busy busy bees

POSTED ON Monday, November 23, 2009 AT 21:30 by saint cupcake

holy crap! it’s almost thanksgiving! which means it’s almost the day after thanksgiving! which means my sister-in-law will wake up at like 3 am to go buy socks at fred meyer.
what? 3 am for socks? holy crap is right!

i know we mentioned in a previous blog that we’re having a doorbusters-blowout-one day only sale on gift certificates, and we weren’t lying. this friday (that’s black friday for those of you who understand what ‘bogo’ means,) we’ll be selling our $15 gift certificates for the low-low price of $10. this is a seriously good deal, and if you were planning on cupcakes for any near-future event, you should snatch up some gc’s now to use then!

in other news, we are changing things up around here! for starters, our menu. on december 7 our already delightful menu will become (magically) even more delightful. i know, i know, that doesn’t seem possible. but you’ll think differently once you sample one of our THREE (3!!!) new flavors: peanut butter cupcakes dipped in our rich hot fudge (then, hello! topped with chopped roasted, salted peanuts!) next, a delightfully pleasant mint buttercream atop our chocolate cupcake. and last, but not least, a delicious blend of chocolate buttercream and cream cheese which turns into a mellow chocolate cheesecake icing atop our chocolate cupcake. i have eaten enough of these three cupcakes in the last two weeks to tell you that they are, without a doubt, truly outrageous (not unlike jem and the holograms.)

in other-other news, december 7 is also the first MONDAY that we’re going to be OPEN! that’s right. starting monday, december 7 we’re going to be open SEVEN DAYS A WEEK! are you dancing in the streets? or are you at least dancing in your seat? please say you are. and please say you laughed (at least a little) at my streets-seat thing. please? no? okay. that’s fine. you don’t have to laugh.

but you should come buy gift certificates AND you should start visiting us on mondays. deal? deal.

happy thanksgiving!

ps: i keep forgetting to remind you that we have an online cupcake shop. remember?
and since i’m mentioning the online shop, i’m going to go ahead and tell you that lately my favorite cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes that we’ve mailed to ourselves. honestly. they are so so good. 

gobble gobble gee and a gobble gobble gickle.

POSTED ON Thursday, November 12, 2009 AT 12:29 by saint cupcake

why, hello thanksgiving! we weren’t expecting you so soon. oh, it’s not soon? where did november go? dang, you are smooth, thanksgiving. slipping right in there practically unnoticed while we’re all still eating halloween candy. you jive turkey…

we love thanksgiving here. we know you do too. we also know (and so does thanksgiving) that thanksgiving was super sneaky this year. that’s why we are offering a 15% discount on your thanksgiving holiday orders. of course you are going to want to bring cupcakes for your gracious host. or you need to have a little something for the out of towners when they arrive at your door! so for the entire week of thanksgiving, all orders placed for tuesday the 24th, wednesday the 25th and/or friday the 27th pick up will get all those percentage points off! crazy! call us soon to get those orders in! 503-916-9835 or 503-997-3674

and the savings don’t stop there. or here.

if you think you may be headed out to do some holiday shopping on black friday you should TOTALLY come by here and feast your eyes on this precious gift: imagine giving the gift of cupcakes this holiday season. a saint cupcake gift certificate for 6 full size or 12 dot size cupcakes. come in and purchase one or two or fifteen on the busiest shopping day of the year and get $5 off! yeah, a $15 gift certificate will only cost you $10!

happy thanksgiving, friends. enjoy one another this year, m’kay?

free deliveries this wednesday!

POSTED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 AT 12:00 by saint cupcake

this wednesday, november 11th, we’ll deliver your special order cupcakes for free! we’re waiving our delivery fee on wednesday and we’re thinking you might want to send a box of thank-you-cupcakes, congratulations-cupcakes, sorry-you-lost-your wallet-cupcakes, omg-you-have-the-pig-flu-cupcakes, thanks-for-being-a-vet-cupcakes, or some just on-accounta-because-cupcakes to someone you know. heck, you could order them for yourself, we don’t care!

call us by 3pm tuesday to get your order in! as a special added bonus, we’ve lowered our delivery order minimum to $15; that’s 12 dots or 6 full size cupcakes’ worth. (free delivery wednesday zone is 10 mile round trip. anything outside of that is only 1 buck a mile. still a fabulous deal! and so thoughtful of you!)

operators standing by: 503-916-9835 or 503-997-3674.

fine print: one delivery per customer. delivery orders book up fast, so call now! 

halloween porches and cupcakes

POSTED ON Tuesday, October 13, 2009 AT 12:10 by saint cupcake

i can’t help but notice what’s going on in the holiday home decorating industry. it used to be that around christmas time (a week or two MAYBE before) people would put up a string or two of multi-colored “holiday lights”. now it seems the holiday season (and that’s ANY holiday) begins about 3 weeks before the actual holiday. proof being that my neighbors have started hanging up too-thick gobs of fake cobwebs, mini-skeletons and pumpkins are lining 3/4 or the front steps in my neighborhood. one neighbor of mine even decorated a trash can in his front yard. not the door, not the porch, just the trash can. there are what i hope to be fake legs sticking out like he just got rid of a pair. clearly not yard debris, compost, or recycling, this is hands down the creepiest halloween decoration on the block. or it could be that he just got drunk and fell in face first. perhaps i should have checked. last spring, though, another neighbor had a real half a cat on their lawn. while that was creepy and REALLY gross, it was not a decoration. i hope.

anyway, dear cupcakers, in the spirit (ha!) of not going overboard with halloween decor (we know you know it’s coming up. we won’t beat you over the head with it) we will begin OUR halloween cupcake decorations on friday 10/30 and keep on decorating til closing on 10/31. but if you wish, we will totally decorate your special order cupcakes with the aforementioned decorations. you know: candy corn, black and orange sprinkles and other halloweeney type stuff from now til then. so give us a call (503-916-9835) and order today!

saint cupcake’s summery summary

POSTED ON Friday, September 25, 2009 AT 11:32 by saint cupcake

well, to recap, we’ve had an exciting summer. our beloved sam went and joined the peace corps. we hired a gaggle of sarahs and a sassy jackie. galen and jared got married while danny and valerie are putting the final touches on their big day. we bbq’d, we karaokeed, we iced and sprinkled. we baked and donated cupcakes for all kinds of cool organizations and helped tons of portland couples on their own wedding days by providing cupcakes as the iced wedding tower.

as most of you did, we watched the michael jackson memorial kinda thinking he would pop out of the coffin at the end; when he didn’t we knew for sure we lost the king of pop. we also mourned the deaths of swayze, ed, ted, les, walter, dom, farrah, john hughes, billy mays, jon and kate’s marriage, the chai tea cupcake, crocs, duct tape at the rose parade, and most notable: the innocent image we all had of mckenzie phillips. (on a side note: omg and eeww.)

what will the fall bring? a butt load of leaves, a. and b., we’re hoping for good grades, not too much rain, great halloween pictures, more weddings, less celebrity demise, a fresh season of 30 rock, more deliveries ordered by former and current vice presidents, and a movie version of where the wild things are. oh, there is one? sweet.

now, go do your homework, sharpen your rake blades, ask the gores to call us again, and tell us what you are going to be for halloween.