Hello,

we're very excited today. We're able to announce that we are going to have a stall at the fantastic Jumble @ The Amersham Arms, New Cross, London. Its a monthly event and hopefully, if all goes well, we'll be doing it every month starting on 2nd May.

The reason we're excited is, not only is this a superb opportunity for us to meet new people and broaden our community, but the wonderful people from The Great Cake Escape also have a stall there and we just love them.

If you're from the Shoreditch/Hackney area of London you may well have walked past some of their work without knowing. They are becoming  well known for their 'cake drops' where they leave cupcakes on the streets for people to take away. Magical. You can see their photos on Flickr.

Well I hope some of you might be able to make it down there but if not, tell any friend you might have in that area to pop over and check us out.

Have a great weekend,

Jazz

x

Rebekka Kill

Here at JazzCakes we're all about the fun, 'cos what's the point in life without fun?

You may or may not have heard of our Guerilla Tea Parties. If you have you probably know that you're one of the lucky ones. Well the tea parties are just one of the ways we're trying to form networks and build communities. Other more obvious ways are through social networking sites like Facebook and little things like this blog. The markets which we sell our cakes and T-shirts at also help to build up these groups of people. We don't see this as building a fan-base, more as making friends, friends who may well be able to help us in the future or who may need help from us.

Our aim is to eventually have some sort of headquarters where we can gather all of these people, but for now we'll stick to holding tea parties in obscure places.

One person who seems to like what we do is Rebekka Kill. She is also becoming something of an influence to us. Instead of us going into detail about her, why don't you read this interesting article? And this one here. Hopefully we'll be working with her in the future, so watch this space.

Sketch

Well since everything that happens in London is generally well publicised to the rest of the world, you will more than likely have heard about the masses of snow which descended on our capital city last week; a bit like a sweet coating of icing sugar, except not very sweet.

I thought this would be an opportune moment to share with everybody our favourite place to go in London when the outside isn't very nice.

It is a place called Sketch, on Conduit Street, just of Regent's Street and not too far from Vivenne Westwood, but on the opposite side of the road.

Anyway, Sketch is a restaurant, tea rooms, gallery and club all rolled into one. What we love about it is it's mixture of tradition, contemporary and futuristic designs; if you ever get a chance to use the toilets, do it, they are something to behold. I won't go into too much deatail but they have two sets of toilets, one of which I have not been into but am told are even more amazing than the ones I have been into. You'll just have to see for yourself.

Another thing that we love about sketch is its website. Whereas the actual venue is quite expensive, the website is free of course, yet it still feel as though you are spending money every minute you are on it.

They're also on facebook

Our Finest Work

As an example of the kind of T-shirts we like to make, this one is probably the best design we've made so far. It encapsulates pretty much everything about us; stenciling, embroidering and our red, black and white colour palette.

Unfortunately this design never made it to production - and probably never will. It was commissioned by singer-songwriter Luke Leighfield, but funding issues prevented us going beyond the prototype.

Welcome

Hello everybody and welcome to the JazzCakes web log.

Since this is our first post we should probably introduce ourselves,

JazzCakes is a Cardiff, UK, based design house that specialises in T-shirts and cakes. Our t-shirts are hand printed and hand embroidered, often with images of sweet treats such as cakes, naturally. We recently decided to only produce one-off designs or short-runs of about 5 or 10. Our cakes are usually very elaborately decorated.

One of our favourite pastimes is tea drinking. In fact we love it so much that we began coordinating Guerilla Tea-parties, a kind of anti-social gathering in the very loosest sense of the word. But more on that in a later post.

Our other interests include art - particularly the time-based variety -, film, music, fashion, theatre and photography. Basically the whole arts umbrella.

We are very much into collaborating with our friends to produce some very exciting designs. We pride ourselves on our vast network of friends and try to include everyone in our business as much as possible. We hope that by creating this blog we can gather more friends up and exchange ideas with people.

Well, hopefully that held your attention and kept you interested. We plan to give more details about what we do over the course of this blog, along with sharing interesting things we find that relate to what we do and what we enjoy.

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