alice in wonderland

Well ever since the new Alice in Wonderland movie came out - everyone's being going alice crazy.
My friend's daughter is having an Alice in Wonderland party in a couple of weeks which is really exciting. (Wish I had one when I was younger) So I thought I would dedicate this blog to Alice In Wonderland.

My friend, Karen asked me to make an apron for her and myself to wear while we 'serve' the girls at the party.(thanks karen for believing in me to be able to make one) Here is a sneak peak...


I will do a blog later on with what we ended up doing for food etc. They've sent out some fun invites and we have some yummy food organised. Well that was a short blog, and I was hoping to do more but I'm tired so I will leave you all to your fabulous monday! Enjoy the gorgeous photos below of an Alice in Wonderland party in LA. Link to the blog is here.

oh boy

hello hello
I decided I'd do a quick blog while my two munchkins are sleeping. I have a busy day at home - putting together some orders. They are looking extra cute at the moment. I am doing orders for two girls. Matching 'bow' and 'angel wing' tops .. can't wait to finish them and send them off to their new owners. I made my first two sales through my madeit account yesterday which is very exciting!

I saw in the latest spotlight mag some sewing machines for sale (and on sale). I'm starting to try and lose weight aswell so my husband has put two and two together and has said if I run/walk 30min-hr every day this week then he'll get me a sewing machine for mother's day. YAY

... only thing is, I think I'll die from running/walking and therefore, not get to use my new toy LOL

Never the less - great incentive to get fit and lose this weight.. PLUS I've now told the world so you all are going to be watching me now. :) I'll have to keep you posted on my adventure.

I got some fabrics delived today from bubbamia. Not TOO sure what I'll do with them - thinking pockets and stars on some jeans designed for boys.. and some shirts.

Will post some piccies soon of the jeans I made for my little boy.

Hope you all have a fab week

Renee ♥

lil' snaps

Hello everyone,
It's been a while since I've blogged. Don't the weeks just fly by? I can't believe it's nearly May already! I am reminded constantly because my husband's birthday is in May {still thinking of ideas for present&cake} I had fun yesterday babysitting a friends little girl - she is only 2 days older than my little girl... she has the longest eyelashes! Her parents are mad manchester utd fans and they have got her pumping her arms in the air saying 'ted' 'ted' when they point to a man utd crest. VERY cute -




So on another topic - I have decided to add lil' snaps to my Ninja Cupcake Collection.
I've been approached by people to do shoots for them - so I thought why not?!
Here's some lil' snaps from my latest shoot,





enjoy everyone - will do another post this week, I'm going to make my little boy some jeans on wednesday so I'll keep you all posted on how that goes

♥

and the elephant winner is ....

Thank you all for entering our first giveaway!
To win an elephant singlet!

I used my 'Truly Random Number Generator' to calculate the winner.
ANNND the winner is Entry Number 18!!!
(it's the comment number 19 though because Amy had to use up another comment for her email address) So I sort through the entries carefully and the winner is ERIN LISTER!



Congratulations Erin!
I'll be in contact with you soon to find out what size singlet you need & what colour elephant you would like!

While I have everyone's attention:
We are now stocking long sleeve shirts for winter - all you have to do is find a applique you'd like on your shirt and let me know what size (at the moment, from sizes 3-12approx) and i'll do it for you for $15!

ninjacupcakes ♥

elephant singlet giveaway

So we have reached over 200 fans.. thank you everyone!

As I promised, We will do a giveaway for you to win your very own elephant singlet!
Firstly you need to be a fan of our Ninja Cupcake Collection facebook page to enter.



You get to enter twice!
Firstly: Comment on this blog as your first entry
Secondly: Post about this giveaway on your blog or facebook page/status and link it to our facebook page. And come back on here and comment for your second entry with a link to what you just wrote.

Easy As!

THE PRIZE - One elephant singlet. You choose the singlet size and the colour of the elephant.

ENTRIES CLOSE - Tuesday the 13th April 9AM AEST HAS BEEN EXTENDED!!! Until 12 midday

Please leave your email address for me to contact you if you win!

♥

photoshoot time

hello

I recently was approached by a friend to do some photoshoots for her. One of her little nephew, who is 6mths old and another photoshoot of her and her husband.

So at the moment I'm getting prepared. My photoshoot with her little nephew is tomorrow morning - bright and early! Praying that it's going to be overcast.

Because I have photoshoots on the brain, I thought I might show you some of my latest& also some of my favourite photos I have done. I'm still a learner, but I love doing it. Let's turn this blog into a photoblog! [alot of my photos I can't show cause I haven't got permission from the subjects, these are the ones I can show..] ENJOY!

food, glorious food

Anyone seen the movie "Julie and Julia"?

I quite liked it actually.. started getting me thinking about cooking through a book and blogging about it. haha - I'm sure alot have people have started doing that.

But let's be serious people.. who could do that?! Not me, congrats if you can, but not me.
Instead of cooking my way through a cookbook - and a French one at that I think I might share some of my favourite recipes with you from time to time. Feel free to hit me back with some of yours!

On a French side note: For you to not think I'm bagging out the French cooking...My great friend Karen had her 15th wedding anniversary the other day (woo!) and she decided to cook Beef Bourguignon and I got to have a taste and can honestly say YUMMO..

So .. my first recipe for you all is from the Women's Weekly 'cheesecakes' book.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE CHEESECAKE

ingredients:

125g plain chocolate biscuits
75g butter, melted
150g dark eating chocolate, melted

Filling
3 teaspoons gelatine
1/4 cup (60ml) water
500g cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup (110g) caster sugar
2 eggs, separated
1 cup (250ml) cream
150g dark eating chocolate, melted
100g white eating chocolate, melted
2 tablespoons cream, extra

1/ Line 22cm springform tin with plastic wrap
2/ Process biscuits until find. Add butter; process until combined. Press mixture over base of tin. Refrigerate for 30mins.
3/ Make filling by sprinkling gelatine over the water in small heatproof jug; stand jug in small saucepan of simmering water. Stir until gelatine dissolves; cool 5 mins.
4/ Beat cheese, sugar and egg yolks in medium bowl with electric mixer until smooth; beat in cream. Stir in dark chocolate and gelatine mixture.
5/ Beat egg whites in small bowl with electric mixer until soft peaks form; fold into cheese mixture. Pour filling into tin.
6/ Combine white chocolate and extra cream in small jug. Swirl white chocolate mixture through cheesecake mixture. Refrigerate overnight.
7/ Spread dark chocolate over baking paper to a 20cm square. When set, break chocolate into small pieces.
8/ Remove cheesecake from tin to serving plate. Press chocolate pieces around side of cheesecake.
9/ Eat & Get Fat. (haha)



Enjoy Peeps.

Renee ♥

we will start at the very beginning

hello everyone!
so this is my first post - please excuse me if I'm absolutely hopeless at this.
my reason for blogging will be a way to share photos and my experience & to do some giveaways.

a little bit about me:
My name is Renee and I am married to an amazing husband, Tom. I have two beautiful kids - Noah who is 2 and a half and Ava who is 14mths. I decided to visit my Nan every week to keep her company and started to use her sewing machine and have had a bit of fun doing so and it has resulted in "Ninja Cupcake Collection" or Ninja Cupcakes. Clothing for your little ninja's and little cupcakes.

I have a facebook page - you can click here to view it.
I also have a madeit & etsy account: madeit and etsy

Well and so it begins ... hope you all in cyber land had a great day.. I am officially exhausted and will now go and do some cleaning & watch The Time Travellers Wife.

Renee ♥