Sunday, January 27, 2013

Two Cakes

Just made Danny's birthday cake with all of the leftover frosting from a little girl's cake I did this weekend.
Dear Husband, Yes, I decorated it in about 2 minute. Yes, a quarter of the top layer broke off in the pan and you ate it. Yes, I used leftover frosting from a 2 year old girl's cake. Yes, your birthday was in November and it is now January 27th. In spite of all of that and my lack of culinary efforts for your birthday this year I do still love you Danny Parks. P.S. It is your favorite flavor and I like your personal touch of the Halloween sprinkles and how you helped me make an extra long g. :-)

Here are a few pictures of the Frog Princess cake I made. The flowers are one of my first attempts at gumpaste.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Sweet Dreams???

Emi was crAAAby this morning! "Why?" I ask. "Because I had a VERY confusing dream about a semi-colon," she says.
Good news! Our morning got a lot better really fast because we all laughed so hard about it. Love my kids.

P.S. She got new glasses, which I love!

Friday, January 11, 2013

Nothing takes me back to childhood faster then Valentine's Day. Remember back in the day. . . making mailboxes for the class party. . . picking out valentines and getting tired of filling them out after the first 3 friends. . . learning to make hearts by folding a paper in half and cutting around the shape of your thumb. . .conversation hearts. . . sugar cookies. . . and the taste of envelope paste. . . happy days :-)
Last year I created mailboxes for our family to leave notes and gifts to each other. Emily had a radar. If the flag went up she knew it within seconds! I am excited to put them out again this year.
ilove . . .We got creative with our valentines. These were made out of a box of conversation hearts and kisses. Family Fun Magazine always has great ideas.

Two years ago I was in charge of helping our Girl Scout troop make center peices for a spaghetti dinner and came up with these. . .

We made tissue paper pompoms, hot glued them to dowls and then stuck them into a chunk of floral foam in the pots. We covered the base with tissue paper and then filled them in with conversation hearts. Decorative and tasty.

A couple of months later I recreated these in 4 or 5 shades of blue and a couple of shades of pink. I tied polka dot pear-green ribbon on the dowls for leaves. Then they were filled with Cadbury mini eggs or jelly beans - even tastier. I used them for Emily's birthday party, baptism brunch, Easter, the PTA teacher appreciation lunch and then gifted a couple to the secretaries for Secretaries Day to go with an office full of other flower projects that all of the classes created for them. One of the teachers then bought the rest of them from me to give as Mother's Day gifts. They definitely were worth the small amount of time and money I spent - only about $2 or $3 to make. (I used more tissue paper sheets for the second batch and they were even cuter.) I think I need to make some more:-) LOVE THEM!!!

When I was downloading the last pictures I ran into a couple other fun projects I have done for Valentine's - ice cream soda center peice and chunky pearl bubblegum necklaces.
These were also made by the Girl Scouts. I think they did a great job for being 7 and 8.
P.S. If an edible craft ever calls for styrofoam shapes, rice krispie treats are less expensive and easier to work with!!!