Still unbelievable after all these years in Arizona, but school starts here around the first week in August. I found inpiration from The Happy Scrap’s blog on Pinterest for this year’s teacher’s gift.  Check out Pinterest if you haven’t already.  Such a fun site!

When you make enough cupcakes the liners take on a whole new meaning.  I’ve seen these Wilton liners before but wasn’t quite sure I was ready to move that far out on a limb.  So silly.  Look how great they are just in the baking tins alone. Even though I’m not a pink kind of girl, …

Sadly my first attempt at Bakerella’s cupcake bites didn’t pan out.  So I had to go with my old standby, cream filled full sized cupcakes. So yummy, particularly cold!  One 7 oz jar of marshmallow creme and 1 stick of room temp butter, that’s all it takes.  I cut a hole in the top of the …

Totally biased because this baby shower was for my niece but if you need a good sized decoration that screams ‘baby’, these blown up pictures of the mom & dad will be sure to fill up wall space. Finding similar aged pictures of the parents to be might be the most difficult part.  I used sepia …

If you love cupcakes for their small in size, big in taste stature, you need to check out Bakerella.  I love this site, not only for the great idea of cake pops but for the step by step pictures.  Her site is well followed and even spurred a book.  Blogger to Author, not bad. Here’s my …