Let them eat Cake

Champagne and China

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:09:00 +0000

I've been meaning to tell you about a fantastic event that saw our china and cake stands wheeled out in all it's shiny glory. Rachel Spivey, wedding and burlesque photographer extraordinaire threw open her doors of her new photography studio and popped the champagne and piled the 'Sweet As' cakes high for the launch of her new photography studio.

She has a great style,manner and an eye for the detail which captures special wedding or family moments. When my link issue is sorted I'll blog her details, meanwhle google her name and you'll easily find her and enjoy the show.

Cake Stand Creating for Baking..

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:52:00 +0000

Well our final china creation has happened for the year thanks to Clare's wonderful parents Nigel and Glenys. Not only did they allow me to cover their lawn with thousands of pieces of china, but fed and watered me with oodles of tea and G & T's. And of course every meal was a sight to behold as they produced a dazzling display of their own collections. My favourite of I think the 7 tea services was the one below for it's sheer brightness and boldness.

So although I now have a hundred new gorgeous stands which I'm eager to get onto the Let them eat Cake website, I'm going to have to be patient and wait a while. I've been putting off our house restoration job for quite a while. But now the heating is slowly packing up and the spiders are gathering force; it's time to get the builders in. So I'll let you know when the builders are out and more cake stand posting can begin..

Cupcakes to die for .....

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:58:00 +0000

Right now at Harvey Nichols, and they are sat upon our very own 'Let them eat Cake' stands, made specially for them.

The cupcakes are from Rachael Nimenko, in her mix is work with those of the Michelin stars brigade, the creation of her own company 'Pudding Cook' and cupcakes you'll never have seen or tasted the like of around here.

Sticky Toffee Pudding, Chocolate dipped Strawberry, Vanilla and Marshmallow and Raspberry and Lemon swirl.. all of course exclusive..treat yourself, treat a friend or treat a dad this Sunday..

Tea time in NW3 ..

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:50:00 +0000

Hobbs have just taken 'Let them eat Cake' stands on an outing to the John Lewis partnerhip in Peterborough and Welwyn Garden City. What could be better than inspired shopping and cake - let vintage heaven and upcycling run a little further..sheer bliss.

A Vintage Summer at Goodwood

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:18:00 +0000

Vintage at Goodwood celebrates 5 decades of British Cool on the 13th-15th August. This new summer festival is the brainchild of designers Gerardine Hemingway MBE, Wayne Hemingway MBE – who started their business selling and customising second hand clothes and are now co-owners of Britain’s premier collection of cultural artefacts.

Think of Vintage at Goodwood as the new annual Festival of Britain. Whether it’s Swing, Rockabilly, Mod, Soul, Funk, Disco, Ska, Electro, Burlesque, Film or Art & Design that’s your thing, whether you just want to dress up and get an authentic ‘flat top’ and make-over for a day, Vintage at Goodwood will be visual, responsible, aural and sensual, a big family dressing up box, a collectors dream and a joyous creative feast for all ages.

So time to dust down your tent or book one of their very stylish yurts and head to the South Downs. Amidst all this fun and frivolity will be some serious WI cake, cream teas and china...I'm still working out wether Let them eat Cake should tootle down there too...

Mad Hatters Tea Party

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:08:00 +0000

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland pulls viewers down a whimsical, yet all-too familiar, rabbit-hole. In this newly adapted sequel to Lewis Carrol’s novel, Alice is a pale nineteen year old who despises corsets, stockings, and more generally, the altogether restrictive nature of life in Victorian England. Eager to escape from a rather intimidating marriage proposal, Alice chases after the scurrying White Rabbit and tumbles into Wonderland (or Underland, as it is referred to in the film), where the hot tempered, big-headed Red Queen reigns supreme.

Some of our cake stands would happily sit at the Mad Hatters tea party, so we've named two (Alice in Wonderland & The Rabbitt) in honour of this visually exciting and maverick film, which bottled up would say 'Watch me and eat Cake'!

New Year Greetings and fruitiness..

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:31:00 +0000

Belated and very happy 2010 Greetings to all our fellow cake stand lovers. Thanks for supporting Clare and I in our new business venture in 2009, long may all things vintage be celebrated and enjoyed.
We had a very busy time at the East London Design Show, which continued throughout the Christmas period; which made all the hard work, new wrinkles, neglected kids and hubbies worthwhile (I think). Hiromi Stone bought one of our rarer platters at the show and as you can see has piled it high with gorgeous fruit. Maybe like many of us she's ditched the cake for a while to shed those Christmas pounds - or is that just me? We're really keen to see more pictures of your cake stands in action,do send them in.
For the next few months we're going to be hunting and gathering rare and special china, so our next collection won't be available until Spring. Do drop us a line if you'd like to be one of the first to know when they've been released. Meanwhile enjoy not being able to get to work, hot chocolate warmers and the quietness that the snow brings..

