branded hampers to their most special contacts.
We delivered these all over Sydney and in VIC, QLD and SA as well.....yes, we can be everywhere at once!
We organised artwork and printing of branded ribbon
And sourced turquoise ribbon to match their fabulous branding
Box of 15 minis - $48 - all vanilla with turquoise frosting and silver cachous
Box of 6 - $34.95 - tailored to match the Beauty Heaven logo and branding
Individual cupcakes in boxes sent as a sample to the lovely ladies
Happy customers who received their gift had this to say:
'Thanks so much for the delicious cupcakes, they were wrapped so beautifully and went down an absolute treat by all! Perfect timing for the mid afternoon slump! Thanks again'
'Just the lady I was about to email. We just received some lovely cupcakes/ birthday cakes from you guys!! Thank YOU!!! They went down like an absolute treat. A big Happy Birthday to your little digital child! ...How great! '
'Hi Ladies. Hope you all had a lovely long weekend. I just wanted to reach out and say thank you on behalf of the team for the lovely cupcakes you sent through to the team this morning. They looked amazing and tasted even better!!! Hopefully you got to keep a few for yourselves!'
Happy days!
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Lucky Birthday Girl
Beautiful hamper for a lucky (grown up) birthday girl from one of her gorgeous friends.
This one has 6 vanilla cupcakes with 'girly' toppers - butterflies & flowers.
Topped with pink ribbon and you have the perfect gift for a girly girl :)
We took a new direction a few mnths ago - we're not doing consumer cupcakes anymore - we are concentrating solely on the corporate side. However the lady that ordered is a previous customer, so we couldn't resist helping her out:
'Thanks so much again, or the fantastic customer service and good will - it's so rare, even in service industries these days! ' Happy Customer
LOVE this business :)
CCxo
Moist Lemony Cake
We recently renovated our home and ever since, I have been spending A LOT of time in our kitchen. When I think we spent 6 years with a kitchen that had 1 drawer, I can't believe it. I mean, we have catered for a party of 20 before - how was that even possible?!
Anyway, that possibilities are now seemingly endless.
Especially with my most treasured item of all:
Ilve oven 'Nostalgie' range in black. Love, love love!
This is a moist lemon cake recipe I took from the Women's Weekly website.
It was also a nice excuse to use our lovely housewarming gift from my mum - a gorgeous glass cake stand.
INGREDIENTS
125g butter, softened
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind
1 cup (220g) caster sugar
2 eggs
1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
½ cup (75g) plain flour
½ cup (125ml) milk
Topping
½ cup (125ml) lemon juice
¼ cup (55g) caster sugar
NOTE: This recipe can be made two days ahead.
METHOD
Preheat the oven to moderate (180°/160°C fan-forced). Grease a deep 20cm round cake pan, then line the base with baking paper.
Beat the butter, rind and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until combined between additions.
Stir in the sifted flours in two batches with the milk.
Spread the mixture into the prepared pan and bake in a moderate oven for about 45 minutes or until the cake is cooked when tested.
For the topping, combine the lemon juice and sugar in a jug; stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Pour the topping over the hot cake; allow cake to stand for 15 minutes before turning the cake onto a wire rack to cool.
Suitable to freeze. Not suitable to microwave.
Preparing the ingredients...trusty ipad is GREAT for the kitchen
Cream butter, rind and sugar
Adding the eggs
This is how creamy the mixture should look
Voila! Fresh from the oven
I used a pouring jug to make the syrup mixture - easier to pour over the cake!
Take the cake out of the tin to cool on a wire rack. This is important to make it cool down before adding any frosting.
The first slice. The rest went to my husband's office. If we kept it in the house we would have eaten the whole thing!
You will notice I couldn't help myself and did a blueberry icing on top. It's perfectly lovely without it, but I had some leftover blueberries, which I mixed with icing sugar and a tiny amount of water. It was really tasty, but unfortunately the cake was too hot when I put it on so it melted off a bit. You'll be more careful, I'm sure ;)
CCxo
Cosmo Bride Winter Issue and some famous cupcakes
Cosmopolitan Bride went on sale this week and I am blown away by how stunning the photo shoot is!
