rainbows in cupcake form

A few posts ago, I talked about the infused vodka I made for my dear friend Yesenia for her birthday. I also happened to make some rainbow cupcakes too! Since she was visiting us all the way in North Carolina (driving down from Delaware) for her birthday weekend, I wanted to do something birthday cake-y. I kept reading about rainbow-colored cupcakes, and they looked so nifty, so I thought sure, why not...I'll give it a try!

Mixed all the colors.

It was a lot more tedious than I expected, to layer each color one by one.

Ta-da! Rainbow-y cupcake-yness!...with Spiderman cupcake liners (found them at Michael's)

Fun times!

cupcakes, more cupcakes and totoros

One day when I have a kitchen in a real-life house instead of this pitiful excuse for one that I have now in my apartment, I'd like it to have a cupcake theme. The other day someone on my twitter feed mentioned how she was sick of seeing cupcakes and people on Etsy making cupcake things and we should all grow up. But that's her opinion, and I'm okay with never growing up.

One of my Christmas gifts from my friend Yesenia was this super cute cupcake mug, which will go perfectly in my cupcake kitchen! She also got me a cupcake shaped plate, which I failed to get a picture of before my camera battery died.



Then at Target yesterday I picked up the CUTEST ceramic cupcake trinket box from their Valentine's section. So slowly the cupcake collection grows!



And of course with cupcakes on the brain, I had to make a few too. I'll be listing them in the shop sometime this week, along with a couple of other things.



Aside from cupcakes, I finished up a super cute custom order. A "romantic" Totoro set. How cute are they? The umbrella is removable (for ease of shipping and storage), and the figures are separate. But when you put them together, they look like they're holding hands!

Cupcake Plinis

I just finished listing a handful of more cupcake Plinis. *phew* I feel accomplished. I'll be listing more tomorrow, but for now...that'll do.

This one is my favorite of the batch. I almost didn't want to list her!

I baked you a cupcake...

..out of clay. You silly goose.

I realized today that I haven't listed anything new in the shop in a while. I have a tiny mountain (..or a decent sized hill if you will) of custom orders that I've been working on, so I haven't had a lot of time for new goodies.

But this cupcake locket managed to sneak its way into my busy hands and onto my camera and then on my computer. I'm going to try and have it listed in the shop in the next day or two. I also have a pink frosted one!

Cupcake Locket

I did it! I finally listed my cupcake locket. Eeeeee! The only reason I've waited so long is because I've noticed a lot of copying going on in Etsy. Especially with polymer clay. And I realllllly didn't want this design to get stolen. I'm really proud of it, and I think it's totally original. I'm not saying that every idea I've ever thought of is one of a kind and no one else could've possibly EVER thought of it. I just want to protect my cupcake locket. It's my baby.

Want to buy the cupcake locket?

"Sweet" Paintings

So I was thinking of adding prints/paintings to my repertoire. But it's kind've going slowly. I did manage to finish one painting and start a second. But it's been actively collecting lonliness on my desk. I'd like to finish it on Sunday but I'm not sure what to do with the background. I have a bit of obsessive love for polka dots, but I can't very well have all my paintings with polka dots...can I?

I'm also not sure how I feel about the character's eyes. They're kind of weird. Maybe they should be cuter..? Or maybe that makes it interesting. They're kind of manly eyes, in my opinion, but is that a bad thing? I have no idea.