Yummy Valentine Cupcakes

If you love cupcakes as much as I do you need to head over to Layer Cake Shop where you will be able to indulge in some serious eye candy that will make you wanna bake real candy tasting goodies!

(Sssssssshhh! a secret.... I want all of the polka dot baking cups and cute cupcake boxes)

I think I may just bake me (and jellybean & Husband) some cupcakes with pink icing this weekend!

Are you baking anything sweet for your sweetie this Valentine's day?

Needing & Loving Sunshine!

Ok, I found this print that's hanging on the kitchen wall of this woman who writes this amazing blog that says she found it on another womans blog who found it on another and well I am adding to this blogging madness!

I need and love this print. I want it for the baby's room. It is perfect. I love the colours and the patterns and the words and and and and ... I also secretly want everything else that this artist makes.

You can find this print made by The Wheatfield by Katie Daisy on etsy (...and it's only 15 bucks, what a steal!)

Talented, Productive, Creative & Lucky!

This weekend, Auntie Pooh came over to give me a hand with baby projects.
Our artsy day could be summed up in four words... talented, productive, creative & lucky!

Talented: Auntie Pooh is so talented it hurts my head. Baby is lucky!
Productive: We finished 6 canvases and outlined 2!
Creative: This baby is going to have a one in a gazillion room with never seen art!
Lucky: I found the most perfect fabric needed for baby’s quilt ALL on sale!

Here are a few (quick low quality) pics

that sum up our work.

Old Friends are the Greatest!

I love old friends. They’re the greatest.
In this case I am talking about OLD friends, like used to swim in our diapers in the plastic turtle pool in our backyards together old!
Sometimes friendships frizzle and break, or just slowly disappear. You grow up and while maybe when you used to jump rope together in your pink sparkly sneakers you two were two peas in a pod, over the years things change, people move away and people change.
In this case, we have the dreamiest of all situations.
When we were kids, we ‘learnt’ to get along even though we were always fighting like sisters and hated each other. We would pull each other’s hair and punch or kick each other (while my friend reads this she says “no we didn’t" well I clearly recall this time in the mall I am not too fond of,lol). She moved away, I moved away. We grew up. We saw each other once a year when our families would get together. We’d email and sometimes chat online but she was always there and I was always there.
All grown up, we are buying houses and getting married and making babies and while you would think time would make for difference, as we get older we get along better and I love this. I got married and so happy to announce it, so happy to invite her, so happy to wait for her rsvp telling me she was coming, we have rekindled our friendship 20 years later with less hair pulling and more lovin’!
While Christine, an old friend, and her wonderful partner in crime Randy, a new friend, we (Ricardo & I) adore you guys.

Thank you for making the long drive down to have brunch with us!
Thank you for making me happy and being so excited for jelly bean and lovin’ baby before you’ve even met!
Thank you for being both so funny and giving us a good laugh!
Thank you for your awesome gift. It is original, unique and funky. I love it!
Thank you for being you and for being my oldest friend!
Thank you for being awesome and a wonderful new friend who will hopefully one day become an old friend!

Cheers,
2 Friends & Friendships

Creative Lateness Groove

For all my creative friends out there, why is it we only find our creative groove between 11 pm and 4am? This creative schedule is a real bummer when you are trying to hold a 9 to 5 job!
Plus I am trying to be considerate of the inhabitant that is sharing my body till August and reminding myself that some need more sleep then others, so early(ish) bed times will be my goal for the next little while.

Here is a sneak peak of what had me ‘creatively grooving’ last night. Now remember this is only a mid-project progress report and this was all snapshot on my computer webcam so the quality is far from being remotely acceptable and I apologize.

I am working on some cute and colourful canvases for the baby’s room!
Since the room only has one window and the sun never hits it, it is a pretty gloomy room. We will be painting it all white and I want vivid and colourful frames on the walls. I want orange polka dot curtains and a funky rug, a beautiful reading chair with mismatched pillows and I want to learn how to quilt before baby is born and make his or her very own original and unique blanket!
Many of my near future artistic projects will be baby oriented. I will keep you posted on their progress with pictures here and there and everywhere :)

Second coat of paint (and maybe even some glitter!) will be done tonight. Yay!