Cake Stand News Flash!

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:56:00 +0000

This little beauty will be taking a starring role on 'Market Kitchen' a television programme on the Good Food Channel, tonight between 7 and 8pm. Our cake stands have been selected by none other than Jo wood, from Strictly Come Dancing and ex-wife of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood. She's giving her guide on what you need for Christmas entertaining and considers our stands a must-have item.

Slight problem in that I don't have Sky, in fact even Channel 5 is viewed through a crackly haze..so if you do get this channel, let us know how they looked please.

Christmas Sparkle

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:36:00 +0000

Clare and Danny have been very busy in Mile End and are still shaking the residual glitter from two unhappy cats and very sparkly children. These beautiful glitter cups will be on sale at the East London Design Show in Shoreditch this December and we hope that for £9.50 will bring a friend or much loved relly a warm vintage glow.

Cookie Girl

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:31:00 +0000

If you need cookies or cupcakes then Xanthe Milton aka 'Cookie Girl' is your woman. Famous for her delectable Pina colada, Margarita and Cosmopolitan cakes; cupcakes inspired by classic desserts like Banoffee Pie and Tiramisu; and cakes and cookies for every occasion throughout the year - Christmas Pudding cupcakes, Easter nest cakes and Valentine's Day Lavender Heart cookies. If you can't get to Portabello Road on a Saturday to buy them fresh from the oven then you can purchase her finger lickin 'Eat Me' book now from March 2010, pre-orders can be made on Amazon. Plus you can see our 'Pansies and Plums' cake stand featured in the book and laden with her delicious creations.

Cupcakes are incredibly fashionable - they are easy to make and customize, stunning to look at and have become ubiquitous at A-list parties. Cookie Girl's unique and delectable creations have become hugely popular. Now Cookie girl is running her own baking/icing and even hen party decorating classes, so there's no exscuse not to make your own creations with 80 recipes to drool over. Email info@cookiegirl.co.uk to get the dates, the venue, the know how and the taste of home baking..makes me want to eat one now.

'Girl Power' gets Loaded

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:31:00 +0000

A big grin filled and hearty 'Thanks' to Eilidh, who with the help of her lovely photographer friend Andy, has sent us these wonderful pictures of a 'Let them eat cake' stand filled to bursting with lots of gorgeous cupcakes.'Girl Power' has never looked so deliciously tempting.

Eilidh can be seen below wearing a rather fetching fur hat she found down the back of the sofa at the Roseleaf pub in Edinburgh, and drinking cocktails from a teacup! A true Mad Hatters tea party which Clare and I would love have been at..will drop by when next up North.

I hope that like us, you've been inspired by these photos and won't hesitate to share your joyous cake stand moments with us too.

Hob Nobbing

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:26:00 +0000

Let them eat Cake stands have had a string of dazzling social engagements of late. Sixteen stands appeared laden with Caroline's sparkling cupcakes at the Acorns fundraising tea. After lots of teas, cake, wine and dancing, the total raised was in excess of £2,000. Meanwhile at Selfridges in London, our cake stands were part of the tea inspired theme for Hobbs new Autumn collection. As you can see our three cake/clothes assistants look ready and eager to assist all exhausted shoppers with a cup of tea and a dazzling smile -now that's my kind of shopping.

Time for Tea

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:33:00 +0000

On Friday 25th September our cake stands will be gracing the tables of the Episode hotel in Leamington Spa, for an Autumnal 'Acorns Charity Tea' organised by Liz Claiborne, my neighbour. Acorn's cares for children who are 'life-limited as well as their families, so worthy of support from the 70 tea time attendees and their purses.

We're hoping that some of those lovely ladies will buy one of our cake stands at the event. We've pledged to donate 10% from every sale to the Acorns charity and delivery it for free - that's of course only if you live in the Leamington Spa area! So I'm off now to assemble 16 cake stands and help Caroline (friend and cake maker) decorate 250 mini cupcakes with delicate sugar roses and sparkling glitter...might have to force myself to be the cake taster. Hopefully some pictures of this lovely event will appear soonish...

Read all about It!

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Elsa has taken on the role of our new PR Oficer, so has designed a rather eye catching poster to let all cake stand devotees know about our new vintage cake stand collection on the 'Let them eat Cake' website. We'd love to know what you think about our new creations and our new presentation and we're always open to ideas and of course pictures of your own or our cake stands in action. Meanwhile keep baking and enjoying - cake.

