A day in the life of Kiwicakes

I've had many comments over the last little while wondering what I do in a day here at Kiwicakes. So I thought I'd begin to share with you all blog posts in a "Day in the life" series.

Here's what I did yesterday. I had intended to take before and after shots of the second storage area I had hired, as the second one was empty and racked out with lovely shelving, awaiting this new delivery. Until midday day yesterday when 11 - YES ELEVEN pallet loads arrived. It had been estimated that 8 pallets were arriving, so it was a bit of a shock when I saw 11. And realised it was going to be a VERY tight squeeze. To put it in to perspective, the storage unit is bigger than a single car garage and those boxes come all the way to the door.

I can just kinda see in between some of the boxes. Perhaps I could climb that tower (it's only 8 foot tall)

It's going to be some job, pulling some of those out of the door, to begin to make sense of it all. But watch this blog and the Kiwicakes/partykiwi website - as some of these boxes contain specials that will make your eyes water.

SPCA CUCPAKE DAY 2010

I'd love to hear if any of you are baking for the SPCA cupcake day this year. What are you making?. Leave me a comment on this post. I've decided I'm baking strawberry champagne cupcakes with champagne buttercream. (as the people that will be eating the cupcakes I'm baking will be adults)

I am also pleased to announce Kiwicakes is supporting SPCA cupcake day, by supplying cupcake prizes for every category of the competitions run by the SPCA. Click here to find out more.

As well as this - for the month of August, place an order with Kiwicakes and mention in the comments section of the order form, you're a registered SPCA cupcake cook, and I'll include a free gift, to help you with your SPCA cupcake baking.

Conditions: offer only available to registered SPCA cupcake cooks. Offers applies only to new orders from today. Please do not email me separately to request the free SPCA gift, you need to request it at time of ordering otherwise you will not receive it.

You don't have to bake just for the humans, the SPCA has a great recipe on their website for PUPCAKES for the doggy friend in your life.

We are drowning in 3 pallets of stock!

Last week I had three pallets - yes THREE pallet loads of stock arrive, as a special clearance offer from one of my suppliers. Much of it I agreed to without even knowing what I was getting. Needless to say I have stock coming out my ears. Those of you that have been with me for years, know as I operate online only, our base in Whangarei is Mums house. POOR Mum! - before we could get it packed off to the storage areas and stockroom, it had to be sorted. For 48 hours, her house has looked like a warehouse.

It took three full loads in Mums van to clear most of it up to our storage unit. And we're not finished yet!

Well I know you're all dying to know what I received. There is more candles than I'll ever need in a lifetime, party ware, bride & grooms, balloons and licensed character items.

There's good news for all the KiwicakesNZ blog readers, to help me make some room, I've decided what better way to clear it quickly than to GIVE IT AWAY TO YOU. Simply place any order at http://www.kiwicakes.co.nz/ mention this blog post in the comments section at time of ordering and we'll include a free gift with your order. Where possible, we will theme your free gift to match your order.