Styled by the lovely Amanda Newman this is SO DIVINE!
What looked like your ordinary garden on the morning of the shoot has certainly been transformed into something fabulous by some clever people.
Not to mention some gorgeous cupcakes, of course :)
Excuse the million images, but I just had to post all of them...
CCxo
Another feature in Cosmopolitan Brides
More sneak peeks!
Another shoot we did the other week - also coming out in the latest Winter Cosmo Brides edition.
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Cosmo Brides Shoot
Our little stunners have been swanning themselves around some magazine shoots lately.
From brides to kids - everyone loves a little cupcake :)
Here's a sneak peek of some that will be featured in a gorgeous spread in Winter's Cosmopolitan Brides. LOVED the styling of this shoot (obviously not in evidence here in my amateur shots...!), so am sure it will turn out beautifully.
These are a little bit special because they are the first time our new range of toppers have been featured on a cupcake! Our first order went out yesterday to Alfresco Emporium, with many more retailer to come. Keep an eye out for them!
CCxx
Australia Day Goodies
It never ceases to amaze me how totally ALL OVER keeping this blog up to date I am ;)
So how late on this post am I? Oh, I don't know...only 2 weeks!
Oh well, better late than never, right?
We did some delicious lamingtons for our friends at Shriro. Their staff are so spoilt. They have bbqs all the time (helps that they manufacture them, I guess!) and every special occasion of the year: Easter, Christmas, Anzac Day, etc they get their very own cakey treat from us. Lucky people.
CCxo
Yellow with White Dots
Yes, imaginative title for this post, I know.
However, it's Christmas, orders are flying left right and centre and quite frankly it's a miracle I am posting at all :)
So there.
Just wanted to put this one up because yellow is quite refreshing at this time of year!
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Win a cupcake hamper (Sydney CBD only)
Simply become a Friend of Sweet Little Things and you could win a cupcake hamper for you and your team (if you choose to share!).
Being our friend is nothing too serious. Just means you might receive an occassional email about something gorgeous or amazing.
How easy is that?
So click here, fill in a few minor details and go into the draw to win a Small Sweetie.
That's 6 of our divine signature vanilla and chocolate mudcake cupcakes wrapped in beautiful packaging delivered to your door (Sydney CBD only).
We run this competition every month, so once you are our very special friend, you will go into the draw every month. Yay!
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Excitement!
The edible cupcake toppers (bulk range only) items have arrived just in time for Christmas!!
These will be sold in cake stores and cupcake bakeries, so you might see them on top of your favourite cupcakes soon.
So exciting to see Sweet Little Things labelling all over the boxes.
The iced decorations are handmade, have all natural colours and flavours and are gluten free.
I know it's sad that this is exciting to me, but if you know anything about designing and importing product from overseas you will understand the miracle that is that 'not much went wrong'.
This is not even the pretty packaged retail stuff, so just imagine my excitement when that arrives :)
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Secret Squirrel....
Soon to be seen in a lovely ladies magazine. Early next year. Can't tell you which one yet :)
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It's Christmas time...in the city..
Crazy, craziness. It's Christmas already and the first of our Christmas themed cupcake hampers have started going out.
This one is a mix of chocolate mudcake and vanilla cupcakes with coloured sugar and holly and berry sprinkles.
Ho, ho, ho!
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Out with the old, in with the new
Anyone who knows me knows that I have a fairly sick obsession with Lucas' Paw Paw Ointment. Like, crazily apply it. To the point where I don't even know I am doing it.
The other day a friend said 'do you realise how many times you have pulled that out of your bag and used it since we have been sitting here? You are seriously addicted to that stuff!'.
This concerns me. Not that I apply lip balm all the time, but that the stuff is filled with petroleum, and surely ingesting kilos of it can't really be terribly good for me.
I have tried in the past to get off it, but nothing satsfies the way my Paw Paw does :)
Until now.
Am so excited that I thought it was worthy of a blog post.
Jurlique Love Balm has saved my stomach from petroleum.
Love, love, love my Love Balm.
