cakes i've made

I have a lot of time on my hands- and sometimes not enough to complete what I set myself up to do. Here are the few cakes I've made in the past 2 years.

Valentine's "cards" from our house

Each year, I try to outdo myself on the Valentine's Rylie takes to school for her classmates. Here are this years:

I am in love with these. And they are very simple to create. All you  need is:    

 plastic easter eggs, construction paper, a pen, hot glue gun, and scissors (not shown). My daughter then made paper hearts, cut them out, and wrote "have an 'egg'citing valentine's day" on each.  We then hot glued each one to an egg so it could still open (like this:)

                                                                                 
All we have to do is add the "flubber" (or slime) we made for her science project inside each and she will have "egg"cellent Valentine's for everyone

Easy Valentine's day shirt

So my daughter wears uniforms to school and has a free dress day tomorrow in honor of Valentine's day (although Valentine's day is a mere one day later...) and I didn't want to waste money on a t-shirt just for the occasion. So, I got creative and stole a shirt out of her closet (and some of her red fabric as I did not have any). I hope she doesn't mind....

Anyway, here are the materials:       

  i used a bit of red fabric, scissors, a fabric pen, tacky glue (ok to wash it would be ideal and best), and her old t-shirt.
Turn the shirt inside out and draw a heart on it. I then drew lines in the heart and made my cuts. Layer the fabric on the heart and glue. The glue will leave an easy "line" to follow to trim the red fabric.

 Turn the shirt over and voila!- you have a heart shirt.

And there you have it. A super easy, quick, and extremely cute Valentine's shirt!!

here's another stab at this blogging thing

downloaded an app so i can upload from my phone. i am testing it now to see if it works.

and it does not. sucky.

testing the site out

i have decided i want to start blogging about the crafts i do. that way, if people want to attempt to recreate (and most likely outshine my feeble attempts) they will have the directions and step- by-steps to do so. so here is a test blog because i have no idea what i'm doing.

This is the first cake I ever attempted using Fondant. homeade fondant. what all the recipes do not inform you is how sticky and annoyingly uncooperative fondant can be. but it turned out all right in the end and was gobbled up by a bunch of drunk people at the party. yay.

and now that i know how to add pictures and text- i will start the tedious journey through my pictures to upload current and past Pinterest and other projects.