Weekend top 5

Good morning,

This weekend was busy but fun! At the kunstmarkt I didn´t sell a lot but that means I have lots of Christmas presents and Christmas cards ready to use. Have a look!

Tree decorations and some small boxes.

Christmas cards, home made soap with lavender essence, sachets filled with potpourri, etc.

The cake stand, on the other hand, did very well!! At the end we sold all the carrot cake and the butter cake with ginger. 

You can recognize my cupcake garland from this post and the chocolate cupcakes from this other one!!

Now I can focus on Christmas shopping and decorating the house in preparation of Sinterklaas.

Saludos,
Irene

Coming up...

Good evening,

This market is coming up and I will be there so please do come by! All information http://huisvandewijklydia.nl/_media/agenda/kunstmarkt_flyer_30_november_2013b.pdf 

There will also be a table from the cake baking group I volunteer for so it will be sweet :)

Saludos,

Irene

The weekend is here

Good evening,

Now, you must be wondering what keeps me so busy? Apart from my volunteering activities I am making lots of hand made products for the creative market that will take place the 30th of November at the Huis van de wijk Lydia. As you can see I am using a Christmas theme:

It is around the corner so I need to speed up "production".

Saludos and have a lovely weekend!

Irene

New week

Good evening,

As you know Sinterklaas is in the country, we went to see his arrival with our own eyes on Sunday. Now children will get an update about him every night with the Sinterklaasjournaal or the News of Sinterklaas (how cute is that!)

Today I baked chocolate cupcakes and they turned out delicious (if I may say so myself). Thanks to my friend from El Baul de Gretel for her tip on the recipe from this other blog Objetivo Cupcake perfecto. I used this recipe in case you want to try it at home, simple ingredients and instructions: http://www.objetivocupcake.com/2011/03/el-post-que-contiene-una-foto-que-hara.html   

Saludos,

Irene

No top 5 but great weekend

Good evening everybody!

Even with a storm heading our way (in case you haven´t heard we have hard wind today in Holland which is affecting traffic) I am happy to be sharing something sweet from this past weekend. 

I wanted to surprise my family back home because of my birthday and since they love sweets as much as I do (I had to get it from someone, right?) I thought it would be great to send them some cupcakes. So I got in touch with my school friend Maria who is, among other things, a great baker and has this lovely blog El Baúl de Gretel: she helped me pick the flavors and made sure they were delivered on time.

Now my only problem is that I didn´t get to try them myself! but I heard they were delicious as well as pretty, see for yourselves: 

Saludos,

Irene