going over-the-top to save the children

ROLL UP, ROLL UP sweet boys and girls.

Our circus party was last (last? last?) Saturday and boy was it crazy!

We provided entertainment for ALL ages in the form of face painting, bubble blowing and hair spraying! Mikey blew us away with his hidden artistic abilities. No wonder his parents named him Michael Angello.

(a beautiful butterfly for a beautiful girl)

(Mike Tyson's tattoo was a definite hit with the Greek Society)


We clowned around with the kiddies, zombies from the Drama Society and the Panda from I-have-no-idea society. LOL.

(Who knew pandas liked truffles?)

We definitely stepped right up, raising a total of $490.55! It's a new record, folks! Hi 5 your computer screen. C'mon, do it!! haha.

As you would recall we said we'd give out two awesome prizes at this event. The first being our lucky door prize which went to Batman and Batman's father, just the sweetest family. They won some yummy honey popcorn, a box of Favourites, a bear cake, a bouncy blue ball with a clown face on it and a Donna Hay cookbook.

(na na na na na na na... BATMAN!)

Our most creative Sweet prize went to Vanesza for her bear cake. Congratulations, chica! We hope your new cook book inspires you to keep baking so that others can have a sweeter life.

(Vanesza with her prize)

Special thanks to...
Emily, Vanesza, Laura and Mikey who braved the windy weather to help set up in the morning. Thank you to Joanne, our new official decorator, who designed our stall for this event:

BEFORE (Joanne's design)

AFTER

Thank you to ALL the bakers: Emily, Vanesza, Laura, Mikey, Chris Rita, Raelene and Michelle. Most of the money we made came from our baked goodies so excellent work, sweets! So lucky to have you part of our team.

Thanks to your hard work we came 3rd place for the secret judges challenge based on the club's visual appeal, atmosphere, audience engagement and audience participation. Our prize? 400 BIG ONES. This money will go straight towards cake mixes and other essentials needed for our bake sale in October. Pretty please (with a cherry on top) stay updated for more details on what might be our last bake sale for the year. Sad times but man oh man has it been a fun and undoubtedly memorable ride!

If you want to, check out our facebook page for many more photos from our Over-the-Top Bake Sale for Save the Children.

In the mean time, happy flower picking!


Sincerely,

Stephy.

our sweet tea party

Why, hello there sweet friends.

Last Tuesday we all sat down for a cuppa and picked at some yummy-in-your-tummy treats!

We had brownies, m&m cookies, rainbow cupcakes, hearty double choc muffins, victoria sponge cake and scones OOZING with jam and whipped cream. It was just great.

For all those who didn't attend we missed you dearly! We played this short vid at the beginning of the party to show how far we've come since we established ourselves in February of this year:



We signed pledge cards to commit to baking for our circus-themed bake sale on open day...

One of our newest members, Chris Rita, won a new baking set that was donated by Ros. Thank you, Ros, you're a gem(:

Our sweet 'Santa', Mikey, handed out mystery cake/brownie/cupcake mixes to help get the ball rolling for our next bake sale.

One of the definite highlights of our tea party was when Roz, founder of Tea4Toys, spoke about her experience of delivering toys to children who have never possessed a toy of their own. She also told us about the places where the toys we donated would go and even thanked us on the Tea4Toys website:

(YAY! We're famous!)

(our toys!)

Gracias Miriam for taking such amazingly professional photos!

As you already know Spring has finally SPRUNG (haha, I laugh everytime I hear that). Time to say SAYONARA to the butt groove you left in your couch and say HELLO (or Ohaiyogozaimasu in Japanese) to getting your BAKE ON for our bake sale this Saturday! All the details are found on our facebook page. But in a nutshell it will be circus-themed so don't be afraid to get creative. There will be a prize for the most creative Sweet. So come on over bright and early to help decorate our stall so our group can win a massive cash prize. Email sweetsbysweets@hotmail.com.au if you would like to be rostered or just surprise us and show up! We like surprises(:

See you on Saturday, September 10 from 8.30am-4.00pm. All those apart of the Sweets crew can get their face painted for FREE. Best news you've heard all day I bet!


Sincerely,

Stephy.