Post-Easter Candybrain
I'm so glad the new banner is such a hit!
Thanks for all the sweetness, you guys!
But on to the matter at hand: Good grief, there is so. much. candy. in this apartment.
I'm going to ration it out over the next few weeks, so as to not encourage the onset of diabetes.
I hope everyone had a nice spring weekend! We had a really nice little Easter this year...on Saturday, Josiah and I paper mache'd some enormous easter eggs to hold our candy/treats for each other and yesterday, My mom and sister came over for lunch and egg-dying and a good time was had by everybody (I think!). The weather here was just beautiful...I remember so many soggy, grey Easters, and was very relieved by the crisp brightness of yesterday.
On Saturday night, we scoured the neighborhood after our jog for flowering branches to decorate the table with, and they looked so pretty! Sadly, my kitchen has one measly little window, and my photos turned out pretty awfully. The only decent photos are of my Easter pièce de résistance (which is definitely better than nothing!):
Oh, good! There is evidence of some of the pretty branches after all!
I made orange cupcakes (orange meaning containing juice and zest) with cream cheese frosting, and they were (and still are) very tasty and Easter-y.
Happy Monday!
PS: Anyone who was jonesin' for print images from the last update (The Terrarium, Button Collector, etc.) all five are now up in the shop.
Oh yes- new banner= adorable. Happy Spring!
xoxo
Posted by: Morgan | March 24, 2008 at 02:14 PM
Lovely new banner :) And mmmm orange cupcakes! Unfortunatly, my easter was a little snowy lol.
Posted by: Angie | March 24, 2008 at 02:18 PM
wow you own nice things
Posted by: kim* | March 24, 2008 at 02:20 PM
lovely new banner. and lovely easter cupcakes. I made some too, vanilla cake with clementine/mandarin icing (with orange food colour as that was my son's special request to match the orange sweater he was wearing.)
Posted by: Apryl | March 24, 2008 at 02:20 PM
Very adorable cup cakes Emily! I had intended to do the same, but overloaded myself and ended up going to my favorite baker in town to buy a carrot cake instead. Seen your cup cakes makes me feel a bit guilty, because they are so darn CUTE! Oh, by the way, loved seeing you and Martha. I really loved the sweater you were wearing :)
Posted by: Elizabeth Mackey | March 24, 2008 at 02:29 PM
your cupcakes look so yummy.
good job on Martha Stewart.
Posted by: Krista | March 24, 2008 at 02:36 PM
I love your new banner and those cupcake photos are amazing! Loving the little birds :)
Posted by: Laura | March 24, 2008 at 03:04 PM
OH MY GOSH!!! Banner! ;) Ohhh-hhhhhh! Lovely!
Posted by: coffee & diazepan | March 24, 2008 at 03:11 PM
What a pretty, Eastery table! I love the flowering branches and lovely cupcakes.
Your new banner is very cute- definitely suits you!
Posted by: Rachel | March 24, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Those cupcakes look gorgeous...!!
and the new banner is so nice!
Love all your pictures!
Happy Week!
Posted by: Francesca | March 24, 2008 at 03:26 PM
Those cupcakes look gorgeous...!!
and the new banner is so nice!
Love all your pictures!
Happy Week!
Posted by: Francesca | March 24, 2008 at 03:27 PM
Oh Emily...we have the same dishes! I just adore mine so very much...and the cupcakes look divine!!
Posted by: sadira | March 24, 2008 at 03:30 PM
Oh Emily...we have the same dishes! I just adore mine so very much...and the cupcakes look divine!!
Posted by: sadira | March 24, 2008 at 03:30 PM
Hi Emily!
I really love all your work and I think your house looks so adorable!
I just wanted to buy your Terrarium print and put it in my cart.
When I wanted to check out my cart was empty, so i guess someone else bought it first.
It was the last one :(!
Are you going to update some more to your shop, or where these the last ones??
Because I would really like to have one :)!
Thanks, Nina.
Posted by: Nina van der Sluys | March 24, 2008 at 03:46 PM
I really love the photo with the branch in it. Just all the colors combined is just gorgeous! Looks like a lovely Easter! :)
Posted by: Erika | March 24, 2008 at 04:04 PM
Don't get the sugah-betes!
Posted by: Lotta | March 24, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Would love to have the recipe! Looks wonderful!
Posted by: cherish | March 24, 2008 at 04:48 PM
I really love the photo with the branch in it. Just all the colors combined is just gorgeous! Looks like a lovely Easter! :)
Posted by: Erika | March 24, 2008 at 05:03 PM
Oooh! Those cupcakes look really great!!!
Posted by: tiffany | March 24, 2008 at 05:39 PM
Pretty! And the cupcakes look delish!
Posted by: kristena | March 24, 2008 at 05:58 PM
Ooh, I do like the banner. A lot..
I personally am not doing such a good job of rationing the Easter candy, but I only kept the stuff in my basket, not from the egg hunt..That was a strange sentence coming from an almost-20 year old, but whatev..My grandmother Makes us hunt eggs..
Posted by: Betsy | March 24, 2008 at 06:03 PM
lovin' it all! Happy Post-Easter and Happy Spring!
Posted by: jerusalem | March 24, 2008 at 06:16 PM
...your table looks lovely & your cupcakes too:P
It was a beautiful-easter-sunday-spring day here in California as well.
xo~michelle
Posted by: miss.michelle | March 24, 2008 at 06:20 PM
Not to be repetitive,not to be repetitive but the banner is wondrous,the cupcakes look delicious and (maybe not so repetitive?) I love the chubby little bird amidst the cupcakes!
Posted by: Carrie | March 24, 2008 at 06:35 PM
Your birdie cupcakes are so cute! Lovely and yummy Easter goodness. I too am having to face some serious Easter candy overload. My house is FULL of tempting sugary confections and it makes me happy but also a little concerned because I've had sugar stomachaches the last two days in a row. And my teeth have that unpleasant fuzzy feeling...
Rationing is indeed the prudent thing to do.
Posted by: sarah | March 24, 2008 at 06:52 PM