May Kraftbomb time!!!

If you're looking for something fun to do with your Sunday, head along tomorrow (Sunday 31st May) to Kraftbomb! Lots of amazing crafts, friendly people and yummy food (check out our new vendor Jimmy who'll be selling tarts!)

11am-2pm
Grey Lynn Community Centre
510 Richmond Road
Grey Lynn

If you're after some cupcakes, I suggest you head along early as they keep selling out fast! For Kraftbomb I've been baking away frantically today and have Red Bull, Jaffa (making a return after months!), Cookies & Cream (vegan friendly) and Chocolate & Raspberry (vegan friendly)

Come along and say hi!!

NZCQ x

more carrot cake cuppies & a pug party!

Chris with a handful of pugs (from left) Dexter, Frankie and George





After the success of Dan's birthday carrot cake cupcakes, I made another batch of carrot cake cupcakes (this time topped off with cream cheese frosting and candy carrots) to take to our impromptu birthday celebration for George!

Yes, George the pug turned 2 on Monday and to celebrate we headed to the dog park the day before and met up with his buddy Dexter and his owners Stef and Paul! Jeeves and his little girl Frankie also showed up so it was a pug party with the 3 of them going nuts.

cupcakes for my birthday boys

2008 and 2009 have seen my group of friends from high school all hitting our 30th birthdays! Dan and Dave were the last ones, both with May birthdays.

They celebrated with a joint birthday dinner and I took cupcakes along for my favourite birthday boys! You may remember the end of last year I made Monster energy drink cupcakes for Paul's 30th.

I made Dan yummy, moist carrot cake cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting and walnuts. For Dave it was rich chocolate Moro bar cupcakes!

We've pretty much been all been friends for 17 years and these boys are like brothers to me. Logan, Paul, Dan and Dave - I love ya boys :-)

cute skull birthday cupcakes

These cupcakes were a special order for Gabi from her boyfriend Hadley who I think scores bonus points for getting her yummy birthday treats!

He asked for chocolate cupcakes with raspberry frosting, topped off with handmade chocolate skull and crossbones and lightning bolts!

NZCQ hearts Coup de Main Magazine

I got a last minute cupcake baking request a couple of weekends ago for some pretty cupcakes to feature in a photo shoot. The people behind Coup de Main are awesome and have a real passion for what they do, so of course I had to help out!

Their winter look book is now online and you can check out the amazing photos, gorgeous clothes and spot my cupcakes :-)

Coup de Main Magazine - Boy Meets Girl Lookbook

"Cake is the New Black" new cross stitch kit!

Photo by: Babiche Martens, NZ Herald

Things have been so busy lately with Kraftbomb, cupcakes and art school but I did manage to design and put together some new Stitch'd Ink cross stitch kits. Winter is the perfect time to snuggle up at home and get crafting!

My favourite of the designs has to be 'Cake Is The New Black' which was featured in The NZ Herald's Viva on 22/04/09. They did a special on "The Art of Craft" and had a fab article featuring Toggle founders Esther and Shelley. Toggle is not only a proud sponsor of Kraftbomb, the craft show I run with my crafty friend Karla, but they also stock our products along with many other amazing Kiwi crafters.



The new designs include "Cake Is The New Black", "Ginger Is The New Black" and my new "Zombie Brains" design. These can all be viewed at my Etsy store www.citydown.etsy.com

vegan cupcakes, Kraftbomb and pugs!

Hey cupcake lovers

Thought I should share some pics of the vegan cupcakes that made an appearance at the last Kraftbomb.





I made the much loved vegan chocolate cupcakes but for something new I also whipped up a batch of tasty lemon vegan cupcakes too. And of course, the Red Bull and Perky Nana cupcakes were there too! We took 8 doz along and they were sold out in 1.5hrs!

Thank you so much to all my all loyal cupcake fans who keep coming back every month! Many of you seem to have figured out the best way to get your hands on your favourite flavours is to come early.

Don't forget the next Kraftbomb is on Sunday 31st May, 11am-2pm @ the Grey Lynn Community. I've decided to do a poll for your to vote on which flavours you'd like to see there since each month people are always disappointed their favourite flavour is missing!

And for those of you who love George the pug, here is a pic of my number one four legged cupcake fan with his fave cupcake toy!