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Kids in Style 2010
In August this year we exhibited at the Kids in Style exhibition in Melbourne at Flemington racecourse.
The purpose of our being there was to showcase our new cupcake decorations. They will soon be available in retail stores Australia-wide. Excitement!
As appalling as it is, I am only now getting around to posting the pictures.
It also means I have been kind of busy with all this cupcakey stuff ;)
Hard at work building our stand (with fake smile intact):
Our floor:
One of our friendly gnomes:
Tasty Sweet Little Things decorating not so delicious styrofoam cake:
Voila! Our back wall is finished:
Table spinner with our little packets of decorations:
Ohh...pretty:
Kiddies brooches:
That's all from me today :)
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Lucky Samantha Wills Girls!
The lucky ladies at Samantha Wills Jewellery won one of our cupcake hampers in our Cherry Picked competition!
Check out the photos they sent us:
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Tag Heuer Cupcakes
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Cosmopolitan & Madison Magazine Cupcakes
The ladies at Cosmo & Madison have been ordering up a storm of logo cupcakes lately. Had to post some pics because they look so lovely...(and because I haven't posted in, like, FOREVER)
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Cherry Picked picked us!
A very good (old) girlfriend of mine has just started a great new website called Cherry Picked. (well, she's not old, but what else do you say when you've been friends for a looong time?)
Anyhoo, check it out as it has great hints and tips for dining, drinking and general swanning in and around Sydney. You can subscribe easily too and receive a daily email which tells you of a cool new place to go to.
This is what I luuurrrve about her website. You are not bombarded with too much information to take in. Just one suggestion per day of a great place to go.
Simple.
I think a little bit of simple is something we could all do with in this crazy world we live in :)
Oh, and we were featured today - check it out here!
CCxo
Two of my favourite things...
Yum.
Lavazza Latte and Lindt Delice.
'Nuff said.
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Purpley Mauve Delights
Some little beauties we sent out recently:
Sneak Peek
...of our new cupcake decorations.
These will soon be in selected gift stores and specialty food stores. If you don't see them, ask for them!
CCxo
'Too Easy' cupcakes and other fun cupcakes
Flexigroup, one of our favourite clients often order our cupcakes and full sized cakes for meetings with their 'Too Easy' branding on top:
A couple of weeks ago they held their Biggest Morning Tea and ordered some cupcakes with no frosting. They held a competition which encouraged staff to decorate their own cupcakes.
These are some of the winning entries. Hilarious, or what?!
I honestly can't get over how creative some of these entries are. Too cute! To top it all off they raised over $700 for the Cancer Council, which is an outstanding effort.
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Australia's Biggest Morning Tea Cupcakes
We donated a cupcake tower of our mini cupcakes for Wordstorm PR's Australia's Biggest Morning Tea.
It's a great initiative held each year across Australia to raise money for the Cancer Council.
The team raised over $500 which is a fabulous effort.
I will be posting instructions on how to make your very own cake stand, just like the one in these pictures.....watch this space!
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A Sea of Pink Cupcakes for Jessica Watson's 17th Birthday Party!
I am quite sure this lady needs no introduction, but you may have heard about a certain pretty amazing girl called Jessica Watson who sailed unassisted around the world recently.
Yesterday we were putting the finishing touches on a lovely pink cupcake tower for a 17th birthday party.
It actually hadn't crossed our minds who it was for (duh!), until a couple of people phoned our PR agency this morning after seeing a picture of Jessica Watson in front of a cupcake tower.
Then the penny dropped...our yummy cupcakes were enjoyed at Jessica's 17th birthday party last night.
Image taken from Jessica's Blog: www.jessicawatson.com.au
There they are....just behind her!
Here are some shots before they went out:
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Our fashionable cupcakes at RAFW
Our little beauties were gifts for the front row VIPs at the Nookie show last night as part of Rosemount Australian Fashion Week.
As we were celebrating afterwards at ivy's Pool Club everyone I met said how amazing they were, so that was pretty cool. Nookie's logo almost matched ours, so they worked really well together.
SUCH a great day!
CCxo
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Easter Goodness
Man oh man I cannot believe how long it has been since I have posted!
