It has been a few months....

Wow it has been since August that I have not posted anything - it is time to get back into what I am passionate about(other than my gorgeous children of course) and that is QueenE Cupcakes....

Since we last saw each other we have had many changes - the biggest being we have just moved to Hastings and as much as that has been a "huge" job we love it in our new house and welcome the "new life" that comes with it.

QueenE's creation of "In the Bag" is also slowly but surely taking off - we are selling them in 4 stores already - "Coloured Girl" in Dromana - "The Whale" Mornington - "Craft Cakes" - Hastings and our newest supporter is "Gepettos Workshop" - Sorrento.....its is very exciting.

It is time to get my princess to school - I will be back....

Falling into place....

Hey all - well last week I became a The Body Shop at Home Consultant - just to fill any any spare time I have - Yer right - NOT....I actually "fell into it" I was invited to a party myself about 8 weeks ago not knowing The Body Shop even did these parties and was so enthused by the consultants enthusiasm and passion I pondered doing this myself, then dismissed it very quickly not knowing how I could possible take something like this on being a single mum with 3 kids....Well putting myself in that ridiculous box didn't last long - the amazing thing is that for a number of months I have been looking for an organisation to donate some money to but I wanted to do soooo much more than just hand over some cash - and blow me down going to the BS party opened my eyes to the amazingly passionate philosophises that TBS have and the amazing good they do for the world, particular 3rd world countries and children let alone the environment, and after a quick think I decided to take a bold step and contact that consultant and say that I wanted to jump on board - I will then make it work for my family.....So I have a very successful launch party thanks to my wonderful supportive friends and have hosted my first TBS at Home party and had such fun....Amazingly the same week I have had 2 orders for cakes - CupCakes for a baby shower which was a lead from the highly recommended Salon VIP Night Cakes that I had designed and also a special friends daughters 4th Birthday - I finally feel "back in the work force" - It will take some time before I reap any rewards from the cake business as I have put a lot of my personal finances into it but man - Im passionate so there is no way that it wont work - and now with the BS Parties I am helping make the world a better place and getting paid to do it at the same time - yahooooo yippeeee......

A Lovely Peace....

Well, I have to say that there is better reminder of how time flies than the time between blogs....
It also seems that a lot happens in my world in such a short space of time-Life is such an adventure on a daily (hourly at times) basis and I pray that you all can have the most amazing expreiences as I do and accept the good and the bad - but expreience....

Since I last spoke lots has happened - I have had my launch party since becoming a The Body Shop at Home Consultant which was AMAZING....not only were the sales on the day brilliantly high the support I recieved was beyond my expectations....I went to bed that night truely humbled....

I have also had my car broken into and among other things money stolen-they literally took the whole of the ashtray not just the $20 of coins in it - bastidos - and from there things got a little more scarey - police were invloved etc etc and I now have the news that our house is going to be put on the market - so I had the choice to either be angry and anxious that my 2 year plan has drastically changed at the 6 month mark - or just go with the flow - and I am going with the flow (for me this is putting my faith in God) ....

I have also had a few new contacts call for cakes to be made which is very exciting - The hairdredssing Salon that i designed and provided some cakes for thier VIP night a fortnight ago had led to an order of CupCakes for a Baby Shower....This is great....

So I am busy getting ready for my new The New Body Shop at Home venture which begins this Sunday - and rolls on from there - I am very excited to be becoming the Beck that I also knew I should be....

Gotta go quickly - Abey Baby has shocking asthma at the moment and is coughing wakes him all night -

CIAO FOR NOW xxx

Wow Weeeeeee

Geez what an amazing 24 hours I have had - personally and professionally....
Only Tuesday I was looking through the Cassifieds on the hunt for a job - I am a bookkeeper by trade - The thought behind it was to g back to work so that I could fund QueenE CupCakes & Cakes....Wednesday morning I had some lovely words passed on to me about how happy the Cafe I weekly provide with CupCakes is with me and the cakes - big boost of confidence - Then last night I was asked by someone close to a great friend of mine who works high up in a particular bank and has a large amount of operations under her & happens to organise catering for thier needs etc and has asked for QueenE's phone number (I am being slightly secretive as it could be a major deal that is only at talk level) man this would be such a big gig for QueenE it is unbelievable....(prayers welcomed) and then this afternoon I was phoned up by the head office of "Living Social" deals who had had great feedback form facebook members about our cakes that they would like to feature QueenE - I have a meeting with the Peninsula Boking Manager on Monday afternoon so I will have more about that to come also.....

