These are the cutest bath fizzies from Bauble Bath. Check out other adorable products from Bauble Bath here.Aren’t you inspired to try and make your own bath fizzies to meet the new cuteness standard? I sure am! The pressure is on!
Cupcake Rattles
From SpoonSisters.com for $12.50 They say: 100% cotton made with eco-friendly dyes. Handmade by a co-operative of woman Fair Trade Artisans in Peru.
There’s no better way to get your little one headed in the right dessert direction than by starting her early with these adorable rattles.
Letterpress Cupcake Cards
I’ve written five cards this week so that means, I get to replace those cards (yippeee!). After much shopping around, I settled on these adorable Cupcake Letterpressed Cards from Tara Hogan.
With a Gumdrop for its Brain
Thank you to Serious Eats and Soap Queen Commenter, Heather, for finding this adorable Halloween Cupcake. It looks (to me) like the ghost is made of rolled fondant. The photographer, Jill, said that there was bright green frosting underneath as the ghost’s guts. Positively creative and season appropriate.
Cupcakes for the Holidays
Thank you to Soap Queen Commenter, The Cinnamon Hollow for the heads up on this Christmas Tree Cupcake Ornament. $2.50 at Prairie Girl Boutique.
Another helpful customer emailed this morning with the perfect meshing of the holidays, quality family time and cupcakes – cupcake place card holders! $12.36 at In Casa Gifts.
Cupcake Hats & Wrapping
Cupcake beanie for $30 from FredFlare.com
Confectionery delight gift wrapping for $24.95. ‘Tis sweeter to give than receive with
this comprehensive wrap kit that has 20 sheets of wrap in 4 delish designs, 20 gift tags, 2 rolls of ribbon & string, 30 stickers plus mini instruction book on tying the perfect bow.
Soaps on the Barbi
Aussie Soap Supplies sells raw materials for manufacturing soap and toiletry products in Australia. They also sell Bramble Berry Fragrancesand other fabulous products Down Under. They are a Western Australian owned and run business.Check out their sitehere and their Bramble Berry reviews here.
They recently wrote me to share some soaps from one of their incredibly talented customers…
Elysium makes a variety of gorgeous soaps but of course, what caught my eye is their Cupcake Soaps. They also have a blog called elysium-soaptalk.
The first Cupcake below has a delicious Passionfruit scent with the perfect color combination. The second is a Raspberry Violet that looks sweet enough to eat followed by my favorite, Saturday’s Coffee Cupcake. YUM! It’s great attention to detail with the vibrant colors and the uber fluffy frosting. Do these come with a “Do Not Eat” warning?
If you’re ever in Australia, try and stop by the Saturday Mosman Market to see these little beauties in person. Betcha can’t buy just one.
Happy Cupcake Calender
The Blanket Named "Anne-Marie"
Carol from Luv Blankets and Biker B soap has designed a Cupcake Quilt and named it “Anne-Marie.” I’m ridiculously flattered. Check it out on Etsy here.
This is what she has to say about the quilt:
This handmade quilt is 68″ wide and 76″ long. Made with assorted cupcake fabric (all cotton). It is beautiful with it’s rich variety of colors and soft feel. The backing on this quilt is made with colorful cupcakes on a soft pink background. This quilt was pieced on a 1954 Singer Sewing machine, then hand tied and the binding is hand sewn to the quilt to make it a one of a kind quilt. It is made to last for years.
More Cupcake Mold Love
Craftzine.com picked up the Cupcake Project that SoapyLove did for the Soap Queen blog. Click here if you haven’t seen the project in its entirety or click here to get yourself the mold.
Thanks for the shout-out, Craft. It’s an honor to be recognized by one of the most innovative periodicals on the market today.
Soap Cupcakes Garner Buzz
Thank you to Cupcakes Take the Cake Blog (one of my fave blogs) for the link love for our Cupcake Soap Project.We had quite the celebratory “Whoop’n’Holler!” session when we saw the recognition.
World Wide Soaping
Beautiful Soaps from Liliana in Puerto Rico. I received the nicest email today that just made me smile and I had to share. Right before I head to the Hill on behalf of small home crafters everywhere, it was the perfect reminder that home soapers do amazing, innovative things and that keeping options open to small business everywhere is important.Here is a little snippet from Liliana’s email:
“I am perfectly happy with your products and especially happy with your service. I have to say this, because I live in Puerto Rico, and you know sometimes the shipping and delivery costs are very high and that is the hard point when selling our products. So your company always helps me manage costs in a very efficient way. Thanks for that!!”
