Cake Class

So I am officially the new cake decorating instructor at Micheal's. My first class starts on June 11th and frankly I'm scared out of my mind! I'm excited too but more scared at this point. haha.



So since some of you have asked and frankly I like to show off what I can do, here are a few cakes that I have decorated in the classes I've taken over the last 16 weeks.

Basket weave cake - the class came just in time for Easter. :) I not only did the basket weave, but I also made all of those flowers and the bird out of Royal Icing...

Here's a close up of the flowers and notice how smooth the top of the cake is.....all me baby! :)

And here is a Package cake (looks like a present. hehe) and the tiered cake with more flowers made by yours truly.

Sorry I couldn't figure out how to turn it. haha.

And here is a pic of the cake I did on my last class. I love this one! its one of my favorite. It even looked cute when it was cut into! :)

(usually dont' have that much filling in the middle.....don't know what happened with that one. haha. could be the fact that I put it together around midnight the night before. hehe)

This one, I did for my friends daughters birthday. I kinda thought it was cute.
It's a jewelry box. the lid is a slab of melted white chocolate!

She loved it!

Well those are just a few. I have done three weddings, countless birthdays, special occasions and a couple of graduations. I'm looking forward to getting into baby showers, more wedding and so on and hopefully one day be good enough to do this for a living. I absolutely love it!

Let me know what you all think.....I want real critiques! I can take it.

Memorial Day Weekend.

Well I did a lot and nothing at all...haha. Ever have one of those weekends? :)

I cleaned my house...twice but it still looks a mess!
I potted some seedlings that where starting to get to big for the starter kit I started last week.
We went to the store.
I played my on-line game.
Went to a BBQ.
Took a nap.
Went to church.
and caught up on some of my shows.


not in that order but all around it was a nice relaxing but busy weekend. Loved the extra day off! Wouldn't mind having another. :) Really wanted to go to the movies but just didn't' have the energy or the money for it. Maybe next week!.

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. I also hope we all remembered what it was truly about!

Anohter midnight showing.

Yes, I went to another midnight showing. This time it was The Terminator.

It was super good. Not as good as Star Trek...but still Awesome!

I have a wicked fear of machines and robots. If they are to big or can do to much on their own...they make me skittish. Its an irrational fear, I know but its there. So several times during the movie it freaked me out because the machines were sooooo big.

Hope you get to see it and enjoy it as much as we did!

um YUUUM

We went to the store yesterday. Jason needed supplies before he went back out for three weeks and we needed to get some milk, cereal and other various food stuffs. :)

While waiting for Jason to pick out some bread I wondered down the other end of the isle and there on the end was the most amazing thing I think I have seen in a while (well regarding new food stuff) You know that magic shell ice-cream topping? well 1) YUUUM!!!!! and 2) they have a new flavor......

wait for it....

wait for it.....

CUPCAKE!!!!!!!

Oh my heavens, I broke down and bought it along with a small tub-o-ice-cream and it was sooooo yuuummy!!!!!! I would highly recommend it!. Its just wonderful.....I wonder what it would taste like on birthday cake ice-cream? hmmm.

Recycled Fashion

We have very distinct periods of fashion from the 1800-1900, the 20's, the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's all came with a new and unique way of stepping it out...even the 90's had some craze...you know with the baggy pants, backwards caps and short, short skirts.

Well lately, now that we are in the 2000's, we've had to look back on some of our fashion era's and borrow and sometimes re-event them. For instance in the early 2000's bell bottoms and flower power were big, now we are seeing skinny jeans and big hair. Ok so I think we could have brought back some better points of fashion but whatever.

Today I saw a guy who thought he would just take the last 75 years or so and roll them all in to one outfit. I'm hoping this does not come into craze since I can really only handle one bad fashion comeback at a time! Here is what he was wearing....let's start with the shoes and work our way up shall we:

he had vans slip ons..and wholey ones at that, he had skinny jeans that were tucked under his bum, held on with a metallic belt, he had green and brown plaid boxers, a chain that ran from his belt loop in the front to his wallet in his sagging bum pocket (I didn't know they sold those anymore!) then he had a white shirt with a skinny black tie, the sleeves where rolled up and I swear he had a box of cigarettes tucked into the sleeve, he had a hemp choker necklace on with a blue flower bead at the throat and his hair was a fluffy version of a Mohawk with a comb sticking out of the side.

Ok can anyone name how many eras he was wearing today?

I counted at least five, but some of those things were carried from one era to the other.

All I know is I was not the only one looking at him and I really hope he doesn't think this is going to be catching on anytime soon. Maybe I don't appreciate the 'art' of it all or maybe I really am getting old....or it could be both, but whatever happened to jeans and a t-shirt?

I just can't wait to see what they come up with next....or maybe I can!

Name Dropper

Ever heard of a name dropper? Ever have to talk to one?

I had a person call me the other day and ask me where their card was. We have already sent out several cards to this member and for some reason they are just not getting to her. Anyway, I keep telling her all I can do is request for another one to be sent out. I verify her address, make sure there's not special instructions..so on and so forth.

she then tells me she's already talked to her good friend Harry, then she pauses for dramatic effect....and then says, you know Harry Reed.

Um and?!

Apparently this upset her that I was not impressed that she was friends with Harry Reed. She then starts dropping other names, like I'm suppose to know or even care who these people are.

I go back to telling her all I can do is to have the card requested again. Then she says that she can have so and so (one of the afore mentioned names I neither know or care about) pick it up from our office and bring it to her. ....

Ok:
One: the cards come from our insurance company in CA, not here...so no can do.
Two: if these people are as big as she seems to think they are, they are NOT going to pick up her card and hand deliver it to her...its just not done.
Three: I don't, nor have I ever, been intimidated by name droppers or by the actual people those names go with. I'm doing my job correctly and if you want to waste their time and send them down then by all means, please do so....I'm not the one that will look bad.

I basically said those few things to her in a round about much nicer way. She finally got the point and will now wait patiently for her card to arrive in the mail.

Mothers day...

I had a great mothers day. I had a sleep study on Saturday night so my parents took Juliet for the night. I was able to go home in the morning and get some chores done. :)

Juliet kept thinking it was valentine day ( I think because of all the cards that were being passed to me and mom). It was super cute.

Then at church we got to hear lovely talks (one by my very own sister. yay Marina), watch the children sing to us, and of course we got a great CD. Juliet made me a flower necklace with noodles on it (she was very excited about the noodles) and I got a bag full of yummy candies. Juliet also got me a $20 gift certificate to Micheal's ( I practically live at that store now, hehe). I haven't checked my mail and I'm told I have a card there too. wahoo.

We had the most yummiest dinner. BBQ chicken and ribs, with grilled peppers, parsley potatoes and steamed green beans....YUMMM, then for desert I made mom a lemon meringue cake...yes a cake. I don't like pies so don't' make them, but her favorite kind is lemon meringue so I made it into a cake. It wasn't my favorite but it was good for lemon. :) mom seemed to like it and I guess that's all that matters right?

well I hope you all had a lovely mothers day too!