Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Cupcakes for an Elegant Evening in Paso Robles

The city of Paso Robles is putting on an Elegant Evening with shops open late and holiday festivities to kick off the holiday season. Amy Bakes Cupcakes will be sharing cupcake delights at Sealed with a Kiss, fine stationers. Please come by and say hi!

Saturday November 15th, 2009
5pm to 8:00pm
Sealed with a Kiss
offering Amy Bakes Cupcakes
1313 Park Street
Paso Robles, CA 93446

Phone: 805.237.2645

Friday, October 30, 2009

Fabulous Fall Florals for Central Coast Weddings

This year has surprised me with the number of Fall brides preparing for their weddings and wanting to use all of the rich hues of the season. Thanks for our mild climate, wedding season lasts into November on the Central Coast. I asked Erin McClellan of Sprigs N Things: Florals with Flair to share a few ideas for brides. She has knocked my socks off with these gorgeous Fall floral pieces! The descriptions and photography are Erin's, except where noted. Enjoy!

A collection of chocolate dahlias, flame calla lilies, bare grass loops, fiddleheads, cymbidium orchids and chocolate cosmos. This lovely bouquet is hand wrapped with a chocolate brown satin ribbon.
photo above by Johnathon of Bluephoto
A collection of flame calla lilies, circus roses, chocolate dahlias, curly willow and a touch of hypericum berries. Hand wrapped with a mocha satin ribbon.

This unordinary bouquet has an assortment of chocolate dahlias, celosia, hypericum berries, cymbidium orchids and asters. Hand wrapped with a chocolate brown satin ribbon.
These beautiful bridesmaids bouquets feature asiatic lilies, ranunculus, hypericum berries, tulips, kangaroo paw and italian ruscus. Hand wrapped with a spice colored satin ribbon. These bridesmaids bouquets compliments our orange bliss bouquet perfectly.
This bouquet is filled with tulips, flame calla lillies, ranunculus, hypericum berries, italian ruscus, galax leaves, and kangaroo paw. Hand wrapped with a chocolate brown ribbon. An extra special touch is the hankerchief incorporated into the bouquet.
An assortment of peach roses, flame calla lilies, hypericum berries and asiatic lilies.
Hand wrapped with a creme satin ribbon.
To see more work by Sprigs n Things and to schedule a consultation for your big day, please visit here. Be sure to stop by the gallery for gorgeous bouquets, centerpieces, and more florals with flair!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Amy Bakes Cupcakes at Avila Beach Concour d' Elegance

A full day ocean side on the golf course. Beautiful weather, beautiful cars, and best of all- a huge and successful fundraiser for Hospice of San Luis Obispo County. I was honored to have Amy Bakes Cupcakes sharing cupcakes in the VIP tent alongside our fine Central Coast wineries like Jada Vineyard, Justin, Curtis Winery, Ancient Peaks, Sextant, Cass, Kenneth Volk, Baileyana, Cal Poly Vineyard, and many more. Olea Farm Olive Oil shared tastings as well. Their basil olive oil will be featured in an upcoming cupcake!
Menu:
Mini Salted Caramel
Mini Chocolate Merlot
a new half size cupcake for tasting in:
Blackberry Chocolate Port
Blueberry Shiraz
Tammi Heron (on the left, that's me on the right), the bell of the ball, pulled all of these fine wineries together for a fabulous VIP event to raise funds for Hospice of San Luis Obispo County.
My favorite part of the day? Working with my oldest son, Robin, who helped make it all happen I love you, son!

New Flavor: Blackberry Port Chocolate Cupcake from Amy Bakes Cupcakes


Rich, chocolate cake baked with port wine, leaving a red wine chocolate combo flavor with none of the alcohol. Blackberry preserve filling, topped with blackberry buttercream and a sprinkling of chocolate jimmies. Sweet and simple dinner party dessert, birthday hoorah, or to top off your holiday fest!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Picking Daisies Handmade Napkins: Wedding Center Piece Idea!

Picking Daisies is one of my favorite shops in San Luis Obispo. Run by three amazing sisters, they design, sew, and sell handmade cloth napkins. Hand picked fabrics are always fresh and gorgeous in a variety of colors. I love a mix of colors and prints but you can match them all if you'd like from the cocktail napkins, coasters, and full size dinner napkins. Generously sized
Looking for an easy, reusable centerpiece for your wedding? At just under $7 for the generously sized dinner napkin, consider investing in centerpieces for each of your tables in lieu of rentals. After the wedding you'll have a collection of cloth napkins to use and enjoy!
Green, budget conscious, and an easy way to add color or pull together multiple colors in your wedding.
Have you ever seen a mitered corner this neat made by hand? Neither have I. I have handmade napkins from the 60's and 70's that are still lovely. My collection of Picking Daisies napkins will be used and enjoyed by my grandchildren, I'm sure.

Read more about the story of Picking Daisies Napkin Shop here.

Picking Daisies
www.pickingdaisiesinslo.com
570 Higuera, suite 120
in the creamery
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
805.783-2434
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday 11-6, closed Sunday, Monday
Center piece photographs by Henry Bruington San Luis Obispo, California

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Poodle, Parakeets, and Peaches vintage embroidery patterns to print




Vintage embroidery patterns have their own kind of charm. Just a few for you to print and create from my own collection. Enjoy!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Cupcakes for Sister Theresa

What do you bring to a meeting with a lovely lady who goes by Sister Theresa? Cupcakes, of course!
Sister Theresa and I got together to chat about how June's 2009 Get on the Bus program went out here at CMC and how the cupcakes I made, with mucho help from my family, and delivered went along the day. She is in charge of making sure fourteen busses full of children (some grown children) and their helpers from all over California have as lovely of an afternoon with their fathers as she can provide. Over the course of Father's Day weekend, over 1000 people, residents of CMC and family members, celebrated a day together at California Mens Colony here in San Luis Obispo. Well, Sister T and a heck of a lot of volunteers. The cupcakes were a hit but next year I'll be gathering volunteers to make sure there is one for every one (I made 1,000 and could have shared 200 more!) gets a cupcake on that day.
Food is often the center of family get together's and celebrations. Cupcakes play a perfect part in this day. Next year, I'll be looking for volunteers to make sure every body gets a cupcake on
Fathers Day.