A lot has happened since last time I was here. Moving offices has been a major upheaval, but one I could not be happier about. We now have a full sized warehouse downstairs and 2 offices upstairs. All brand new, air conditioned and perfect for the growth of my little cupcake business!
Easter was a whirlwind with some amazing hampers flying out the door. Our friends at Corporate Housing did their corporate gift send out like last year and received some rave reiews from their clients.
Hope the easter bunny was good to you too!
Small Sweetie $34.95
Small Minis $48.00
Medium Sweetie $54.95
Individual Cupcakes $3.95 ea
Individual
Cupcakes $3.95 ea
(Excuse me while I take a minute to moan, again, about the fact that I am on this crazy diet and thus could not have one bit of chocolate, or even one of those tasty fluffy Hot Cross buns. Poor me.)
I have to admit, the ones I love most are the Baker's Delight ones....with the choc chips....I know, disgraceful, but they are tasty and don't have that offensive dried fruit littered throughout :)
I best be off now. Considering I started this post just after Easter, I better get started on my next one!! He he.
Off to RAFW tomorrow (that's Rosemount Australian Fashion Week for the unititiated). Tres excited about the Nookie Fashion Show. For reasons that will become apparent.....
Ciao!
CCxo
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Cupcake Hamper for a Baby Boy
Another cupcake couture creation!
Mini Vanilla Cupcakes decorated with cute baby animal iced decorations.
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Fairies & Button Necklaces on Amy's Birthday!
My friend's daughter is turning 3 early next year, but she celebrated her birthday with a party last week.
Having been appalled at myself for lack of time I have had lately to pour into my love of 'making stuff' I sat down to make her a button necklace.
I went to my Vintage-Style Beaded Jewellery book that my sister inlaw gave me a few years ago for my birthday - it's sooo divine.
I have made quite a few things out of it and they are all fabulous. The pictures alone are enough to make me happy. All gorgeous pastel and shiny vintage-y goodness.
So this is Amy's Button Necklace:
When I asked her mum what I could get her to make her birthday special she replied 'anything girly'.
That said - I figured a fairy costume was also in order. I know I LOVED mine when I was little. Must try and find that photo of me standing in front of the Christmas tree. Although my amazing mother made mine with her own two hands, I have cheated here and bought this. One day I am hoping to have some time to attempt the great task!
Now for the great reveal......
The birthday girl herself in all her glory.
Is this both hilarious and cute all at once, or what?!
Ahhh, she cracks me up. This little lady is such a character! Word from her mother was 'she just about busted something when she opened her fairy princess get-up. She stripped naked and couldn't get her outfit on fast enough!'
Woo hoo! Job well done, Aunty CC, methinks!
CCxo
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Baby Boy Bespoke Gift Hamper
They all get bundled together for a fabulous gift!
Here you see our soft toys, small sweetie of cupcakes, Sasy n Savy range and Rituelle products - all to make a new mum and her baby boy happy!
By the way you can completely trust us with the packaging. We have soooo many gorgeous ribbons and other embellishments that as long as you order the things you like, we will put it together to make the perfect gift :)
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Dymocks - 130 years of operation!
Our friends at Simon and Schuster sent some cakes to Dymocks the other week.
To mark their 130th anniversary this year.
These are our mini cupcakes in a mix of chocolate and vanilla with 130 hand-piped onto the top.
We finished them off in red and gold ribbon - the colours of the Dymocks brand.
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Do yourself a favour and see this movie...please!!
Enduring the sweltering 40 degree heat last weekend in Sydney was enough to make anyone not want to leave the air conditioned comfort their home! Can you believe I took this on my Blackberry as I walked to a meeting across the Harbour Bridge last week? How lucky am I to live here?!
So, I didn't.
I surprised hubby with hiring the DVD 'Once'. A movie that has been on my 'must see' list for a while since I missed it at the cinema.
Oh, and I was not disappointed.
The DVD jacket calls it 'a modern day musical' which of course had the husband making noises about watching something else. It's really not like that.
It is a beautiful little budget film shot on hand held and tells the story of 2 musicians who meet and spend an eventful week in Dublin writing, playing and recording the music that tells their love story.
