like candy

After a trip to Williams Sonoma last friday, where I went

crazy purchasing WS's new stackable cake decorations,

I am totally into cake making. I made a cake on Friday,

and another on Sunday.

A seriously brilliant idea : making your

own personalized cake decorating tower.

Mine consists of Halloween pearls(I love Halloween),

hot pink sanding sugar, GOLDEN cake duster,

and genuine sugar pearls.

**sadly, these are not available online!

My beautifully sandwiched chocolate cake.

So many delicious things in one picture...

Home grown tomatoes, a giant glass cloche,

a dollop of crema on a nice cup

of Nespresso, 2 cuddly bunnies, a fantastic

vintage lurex stripe dress, and a stack of

apparel mags. ahhhh.

Anyway.. enough ramblings. Onto the main event..

the reason behind the 'like candy' title,

the most incredible random cake kitsch from

my new favorite HEYYOYO store on etsy.

These images of small vibrant plastic goodness

make me insanely happy.

CUPIE!

Seriously!

It is worth mentioning that these amazing backdrops are

all paper from the Martha Stewart collection. The best.

get yours here.

Lie to me and tell me how much you love plastic miniatures!

sidetracked..

So I was fishing around for some cute vintage this 

morning..1918 Vintage is a cute little vintage site and blog..

and I came across this picture. If you are my husband, you know

where this is going. 

Time to introduce you to my number one foreign obsession:

GLOBUS. I am so completely infatuated with this 

department store, that I make it my daily walking destination 

whenever I am in Geneva. Art Exhibit? Historical Landmark? I 

can see them on the way to GLOBUS. Why don't we just eat 

lunch/dinner at GLOBUS? Let's just get drinks at GLOBUS. 

I need a dress to wear/groceries for dinner/presents to bring home?

I can buy them at GLOBUS. 

But, seriously, GLOBUS is a veritable 

smorgasbord(orgasbord, orgasbord)

 of all things fantastic - with a department store on top, 

a wine counter and eatery below, and a specialty foods

grocery in the basement. To share with you some

beautiful recipes that embody the essence of the GLOBUS..

(I realize these are in french. But you are resourceful, 

you can figure it out?)

Look at this amazing twist on a classic..Caprese salad. 

and this melty Chocolate Souflee with strawberries. 

Till next time, I will work on those translations. If after you make 

these scrumptious recipes, you are so compelled to carry a GLOBUS 

handbag, I will completely understand. You can purchase one

at the cute 1918 Vintage. Why don't I have a GLOBUS handbag?

Thinking about

The Ferry building in San Francisco. And, Miette. 

miettecakes.com. so pretty