Where The Wild Things Are – Cupcakes

I actually baked something.

I’m a huge fan of Maurice Sendak and have always loved his book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. The book has a rare blend making it equally enchanting for adults and children. Recently I saw some Where The Wild Things Are cupcakes on this blog of Kitchen DoughDough. There was a link to the initial inspiration here on Blue Cupcake blog. Credit to those blogs as I borrowed their ideas and decided to make my nephew some Where The Wild Things Are cupcakes for his 12th birthday, based on what I had seen (and then adapted with regard to the recipe, and ingredients).

I never bake, not since I was little and let loose with gingerbread for our traditional Finnish gingerbread houses. However, I’m a creative and determined sort so found a basic recipe for vanilla cupcakes and buttercream icing and I won’t lie – it took three whole hours start to finish!

I used marzipan and chocolate chips for the eyes, and red glaced cherries cut into hearts (as one of my illustration trademarks is heart cheeks). The teeth are almond flakes, and the noses/horns are cashew nuts.

Snowflake cookies

Unfortunately – I didn’t make these!

(Photo by Aileen Master)

Found these beautiful handcrafted snowflake cookies on Flickr,  by Aileen Master from AMasterCreation and you can find her website here. She bakes cookies and cupcakes for every occasion and can deliver in South California.  For recent cookie goodness, check out Aileen’s blog!

Friday is my day

Sweet and lovely Heli asked if I’d like to participate with her blog ‘Friday is my day‘ where every week on a Friday, a day-in-the-life account of an artist/designer/crafter is published. I took some photos of my day and offered a little peek into my life.

You can see the blog post HERE.

Screenshot:

Thanks Heli!

Om nom nom

Laura noticed that Cookie Monster is eating Google today.

Thought it was worthy of a screenshot!

Christmas greeting cards

My 2009 Christmas card sets are now for sale in my shop. I’m thinking of designing some more, but with a new job and other commitments it is hard to find the time.  So these are the four designs, available as either a set of four different images, or a set of four of the same image.

Greeting card back:

Blog features

I was very pleased indeed to find my Tonttu illustrated eggcups featured in two of my favourite blogs;

Creature Comforts

and

Where The Lovely Things Are

These blogs are similar in how they work hard to selflessly curate inspirations to share with us all. Plus they are gorgeous. Go visit!

Tonttu Eggcups

New to my Etsy shop, illustrated Tonttu eggcups. They come with hand-stitched felt hats to keep the eggs snug. Tonttu (Joulu Tonttu) is Finnish for ‘Christmas elf’.

There are lots more to come!

Christmas card illustrations

Busy drawing at the moment, designing Christmas cards for my Etsy shop. I’ll upload the illustrations as they are ready, but not all of them will be used for cards.

The Bright Red Star

Illustrating a page of Yael Frankel’s Christmas storybook for children ‘The Bright Red Star‘.  The book is written and compiled by Yael, and illustrated by 14 Etsy artists. Made two versions, the one above was my initial idea, but played around with the idea of the rooster for the second version.

Trespassing

Going back in time.