Looky here, another delicious giveaway! This time Love and Lavender are giving away a $25 gift card to the Bake It Pretty shop! Wow! Love and Lavender is a gorgeous blog full of inspiration for those of you planning a wedding (or any of us that likes to get lost in daydreamy images of other peoples’ festive parties, hehe). Go check out their amazing blog and enter yourself in the giveaway!
Hurry! The winner will be announced Saturday. Go here to enter!
Source: Amber
We’d like to tell you all about a cool event – the first ever Cupcake Camp Orange County! Cupcake Camp is a gathering of cupcake-lovers to share and eat cupcakes for a good cause. It first started in San Francisco and has spanned to over 42 locations worldwide such as New York, Boston, Montreal, Paris, and more. It’s a fun event for anyone who enjoys baking or buying cupcakes (or eating cupcakes, yum) to raise money for charity.
A few months ago, Cupcake Camp Seattle held their first Cupcake Camp and had nearly 1000 people in attendance with 70 Bakers and 5,000 Cupcakes. They were able to raise $5,276.50 for the Hope Heart Institute. Cupcake Camp OC will take place on August 1, 2010 at the Atrium Hotel in Irvine, California, and they hope to attract over 500 cupcake enthusiasts from the O.C. community.
Cupcake Camp Orange County’s efforts for this year will be to raise awareness and funds to fight human trafficking. Mexico is a country reported to have more than 20,000 children as victims of sex trafficking every year. All monetary donations will go to Xealot, a 501(c)(3) organization that serve the needs of developing communities in the world that are underserved and work directly with a rehabilitation home for young human trafficking victims in Mexico City called El Pozo (The Well).
We wish we could be at Cupcake Camp, but in our stead, we thought we’d send out a request to the Bake It Pretty readers – won’t you donate to this awesome cause? If you feel passionate about cupcakes (like we do!) and want to help a worthy charity, you can use the paypal button below to send your donations directly to Xealot.
Thanks for being awesome, Bake It Pretty readers!
Source: Amber
"You Are The Best" by Leslie Evans, an '09 Threadcakes winner
If you haven’t heard of Threadless.com, you may want to get over there immediately. Threadless is a really nifty design community where you can submit a tshirt design – it gets voted on, and the most popular ones get mass produced. The shirts are oh-so-clever and hip, too.
Threadless.com recently launched Threadcakes, a fun, online cake-baking contest, where bakers can turn their favorite Threadless designs into amazing cakes. The contest ends Monday, August 16th and users (bakers!) can submit as many entries as they want before it ends. Threadless will also be giving away weekly surprise prizes in addition to the grand prizes (which will be announced this week)! Check out the awesomely creative entries so far at the Threadcakes gallery. My favorite so far has got to be “Bitter Teeth” by Chloe Bird. Gnarly!
Bake It Pretty is sponsoring the contest with a $100 gift card to the Bake It Pretty shop! It’s just one of many, many sweet prizes! Here are the official contest rules and fine print. Follow Threadcakes on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with all the latest.
Good luck, and if you enter, please post here and let us know! We’d love to see what the Bake It Pretty crew can come up with!
Source: Amber
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