QUEENE IS KICKING BUTT....oh I have also signed up to be a The Body Shop At Home Consultant - I will run the parties at (yours or mine) home around business and children and I will love doing so - I have a huge respect for the philophosy and beliefs that The body Shop live by and could not be prouder to be employed by them and help get thier product that helps the planet out there further.....

WOW THINGS ARE GOING BRILLIANTLY AND THAT IS ALL IN ONE DAY - CANT WAIT FOR THE REST OF M Y LIFE  hehe haha ....

Now it is time to sleeppppppp - Goodnight

Oh I almost forgot - I will be joining other marvellous ventures such as Squiggly Rainbow at the Tyabb Craft Fair which will commence around late Oct eary Nov in the Community Hall every second saturday - Its great for Tyabb so support where you can and if your interested in having a stall let me know I will give you contact points etc

Night night xo

Strange Times....

Good evening - well I have been having some Strange times over the last few days (weeks or even years some would say)....I have been praying that any "un-forgivness" I have in my heart is shown so that I can work through (these burdens), forgive and clear space for "bigger, better and new" - I have come to learn of the debilitating effect "un-forgiveness" either conciously or unconciously is on ones (well mine) life....

The other amazing thing is that it is happening for me in a few dirffrent areas at the moment and as much as I am sure some find me erratic and scattered I can assure  you that I am far from this - I am living testament to change - when it is allowed and embraced....I am a walking "case study" hehe haha on the verge of change it seems at every waking moment - some would find this frightening but I am finding it along with sad, exhausting and frustrating at times completely amazingly and literally "life changing"

No I am not a nutter I promise - It is my nature to go at a million miles an hour with all that I do (be it housework or a new project) but I can tell you that I have complete faith that very soon so much fullfillment excitement and prosperity is going to come to me and my beautiful angels it will be staggering - and along with this comes fullfillment, excitement and prosperity for you all - (you know who you are) xo
I AM SO BLESSED

Glorious sunny afternoon....

Yippee the sun is shining - it seems we have not seen it for weeks - and it just has to be used wisely - the sun that is - which is why I mowed the lawns....This made me very happy because along with being creative I love mowing the lawns - crazy hey....

So one more day of the school holidays left - we have not done a whole lot mainly because the weather has been so bad - we havn't even managed a day out on the scooters because it has been so wet. But I loved (and at times loathed) having a the angels home together, I must admit it is very hard to and quite possible impossible to get the correct balance of outings versus home time....I never want to go out too much so mainly Esther can get some rest over the holidays but if we are home too much we all get crazily house bound and at times its not pretty....hehehe hahahaha

The last couple of days rather than creating cakes I have been getting together some great ideas - I will put some of the masterpieces together over the weekend....I am also on the mission to get cakes out to all the schools next week now that they will be back - that will be good fun. I have to say i get a real buzz out of the people I meet taking cakes around - I have met some lovely supportive people who are simply impressed with my marketing and cakes whether they are interested in working with QueenE or not - its nice to have positive feedback....

Im off to pick up Master Elisha from ABC kids now - its beach for a roll in the sand and then fish n chips on the way home - this sun needs to be taken advantage of even with a few jumpers on....

Ciao for now lovelies xo

A few things I created over the weekend....

What a slacker I am ....

Wow it has been a week since I have written anything on my blog - that is shocking....I am very much enjoying having my Princess Esther home with us - we have been to the movies, just hung at home and enjoyed being all together. Yesterday i had a cake to make for a friends brother in-law's 30th birthday - he is a musician so I made him a rather large (did not fit in the fridge once put together) guitar cake - it was really ace. i was informed this morning that the cake was a HIT....I needed to hear that as this morning i was wandering whether my Cake business is something that I am going to be able to "pull off" - I quickly changed my own down mood by putting Abraham to bed (the big kids are out at the movies with Grandma - thank god for Grandma) and created a gorgeous 2 tiered cake and some really pretty fun cupcakes to get some photos done - I am in the process of uploading those photos onto the computer from my phone so I will post them as soon as I can....

