Give Thanks

 

Happy Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for my customers...new and old! I made all these cookies and cakes to bring back to West Texas with me. I'm so glad I get to still see my old customers when I go visit back home : )

 

Down the Rabbit hole...

Topsy turvy Alice in Wonderland cake with gum paste tea cup. I love this cake..it was So much fun to make! This was my first time making a tea cup, so I found an awesome tutorial here:
http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-gumpaste-teacup.html

Tangled dress inspired cake

Golf birthday cake

Space cake

Camo shooter cake

Sugar and Spice baby shower cake for one of my best friends!! Can't wait to meet that sweet baby girl! : )

Western wedding cake

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Carved wine bottle cake

Duh Nuh, Duh nuh......duh nuh duh nuh duh nuh duh!

Get it? Jaws music? Ok ok ..just ignore me! But check out this Sculpted Shark cake I did this weekend. I LOVE how it turned out!

Beach Theme wedding cake...and playing catch up

My first wedding cake I've done since moving to Rockwall! It's no secret that wedding cakes have always stressed me out (I've blogged about it a few time lol) I DO love being apart of someones wedding, of having them trust me with their special day. I think the problem was the size (and amount) of cakes I was doing. 250 serving wedding cakes = high stress levels for me. 75-125 serving wedding cakes=enjoyable!  I have vowed to only do smaller wedding cakes from now on...and I'm excited to offer wedding cakes again : )

Sesame Street first Birthday cake with purchased toppers

                                                                  

                          

          and my Daughter's 11th birthday cake! Lemon cake with rasberry filling Yum!

Summertime and the livin's easy....

I hope you are all enjoying your Summer so far! I have been keeping very busy with my kiddos and having tons of fun expolring our new town. I tend to get busy and forget to keep up with my blog...so here are a few orders I've done recently:

Princess cake with ruffles and sugar crown

Owl Birthday cake with fondant ruffles

Graduation cake

I took a trip back to West Texas this past weekend...and since I'm too scared to travel 6 hours with cakes for my old clients, I offer to take cookie orders instead. I used to not enjoy cookie decorating NEAR as much as cake decorating. It seemed to take Foreverrrrrr! I could knock out a 3 tier cake in the time it took me to do a few dozen cookies (ok maybe that's a tad exagerated!) It seems I've done more cookies lately since moving here, so I'm gettting faster and starting to dig it more. I used tutorials from SugarBelle on 2 of these..the Camo and the Tie Dyed. I posted links below

Mother's Day cookies

 I LOVE how these turned out! If someone were to get me Mother's Day cookies...I would want it to be these. Luckily, my Bestie, Miki, liked the idea of a mom style tattoo cookie for her order...so I got to make these! YAY

Tie Dye cookies
and here is the tutorial from Sugarbell:
http://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/2011/03/rainbow-tie-dye-cookies/

 Toy Story and Jessie style cookies

Camo Cookies
Tutorial by Sugarbelle here:
http://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/2011/05/how-to-make-camouflage-print-on-cookies-2/

Teacher Appreciation Week

It's that time of year again...time to tell the teachers in our lives just how much we appreciate them! This year, I have 11 teachers between my 4 kiddos to thank. This school year, my kids all started at new schools in our new town. We could NOT be happier with the schools and the teachers here! They all have such amazing, caring, teachers ...and I wanted to tell them all a big "Thank you!" I found these cute printable tags here:
http://sweetmetelmoments.blogspot.com/2012/05/free-printable-teacher-appreciation-one.html?m=1
and attached to small bags filled with decorated cookies for each teacher.

        Don't forget music, Art and other Specials teachers!