Cupcake Queen not Super Woman

Hey my lovely blog readers!

This is a very hard post for me to write and one that I have been putting off for a while now. I have been living my life at a very fast pace and pushing my body and sanity to the limit. Not only do I make cupcakes for orders, I also run the Kraftbomb craft show with my friend Karla as well as my own craft business Stitch'd Ink selling cross stitch kits and finished pieces.

Add to that going back to Art School full time to do my BFA and you have one very busy lady with not a lot of time left for herself. I've spoken to my Hubby a few times about cutting back on the things I do and letting him help me more but we haven't really made a dent in freeing up time for me.

After weeks of juggling orders, school, sewing and Kraftbomb and a rather epic case of insomnia which left me surviving on not much sleep, my body has finally said enough and we had a rather scary and unhappy time involving an ambulance visit last night that has left me exhausted and unable to even attend all of Kraftbomb today.

So when you can't ignore your body's warning signs any longer you have to make a change. For me that has to be no longer taking cupcake orders for an indefinite period of time. I am really sorry for those of you hoping to get some of my sweet treats and I thank you all for your support, orders and love of my cupcakes.

I will continue to blog about any baking adventures I have (when I get the time to bake just for ME!) and if you're REALLY desperate to get your hands on some NZCQ cupcakes, I will still be selling them once a month at Kraftbomb.

For those of you who have been in touch with me, I will be honouring orders that have been already confirmed, but will be unable to take on any new ones.

Thanks for all the orders and cupcake love! Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere :-)

Love
City the NZCQ
xo

beautiful baby shower cupcakes

Kellie ordered these cute cupcakes for a workmates baby shower.

12 x light and fluffy vanilla cupcakes topped with either raspberry (pink), lime (green), coconut (blue) or lemon (yellow) frosting and a little baby hand or foot made from white fondant!

Lovely little cupcakes that are perfect for a gender neutral baby shower :-)

Red Bull cupcakes for Chris' birthday

Yes, you read that right! I made Red Bull cupcakes and I have a bad feeling that these are going to become pretty popular with our friends and maybe even my customers!

Anybody who knows my hubby Chris will know that he LOVES Red Bull. What kind of cupcake do you make for someone who is married to the NZCQ and has tried every flavour I've come up with so far? Red Bull cupcakes of course!! So for his birthday I made him a surprise batch of these cupcakes.

After a bit of a mission I found some of the dodgy fake Red Bull concentrate you can buy at Chinese food stores. I'm glad I did, I think it gave them a bit more of a red bull taste, especially in the frosting!

Using that and a can of Red Bull I whipped up these babies and everyone has been loving them so far. I've had lots of requests for the recipe already so I will try and find some time to type it up and post it. I kinda made alot of it up as I went along so I'll see if I can put it into a recipe that makes sense!

candy cane cupcakes (in February) for the boys

Inspired by all my American cupcake baking friends making candy cane cupcakes over Christmas I made some myself for the Christmas Kraftbomb. They were such a hit I saved some candy canes so I could make them again after Christmas.

This lot were inhaled by Dan, Ayden, Paulie and Chris. My most loyal cupcake tasters and critics :-)

Eva's girlie pink sparkly cupcakes

I had an order come in for a lovely young miss who was having a birthday party. Her Mum ordered her a dozen pink sparkly girlie cupcakes. I made 6 vanilla and 6 jaffa.

I met Eva, her brother and Mum back in December at Kraftbomb, she was one of the kiddies who were in awe of the gingerbread house and really wanted to touch it! Her Mum thought it would be cool to get her some cupcakes for her birthday and I think the lovely birthday girl was stoked :-)