If this sounds strange to you then don't think about it anymore - just do yourself a favour and hire it.
Trust me.
If it helps - it was a surprise success at the Sundance Film Festival when it screened.
Oh, I'm listening to it now......the music is divine. Of course I bought the soundtrack off itunes and have been listening to it ever since.
It's heartbreaking...in a good way.
Love, love, love!!
CCxo
Cupcakes for the Guerlain Girls
So, at the risk of gloating again - here's what Vicky had to say about the delivery:
' We were absolutely thrilled when we received our cupcakes from Sweet Little Things - they were SPECTACULAR! The detail from the bag, to the box, to the ribbon and then the cupcakes printed with our Guerlain logo - they were too good to eat.
At the function that we took them too the guests were raving and everyone asked where did you get these cupcakes from, lucky we had some business cards to hand out! The following week we ordered some more as we loved them so much.
Can't wait for our next cupcake order'.
We think they look pretty fab too :)
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The second time I made my first quilt
I wrote an article recently that was featured on the great new AUSTRALIAN sewing resource site Sewn. Thought I would share it below:
Let me
preface this by saying I can actually sew in a straight line. Learnt that one
years ago in Fashion College. I can also cut, count, match up bits with other
bits, unpick, resew, iron, style colours, hem, cut and sew bias, pleat, sew a
zipper, make button holes and myriad other sewing-related activities.
I cannot,
however, add up very well. At least in situations where it matters that
everything actually adds up.
Making my
first quilt brought this deeply buried secret of shame to the surface.
If I am
honest it is no doubt why I failed the patternmaking module of fashion design.
Well, I didn’t actually fail at all, but I may as well have. I don’t remember A
THING. Not ONE SINGLE THING. Apart from sepia tinted memories of pencils, brown
paper and rulers…I've retained nothing. From memory I was far better at draping. You
know, where you make it up as you go along….?
You see this
is how Sarah (my sister in law and sometimes teacher) lulls me into a false sense of security. By tapping into my ‘make
it up as you go along’ mentality. She tells me that quilting is ‘easy’ once you
get the knack of it. She also tells me it is very ‘freeflowing’ suggesting you
can design, create and change it as you go.
While this
may be true and many of you seasoned quilters may agree – let’s face it – all those
little squares, triangles, strips and other weird and wonderful pieces have to
actually match up, meet at the corners, have seam allowance added and still fit
a queen bed exactly.
Before I go
any further, I have a confession to make. I have actually made a quilt before.
About 3 years ago for my godson’s christening. Is it fair to say I don’t count
this one because I didn’t really like the colours? I believe this is in part
because I had to choose boy ones. Sounds crazy, I know, but if you knew me, you
would be utterly unsurprised by that considering I carried around my plastic
Barbie tote complete with strawberry flavoured lip gloss and scratch off nail polish
from the age of 3. I like girlie colours, so sue me! Although if I am really
honest it was because the only gender neutral fabric I could lay my hands on had
clowns all over it, and clowns frighten the life out of me! I also don’t really
consider it my first quilt because I didn’t attach the wadding or quilt it
myself and I cheated and sewed the binding on by machine because I ran out of
time.
So, with that
out of the way let me continue to tell you about my ‘first quilt-making
experience’.
My little
goddaughter Izzy is getting christened in a couple of weeks and I wanted to do
something really special for her. Something she can have forever and know how
much I love her and how honoured I feel to be her god mother. I truly believe
nothing is more special than receiving a gift that has been lovingly made by
hand.
After heading
out to the fabric shop with the SIL and buying a tonne of other things I
probably don’t need, I settled on 3 main fabrics. Izzy’s mum likes quite modern
colours, so I thought the purple and aqua combo would be perfect and something
a little different to your usual pink and white. Of course I had to include cupcakes.
Equipped with
my fabrics and a positive attitude I headed off to Kangaroo Valley for the
weekend. For those of you who don’t know where this is, it is about 1.5hrs
drive from Sydney and is basically really lush green beautiful countryside.
