A Little Bit...

My hope with this blog experience is to become better in alot of ways....a better mom, wife, teacher, and all around (or round as the case may be!) better person.

I keep seeing the scene from 'A River Runs Through It' when Norman is doing a writing lesson.  Over and over again he takes his paper to his father who reads it, crosses it out and says 'Again, only half as 'long.' until his father finally approves and Norman is free to pursue his love of fly fishing with his younger brother, Paul. 
I mention it only because, I would like my posts to be short, sweet and to the point without alot of unnecessary dialogue.

Tall Cakes Display

Well, after a month of knowing it needed to get done, my display is FINALLY finished!  My display consists of styrofoam 'cakes', silk flowers, fondant, royal icing, and pearl dust.

(I know this one is square, but I didn't take a picture of the ones I used before I used them!)

Part of my procrastination was I didn't have the forms in the sizes that I needed and I kept waiting until I could scrape up some extra cash to get them....that didn't happen.  I did have 2 forms that were larger so I cut them to the size I needed.  (Oh how I wish that I a power tool of some sort instead of my kitchen knifes because they didn't end up as straight and smooth as when they started)

Here is a progress picture of the beads. I had to roll out 120 balls and allow them to dry overnight before stringing them on dental floss.  After that I painted them with a mixture of pearl dust and clear vanilla...my kitchen has been smelling so good - like I've been busy baking and I never even turned on my oven!

So I slathered my dummies with royal icing and draped them with a thick covering of fondant.  I addedd a royal bead border and then adorned the cake.

(here is the original 'Poised in Pearls Cake' from Wilton yearbook 2010)

...And here is my interpretation (or exact copy - you choose) of the same cake.

I just hope that my 'DO NOT TOUCH THE DISPLAY' sign works and I don't end up fixing it in a few weeks.  Oh and I totally intend on using an actual cake stand, not my turntable!





Sunday School Birthday Cake

Hubby and I were recently called to be sunday school teachers to the 15 year olds.  One of the students had a birthday last week so I made a cake for the class.

The hubs said to keep it simple.  I think I accomplished that!

Thomspon Twins and a joke

     My youngest brother came to me on Mother's Day and asked if I couldn't make a birthday cake for a friend (in June) using this picture....

So the day of delivery came and using piping gel pattern transfer method I whipped out his cake. 

     Now I wouldn't be a proper big sister if I didn't make a joke at his expense so I sent him this pic:

With the following message, "It's ready for you to pick up.  I had the kids help me, I hope you like it!'  His response was "Sweet!"  I thought seriously? He really thinks that I would do that for real?  For a minute I was hurt, but then got over myself and sent him the real thing.

His response was, 'Much better, you had me worried.'

     Needless to say, the cake was well received and I'm estatic that I could make someone happy with something as simple as CAKE!