Thanks for your email, Liliana! It made my day here in Washington DC.Check out her beautiful soaps below. I’m sure once the Brambleberrians are awake and get to work that they’ll be oohing and ahhing over the cuteness all day.
I love the embedding here. It’s so good that it almost looks fake.
Thank you Lillian for sharing.
Tutorial: Cupcakes with a Cherry on Top!
Hi! I’m Debbie Chialtas, owner and designer for Soapylove. I recently taught how to make UFO Soaps and Cameo Soaps at Otion’s Soapmaking Weekend Intensive. I’m truly obsessed with M&P soap crafting and am so excited to be a guest blogger for The Soap Queen! Every week I’ll bring you new projects and soap making tips. So without further ado, I present this first tutorial made just for you!
Brambleberry’s new Cupcake Mold is so adorable I just had to make a soapy rendition of a classic: Chocolate Cupcakes with Pink Frosting. These cupcakes are almost better than the real thing because they have a sprinkle of glitter, too! This project is fun because you build your cupcake, layer by layer, and when you unmold your soap you get a very sweet reward!
You’ll need:
Cupcake Mold
3 oz clear soap base
8 oz white soap base
Non-bleeding liquid red colorant
Rose Pearl Mica
Iridescent Soap Glitter
Brown Oxide
Dark, Rich Chocolate fragrance oil
Vanilla Color Stabilizer
Melt and Pour Tool Kit
3 small cups and a mug
Spray bottle with rubbing alcohol
1. Melt 4 oz clear soap base. Pour about 1 tablespoon of soap into a small cup and add a few drops of red colorant. Put some hot water in the mug. Using the injector from the tool kit, fill each cherry with red soap. Clean your injector with the hot water. Put extra red soap aside.
2. Pour another tablespoon of clear soap into a different small cup. Stir in a pinch of pink mica and a tiny pinch of glitter. Use injector tool to fill frosting area. This will take 2 turns to adequately fill the outer details of the frosting, as you can see in my photo. If you have overflow into the cup area, use the pointy tool to scrape it out when it’s cool. Clean injector tool in hot water. Put extra soap aside.
3. In your last small cup, spray a few squirts of rubbing alcohol. Add a large “pinch” (or about 1/16 teaspoon) of brown oxide and stir well until dissolved. Add 1 tablespoon of melted clear soap and stir until smooth. Tilt mold so 2 of the cup portions of the mold are level. Inject brown soap into cup area carefully and let cool. Do this in 2 layers again so it’s nice and opaque. This time you can use the flat scraper tool to remove any brown soap that spilled over onto your frosting. Repeat for other 2 cavities.
4. Melt 8 oz of white soap. Stir in the extra pink and red soap to make a nice pink color (you might not need it all). Add 1/4 teaspoon each of Chocolate fragrance oil and Vanilla Stabilizer. Let cool to 120 degrees, or until it’s not too hot to touch with your finger. Spray molds with alcohol and slowly pour in pink soap (don’t pour directly onto your cupcake design). Allow to cool overnight and unmold!
When planning other color combinations, make sure to refer to Bramble Berry’s list of non-bleeding colorants. It’s a life saver! See you Thursday!
Yes, in fact, Cupcakes Should be Green
I’m not a grumpy girl but I love GrumpyGirl from Etsy. I’m a happy camper 99.99% of the time. It’s only once in a blue moon that I’ll have a down day and GrumpyGirl stuff looks amazing enough to pull me right out of any funk.
Check out GrumpyGirl’s colorful and realistic cupcake bath bombs. I (heart) her color combination of bright green and purple! If these don’t put you in a non-grumpy mood, I don’t know what will. You should go to her site here and see the whimsical “DO NOT EAT” warning. Yep, they look that good, people! 
My staff was literally huddled over my shoulder oohing and ahhing wondering how GrumpyGirl pulled off these magnificent swirls. As well as being super talented, she has the clever names for her soaps and body products. This swirly soap is called Acid Trip…go to her Etsy site to see more creative soaps and names.
I bought the Acid Trip soap, Cupcake Bath Fizzy (no surprise there), and one of her fruit tarts. They should be here in a few weeks. I can hardly wait for that pick-me-up.
My staff was literally huddled over my shoulder oohing and ahhing wondering how GrumpyGirl pulled off these magnificent swirls. As well as being super talented, she has the clever names for her soaps and body products. This swirly soap is called Acid Trip…go to her Etsy site to see more creative soaps and names.
I bought the Acid Trip soap, Cupcake Bath Fizzy (no surprise there), and one of her fruit tarts. They should be here in a few weeks. I can hardly wait for that pick-me-up.