Geez some days are tough aren't they - it cant be just me that has these low days....single mum or not we all get tired from the many things that go on in our busy lives - I am getting better at picking myself up out of those moods much quicker which I love....

Anyhow I am thinking of getting a job for maybe 1 or 2 days per week - I am a bookkeeper by trade which is a good profession as it pays well for little hours - fingers crossed something will come up - I must admit if I had the choice to never go and work for someone else again that would be brilliant but I also know that to keep QueenE Cupcakes & Cakes going until it has its own income enough to cover the outgoing costs it would be much less stressful to get a job.

Ciao for now - back a bit later when the photos are ready to upload -

Thanks for listening xo

Ahhhh what a LOVELY day....

This week has been glorious - the sun is shining and its approx 17 degrees which for winter its fantastic....

I have had an interesting week so far - On Monday I decided that I was going to have a week off concentrating so much on "Queene Cupcakes & Cakes"....I thought that it was time to rest a little and let all the hard work that I have done over the last few months "come back to me" in a sense....Not only has it shown me that I need to have a break like this often - even a couple days of the week business free - but in clearing my mind of "what has to be done" I have had some great ideas for some cakes and have begun sketching them and making notes - then over the next ouple of weeks I will put them into "Cake" and add them to Queene's repertoire  - who knows maybe someday they will also be published. I will make the cakes from scratch from my own creative mind which will make them exclusive to Queene....I am excited. I had been a little fearful of getting into large Cake making only because I am the type of person that once I start something I like to finish it - but with 3 young children this is quite hard to do during their awake hours.... But of course "He" has listened once again to what has been on my heart, as I had prayed for someone to come into our life that would be able to help me care for the kids, babysit etc and adore them of course (this is truly not hard) so that I can take on more work but at the same time know that the kids needs are being met - well thanks to my ACE friend Mari I may have just found the perfect young girl to do just that - we will bring her into our home over the holidays and see how we all gel - I am very hopeful (will keep u posted)

Oh and I did get a "sign" - I did my usual call to Pop's Cafe on Wednesday to see if they would like to place an order and was pleasantly pleased with the response of "Oh thank god you called - we couldnt find your phone number and we need cakes asap" this is the sign that I had been waiting for over a few weeks to show that the CupCakes have started to become popular - they ordered more cakes than usual and being school holidays i will be bold to say that that number will two fold over the coming weeks - cool....

I would like to introduce to you in this post my amazingly beautiful and talented Princess Esther who has bought home the most amazing (and not surprising) school report - yes she may only be in prep but the above average abilities that have already been noted in Art & Creativity have shone through  since she was born and will be a very large part of her life _ I AM SO SO PROUD xoxoxo

Have a lovely day - ciao for now 

Abraham's 2nd Birthday

Wow - my baby was two yesterday - how time flies.....So I can thank him for giving me new inspiration and passion in what I also love doing which is making Cakes along with CupCakes.....

I am expanding Queene Cupcakes to Cakes also - Birthday Cakes, Christening Cakes, Themed Cakes and Wedding cakes....I am very excited about this as I love the creating process and then seeing the pleasure in Abraham's eyes at the finished product of his Tonka Truck inspires me to do this for others.....I love to make people smile so what a wonderful way to do so - with their eyes and thier tummies.....


In this blog I also want to thank the people (you know who you are) that keep me focused, inspired and help me to believe that I too can do as you do ....I am extremely blessed to  met a wonderful group of Mum's in the last year and a half that give me so much unconditional support in my Queene Cupcake Quest (which flows into my world) - and I am also wonderfully blessed to have such wonderful beautiful friends that provide their unconditional support also.....

Your friendship will be rewarded xo

Today is a better day ....

Hello everyone - Well today instead of throwing Abraham a 2nd birthday party i took the kids and the dog for a walk along the boardwalk in Mt Martha - it is a great place for the kids to run in safety.....

It got rather cold while we played at the park so off home we came for Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows and CupCakes - yummo.....Abe is feeling much better (yippee we got some sleep last night) thank god....

So while I was out I decided that it would be good to have a week off pushing the business....I have done a lot of work delivering samples in the last few weeks so I think it would be good for me and the kids if I just concentrated on being Mum for a week - and let the universe do a little work for me....

Oh - I will work just a little tomorrow morning though and take advantage of Rach's brilliant idea and deliver some samples to the schools in our area - I have a lot of decorated cakes that I had made for Abe's party today so best put them to good use rather than let them go to waste....