Eating Cake for England

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:27:00 +0000

Elsa and Alice (Clare's daughters) have lots of reasons to don their England wigs and eat cake. It's been a week where we've seen the English cricket swingers make the Aussies suffer, have reached the three year point to the 2012 Olympics in better shape than expected and have received the sad news that Sir Bobby Robson has hung up his boots for good. What better reason do you need to get your cake stand out, eat cake and celebrate.

China overboard....

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:01:00 +0000

Glenys and Nigel have not only allowed us to build our Production HQ in their back Garden, but also (some may say madly) for Bishops Stortford to be home to our next big three day cake stand creating melee. After 15 hours, a lot of tea, several G & T's and a lot of huffin and puffin, we erected 2 gazebos and divided about 1,500 pieces of china into colour, style and set categories. At the end there was not a blade of grass in sight - just a sea of china. Midge (pet dog) was not amused.

Over the next 3 days, we mixed and mismatched and whooped with delight at some of the stunners we found. Charlotte (in the green top) friend and talented wordsmith, joined us as our guest cake stand creator and mismatcher. She put together some real beauties and surprises and helped towards creating our next 100 'Let them eat Cake' stand delights, which will be with you very soon.

Production HQ in motion

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:49:00 +0000

We've finally reached the point where we need to gather all our china from the far flung corners of the UK and from under our beds and put them in one place. Clare's parents (Nigel and Glenys) have kindly agreed to let us build our new production department (shed) in their lovely back garden.

Thankfully, Nigel (chief Ltec driller) and Glenys (china fiend) are well used to the mayhem, drilling and creating that goes along with this type of activity. After all, we've temporarily interrupted Nigel building a boat for the Burgess clan (Clare's family) in order to drill holes in our lovely china. Thankfully Danny (Clare's hubby) and JB (Clare's brother) were on hand to help install electricity, water and a shelving system to die for.

It's a very exciting time for us because once all our china is in one place, then we can begin the next big cake stand sort - more on that to follow.

Dreamy weekend full of cake ....paradise

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:46:00 +0000

Let them eat Cake stands were out and about and very busy last weekend. First stop was Paradise Gardens where the East End WI piled them high with the yummiest cakes and prettiest flowers imaginable.

Only at Paradise Gardens would you find this robotic pink creature parading the park dealing with your empties by shouting 'recycling is fun' - while striking the fear of the god into small children.

Final picture shows our chief and 1st mate plate drillers (Clare's dad and hubby) returning from a hair-raising trip on the Carters Steam Fair "Victory Dive Bomber". They both got more than they bargained for, but at the age of 79, truly a victory dive for Clare's dad.

Meanwhile I'd loaded some stands with vanilla cupcakes and chocolate dipped strawberries as my contribution to our neighbour, Lisa's garden party. The table was groaning with all the gorgeous food creations - including Caroline's famous cream and strawberry jam scones. The story goes that our hosts found the last two amidst the debris in the morning and had them for breakfast - bliss!

Cake stands in Paradise

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:32:00 +0000

Make sure you take yourself to the lovely E3 Victoria Park this weekend (June 20th & 21st). It's going to be magically transformed into a pleasure garden for the 21st century. It's a vibrant and exhilarating free festival and Let them eat Cake are so excited to be there - in this fantastic Spiegel tent.

The London Swing Dance Society are putting on two days of foot tapping, Lindy hopping and shim shamming dance demonstrations and classes in the Spiegel tent throughout the day.

To keep your energy levels high, the East End Women’s Institute will be offering a selection of the finest tea and cakes -all served on a vibrant selection of summer Let them eat Cake stands. Clare from Ltec will be out and about with her family on the Saturday, so should you just have to take one of our cake stands home, can help you parcel it up and send it on it's way. This is definitely one of the highlights of the summer, gutted I can't be there, so please go and enjoy on my behalf.

Sweet As

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:58:00 +0000

Last weekend was the infamous Leamington Peace Festival, one of the longest running free peace and equality festivals in the Uk. Amidst the hundreds of tie-dyed teenagers, bubble blowers,hoola hoopers and Action 21 Bike Doctors, you could find Jenny Hudson from www.sweet-as.co.uk. She's a magnet for all those who know about her award winning Belgian chocolates and divine wedding cakes.

Jenny kindly used our floral cake stands to display her gorgeous cookies and sweet summer delights. The hot weather and delicious tastes guaranteed that they sold out faster than she could bake them. So if you missed out on her brownies, order a Fathers day box of them online and kindly offer to help devour them.

