Help 3 children come to America!

I know I haven't been posting about cupcakes lately, but this is somewhat cupcake related...the Ceran family of Eagle Mountain is raising 40,000 to adopt 3 orphans from Ukraine, AND...

on February 12th, at 10 am at Rockwell Charter High School in Eagle Mountain, there will be a giant indoor yard sale with a bake sale! Come buy some cupcakes and support the Cerans.

Click here to see their story!

If you live in the SLC area, you can also get photos of your own children to support the Cerans. Click here for more details!

Valentine's Party Ideas

Check out my friend Kara's darling vintage Valentine party! I had so much fun taking the pictures for her. Go to her blog for more details and my blog for more photos!

where have I been?

Well, let's see...I've been teaching 600 elementary school students P.E. and Music...I've been using my index finger a lot to take photographs...and I haven't been baking!

I am going to be using content from this blog on my photography blog: www.lyndseyfagerlund.com/blog. Come on over and check it out...I'll be featuring photography tips, mother of the bride advice, wedding and party detail advice, and more! When I have new cupcakes to share, I'll be sure to post them to this blog too!

Good Things Utah!

I had a blast sharing my orange cupcakes with the gals on GTU! More pics to come ;)

Cupcake Camp Seattle!

I was thrilled to find out on a recent biz trip to Seattle that Cupcake Camp would be there at the same time!

Here are the happy campers...the line was super long!

Two awesome people I met in line:

While I was chatting with these two, we got word that the cupcakes were gone! Bummmmmmmer! But all the proceeds all went to the Hope Heart Institute. What is better than cupcakes and a great cause?

This was my fave! I LOVE orcas.

Thankfully, some kind folks gave me one of their cupcakes inside. But let's be real, I wasn't going in to get a cupcake, I wanted to meet Jessie Oleson of Cakespy!

Above a gal is modeling Trophy Cupcakes, except they had all been bought! Wouldn't it have been amazing to see the dress filled with cupcakes?! So sad I missed it.

Below is one of my fave cupcake vendors...although I have yet to buy some of their awesome "couture!" Check out more at Bella Cupcake Couture...they'd be awesome for a party!

These vendors were from Wink Cupcakes. I loved the cupcake headband! I need one of those!!

Last but not least, I can't help photographing children wherever I go (don't worry, I had permission from her mom!). And I loved her shirt. :)

P.S. I photograph lovely events like these...check out more of my work at lyndseyfagerlund.com!

alphabet party!

Meet Max, the newly-turned two year old! He is modeling the alphabet shirt that grandma made for his party. I'm finally blogging his party...only a month after, not bad, right?!

The table:

The invites:

This was my plan for the invites...I sewed together two sides of the invitation with red yarn and put the name of Max's friend inside! Unfortunately, mommy wanted to invite her friends too, so I ended up just printing the invites on the front and back, but I loved the idea! I found these little wood letters at the dollar store to make the names.

Here is the party hat my mom and I made for Max...I am so in love with it that it is still being used as my table centerpiece in my kitchen!

Too bad Max hated it though...

His birthday cake! (See next post for a tutorial!)

These cupcakes were simple...but there is just something about piping up the frosting that makes them sooooo cute! I found the mini-letter tiles at Wal-Mart.

A couple of the party guests...

I made party hats with letters glued on for Max's little friends.

Decor...M&M's, letter stamps, alphabits, and letter beads.

My mom made this darling alphabet tablecloth for the party. Picked up the plates at Zurcher's.

My grandma found alphabet letter candy at Cost Plus World Market...it was a HIT!

Max's banner:

We decorated the floor with these alphabet tiles to match the cupcakes!

My favorite part of the party was these alphabet tater-tots! The party was at 10 am so we served them for breakfast. I found them at Harmons.

More decor...

My friend Kara found these AWESOME Dick and Jane style vintage letter books at Costco, and let me borrow the letters to Max's name.

My favorite quilt from my mom...guess what it has on it! Numbers! Just kidding.

We found these huge letters at Jo-Ann's and spray painted them blue.

I was going to hand out little bags of alphabits as favors with a letter stamp attached, but I ran out of time! (as usual...)

This is the thank you I sent out to the guests!

alphabet party cake

Max's cake was a hit at his alphabet party! This is how I created it:

1. Make brownies in an 8x8 square pan.

2. Cut the brownie in half and form a T (Max's favorite letter!)

3. Frost with peanut butter frosting!

4. Make a white cake in the square pan. I added chocolate cheerios to the mix! YUM!

5. Trim the cake as needed and cut it in half. Put it on top of the frosting.

6. Frost the cake with chocolate peanut butter frosting. Decorate with M & M's! I used Alphabits cereal for the letters on the cake and as decoration around the cake. (They were sprayed with Wilton red cake spray!)

Wild Rumpus

Images copyright Caroline Drake/Armelle Jewelry

My Max turned two last week! I can't believe it has been a year since his first birthday party...

Anyway, we didn't have another Wild Things party, but since it is taking me so long to prepare my blog post about his Alphabet Party, I thought I'd share an amazing Wild Things party!

Both images on this post are hers, so cute, huh?

Check it out at armelle. Click on her inspirational "Wild" links too, there is some adorable stuff.

Cupcake Cupcakes!

Cupcake Pebbles, that is! This is my new favorite cereal:

I love Fruity Pebbles, so I was thrilled to find Post's new pebbles cereal. There is actually a recipe on the box for a "giant cupcake" made from cakes but it didn't make a lot of sense to me, so I opted to make plain old cupcakes.

Cupcake Pebbles Cupcakes

1 box Duncan Heinz Moist Deluxe Classic White Cake

Ingredients on box (water, veg. oil, and 3 large egg whites)

2 cups Cupcake Pebbles Cereal

Betty Crocker Strawberry Mist Frosting

Extra cereal for sprinkles

Simply follow the directions on the box and throw in the 2 cups of Cupcake cereal. Cook as directed on the box. I was feeling very lazy so I used store bought frosting. BUT it turned out being the perfect taste to match the cupcakes! Finally, sprinkle the cereal on the top.

By the way...does this gross anyone else out?! Is it common procedure to spoon the whitish stuff out of egg whites? Or am I just way too picky?

Here's the final product, complete with my new "cake plate." I found the two pieces at D.I. I think the bottom piece is actually for a light, but I liked the look.