gingerbread house contest!

Hey, hey, hey, hey! it's again for our annual gingerbread house contest! We switched it up a bit this year. We have our expert class, and a NEW novice class. All expert houses and the winner for the novice class will all help raise money for Food For the Hungry. Food For the Hungry houses will be on display during the Christmas walk. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be given for both classes! 1st in expert- A ONE NIGHT STAY AT THE WHITE OAK INN!!! 1st in novice- A NEW KITCHENAID MIXER!!!!

All houses MUST be completely edible. The drop off date is November 7th at noon at he cupcake. Judging will be November 8th. Good Luck!

Homecoming at the pink cupcake

Can you tell we love Jim Perry here at the cupcake? Homecoming went of well. The girls looked beautiul in their dresses. what? You want to see some pictures? Lets see what I can do.
This is Allison (Not my kid), Steven (also, not mine) and Arie (mine). My other daughter would kill me if I put her picture on here. Trust me, she was beautiul. We lost the game, who really pays attention to that anyway?LOL! The girls reported that everyone had a great time.
Our window reflected (get it?) our support for the team and our support for football player, Jim Perry. Uncle Dave's son. I love small town life here in Mount Vernon. We watched the parade go by the shop and everyone went to the bonfire. So cool all the kids go to school together and Sommer's family is HUGE and has really adopted us. It's really wonderful.
Lucky for us the yellow jacket's colors are orange and black (not sure why? wouldn't it be yellow? I digress.) Anywho, we can switch right over to halloween. I am really excited for some scary halloween cakes and maybe a wedding cake. Hopefully we can start on that monday after I wash the window. Thats it for now. It was a super busy weekend. Not many pictures. One wedding in Coshocton. You can check out the pix on the flickr site. www.flickr.com/photos/thepinkcupcake

Gordon food show

LOL! Guess what I did today!? This is me munching down at the Gordon food show today in Columbus. It was a pretty fun time. Not a lot of bakery items but I did buy a new mop bucket. WOO HOO! Pretty sad when one gets so excited at the sight of the rubbermaid booth. It was a fun day away from the shop. I was a bit nervous leaving but the girls handled everything just fine. Part of owning your own shop are the perks, like a food show. The other part would be having to spend $43 on a new mop bucket. The pink hair got me lots of attention today,lol. And we left our salesman, Randy, a pretty funny message at the message center. I hope it doesn't get him in trouble. We were in rare form after eating a lot of seafood and lots of meat. Sounds funny when I say it out loud. We saw our friends Jeanne and Stu from the Gambier Deli. And I tried a very yummy guava pastry that I think we will start to carry. So all in all, a good day. Tomorrow back to the grindstone.