Cupcake styling

Baking in general is a totally different story than baking for someone in particular. Yestherday my cousin Eefke and her husband Hugo had their birthday celebration going on and as you know, there is no party without cupcakes!
Since they are a truly stylish couple, the cupcakes had to be a perfect match.

When you find yourself in this situation but you're are in doubt, choose one source of inspiration and work from there.

As you can see, they were happy with the result and the party was a blast so... mission accomplished! On to the next fun challange.

Love,
Noes

Happy Halloween!

This year I decided to take part in the Halloween celebration. Fun costumes, decorating the place, making themed snacks...
Unfortunately Halloween is officially upcoming Wednesday which means all my friends will have the work early the next day. But I don't give up so easily, we just celebrate on the weekends!

Here's my kind of Halloween party in a few simple steps

1. Dress up!
My bat costume included small ears made of a black headband en felt, bat wings made of tricot, a little black dress and nailpolish claws.
None of  them are rocket science but still super cute! It was obviously extra fun to dance to Michael Jackson's thriller wearing this.

2. Decorate!
Bunting, a pumpkin, the right table wear, creepy animals and fire. To me those are pretty much the basics.
I mostly want the desert table to be perfect but some extra bunting can't hurt!

 

Print out characters in a pretty font and cut them out of wallpaper, word bunting!

 

Spiders, Jack-O-Lantern faces and thomb stones

 

Pumpkin carving

 

Spider webs, spiders and bats

 

Boo! Straw bunting

3. Fill that table!
Cupcakes, candy, drinks.. whatever you make, make it in style!

 

Brain cupcakers, even the crow wants to steal one

 

Bloody cocktails
I've got my eye on you!

 

Napkins in style

 

Chopped fingers...

 

and without some spooky candy, it's not a real Halloween

There are many ways towards a great Halloween, this is mine and we sure had a blast! As you can see you don't always have to spend a lot of money to have something cool, there are many things you can make yourself. Honestly, it's even more fun when you do.

Have fun!

Love,
The wicked witches, crow lady, fortune teller, Wednesday and Bat Noes

Sweet Cake

Is it a dog bed? Is it a flowerpot? Is it a babies bath? Or would it just be a wine cooler?
It is one of the most cliche pick up lines: It can be anything you need it to be.

Unfortunately it also is a little pricy but for the ultimate cupcake lover, like me, it is pretty damn cool!

As you can see it is available in various fun colors and if you would buy it for your pet, it even comes with the bed.
It is a product of designer Beerd van Stokkum and it's called, how could it not, Sweet Cake.
Interested? You can order it right here.

Love,
Noes

Cupcake day

My day off from work was well spend on not one, but two cupcake projects.
One in a pastel theme, the other cute and sweet for a bachelorette party. I'm very happy with the results!

The pastel project

The bachelorette project

It's always exciting to create something new, especially when it's a design you haven't made before.

I can definitely say that I had a lot of opportunity for that this time, so much fun!
I hope the girls will enjoy!

Love,
Noes

G'day Aussie!

For a bachelorette who will move to Australia after the wedding, I found tools for a very cute Australia theme.

But besides cupcakes, who doesn't love brownies?
Right... so I made a slightly different version. Blondies!

Despite of the weather, I hope you all have fun today! Enjoy the party!

Love,
Noes

It's not a party without cupcakes

So I made some!

 

 

Birthday guirlandes and new home cupcakes, yum

Love,
Noes

City seeing: Antwerp

Shopping Walhalla Antwerp, before you know it months pass without paying it a visit. Luckily we made up for that the past week… double.
One day for shopping, one day for sightseeing, but as you could expect that division got mixed up as soon as I was there.

Shopping

Urban Outfitters, River Island, Forever 21 and many more, I love them and they love me.
As you can see, my mission was successful: Aztec print shorts, cute bandeau top, finally a great guide on Australia, pretty jewellery, a fun festival attribute and the new Go Back To The Zoo album.

Australia guide: Fnac
Flask: Urban Outfitters
Shorts, top and jewellery: Forever 21

 

Sightseeing

 

Food

Since you can't shop all day on an empty stomach, we also tested some restaurants and tea rooms.

Tortellini with spinach and four cheeses at the Italien. Yum.

 Relaxing at Starbucks

Lojola
coffee & cake

I truly want a shop like this! So cute!

Cheese- and tiramisu cake

Momade

Unfortunately not tasted since we've already had the delicious cakes seen above, but I will do so next time. Take a moment to look at their site, looks divine!

And just because cupcakes are so cute looking...

 I wanna make these myself!

Two entire days in this city and still such a short blog, but you know what they say... A picture is worth a thousand words.

 And may I say so myself, they look like we had a great couple of days!

Thanks to Krista, Fleur and the city

Love,
Noes