Local Village Fete Cake Sale & Personalised Cupcake Wrappers ♥

Last weekend was the big cake sale that I'd booked a few months ago. It was held at my local village summer fete and I wanted to buy a stall so I could integrate a bit more with my local community. It was the first big event I've done, so in preperation I took a day off work to do the baking. I totally overbaked and had loads left over because I literally made hundreds! But it's fine because I sold some afterwards, gave some away at work, and have frozen the rest. It's my nephews Christening in a couple of weeks and I'm doing the cakes so it saves me making more; I can just defrost them! Anyway the day went really well, lots of people picked up my leaflets and business cards, and I made a nice tidy profit! And luckily the weather was kind and it didn't rain all day! So here's a few photos from the day...

I also wanted to show you these adorable personalised cupcake cases from Paper Themes. They are a bespoke stationers and they sell a range of beautiful, luxury wedding stationary. Their products are all stylishly designed to suit any wedding theme, ranging from vintage style to contemporary.

I was sent these cupcake wrapper samples to try out, and they're made from a good quality, sturdy card, and the printed design on each one is perfect. You can personalise them with your names and wedding date, or any occasion! The have an adorable scalloped edge and look beautiful wrapped around delicious cupcakes. My favourite design is 'cream tea', which is printed with pastel blue polka dots and pink rose bouquets. If I was getting married I'd have to have these! They are £12.99 for a pack of 24 so work out at about 54p each, but they would make a wonderful personalised wedding favour, and they do lots more designs; I love the Eat Me one!

Twitter / Facebook

Carboot Sale Buys - Bits & Pieces ♥

 Since my last carboot sale post I've been to three more bootsales and have found a few more nice bargains! I've seperated it into two posts, so this one is the general buys and the next post will be the clothing items I found. So here's what I've picked up...

At the end of the Bank Holiday boot sale there was a man with a van full of rubbish that had it all strewn out all over the floor, and he said everything was 50p each. I found all these bits seperately from eachother and he let me have the whole lot for £1! It's an English maker and is painted with pretty purple posies. I got three cake plates, two saucers, three tea cups, and a milk jug!

This is one of my favourite films, Bride Wars, and this DVD was 50p.

I try not to go on about it too much, but I'm Eminem obsessed. I already had this album but lost it so bought another copy to listen to in my car! Only 50p.

I picked up this Kirsties Homemade Home hardback book from a seller who was selling a load of old tat, but I found this in a box and they let me have it for 50p! It's RRP is £20 and it was released in 2010 so is quite new and is in perfect condition. 

This isn't for me, but my parents have been redecorating their bedroom and needed a new simple wooden bedside table, and I spotted this and it was only £6 and is made from solid, unfinished pine in great condition!

If you never bought these cheap cushions from Ikea then you missed out! They are the most comfortable things EVER! I affectionately called my old one my 'dribble pillow' and it ended up being a disgusting shade of grey after being washed so many times. These ones were brand new and 50p each, which isn't a huge bargain as I think they were only 80p in Ikea, but they don't sell them anymore!

This little floral sugar bowl and milk jug set was only £1! I actually bought the same sugarbowl from a carboot sale last summer, but now I have two, and a jug!

This Soap and Glory make up case was 50p, although I'm not sure I needed it!

And finally, this set of number cutters for cake decorating were only 5p each, which is great because these sell for over a fiver online!

And that's it for now, but soon I will do my carboot sale clothing bargains post! You can see all my carboot sale posts here.

Twitter / Facebook

Cosmopolitan Blog Awards 2013 ♥

I'm a bit late with this as nominations opened up over 2 weeks ago, but I'd really love it if you wanted to nomiate me in the Cosmopolitan Blog Awards :)

I'd maybe fit into Best Lifestyle Blog, or perhaps Best Interior Blog? I would suggest Best Food Blog too.. but I don't think a tonne of cake counts as 'food' haha! 

I'm so happy to have so many lovely readers who have nominated me for other awards too, so a big thank you to you all! Blogging is such a massive part of my life now and you're all super supportive and I'm so grateful. Thank you very much if you do have a spare moment to vote xx

And don't forget to enter my £100 designer glasses giveaway!!

Twitter / Facebook