lake oswego, we miss you, too.

POSTED ON Monday, August 06, 2007 AT 18:49 by saint cupcake

beginning in may, saint cupcake was showing up at the crack of post dawn/early morning and setting up shop at the lovely lake o farmer’s market. it was there that we met cute boys selling sausages, friendly peonie peddlers, mary, the coordinator of all market coordinators, russel and max, two kids with one mission: to sell wood grilling planks and whole bean coffee to, well anyone. then of course there was julie seller of a bazillion strawberries, without whom we would not have been able to set up our tent and our precious cakes would have been rendered melted without the shade. and these are just some of the other vendors we miss. we had even more loyal customers to chat with. oh the chatting.

where’ve we been you ask? well, we took off the month of july because every saturday was booked to the hilt with wedding cupcakes. there was not a single cupcake to spare to bring over to the farmer’s market so we thought it best to not set up a booth without cupcakes. our plan to return for the month of august was once again foiled by the number of happy couples wanting saint cupcake to bless their weddings. so lake oswego, we are sorry to say that we won’t be returning until september. (although, september is starting to overflow with wedding receptions, too!)

until then, lake oswegoian’s consider this an invitation to portland proper and stop by either saint cupcake location. and if you are going to ikea, don’t leave your cupcakes in the car: like puppies, they will wilt, even with the window cracked.


(the lake oswego farmers markets are saturdays from 8:30 to 1:30 thru mid october; it’s located at the scenic millennium park plaza at 1st and evergreen streets in downtown guess where. you should check it out!) **

do you smell something?

POSTED ON Thursday, August 02, 2007 AT 19:30 by saint cupcake

that is the odor of love, my friend.  this summer, love vapors are in the air not only for our wedding cupcake couples (which have been so many that we sadly have had to turn some eager couples away, sending them to find frosted wedding towers elsewhere) but for our own cupcake family as well. heather, a close cupcake cousin to jami, found her special explorer while geocaching, a mind sport that is all the rage in the gps community. that’s right, the adorable mr. rob tracked his coordinates right to heather’s heart and the two will tie the knot and their longitudes this fall in chillicothe, ohio. that’s congrats, heather and rob! how cute are you?! so cute!

jami’s a fox!

POSTED ON Wednesday, July 25, 2007 AT 20:03 by saint cupcake

i mean ON fox. fox 12 that is. check out saint cupcake’s debut on Better, fox 12’s morning talk show.

and check us out on nicolleshopsportland.com , too. 

cupcakus patronum!

POSTED ON Friday, July 20, 2007 AT 18:28 by saint cupcake

are you ready for tomorrow? (tomorrow you say? what is tomorrow? if you have to ask, you need not continue reading this b-log)

whether you are camping out at powell’s tonight or anticipcating your amazon howler first thing in the morning, you may want to celebrate with a gryffindor big top.  i mean you DO want to celebrate with a gryffindor big top. harry potter cupcakes? you bet!  we predict that if you bring a box of these to any of your harry potter geek fests (and we can say that because we are harry potter geeks so don’t get your invisiblity cloaks in a wad) that, presto change-o! they’ll vanish.

and we have a special visit from the sorting hat that if you get here at the right time, will help you know if you actually are the right fit for a gryffindor big top.

talk to the saint 3: sharing the love

POSTED ON Thursday, July 19, 2007 AT 18:46 by saint cupcake

welcome to another installment of "talk to the saint". it warms our hearts that you are reading this and it also makes us laugh a little that you are goofing off at work enough to read our blogidy blog. anyway, goofballs, on today’s edition, we will explore the donation department of saint cupcake. for those of you who are not aware, saint cupcake gives over 1000 cupcakes a month to various school programs, charities, fundraising events and otherwise worthy causes. isn’t that sweet? (and if you are one of those organizations in need of a cupcake donation, please see our donation page here. or here. but not here.) saint cupcake just wants to make our community a better place and that’s just our little contribution. the following is an email correspondence between a local charity and saint cupcake.

Received Tuesday March 27, 2007 12:52:37 PM PDT: 

Hi,
I am with the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon*, and I am following up on some paperwork I dropped off a few weeks ago.  I left some information about an upcoming fundraising event we are having, and I was hoping you’d be able to donate a gift certificate for Saint Cupcake for a "Best of PDX" package we are putting together for an auction. Your place has become a Portland Institution (in the good way) and I can’t imagine NOT including you in a Best of PDX package; so far, we have contributions from a great variety of Portland Besters (Hippo Hardware, Powell’s, Voodoo Donuts), with a few more in the works, and we’d love to add a gift certificate from your place to the package!

Just in case the paperwork I dropped off was misplaced, I have attached a copy of our information. If you need a more formal request, on our letterhead, I will be happy to provide that, along with our 501 c(3) status.

Thanks,

Carolyn

Feral Cat Coalition 

www.feralcats.com 

 Sent Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:39 AM:

Hi Carolyn:

I can’t say that I did get your paperwork…i’d honestly remember a group called the Feral Cat Coalition (the paperwork may be on the owner’s desk who is on maternity leave…) but I can tell you right now and without pause saint cupcake would love to donate  to any group of cats that can organize a coalition! how brilliant!  if cats are trying to raise money (and it is very nice of you to help them do that) than we want to do our part and give a gift certificate for an event. But I do hope these feral cats use their funds for good and not to buy cigarettes and cheap beer. (sorry, but Brian Setzer may have single handedly branded stray cats around the world with the image of being hoodlums.) I am sure the cats that have hired you to help them type are very nice cats. unless you are a cat, too.

and even though I personally have an allergic reaction to cats that makes my chin itch and throat swell shut, I think we can help the kitties.

So how about a gift certificate for a dozen cupcakes?

love and frosting,

saint cupcake

ps I just looked at your website and it looks like you guys to great work! And it looks like those cats don’t organize themselves after all. Well, at least that we KNOW of. They may meet once in a while for book clubs or something….