Easter Schmeaster.
Please tell me it’s not THAT day of the year again. Not that day after the previous night where my children have, like wild bush animals in the night, scurried about my house at the most unGodly hours, whispering and fossicking and giggling until the sun finally rose. Could we possibly be the same parents that were giggling ourselves at midnight as we lovingly assembled chocolate baskets and tiptoed around making egg trails? Because we surely don’t resemble them, with our matching bed hair, sleepy eyes and nasty scowls, today.
Regular readers will recall my Nightmare Before Christmas – Easter is simply more of the same. I’m certain not even an elephant gun would stop my two from this horrid tradition. I promise, I am canceling all things festive next year. I said this with absolute dead pan seriousness at 4am and Crayton actually laughed, thinking I was joking.
So anyway, here are a few cupcakes I whipped up with 20 mins to spare the other day. **Should anyone hear rumors that, in fact, Kate Austin was responsible for these little masterpieces, that it was in fact Kate who baked and decorated so incredibly, that it was Kate that arranged them on a beautiful stand, or that it was Kate that drove for 40 minutes to get them to me…they are nothing more than just that – malicious rumors.
Here’s what happens when the toddler has to wait for her cupcake to be photographed.
Why are people so cruel? (Said with my best Billy and Mandy impersonation.)
oh… this photo of Ivy is priceless!
The cupcakes are beautiful!!!
Vickey
OMG those cakes are divine! Well done Kate.
Even the icing is perfect…love love love the little chickens in their nests.
Smurf would like know where Kate got her little wire baskets from pretty please?
& Judd pulled the same little meltdown when his basket ran out of chocolate ‘treasure’ x
Ivy’s face is priceless! Great cupcakes, I wish I was that talented.
hey 1 minute is a LOOONg time , so leave the poor distraught child be.
who was this evil cupcake photographer anyways , i will met them out the back in 5( for a midori slushy LOLOLOL)
Look at that sad face. Damn you’re a bad mother.
Lucky you make up for it in the cupcake making department…
You’re a good friend though, continuing to suffer Kate’s company even when she is such a terrible liar.
Look at that sad face. Damn you’re a bad mother.
Lucky you make up for it in the cupcake making department…
You’re a good friend though, continuing to suffer Kate’s company even when she is such a terrible liar.
Those are the most gorgeous cupcakes I’ve ever seen!!
Whats with Australia and everything beautiful is what I would like to know!
Those cupcakes look almost to good to be eaten (but I’m sure that by now they have all gone).
Poor, poor Ivy… having a photographer for a mom sure can be testing at times :)
Tania
Well aren’t you a nasty mum. Depriving a girl from her cake. Shame on you Sheye.
(that’s my inner voice)
Actually that made me laugh because I tried and tried in vein today to get 2 year old Parker to sit still for a photo of him covered in chocolate. He was to bloody interested in chasing the kitten saying “want a cuddle”.
Stuborn 2 year olds !!!!!!!!
They should know better…….
Kate: creative, generous, kind, makes stunning cupcakes, talented photographer and obviously a wonderful friend. What a girl.
I’m sure there are many of us out there who have wanted to take a photo (of something in pristine condition, ie pre toddler tampering) that should take a fleeting second and requires a toddler to “wait a minute”. It might as well be an eternity.
Ivy shows us exactly what “wait a minute” means to a toddler and all of the heartache that comes with time standing still while scrumptious cupcakes are right there waiting to be enjoyed!
No… Silly! Its Khamal “why are people so unkind?” LOL
Oh so can you please take that up with Billy and Mandy for copywrite infringement of the term then? :p
I am shocked and aghast that anyone would spread such rumours!!
(and for the record it’s, like, 20 minutes from my house to yours. You make it sound like a toyota ad where they travel through snow and rugged terrain to get there).
I knew I should have told the kids to ring me if you made them wait too long to eat them…I mean look what you obviously made the poor darling go through :p :P
(and the wire baskets are mini foil chocolate cases with coated wire bent over and stuck through to make the handles :)
xxoo
YUM!
beautifuL!
and happy happy easter! thankfully mine didn’t getup until 8:00!
tara
oh my goodness, each picture delicious and perfect, even Ivy as she weeps, soulfully i’m sure for one of those deelicious looking cupcakes, which by the way Sheye, beautiful work! :)
julia
Oh Sheye…you made me laugh out loud this morning! The picture of poor Ivy just tugs at my heart strings…for the love of God, I know what it’s like to want your sugar!! :) Happy Easter!
