Bryant Street Festival

My sister (One Star Away) invited me to the Bryant Street Festival in Pittsburgh this year to exhibit by cupcakes! Every year, she and her neighbors have a hot dog booth to feed the wonderful people that come out for the Festival. {It's like a big yardsale - street shopping - vendor selling neighborhood party... so fun!} I decided that cupcakes would be perfect for such an outing (especially being next to the hot dog booth!). With her help, I made 9 different types of cupcakes: Classic Vanilla, Death by Chocolate, Mocha, Lemon, Red Velvet, Dirt (chocolate with crushed Oreos), Chocolate Mint, White Chocolate Raspberry, and Bananarama. Here's how they turned out!

Dirt and Death by Chocolate

Lemon

Bananarama and ChocolateMint
Mocha

Red Velvet

Vanilla

My Table

I really loved the White Chocolate Raspberry ones but had no good pictures. I don't know what's going on with my camera, but I cannot seem to get many clear pictures lately. I've been messing with the settings, so I'll have to actually sit down and take some time to figure it out.

I had such a blast baking and preparing for the festival! I even redesigned a 'new logo' especially for my cupcake 'shop'. I was inspired by a cupcake business card I saw on Vistaprint, but added my own little flares, fonts, etc. It was so fun and I absolutely love the new logo!
I will update again soon. I just made "UC" (University of Cumberland) cupcakes for a graduation party. I've been excited to get them online! Thanks for reading!

Catching Up!

It's been a while since I have updated!

Well, I didn't register for the DIY Wedding show soon enough (missed it by 2 days...). Since then, though, I've been doing a lot of wedding planning help and baking and designing and creating! Here are a few of the things I've been up to:

One of my colleagues is having a baby girl in August and our 'work baby shower' was the last week in May. She and her husband are decorating the baby's room with blues, purples, and butterflies. I picked up a few supplies (12 pack of butterflies from the Flower Factory, felt, scrapbooking paper, fleece, a styrofoam ball, a candle bowl, moss, and a big butterfly from...actually... the dollar store!), brainstormed, and this is what I made! I think it turned out really cute!

The weekend of June 17-18, some of my other coworkers participated in the Relay for Life in Green. The theme for their booth was "Grease" and they asked me to make a wearable Grease Lightning. After waiting for some good boxes to use, I took about 2 days, hot glue, red paint and glitter glue and made up this cardboard car. It was about 5 feet long by 2 feet wide. I was happy with how it turned out.


The next project was a small one. After school one day, I was checking my email before I left. I have been getting the daily cookie recipe from Martha and this one I couldn't pass up. I printed it out and ran in to show our guidance counselor and another colleague. It was for S'Mores Cookies! Yumm! I came home and made them that day. They were pretty tasty- though much better the first day (the marshmallow starts to harden). Also, next time I think I'll make the cookie part a little smaller to get more of the chocolate/marshmallow taste in each bite!

Next post: Bryant Street Festival!