With plenty of divine little coffee shops, sweetie factories and antique
dealers along the way. We hire a gorgeous cottage down there once a year and go
with my husband, his sister (Sarah) and her husband Damian. The weekend
comprises of feasting and drinking. I usually bring my beading forest (see
below) and Sarah her quilts.
This time, I commandeered the sewing machine
knowing it was my one chance to get this thing done with private tuition. After
that, I would be on my own and knew it would sit in my studio until I managed
to steal some of Sarah’s time again!
In an attempt
to prevent your interest waning, I will not go into minute detail on how I
progressed. Let me just recount some of the highs and lows. Like running out of
fabric for my border and having to steal some of SIL’s (it’s that lovely dark
purple with bright pink spot around the border). Finishing the top and noticing
every single corner of those pesky squares actually matched up in the middle.
Finding out you don’t have to backstitch at all during quilting. Finding out
finishing the top didn’t mean the rest of the quilt would take me 5 mins.
Making the back of the quilt (yes, I realise this is the ‘easy part’) was,
well, interesting to say the least. This is where I really came unstuck.
My
dysfunctional relationship with numbers reared its ugly head. The thing is – I knew
what I had to do. I had it all planned out. Knew what lengths I needed to cut……so
I went ahead and cut the wrong lengths, didn’t I?
Ugh!
I absolutely
uncategorically blame this on the fact that quilting fabric comes folded
selvedge to selvedge. What is that all about?! It’s confusing for those of us
that have always handled dressmaking fabric and are used to just cutting
pieces, not strips if we fold it. The irritating thing is I had actually laid
the fabric out unfolded and then folded it again because I thought it would be ‘the
proper quilting way’ to cut. So I cut the side with the fold at the right
length as I knew it would double out and cut the other the same, thinking it
would double out. Of course it wouldn’t because it doesn’t have a fold!
Ugh!
After this latest
emotion dissipated, I stared at my piece of paper. Made some doodles. Frowned.
Sighed. Insisted to Sarah I didn’t need any help. Did some more doodles.
Relented and asked Sarah for help. She did some doodles. Sighed a bit. Wondered
what I had done. Did some more doodles. Suggested a solution.
Which I
tried. Only to find there still wasn’t enough fabric.
Back to the
doodles. The calculator. More sighing until…..woo hoo! I managed to make it
fit!
Hastily I
made for the machine in case somehow these pieces managed to make themselves
not fit again just to irritate me. I sewed them all together then ah – relief –
it worked!
What a
satisfying feeling. I rewarded myself with a glass of wine. It’s important to
do so, don’t you think?
I am not
going to go into any further detail about finishing it all off, as it actually
all went pretty well and will make for tedious reading. So I will wind it up
here. I will say, however, that if you were at all interested in the pattern
I’d love you to email me and I am sure I can squeeze it out of Sarah. I
might even be able to put together some ‘beginner instructions for beginners’
where I explain absolutely everything that other quilters find obvious.
There’s nothing like a true beginner to give you the basics!
After reading
my little account I do hope you will feel encouraged, not disheartened to
embark on your own project of this kind. In hindsight, Sarah was right. Making
a quilt (well, a basic one) actually is a relatively easy thing to achieve,
even if you have very limited sewing skills.
This quilt
was all about straight lines and corners. Cut in a straight line, sew it
straight, match up the corners and you will be ok…..promise. Apart from some
back-breaking basting, you will be fine!
The challenge
for me is staying interested enough to carry a project through to completion.
This is why I admire you seasoned professionals out there. Quilting truly is a
timeless, tireless tradition; one that requires dedication, good technique and
a whole lot of love.
Despite the emotional ride, this quilt is at the very least full of the latter.
CCxoWin a pair of Posh Pyjamas!
Posh Pyjamas are a beautiful, Australian made women's sleepwear brand.
Made from 100% silky cotton fabrics, the range is flirty, feminine, fun and sexy.
I just LOVE their prints and the fact that the cuts are modest for those of us not in our 20's anymore!
The designs and still fun and sexy though, which is why the range appeals to so many women.
These are my favourites:
You can enter from anywhere in the world, and winner will be notified by email on the 1st November 2009.