Oh and love the new song…”Nothing New” by The Waifs is actually one of my favs!
Those are the most gorgeous cupcakes that I have ever seen. Frankly, I started crying too when I realized that I couldn’t have one.
You are such a meanie! I say this with a big pout and my arms folded in angry toddler fashion. :-)
Look at her! She just.can’t. take. it. anymore!
I’m with you. 4 a.m. festivity would be darn near impossible for me.
Happy Easter!
those cupcakes are outstanding… not even sure if I could bear to eat them! little Ivy… how does she manage to be so cute – even in tears?
hoppy easter sheye!
jbxo
Sheye, you quite honestly crack me up…..
the cupcakes are deeeevine! Your cupcake friend is a master.
I had just decided that I hate you for being able to whip up something so beautiful within twenty minutes.
Having heard those rumors, however, I am very relieved to hear that maybe you’re not Queen of the Cupcakes, which makes you human again within the blink of an eye. ;)
Happy Easter!
Stef
PS – Will you drop me a line with your address so I can finally get your print shippped? xx
Love the cupcakes they’re gorgeous! way to go Kate!!! Hope sweet little Ivy has recovered from having to wait for her cupcake… the photo is priceless!
xxxx.
wow – I hope Ivy got at least two?!
And…I think Kate may have even posted a photo of these on a certain photography related forum -and claimed them as her own? Aren’t there some crazy copyright laws against that?
Hope you’ve recovered from your much too early morning…
Oh how sad… Ivy looks heartbroken. For shame woman! LOL! And those are the most beautiful cupcakes I have ever seen. WOW.
Beautiful cupcakes.
Beautiful life you have!!!
I LOVE your blog so very much.
Is it rude to ask, What kind of Camera do you have??!?!?
I hope you dont mind:)
Ta TA.
Molly
You let Ivy EAT those???!!! They look like they should be “For Display Purposes Only”.
Kate, I don’t know you, but I reckon you’re a savvy business-woman, as well as being super talented! You just knew Sheye would photograph those cakes, you just knew she would blog them, and you just knew you’d have stacks of cyber potential customers drooling with envy!!!
Both of you have more creative talent in your little fingers than I could ever dream of!
Precious Ivy, when I was a little girl, I would not have been allowed to touch such beauty either!
Nat.
Sheye, I have just spent the better part of my afternoon and evening, now that my kids are asleep, reading your blog. I have been so moved by your writing and sharing your story of Ava. Your children are beautiful. I know you will see her again one day, this I believe! Thank you for inspiring me to be a better mother and to try to cherish the little moments. I wish so badly that I could take pictures of my kids like you do! And lastly, I am so glad that you have good friends! You are amazing! -Rebecca
My Gawd those cupcakes are absolutely DIVINE! Wishing I had half her talent.. ahem, I mean YOUR talent of course!
The cupcakes are almost as beautiful as the children! I love checking this blog often to see what gorgeousness you have created now.
You can bake too!!!!
Wonderful cupcakes and funny-sad little picture of your Ivy!
i love those cupcakes make me want to it them all/In Paris there is never this kind of cupcakes
LOVE the cupcakes LOVE the photography LOVE the crying face, so sweet! UGH!
Hi, I know you probably get a gozillion of these types of comments….
But here goes mine anyway.
I was up till 3 in the morning last night reading your blog. What a transformation you have made between before and after.
The way you look at life now…
truely it is inspiring.
I haven’t lost a child, but my oldest has Down Syndrome and is ill a lot. And I know that my time with him is limited. And I often think of the loss I will have when it happens.
You are beautiful, inspiring, and truely gifted with the way you express your life.
Thank you so much for sharing your life with us. I feel you’re sadness, joy, and everything inbetween. You are a beautiful writer and I love the way you express yourself.
Thank your for inspiring me.
I have just spent the last few hours reading your blog (between making tutus). I am in awe of you. You are amazing.