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend - time to light the fire as it has become quite cold and windy -

over and out x

Some days feel so "hard"

Well i don't often have a day when I feel "its all too hard" but today is one - after a good day delivering samples yesterday i was feeling my positive energetic enthusiastic self - But early in the evening Abraham was showing signs of having more than his 2 year old molars coming through - and as the night progressed he got more uncomfortable unable to eat or drink a bottle and then he couldn't even suck on his dummy - thinking it was his tonsils and an ear infection I gave him some pain stop (had to hold him down and squeeze it down his throat) well he slept on and off all night for about an hour at a time and during the awake times he screamed in pain and frustration (and probably hunger).....for the first time in 6 months I was angry to be a single mum....anyhow off to the dr first thing after I notice he had a yucky rash forming and ulcers all inside his lips - my poor little angel will be turning two with Foot & Mouth virus and an ulcerated mouth.....Yes he will get better and yes he is already feeling better (now that he is fast asleep) but I in my exhausted state wish I didn't have to worry about "Doing it all".....

That is my sooky la la for sometime I hope - I am off to see The Hangover 2 in about an hour so the laugh will ground me back to the positive enthusiastic energetic self.....and a really really good night sleep.....

Thanks so much for listening x

Good afternoon....

Hello there - i hope everyone is having a wonderful Friday - yahoo almost the weekend - The weekends are my favorite part of the week because I get to have all my three kiddies together.....
Today I deliver another lot of cakes to Pop's cafe in Mt Eliza and I have also prepared some sample packs to drop off at some of the "Up Market" Hair Salons there also - fingers crossed.....
It is my baby Abraham's 2nd birthday on Monday and we are having an afternoon tea for him on Sunday with all our friends and family and I am creating him the most wonderful cake - I will take photos as i go so you can see from the beginning to the end.....its going to be Ace....

The quote for my day.....

I am so busy keeping up with the pressure of unrealistic necessities (manic hehe) I put on myself why should I be so arrogant as to assume He will give me more!!!! ahhhhh I love epiphany's

Things are slowly coming together

Good morning everyone - I figure it is probably a good idea to re cap on my daily posts what I got up to the day before - this way it may prompt/remind me of things about the day i needed to do or ideas i may have had also.....

The day started very slowly as the night prior was a shocker - it was very windy and noisy outside and the dog and cat cried all night - I bought them in they cried to go out - I let them out they cried to come in - man if it is not little kiddies interupting my sleep its the animals.....I also tend to worry about the chickens (we have three Isla Browns in our back yard which we love and they earn their keep marvelously as all three of them lay us an egg each every day.....)

The plan was to take the sample cakes that I had baked and decorated on Sunday down to Cafes in Sorrento and places on the Peninsula - but I decided to stay local and headed out to Balnarring and Hastings and dropped samples off to $ cafes/hotels.....I also had the wonderful opportunity to meet the lovely owner of Peaches and Cream Hairdressing salon in Hastings whom I approached for the Cupcakes for Clients idea - she is a huge fan of QueenE and of the idea so we will work something out - and since I was feeling so positive about the trip I called Splash of Red in Mornington whom I had also approached with the idea of CupCakes for Clients a few weeks ago and the owner there is also a big fan of the idea and we also will talk and work something out - I have pitched to them if they did want to expense of CupCakes for all clients we could work out a CupCake for Clients birthdays when they come into the Salon - something will take off that is for sure.....

So now that Good morning has become Good afternoon I bid you all a wonderful afternoon/evening and look forward to chatting again tomorrow -

Ciao for now xo

The first day of the rest of my life.....

Ha - sounds really cheesy doesn't it - but it is true - I have had my eyes open the the wonderful world of blogging, Facebook and internet advertising to share with you all the wonderful business I have created which is "QueenE Cupcakes".....

I was artistically stumped in a sense as I was struggling to find time and an avenue in which I could express my artistic blessing that would fit into my very busy world and also be able to financially provide for myself and my children.... and of course the frustration of not having somewhere to channel  my artistic talents was blocking me in  many ways....

So here we are, and welcome to you wonderful people that are following me on my journey and showing your support (this is greatly appreciated) .....

(just bear with me as I get used to the technical side of things and as soon as I figure out how to I will provide photos of my stunning delicious cakes)