Simply tell us in 25 words or less why you NEED a pair of Posh Pyjamas.
Good luck!!
CCxo
and the team at Sweet Little Things
Chocolate Cheesecake Surprise!
Hmmnn - a delectable box of our yummy Chocolate Cheesecake cupcakes for a lucky lady in Sydney.
SO delicious!
CCxo
Sweet Little Things
Tasty Cupcake Momento
Last week we were asked by the lovely people at Fort Dodge to put together some momentos for their staff.
Our brief:
We managed to turn this all around in 3 days.
Our contact Angela, was delighted:
Our brief:
- Logo on cupcakes with dates
- Branded Ribbon
- Single Window Boxes
- Swing Tags with Personalised Messages
We managed to turn this all around in 3 days.
Our contact Angela, was delighted:
'You guys did an absolutely fantastic
job! I was very impressed with the gorgeous packaging, the
cupcakes looked and TASTED fabulous. The staff and myself were
so pleased with the momento gift.
On behalf of Fort Dodge we would like
to extend our big thanks to the team at Sweet Little Things. I look forward to
working with you again in the near future!!!'
CCxo
Cushion Covers
Yes, I lent my hand at creating some cushion covers a while back.
I love the way she asked too. She rocked up to my studio with an armful of orange and pink fabric and said 'Cath, you can sew, I can't. I need some cushions for the nursery. Here's the fabric.'
Nothing like a direct request, I say!
When I recount this story to my friend she denies this is where the story started.
Apparently I offered. Nay, insisted.
There was white wine involved. Say no more......
CCxo
Logo Cupcake-arama!
First up: 'Too Easy' cupcakes.
We have been delivering these most days to Flexirent who are just down the road in St Leonards, Sydney on behalf of Big River Creative (they are the brains behind the cute bee campaign). The cupcakes are being enjoyed by seminar attendees.
Vanilla cupcake base, black patty pans and white frosting. With a cute edible bee logo on top, these beauties have been a hit!
We did these as a hamper gift on behalf of Deloitte to one of their clients/business partners.
We used cupcakes from the minis range in a mix of chocolate and vanilla, toppped with printed edible logos and embellished with green & white tissue and a mix of green ribbons.
To have logos on your cupcakes, they are an extra $1.10/cake. Small price to pay for mega brand recognition! We can also get branded ribbon made for you and other embellishments such as stickers and swing tags to really get your company name and identity out there. Just email: orders@sweetlittlethings.com.au to find out more!
CCxo
cupcake bliss
Honestly, I love the emails we get.
People generally saying lovely things about our little cupcake hampers.
This went out last week:
To one of our customer's grandmothers
This is the email I received from her grandaughter this morning:
Thank you so much for the order
you delivered on Friday. My Grandmother rang me she was so excited I don’t
think I have ever heard her talk so fast. You really made her Birthday special.
The first thing she said was the delivery driver pulled up and said are you
Lola and apparently he or she said someone loves you so the delivery driver
needs special mention as well.......I am just really impressed all around...I would recommend you to anyone.'
It's emails like this that make coming to work worthwhile :)
CCxo
Our cupcakes featured in this month's Cleo Magazine
Well, the photo shoot we had a couple of month's ago for Cleo has been published in this month's issue of the magazine.
I wasn't allowed to unveil the shot until now:
Aren't they purty??
These are our signature vanilla cupcakes with Persian fairy floss, meringues and cachous to decorate!
Thanks Cleo Magazine for making us look so damn tasty :)
CCxo
It's all about me!
Well, not me, myself exactly....although yes, this blog is about me :)
We delivered some more cupcakes to our friends' publishing house in celebration of the release of Andrew Griffith's new book - 'The Me Myth'.
CCxo
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- I am owner and founder of Sydney based online business Sweet Little Things www.sweetlittlethings.com.au which specialises in 'sending something beautiful'. This combines my equal loves of giving gifts, fashion, accessories and....cupcakes! I love bright, sparkly things so you might find a few of them here. This blog is where I share sweet little things I have found or made in the hope that you might like them too :)
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