CTR Cake

I get asked to make cakes for people more and more.  I really like making them.  For this one I got to do whatever I wanted.  I decided I wanted to try the petal look.  It was really easy, and turned out great!  I YouTubed an instructional video and got to work.

Everyone loved it, especially the person it was for.  Yay!

Family Birthdays

This Family Birthday sign has been on my do to list for quite some time now.  We were finally able to make one a few months ago.  I love how it turned out!  

My husband cut the big board out for me.  We bought all the little circles at the hobby store and then had to drill a million little holes in them.  But I'm glad there is an easy way to add more names as the family grows.  Each family has it's own color so it's easy to tell who belongs to who.  

Just about everyone who comes over to my house asks me to make one for them.  Hmmm... maybe we should go into business or something?  :)

Brush Your Teeth!

I recently took my children to the dentist. No cavities thankfully, but I was told after all three of them went back to have their teeth cleaned, that they need to

BRUSH THEIR TEETH!

Like I don't already know this.

So... I set out to do something about this.

I made them a sign.

A cute little sign with a gentle reminder to

BRUSH YOUR TEETH!

and hung it in their bathroom.

I hope it works.

Ghost Clippies

Someone was selling some very elaborate and fancy hair bows at a craft show I went to. I am so impressed that others have the patience to make hair bows. I do not. I like to once in a while, and certain ones are much more fun to make than others, and I would make a million for my friends if they asked me too.

There was this one being sold that I fell in love with. Maybe it is my love for Halloween that I was so drawn to it, I don't know. But I knew I had to make a couple of them for my girls to wear this October!

Don't you love them?

Halloween

It's no secret around here... 

I LOVE HALLOWEEN!

I saw this on Pinterest a while back and thought it was time.

I absolutely can not WAIT till my kids come home from school and hear their shrieks of laughter or shrills of terror!  {I'm such a mean mom!}

This little beauty is up for sale in my Etsy shop.  

Now all of you can terrify your children too! Oh.. I mean decorate for Halloween. ;-)

Homemade Laundry Detergent

I while ago (March) I found a recipe to make your own laundry detergent.  It sounded pretty neat and I'm constantly on the lookout to save some cash, so I gave it a try.  

I bought all the ingredients and mixed up a batch.  I have to say I rather like it!  It's now 5 months later and I think I still have at least half of it left.  Nice!  When it runs out I will definitely be making some more.  

Here is where I found the recipe: Being Creative to Keep My Sanity Blog

This is everything you need to make it.  I found it all at my local Walmart for just under $20.

Click on over to her blog for the full directions on how to make your own.  

I use it in my HE front loader just as I would regular powder detergent and it works great!

Some Yummy Goodness

I think I just found my new favorite treat. Pretzels, peanut butter, chocolate.... mmmmm.

I followed this recipe except I had to add more powdered sugar to make it easier to handle. It was still pretty sticky. I think the next time I make this I will use this recipe for the peanut butter filling:

1/2 cup peanut butter
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar

Stir peanut butter and butter together. Add powder sugar and mix till combined. Shape into balls using about a teaspoon of the mixture per ball.

Sandwich peanut butter ball between two pretzels.  Then dip pretzels into melted chocolate. Allow to cool on waxed paper.

So yummy!!!

Rock-a-bye!

Apparently more and more people are acquainting themselves with some of my talents.  This is a good thing!  I love to share what I can do with others.  It makes me happy!

My latest project was a cake and cupcakes for a friend's baby shower.  The theme was Rock-a-bye baby/Rock and roll.  So I made an electric guitar cake and a ton of somewhat matching cupcakes.  They were all really cute!

The cupcakes have chocolate guitars and chocolate duckies on top of them.  They were really cool, but they kept breaking.  Which was kinda frustrating.  But the ones that held up were awesome!

Garden Harvest

Here in Texas we can garden pretty much year round. Among my winter crop is green onions, lettuce, kale, and cauliflower.

The green onions were ready, so I harvested ALL of them. I think I planted way more than my family will ever eat. You could say I now have a "year supply" of green onions!

So... I cleaned them up...

Chopped them up...

And put them in the freezer.

I'll never buy green onions again!

I also cut some kale and lettuce to have for dinner.

There is something immensely satisfying about growing and eating your own produce.

This post would not be complete without pictures of my very cute, golf ball sized cauliflower. I think I may have a year supply of these too. I'd say there are about 20 + plants.

Aren't they adorable?

And finally some signs of spring...

I love roses.

Baby Shower Gifts

I recently went to a friend's baby shower. I think my talent as a cake decorator is becoming more well known. I love the opportunity to make something! The theme of the shower was rubber duckies. This is what I came up with.

Everyone loved it! I think it turned out really great too! Yay!

As my gift for my friend I made her some burp cloths. I found this tutorial from Petit Lemon Blog and got to work. They were easy to put together and turned out so nice! Why didn't I make myself some of these with my babies?