ps  The Cupcake Workshop is a community volunteer project that the Princesses have developed to give back to their “kingdom”.

As always,

Royally Yours,

Princess Lorraine

Lorraine Thayer (A.K.A. Princess Lorraine) is going to open her Bearly Thayer Studio to the concert going public!!!  She will showcase her amazing artwork (cows,(realistic and fanciful), caramels, Sundaes etc.)  as well as the tragically sweet cupcake sculptures featured on The Royal Cupcake Company’s website.

An added super bonus is that Lorraine will be selling the most amazing coffee during the concert weekend.   This coffee is grown in South America, is fair trade, shade and organically grown and is bird friendly!!  As well, it is one tasty brew of joe!  So come taste for yourself, grab yourself a  a cup of java to enjoy as you browse the studio and view the art.

At Bearly Thayer Studio the coffee’s always on!

Lorraine’s studies at Haliburton have been rich and rewarding.  It was during this time that the cupcake concept was born.  Of course,  it was only with the creativity and dedication of Princess Jane that it flourished into the awesomeness that is The Royal Cupcake Company.

Graduating is pretty exciting but it is also a time for change and growth and Lorraine’s current work is a reflection of this process.  So….it is with pride and a little bit of nervousness that she is beginning to present in her Art Cupcake Gallery,  her “post graduate” work.   The first of these is called “Royal Purple Harriet”,  please go to the gallery to view it.  It may now technically be a cupcake, but it is certainly a sweet work and one that would be a valued addition to your cupcake/cow art collection.  If you don’t have such a collection, this would be a good time to start one!

PS  The Royal Cupcake Company will continue to provide new, innovative and delicious LOOKING (non edible, of course) cupcake for it’s valued clients.

THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA STORY – enjoy and dream 

Once there was a Prince who lived in a wealthy kingdom. When he had reached the proper age his mother the queen decided the time was right to find a bride. The prince however was determined not to marry just any girl, and decided that only a “real” princess would do for his future wife should. Therefore he set off to travel through all the world to find her, and although he searched in all the kingdoms and met with all the princesses it didn’t quite go right. There were many Princesses, but how was he to know whether they were real? There was something not quite right about them all. Eventually he came home again unsatisfied and unhappy, because he wanted to have a real Princess so much.

Then one night a terrible storm blew in. The rain poured down and the lightning was so bright that it lit up the palace as though it were daytime and the thunder was so loud that it set all the palace dogs to howling. In the middle of the storm there was a knocking at the palace door. The old King went to open it, and who should be there but a girl claiming to be a true Princess. She was a terrible sight with her hair all over the place and her clothes soaked through, but she was invited in to stay for the night.

The old Queen didn’t believe for a minute that she was a real Princess and so she decided to test the young girl’s claim. Without saying a word to anyone she went into the guest bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a single pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on top of the pea, and then she laid twenty eiderdown quilts on top of the mattresses. On this the Princess had to sleep all night. The next morning when the girl woke up, the Queen asked how she had slept.

“Oh, very poorly!” she said. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, and now I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!”

They could see she was a real Princess without a single doubt because only a true Princess could have such delicate skin as to feel a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty more quilts.

So the Prince decided to marry her immediately, because he knew he had found a Real Princess