Fruity Pebble Scarf #2

A fruity pebble scarf for a sweet little lady. These are so fun & easy to make! It only takes 1 ball of chunky bright multicolored yarn, size 10.5 or 11 knitting needles, a yarn needle, and a couple hours! Cast on 15 stitches, then knit 1, twirl 1 (most people call this a yarn over), then knit 2 togther until the end of the row. Every row is the same until the end. When you have it as long as you'd like it, cast off, thread the remaining yarn through with a yarn needle to hold it in place. Cut and make your fringe from the left overs! This one measured about 55 inches long (without fringe) and 3 inches wide.

My favorite favorite wedding cake ever!

Or at least so far! My friend sent me a picture of this cake and said it was perfect for her daughter. I was a little concerned since i'd never used the icing strips before, but they turned out to be wonderful! They look like a million bucks and were so easy to work with! woohoo!

Sweet 16 Topsy Turvy...

So, I knew going into it this was going to be a very large cake. I didn't realize it was going to consume over 12 hours of my time! I worked on it for 2 nights... after the first night i thought surely this would be the cake from hell!!!!  But after a good night's sleep and dinner with friends, it turned into a masterpiece!

Buttercream covered cake with fondant accents. Fed between 80 & 100 ppl!

Thank you Card

I made a Thank You Card for my grandparents tonight using the Cricut & the Storybook Cartridge.

Penguin Topsy Turvy Cake

Okay! Here's the day we've been waiting on! Well at least the day i've been waiting on! It's the day of the infamous Penguin Party! Woot Woot!


I made the invitations, I made the goodie bags, of course I made the cake! It all made it 100 miles from my driveway and the kids had a blast roller skating... Apparently, the area had been iced in for over a week and everybody in the 50 mile radius decided to bring their kids skating that day. It was a madhouse so I didn't quite get to try out any new photo techniques in the rink, but I did snap a couple of pics of the cake before I left to share.

The cake is a 3 tier, topsy turvy style cake. I covered each tier in homemade marshmallow fondant and airbrushed it in blue. The snow capping each tier is smoothed buttercream. The igloo topper is made from rice krispie treats and fondant. The penguins are also made from fondant. I modeled mine after one of the cakes I saw on the pinkcakebox website - i can only hope to be as good as her one day!






Thanks for looking! PaRTy LiKe a PeNGuiN!

Pink & Green First birthday Cake

Oh yay! It's almost a super special girl's very first birthday! She's super girly with favorite colors of pink and green. What goes best with these colors? a giant bow and some dainty ballerina slippers!

This cake is covered in pink vanilla buttercream, with mainly buttercream accents. The bow and little slippers are made from a fondant/gumpaste mix.

Penguin Party Goodie Bags are finished!!!

Finally - the finished goodie bag! After gluing all the pieces together and letting it dry, i just stuck the penguin to the bag with the Elmer's double sided glue tape. It's wonderful!

Penguin Party Goodie Bags

I've been getting ready for my niece's birthday party. I used the Cricut Expression machine and the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge to do these. I used a basic solid color paper pack from Michael's and a cute Sweets glitter paper pack to do these. They were too much fun!

I used the 3 1/4" setting to cut the Penguin base, Layer 1, Layer 2, & Layer 3 for the penguin. I cut the Bow from the Porcupine at 2 3/4".

Iron Man Cake

Iron Man cake! I covered the cake with buttercream icing and then airbrushed the background. Iron Man's face & the lettering is piped on the sides of the cake. The topper is made from a fondant/gumpaste mixture.

Time to Bake

Getting ready to bake my little heart out!

Kitchen Tile Project

Oh this documents the completion of the kitchen tile project! My hubby did such a wonderful job! I'm so excited! It looks sooooo much better than the regular painted sheet rock backsplash we had before. This looks like it should have always been here.

Penguin Party Invitations

This next photo is of the invitations I made for my nieces upcoming Prissy Penguin skating party! This was my first real project using my Cricut! I've gotta tell you - it was a lot of work, but the outcome made me smile!

I used the Cricut Expression machine, the Create A Critter & ZooBalloo cartridges to make this.

#1 - Fruity Pebble Scarf

This year started off with several projects. I taught myself to knit just before Christmas and didn't have time to make gifts for everyone - just wait until next year! I have a feeling people will be tired of scarves!

My teddy bear is modeling the scarf I made for my niece. It was the first I'd done with fringe! I love the colors & she seemed to like it too :o)