flowers

I love Paris, I love pretty cakes, I love pink flowers, I love hand drawn decorations. This cake, it is made entirely of love.

Normally I'd scream overkill at a cake this busy but there is some amazing balance going on here. A striped rainbow heart inside a striped rainbow cake? A rainbow of fondant sprinkles so perfect they must have been placed there by very patient elves? I swoon for this kind of overkill.

Let's play sleuths: What's the connection here? Sure sure, you may say it's someone's 20th birthday and they love owls but that's too easy. There must be a deeper meaning. Is there a secret society of owls? Is there a code to which side they wear their flowers on? Is 20 a mystical number?

There are few things better than a white cat with mismatched eyes. My iPhone agrees!

These look more like a permanent decoration than an edible treat! The beetroot color is so stunning and really shows off the edible flowers clinging to the outsides. Super clever! I bet even the bees would be fooled.

As an American, I'm not super familiar with the traditional high tea ritual. Once for a bachelorette party I had tea at the Bellagio with a bunch of fancy ladies. We had champagne and lots of tiny delicious foods. This cake would have been a gaudy yet not unwelcome addition.

I don't usually serve my birthday cakes on a stump but this is so lovely, I may just have to start!

If you spend too much time thinking about how cute this guy is before you eat him, his ice cream head is going to melt and slide right off of his cupcake body. Eat him quick and save him from such a dishonor.

That monster has incredibly huge hands! Save the cake!

Needle felting is an awesome hobby. How many other (legal) hobbies are there that consist mainly of stabbing and end up with bears this cute?

As you can imagine, I've seen a LOT of poinsettia cupcakes on these here interwebs. This photo here, these are the BEST poinsettia cupcakes on the whole internet! Congratulations, poinsettia cupcakes! Can I eat you now?

I love the idea of seed bombing public places. Why shouldn't a bare lot be covered in lovely wildflowers?

I feel like I'm jinxing the weather here with all my talk of "Spring is coming! Spring is coming!" but the rain stays and the cold stays and I'm beginning to think that I am bad luck. I just want to keep thinking warm thoughts.

Someday I'll have a big ol' house with a dressing room decorated in all frilly pinkness and lace and I'll hire someone to keep it clean and organized for me and all the lighting fixtures will look like this.

The things you can do with a bag of cheap-o toys and a glue gun really are astounding.

This amazing frosting job reminds me of a big ball of carnations, all the same texture, all different colors, totally impressive. I love a collection of all the same variety of flower.