Train Birthday Cake

This train cake was made for the first birthday of a little boy whose dad grew up with my kids.

The cake is frosted with whipped buttercream from Sam's. The train, mountains, clouds and greeting are all made of fondant.

Hope you had a Happy Birthday, Tristan!!

More Razorback Cookies

State of Arkansas and Razorback cookies for a friend who was hosting a Republican Women's meeting in Arkansas.

Once again, I forgot to take pictures before bagging them!

Another Doll House Headboard

Wow!! I haven't been on here for a while! This has been one busy summer.

I was going through some pictures and realized I hadn't put this headboard on here. We made this one for our granddaughter, Emily, for Christmas.

You might remember this headboard that we made for Natalie and Nicole.

Emily has a smaller bed and a much smaller room, so we had to build her headboard a bit different.

I think it looks a bit plain. I'm going to come up with something to add to it, to kind of fill in the blank spaces. Someday soon. I'll post pics when I do!

Music Themed Wedding Cake

Ruth and I made this wedding cake for a friend she used to work with. Ruth was also in the wedding, so it's been a stressful week!



Both the bride and groom are music majors, so the cake was fitting. They had a bride and groom topper they planned on putting on top of the cake, but it was wobbly and top-heavy, so they didn't use it.

Again, congratulations, Carrie and Tim!

Microphone Groom's Cake

I guess there's a first for everything. Here's my first Microphone Cake!!




Congratulations, Carrie & Tim!!

Bride and Groom Cookies

More bride and groom cookies! I love doing these!!

I actually did four different bride styles, but somehow only got pics of three.

And the groom:

Razorback & Arkansas Cookies

These cookies were made for a friend's family reunion. Bet you can't tell where she's from!

Hope you had a great family reunion, Becky! Thank you!

Hello Kitty Cake For Emily

Another granddaughter, Emily, celebrates her birthday the same day as Sydney!

Emily decided on a Hello Kitty cake. I used my Cricut to make the little flowers. The topper was provided by Emily's mom. It's some kind of bubble machine, but it worked find as a cake topper.

I had a bad cake day the day this was made! I knew it was going to be a bad day from the moment I went to move it and sunk my hand half way through it! It was all down hill from there. But even though it wasn't perfect, Emily loved it. It's so easy to please kids!

Happy Birthday, Emily! I can't believe you're already four years old already!

Sydney's First Birthday!

On Father's Day we celebrated our next to youngest granddaughter's first birthday. Due to a power outage the night before, Sydney's cake had to be simplified and thrown together with no time to spare! She didn't seem to mind at all!

Here are a few shots of her enjoying her own personal cake.

Happy First Birthday, Sydney!!

Apron Re-Do

My daughter picked up a couple of these aprons for me at Tuesday Morning for $2.99 or $3.99. They're good heavy duty aprons. The only drawback was they were Easter aprons and had this cute little bunny on them.




I have nothing against cute little bunnies, I just didn't want one on my apron. So I picked up this fabric at Joann's, thinking I would just put a heart over the bunny.




I found a heart that was the right size on the Internet, cut it out, then traced in on my fabric. I kind of outlined the edge of the fabric with a black indelible marker to make it stand out more. Then I went around the edges of the heart with fray check and let it dry. I think stitched it to the apron, over the bunny, with a straight stitch, as close to the edge as possible.





But they also had these little metal thingies that make the apron adjustable. I detest these things! My daughter's aprons have them and I can never make them work. Too complicated for my simple mind, I guess.




So I decided to get rid of them and just sew the neck strap into the front.




I got the hearts sewed on and they looked great! But since I had fabric left over, I decided I should do something else with it.

So I added a couple of ruffles. They turned out sooooo cute!!




Here's my daughter, Ruth, modeling one of them for me. Wasn't that sweet of her? Of course, she has no idea I'm putting her picture on my blog!!


What she doesn't know won't hurt her, right?