Let's Celebrate! Australia Day!

What are you up to for Australia Day this year?

It used to be a quiet unassuming public holiday day for us.

We could have a lazy sleep in, read the Australia Day honours list, take the dog for a walk, watch the cricket, have a general sloth around.

But..that was before we had kids.

Our kids are so patriotic!

They LOVE Australia!

Now its Aussie flags, Australia tattoos, hats and zinc and head down the beach.

In fact as I get older the more I actually want a lovely old flagpole in our front garden with an Australian flag flying high in that hot northerly wind.

(However I am yet to convince hubby on this one)

For the last few years we have been at Rosebud foreshore

(Or North Portsea as we like to call it;) )

to particpate in their Australia Day celebrations.

We watch the Dromana Fun Run runners shuffle across the finish line.

There is a free hot breaky and heaps of free rides for the kids.

The Australia Day Ambassador overseas the awards for the runners and sometimes there is even a 'talent' show for the locals.
Its all a bit daggy, but we love it and wouldn't miss it this year!

Check out the great Australia Day site to see what is happening in your area.

Australia Day - Get Involved!

Giveaway!
To help you celebrate this wonderful place we live in, 
we are giving away some packs of our Red & Decorate Me! cupcake wrappers.

All you need to do is:

1) Tell us what you love so much about living in Australia.

If you don't live in Australia - tell us what you love about our country.

2) If you haven't joined our Facebook Fan page - please do
(Dont worry if you are not on Facebook - you can still enter)

Become a Cupcake Wrapper Co Facebook Fan

The top 3 comments will win 1 pack of red cupcake wrappers and 1 pack of our blank Decorate me! cupcake wrappers.

By the way...I do support Australia becoming a republic, but I do love the royals so I just had to use this cute little vintage cup celebrating 
the Queens' coronation.


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Holiday Fun!

Summer holidays are in full swing here in Melbourne.

January is one of my favorite times of the year.

It just feels like everyone is in what I call 'Byron-mode'.

It's all a bit more relaxed that the usual hustle & bustle.

January in Melbourne is filled with things like the Australian Open tennis, the cricket, Moonlight cinema, lots of BBQ's, kids playing outside til late, cicada's, bats flying overhead each night, hot hot days followed by a cracking thunderstorm, mangoes, not so much traffic on the roads, frustrating summer word puzzles in The Age

and not forgetting a nice old beer or vino.

Luckily the weather has been fantastic so far - beautiful sunny days, with the occassional scorcher - perfect for heading to our local pool.

With so many days to fill I've written a list things to try to do with my girls.

I have to say even though they got a Wii for Christmas they havent been too fussed about playing it too much.

A few of things on our holiday list are:

1. Visit the penguins at The Aquarium

2. Have a picnic & explore the gardens at Heide Museum

3. Have a Treasure Hunt at home

4. Have a sleepover in our tent in the backyard

. 5. Visit Uncle Pete and all his wonderful goodies at The Melbourne Museum

If all else fails we can always make cupcakes and use our new

Decorate Me! wrappers.

The kids have had a play with them already and they love them!
Only $10 for a pack of 12 blank wrappers
Email us to order: hello@thecupcakewrapperco.com.au

Happy Holidays!

xx

New Year...New Cupcake Wrappers

So here we are in 2010 already...where did the last 10 years go since the millenium and all that pallaver about a 'bug'?

And yes even though 2010 sounds so spaceage,

we are yet to cruise around the skies in our Jetson type cars.

Anyway...enough with all that....

Here is some exciting news!

We have 4 new designs of our cupcake wrappers.

Here is a sneak peak

And before you say anything...yes these are very rough samples that I have hand cut, so they do look a bit dodgy.

But I can confirm that they look fantastic,

and when they are printed they will look even better.

These will be available from February.

That is only a measily 3 weeks away - not too long to wait!

We are sooo excited about these new designs.

We have been developing these designs for a few months now.

Our lovely blog readers also contributed to our

cowboy design too, so thank you!

It is important to us to really stay on trend with our designs, thus the happy birthday wrapper in the cute fonts and the new Chinoirserie inspired pattern wrapper were developed after reading countless home design mags from here and abroad.

We love the new designs and we hope you do too.

So if you want to buy them - contact us or visit a stockist(see list).

And if you want to stock them in your shop - email us:

 hello@thecupcakewrapperco.com.au

Let us know what you think!

xxx