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*drumroll* Introductions!

So now that we have a couple of items under our belt, we figured it would be a good idea to introduce ourselves and get acquainted with everyone!

Angie and Steph

Store Update!

Hello there~
Angie signing in to announce a store update! As spring is quickly approaching (15 more days!) the sweet smell of love and freshly baked cookies is in the air. Though in our case, the cookies are made of clay~ (Which means they smell... like clay? Haha)

As our little treat to you, we've (finally*) compiled a few photos of our first batch of sweets deco cellphone charms in our growing Chocolate Chip cookie and Biscuit Collections!

But that doesn't mean the bakery hasn't been cooking up a storm! Every week we will be coming up with something new and better.

Each of these items shown can be purchased in our online store! (Click any of the images to take you to our store.)

We'd love for any questions, comments or critiques!. (Seriously, we thrive off constructive criticism. We're beginners; we know we're not perfect, and we have a long way to go.)

We'll see you very soon for a few exciting event updates and tutorials, we promise!

*(We're very sorry for the delay. There were many issues with our homemade light-box, and we're still fixing it up. Consider these Photo Collection try #1. More about this in the next post.) 

What is Sweets Deco and what do you guys have to do with it?

Sorry for the long hiatus since our last post.... we've been working really hard at school and work, and lost track of time. There would be more (and better!) pics of our stuff, but we're still working on making a lightbox. (And we tried posting pictures without a light box... it wasn't pretty. Darn you Canada and your dark winters.) Sorry for the delay!

We're going to start updating regularly soon, and we look forward to showing you what we have in store~

To begin, let's start with an introduction of how we'd define sweets deco~

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What is Sweets Deco?


Sweet [sweet]
-noun. 1. sweets, pie, cake, candy, and other foods high in sugar content.

(Lactose-Free Red Velvet Cupcakes topped with homemade icing and a swedish berry. These are real and made by Steph.)

Deco
From the Japanese デコ[deko], which is short for decoration, but also encompasses the hobby of decorating items, such as a cell-phone with rhinestones.

(Angie's Blackberry deco'd with pearls, acrylic stickers and plastic roses.)

Put them together:
Sweets + Deco = Sweets Deco!

Decorating items with sweets (made of clay and resin and other materials)!

Like So:

(Decorated Nintendo DS case, available here in our Artfire store)

So what is Cafe ASTA and what do you have to do with Sweets Deco?

Cafe ASTA is our little venture into making sweets deco'd items. We specialize in make sweets style cell-phone charms, but we also decorate mirrors, DS cases, you name it! We also make lots of other jewellery.

This blog is where we'll be keeping track of the stuff we've made, as well as our food adventures and other related activities (mostly crafting posts... and eating posts. We love food, you will know this soon.)