Jonathan & Leah's Sunny Autumn Wedding!

Ain't it great when the sun continues to stream its lovely rays in to your life, well into September? I was worried there for a while last week when I had to put a wool sweater on and JEANS, and socks even!! I was rummaging around my closet trying to find my flannel pyjamas when the summer sun knocked back on my window. I am happy it was around for Leah and Jonathan's big wedding day! When Fall really does hit, "no biggie"-- it's fun crunching around on orange leaves and baking pumpkin pies and being cozy in scarves and pea coats.

Leah had a lovely colour palette chosen for her wedding, espresso brown, cream and champagne. She also chose Coco Cake for her admiration of a "vintage" aesthetic... Perfect for me!! Cupcakes were mini Coconut Dream and mini Lemon Love, in espresso brown liners. I loved creating her cutting cake and matching flags, and especially the cake topper. I used my treasured (I'm a nerd!) craft paper collection and some vintage Letraset in a Futura font to create the topper. When I arrived at the wedding to set up, the room looked lovely, with so many gorgeous and modern flower arrangements-- Leah is a florist, after all! Sigh. I love flowers.

Congrats Leah and Jonathan!!

Mini Mini Mini Mini

Ain't they cute??

I had an awesome time on my vacay, though I couldn't even stay away from baking for 10 days-- I baked a blackberry pie (we picked berries on Pender Island), banana chocolate chip bread and the weirdest cookies I've ever made. The sailboat has a teeny tiny oven that has NO TEMPERATURE GAGE, you just light the thing and there's a visible flame, so you have to "set it and forget it". Though I didn't forget it. I sat reading a book, peering into the little oven window. I read 2.5 books on my trip, a book from the 1960s called "A Summer Place" -- scandalously juicy for the time. Plus Mordechai Richler's "Solomon Gursky Was Here" which was laugh out loud funny. And, most of a boring old business book. But the biz book will be helpful as I continue to work on a larger, exciting project! Actually the book wasn't so boring. It made me sweat with fear a little!!

Crazy cupcake times ahead this weekend... Choo choo.. Stay tuned, dear blog friends and readers!!

xo

Sailin'... Take Me Away...

Hi everyone! I am off on a sailing vacation around the gulf islands of British Columbia. Hoping to do some relaxing, fishing, swimming, reading, exploring, with only S'mores to bake! My favorite!! I can give my buttercream-piping wrists a well deserved break!

This gorgeous picture of vanilla buttercream topped vanilla Coco Cake cupcakes was taken by one of my best friends, Amy Pelletier! The little sailor dude in the tugboat was my favorite bath toy when I was a kid, splashing around in the bath. Little did I know that I would be marrying a sailor some 25 years later... ! Now I call this toy Little Richie. Heehee!

I'll be back on September 7th, with tons of crazy cupcakes to work on when I get back!

Have a lovely rest of the summer. Fall will be fabulous too!

xo Lyndsay

A Cake For My Bro-In-Law

My bro-in-law Gerald is a real cool dude. We even call him the "Dogfather" for his love of bringing friends, family and food together and having a great time. He just celebrated his birthday and my sis ordered a cake to help in the festivities! This is what I call my Kensie Strawberry recipe-- vanilla buttermilk cake filled with my mom's homemade strawberry jam, and vanilla buttercream! I really love simple and delicious buttercream cakes, and this one turned out so cute! I made a matching blue polka dot cake board and birthday flag too. Here's a pic of little baby Kensie too, she's saying "Happy Birthday Daddy!"

Purple Pretty! Monkey & Flower Cupcakes

Take me on a train to Kawaii Town, where purple monkey cupcakes grow. Lemon Love cupcakes with lemon creamcheese frosting, topped with fondant decorations for Vanessa's birthday! So cute and delicious!

"Mimi!" as my little nephew Brody calls monkeys!! Heehee cute!!