More Christmas gifts :)

I met up with my friends Dennis and Helen earlier in the week to finally exchange Christmas gifts - and aren't they fab! As well as an array of lovely Hello Kitty stuff, I got the GIANT Big Top silicone cupcake mould from Dennis, and the cupcake a day calender :) He also got me a bag from Original Cupcakes in Vancouver, which he'd visited since I last saw him in October - check out their website here.

The gorgeous door-mat is from Helen - as you can see I'm not the only one that fell in love with it - Demon rushed from sleeping the sofa as soon as I put it on the kitchen floor. You can see more pics of Demon here, if you so wish.

Finally, my lovely friend from Chicago, Renee, sent me a package filled with awesome stuff, including Hellbent for Cooking and more Hello Kitty stuff, and she also made me some super-cute little Christmas decorations, one of which you can see in the picture of the cupcake calendar. If you look closely you'll see the cork is from a bottle of wine from Cupcake Vineyards! I've wanted to try the wine for some time,but can never find it here. I've emailed Renee for some feedback on it!

I am lucky to have such awesome friends :)

Cupcake Calendars

For 2010 I think I shall get the Hello Cupcake calendar from Amazon as it would seem the page a day one is exactly the same as last years. I think the Cupcakes one, which you can also get in Paperchase, is the same brand I got last year (yes I had two cupcakes calendars) so will check in Paperchase before deciding - decisions decisions.

Betty Boop cupcake goodies

I saw this really cute t-shirt in Asda today and it led me to doing a bit of a google search on Betty Boop and cupcakes and it seems there's quite a few things out there featuring the cuteness of Betty and the cuteness of cupcakes so thought I'd share a couple of bits.

The perpetual calendar is available here and the cute girlie slippers (only up to size 5-6 girls) are available here or from your local BHS.

Boop-Oop-A-Doop

Some recent cupcake purchases

Whilst hitting the shops to do some Christmas shopping I have managed to treat myself to a few cupcake items along the way!!

The gorgeous cupcake calender was bought at Paperchase, the air freshener (I got strawberry but you can order other scents direct from their website) by Naughty But Nice from Cards Galore and the teapot from Debenhams (if you hurry its still got 20% off!)

My house is becoming over-run with cupcakes - thankfully Manny is very understanding and encourages my cupcake love :)

A whole YEAR of cupcake goodness

I have just pre-ordered my 2009 cupcake recipie a day calendar from Amazon. Does it make me sad or just keen that I've ordered it sooooo early?!