All for Charity

The past week has been really busy! My brother, my Mum, our friend Alison and I are setting up a charity called Glasgow Dialysis Patient Support Fund. As most of my friends will know, my brother, Blair, was diagnosed with kidney failure when he was 21. He used to get dialysis at Stobhill hospital in Glasgow but now he has his own snazzy dialysis room in his flat so my mum and I help him do his dialysis. He added up the amount that the NHS had spent on him, with his dialysis and all his medicines and it added up to more than £70,000!!! And thats per year! So the NHS isn't that bad! Blair was keen to give back to the hospital so we all set about starting the charity. Anyway, this weekend was our first fundraiser and it couldn't have gone better. All our hard work and planning came together in the end and thanks to everyone who came and everyone who donated the amazing raffle and auction prizes we raised an amazing £5638!!!! There were a few tears on the night as we didn't expect to raise so much and we were all so shocked! 


Now where the cupcakes come in....... we put together 100 goodie bags for our guests which included various promotional items from businesses and leaflets about organ donation and a cupcake! As I have been very busy studying and working my Mum helped bake the cakes and I iced them all on Saturday morning. We got these great little pods to keep them all in and they looked really good. 

Here are some more photos from the night.........

All the goodie bags ready!

One of our amazing auction prizes!

Me with all the raffle prizes!

Uncle Lex presenting the laptop to Dailene from Stobhill Hospital donated by his company Techxel !

Big Paul the magician entertaining some guests with his amazing tricks!

Big Paul The Magician

The room all set up

All of the prizes

Blair with his friends, Rob and Jonathan.

If you would like to read more about our charity please click on the link below ;

Glasgow Dialysis Patient Support Fund Facebook Page

And another thing, I had my very last class at Uni last week! Our lecturer, Carmen, made some yummy tapas for us all and all the other students brought in food and wine so we could have a party. Here are the cupcakes that I brought in,

I still have my exams to do, and my first one is tomorrow so I better get back to my studying!

Lynsey xxx

A New Chapter

So I haven't written a blog in nearly a year but Thursday is my last ever class at uni so now that I'm finished with that I'm going to start putting all my spare time into growing my business and I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't got a graduate job lined up or anything which everyone seems to be worrying about apart from me! I've never been the organised type, and I'm just doing what feels like the right thing for me at the moment. So, as I said a lot of my spare time will be put into expanding Sweetie Cupcakes. I've got a few things lined up so far but I'm keeping that a secret for now! Because I haven't blogged in sooooooo long, I have a ton of pictures of cakes that I have made over the past year so here's a selection of my favourites :) 

This was the giant cupcake I made for my Dad's birthday. It was my first time making animals out of fondant and I was really pleased with how they turned out.

A chocolate ladybird cake made for one of the cutest wee girls I know. I loved making this cake and it was filled with lots of yummy ganache

This was made for a hairdressers opening night. It was a big of a last minute cake but it turned out well!

This one was for my Auntie Frances' birthday. I wanted to try making a bow out of fondant and it had little cracks  in it but good for a first attempt :)

This cake travelled to Edinburgh. I love the red and white colours here.

New baby cupcakes! I ordered molds to make baby hands and feet (sounds creepy!) but they never arrived in time so these were improvised.

Cute little octopus!

This was the first giant cupcake I ever made, it took 3 attempts to get it right!

These were my cupcake bouquets for Mother's day. It was the busiest day/night I have ever had because I got loads of orders for these!

More Mother's day cupcakes

Mini egg cupcakes for Easter! I loved these because I put a mini egg into the middle of the sponge so when the cupcake was hot there was a melted chocolate egg in the middle, yum!

So that was a small selection of my favourite cupcakes since my last blog...there's tons more photos on my facebook page

Sweetie Cupcakes Facebook

Another thing I am going to start doing once my exams are over is trying a new recipe every week (maybe every 2 weeks) so that I can put together a menu of more exciting flavour combinations... so watch this space!

Lynsey xxx