Half Term Cocktail Launch

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:04:00 +0000

Well here are some of our mini 'Let them Eat Cake' team who have ditched the cake in favour of a fruit cocktail, whizzed up by Fergus (that's my boy in the glasses) and downed by his sister Erin (in the hat) and Rosy, Daniel and Joseph - who doesn't look too sure about the whole thing. In the midst of half term caous, Clare ('Let them eat Cake' of Mile End, London) and me (Carole -other half of LTEC in Leamington Spa) will be immersing ourselves in bloggers world - So raise a glass or eat a cupcake to celebrate my first little testy blog.

"Porcelain anarchy" and other lovely words

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:45:00 +0000

Its always lovely when you start up a business to see other people talking about your products, and we're very pleased that our vintage china cake stands have been picked up by some blogs of impeccable taste and style in the past week or so.

Retrotogo, the doyen of hip retro goods featured us here saying

"There aren’t many things more civilised than taking afternoon tea with cakes presented on a tiered cake stand. The wonderfully named Let Them Eat Cake specialise in making cake stands from vintage china"

We were then picked up by Hemfeber, a beautifully curated Swedish design blog, which featured our lovely stands here. Our Swedish is non existent, but using the Translator on the page we are described as

"...a little cute in a way that I get a sense of a grandmother who has lost a little grip"

and

"...completely porcelain anarchy"

which I think sums us up perfectly. In fact I think "Porcelain Anarchy" is a great name for a shop...

Last, but not least, Little Willow a US design blog picked us up here with a lovely write up.

Thank you one and all and remember to keep on spreading the Let them eat Cake porcelain anarchy around the web!

Let them eat Cake at Handm@de Oxford

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:57:00 +0000

Saturday 9th November saw Let them eat Cake displaying our wares at the Handm@de Craft Fair in Oxford Town Hall. The town hall was a beautiful location, built in the reign of Queen Victoria, with a stunning ceiling and organ in the main hall adding a large slice of elegance to the proceedings.

The fair itself saw over 1300 people through the doors, and a lot of interest and lovely comments on our cake stands, with many of our leaflets given out on the day for our online shop.

What was truly amazing was the wealth and quality of handmade items presented by all the stall holders on the day - so much talent, so many beautiful items, that we had to be extremely careful in not blowing the bank as we picked up lots of lovely gifts. Meeting a lot of the other crafters on the day also led to some great discussions on other fairs, products and generally the love of everything handmade.

There are lots of fabulous pictures of the day collated on the Handm@de Flickr group and you can check out the individual crafters exhibiting on the links panel of the Handm@de blog. A big cakey thank you again to the organisers, especially Beccy (whose Moments by Martha shop is well worth checking out if you love beautiful jewelery)

Let them eat Cake Christmas Roadshow

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:52:00 +0000

We're going to be super busy over the next few weeks as we are ahowing our vintage china cake stands at a lot of events in London and the Midlands. We've made about 300 new cakestands so there will be lots to see, and we'll get them onto our shop and our Flickr photostream very soon, but in the meantime, check your diaries and see if you can make any of the events below - it'll be lovely to see you there, and give you an opportunity to see our vintage cakestands in the flesh so to speak, and perhaps pick one up for that extra special Christmas present you've been searching for...

3rd/4th November
Macmillan Cancer Research Christmas Market
Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster, London
For more information and location

9th November
Handm@de Oxford
Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford, OX1
Do visit the wonderful Handm@de Oxford blog which is showcasing some of the fabulous crafters who will be at this event

15th November
St Mary’s Barnes Christmas Fair
Church Road, Barnes SW13 9HL
For more information and location

16th November
Vintage Christmas Shopping Fair
Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, SW3 5EF
For more information and location

16th November
Crafts for Christmas
Coventry Transport Museum, Millennium Place, Hales Street, Coventry, CV1 1PN
For more information and location

19th November
Marylebone Christmas Lights Fair
Marylebone High Street, London
For more information and location

29th/30th November
Crafts at the Castle
Warwick Castle, Warwick
For more information and location

4th/5th/6th/7th December
East London Design Show
Shoreditch Town Hall, Shoreditch, London
For more information and Location

Elemental's "Cup of Brown Joy" video

noreply@blogger.com (Let them eat Cake) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:55:00 +0000

Elemental - Cup Of Brown Joy from Moog on Vimeo.

This is just simply a delightful, eccentric, and maybe distinctly odd music video by Elemental, which sums up our love of tea (of course accompanied by cake).

All together now, when I say "Earl Grey", you say "yes please"...