Happy Birthday Kendra!!!! Last weekend my family and I had the privilege to spend a few hours with the amazing Jamie Zanotti of JAZ Photography out of Eugene, OR. She is not only an incredible photographer, but she LOVES Jesus with her whole heart, adores people and capturing their memories, is an amazing wife and […]
Celebration Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
Happy Birthday Kelly!! One of my sweet friends is having her birthday today!!! So, I made her her very own cupcake!! I took it over and spent a few hours hang’n out with her and her 9 month old identical twin boys this morning! WOW, are they ever CUTE!! I keep telling my baby girl […]
Celebration Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
This was a first for me…a musical instrument!! A violin – complete with the scroll, the bridge and hand painted curly-ques on the body. What a fun, and challenging cake! My daughter and I have had the privilege of knowing an incredible woman we call Mrs. A this past year! – she was my daughter’s […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
Happy Birthday JENNY-JEN!!!! My sweet sweet friend turned 40 today! What’s crazy is that I’m getting closer to 40 and realizing that it’s such a young number!!!!!!! We’ve only lived half our lives…and most of it was spent messing up!!!! – and learning what NOT to do! Now it feels like we’re figuring things out […]
Birthday Cakes, Sculptured Cakes
Here it is…my son’s 4-year monster truck cake! This cake turned out to be quite fun! I’m happy with the end result!! The bottom tier is chocolate cake with Reeses peanut butter cup butter cream. The top tier is vanilla cake with Butterfinger butter cream. Both were SO yummy!The checkerboard pattern was created with edible […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
Hi everyone! Whew…this week was CRAZY!!!!!!!!! I first off have to apologize for the lack of pictures I’m going to show you! I had planned on taking a lot of pics, step by step, to show you all the entire process of making the truck. But time slipped away this week! I had two interior […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
I’m creating a monster truck themed cake for my son’s 4th birthday coming up in four days! YIKES! – I can’t believe my sweet baby boy will be four!!!!!! I’ve got the sketch done and a plan of attack ready to go! This is my first vehicle/car/truck type cake, so I’m nervous!!!! I’m learning as […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
My husband and I love strategy board games!!! We own over a hundred games! It’s a hobby and a passion and has given us many fun evenings with family and friends. We play a lot of games with one couple in particular, Ian and Mindy. Ian’s birthday is today and Mindy comes over on Wednesdays […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
Doesn’t this look like a movie reel cake? – Can’t you see the reels???? No??!! Well, that’s because they’re in the garbage right now!! LOL!! Oh, more lessons learned on this one! I didn’t even take a good picture of it (hence the pic above) because I was too frustrated when we left the house […]
Birthday Cakes, Sculptured Cakes
Have you ever felt defeated by a cake??? – I did on Sunday! I’m not sure if the fondant won, or if I just plain ol’ lost!? I had in my mind to create a stand-up lollipop cake for my daughter’s 6th b-day party! We were going to do a “sweets” type party, so a […]
Birthday Cakes, Sculptured Cakes