CupcakeCamp Ireland

What is this anyway?

A post about the facts; dedicated to @rudedoodle

(this can now be found under ‘What is CupcakeCamp’)

CupcakeCamp is:

• A get together for those who like cupcakes
• You can come along just to taste, or you can buy or bake your own cupcakes to share.
• You eat and enjoy the atmosphere.
• The event takes place over the course of an afternoon (at Blick Studios).
• You can decide if you want to enter your cupcakes in the competition.
• We hope to have free coffee etc. on the day.

This is probably fairly obvious but just to be clear (after much messing about with WordPress plugins and eventually messing about successfully with Google Docs) registration is now very easy. There’s the ‘Come Along’ and the ‘Bake’ tabs above, under which are the registration forms. Easy peasy!

Many thanks to those who’ve already registered and especially those bakers and volunteers!

As of today, we can *finally* announce the acquisition of a venue for CupcakeCamp. We also have a date for you all to pencil in to your diaries. Thanks to the kindness of Blick Studios in Belfast, we have a venue entirely for free to enjoy our cupcake day. There’s going to be a registration page for Bakers and Attendees soon, we’ll keep you posted!

The Where: Blick Shared Studios, 51 Malone Road, Belfast

The When: 9th August 2009 , From 11.30AM to 5PM

For today’s meeting, Barbs and I went off to St. George’s market to go and talk to the people in the know about the Cupcake scene in Belfast and to see if we could convert that into some participants for the event come summer time. We met some pretty awesome people, and we’d like to big up The Marshmallow Grove, Wee Buns and Lavender Cupcakes who all seemed very enthusiastic about coming to CupcakeCamp.

However, most notably among those who we spoke to about CupcakeCamp (read: harassed) were the two inimitable Hairy Bikers: Si and Dave. Both of whom were really impressed by what we were doing and wished they could come too! We didn’t manage to get a photo with all of us in it together, but these are pretty awesome.

Tonight, myself and Barbs met for the first time. We had a fantastic meeting and got a great deal done, some interesting ideas and issues were discussed and we both have big aspirations for this project. We’ve set out some provisional framework for getting this right and we (quite rightly) think we’ve hit on the perfect formula.

Most importantly we got on really really well and now I definitely know that this is going to be good.

We’re going to be meeting up, anyone and everyone who wants to be involved in the CupcakeCamp project we’re undertaking here. So if you have particular views on icing and the like and desperately need to make sure we do things right, you can get involved!

We’ll be meeting at 6PM on Friday 6th of March in Starbucks in Castle Lane.

The more people who turn up the better. Comment here, or RSVP to @cupcakecampni on Twitter so Ciarán and Barbs know how many seats to try and save.

See you there!

Tonight I’m going to Open Coffee to make everyone aware of all the things we’ve got planned and to definitely hear all the suggestions the best and brightest of the Twittersphere in Belfast come up with. So if you’ve come up with any suggestions or ideas or want to talk to me about getting involved in CupcakeCamp get yourself down to Charlie’s Coffee Shop in Bradbury Place at 6PM tonight. I’ll be the exhausted one who’ll probably still be in work clothes.

See you all there!

Cupcake Camp Northern Ireland has come a mighty long way since a fleeting conceptive moment condensed it in my head. From a twitter account that was kept quiet (badly) and flying about the place at Twestival asking what the local Twitter community thought of the idea to Stuart donating the website and word getting round, it’s managed to be frighteningly rollercoastery.

When I left for Italy for a week I thought that it’d be simple enough to keep in touch what with the internet being of a developed country’s standards. How wrong I was. It can be difficult to filter in the ‘can do’ attitude of Italian phone companies.

So it is, that on my last day here the internet is returned and CupcakeCamp gets it’s first blog post. We’ll be keeping everybody painfully up to date on all the goings on (because we know you like it that way).

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