Great Giveaway!

One of my favorite places for meal inspiration is Kara's Kitchen Creations. She has great recipes and I haven't not liked anything I've tried from her blog yet. I think my favorite is the Outback Chicken recipe, so yummy! Well she's having a giveaway and I so need to win, it's a 6 quart slow cooker and I want it!!! hop on over and take a look and enter to win, but if you do win you owe me big!
Good luck!

Transformer Cake

Disclaimer: I am NOT a professional!!!! nor do I claim to be as good as one.

Anyway, a friend of a friend asked if I could do a Transformer cake for her boyfriends birthday So I figured hey why not. This was my first time working with fondant and I was a little nervous. I really don't care for the taste of this stuff so I didn't want to cover all of the cake with it but I knew I had to use it for the faces. I also found the font on line and figured what the heck, it was a lot of cutting. I really did enjoy doing this and can't wait to do my next one.

Finally Something!!

Having all my stuff packed up has made me realize how much I LOVE to create. I miss not being able to go back to my room and do something fun for someone. Well as it is my son's birthday this weekend I was able to do a little something. Of course I had to unpack a few boxes but hey I can't just not do anything. Anyway he brought cupcakes for his class at school and I did them up a little bit.



He is a huge animal lover and I had these cute little guys in one of my digital scrapbooking kits. The paper for the wrappers is from Doodlebug and I tried to make the frosting on top look like grass that the animal cookie could sit in.


Needless to say I don't think the Kindergarteners were that impressed but it was fun to do!

Christmas Treats

It's Christmas time and I've only done a few things this year for the Holidays. Trying to sell a house during the holidays stinks! All my stuff is boxed up and my crafting space is no more, so sad. But I didn't let it completely stop me from creating a little something. I made these frames for my good friends who I am going to have to leave behind once we actually move. So I thought a small memento of us together would be appropriate. I'd love to get a more professional picture in there but the snapshot will have to do.






Also Christmas wouldn't be complete with out my Christmas candies that I love to make and eat! They turned out really yummy and I'm excited to share with all my family that I get to spend Christmas with.

Cocoa Party

I had a wonderful time at our annual cocoa party and even more fun planning and working on it. Our theme this year was a snowy winter wonderland. Inspired from This winter wonderland tablescape from Inspired Bride that we saw on Hostess With the Mostess (one of my all time favorite places for inspiration)

For the invitations we used the "Sweet Treat" cups from Stamp'n Up to add a little more snow to the invitation.



I saw this idea once on Martha Stewart quite a while ago and they turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. I took styrofoam balls and sprayed them with spray adhesive and rolled them in fake snow.


We took the branch idea from Inspired Bride and sprayed these branches with the snow in the can and they "looked" great but when it came time to use them the snow started flaking off. SO, I should have used the instructions from Inspired Bride and spray painted them white- note to self. We also hung snow flakes from the branches for a more wintery feel. Love how they turned out!!



I am a huge fan of Amy Atlas and love her simple yet amazing table scapes she does. So in her honor, I tried.



We tried our hand at cake pops from Bakerella, they're really not too difficult and are super cute so if you ever need a fun new sweet to try you should really give these a go. (I'd do chocolate cake next time instead of yellow)



We also got together to decorate snowflake sugar cookies that turned out really cute. (and yummy)

We also had ordered powdered sugar doughnut holes (cause they look like snowballs) but didn't get exactly what we were hoping for so we improvised and rolled our glazed doughnut holes in powdered sugar.


After last years party we decided we needed something to counter act all the sweet things so I made a cheeseball and we found snowflake RITZ to go with it.


And to finish off the night we sent everyone home with more cakepops to enjoy later. We put these bags together using American Crafts Merry Mint paper and hung a snowflake in the window.


A big thanks to Dacia and Lynne for all the fun times we had putting this together and co-hosting. I can't wait for next years! Thanks again girls.

in limbo

As you may have noticed it's been a while since I posted here. The reason being that my craft room is all packed up. I'm now playing the waiting game. I'm waiting to see if our house sells, I'm waiting to see if Todd gets any offers from the two companies he's got second interviews with, and well just waiting to see where life is going to take us. I have a sinking feeling my next home will not be equipped with a craft room, : ( So I guess it will be a while before I'm back. I may of course do some random posts about who knows what but we'll wait and see.

I'm a winner!

As you can tell by my "favorites" blog list on the side there that I have many places I like to visit. One of them is a blog from the makers of CARDS magazine. I LOVE this magazine and any time I stop in my local craft store I pick the newest one up for inspiration. I would love to have a subscription to this magazine but they are a little pricey for me right now. Someday. Anyway I left a random comment on one of there giveaway posts and was randomly selected as the winner! What did I win you ask, well I'm not really sure. It's a Halloween pack of goodies from Helen Dardik, not too familiar with her stuff but hey not complaining. I'll share what it is I won once it arrives. Until then I'll be stalking my mailman.