Custom Cupcake with Owls

A few weeks ago we got an inquiry for a custom order for bride and groom owls, but this order combined a few other things. The couple is having a destination wedding and thought it would be fun to have their bride and groom on a cupcake. In addition to this, the bride-to-be requested that their wedding colors of aqua and bright pink be incorporated in the caketopper. She totally knew what she wanted and asked that the cupcake bottom be aqua and that a ring of flowers in bright pink be placed around the bride and groom. Another detail that she wanted was the initial of their last name placed below the owls, which I did in the same aqua color.
Lastly, a request was made to have a veil on the bride owl and flowers to adorn her head as well, which was done in a super miniaturized version-these owls are only a little over 1 inch tall!
Congrats to the bride and groom and thank you for letting gofigurette! be part of your happy day!

Photography 101

The one thing I told myself when Diane and I discussed working together was that I needed to learn how to take better pictures. Diane was gracious enough to take pictures of my grey and white owl and as always, her pictures are awesome!

Well, I recently got a new camera for Christmas, and I thought, this is it, now there's no excuse for having a bad shot. So I decided to focus my creative energies on taking pictures of my new fairy.

Diane often tells me that a good shot doesn't necessarily have to be straight, horizontal or vertical, but to play around with the angles too.

I think I captured the cheeriness of my fairy and I'm getting a bit better with picture taking :)

gofigurette! Signature Cupcake - a collaborative design effort!

Myrna and I love working together. It's one of those things, we either both have the same idea or come up with an idea and the other executes. It's a fun working environment, just wish we lived closer so we could actually hang out. :)
After I designed our logo, I thought to myself, "we need to make the birds and cherry blossom out of clay. Myrna figured out how to make cupcake forms so we don't have to go out and buy real cupcakes every time we want to photograph a new figurine to post on our Etsy site. We both had the same idea, make a cupcake with our birds and cherry blossom. Myrna came up with the birds and the cupcake in the most perfect colors and she sent it to me and I figured out the cherry blossom location and created the flower. So it was a collaborative design effort from both of us. Myrna is jealous because I'm not giving her the sample back. LOL. It's SUPER CUTE!
So, we're selling these on Etsy soon, just in time for Valentine's Day. We thought this would make a cute cake topper too for someone who loves birds and loves cupcakes! We're thinking of new packaging ideas as well, but until these things really take off, they will come in their own little gofigurette! logo bag.

We'll also be coming out with a line of figurine and cupcake sets. Already gives me ideas for my son's birthday in February! So be sure to check out www.gofigurette.etsy.com for different color and figurine combinations!