Sophee in her Easter Dress

My mom and I both took pictures of Sophee in her Easter dress.  I think the mix of pictures ended up being perfect.  I also changed the nuetral desert sand in this layout to black to bring out the black in her dress.

Memorial Day Weekend

The girl's went to Nana's for Memorial Day weekend with Karly and had a great time.

Wedding Cake with gumpaste flowers and basketweave

I have been missing from my blog the last few weeks, not because I haven't been creating, but because I have been working on a huge project.  A 3-tiered wedding cake and a ring cake (I'll explain this later) for my dear sister-in-law.  I have been frantically making gumpaste sugar flowers for weeks leading up to this week of baking and piping.  Needless to say, I loved the final product.  The flowers on the cake are stargazer lilies, plumerias, gerbera daisies, and red and white roses.  The bride's bouquet had stargazer lilies and red roses.  The plumerias were to represent the plumeria flower the bride wore in her hair, and also the groom's Hawaiian heritage.  The gerbera daisies were the perfect way to pull everything color-wise and aesthetically together.  If you would like to see any of the pictures closer, just click on them.

The setup on this cake was particularly difficult.  Most cakes have a backside that hides some of the seams, but this cake couldn't have a "bad" side because it sat right in front of a mirror.  Luckily, I had enough flowers to decorate the back as well as the front.

All the flowers on the cake were made of gumpaste.  Here is a close up of a daisy, a rose, and a stargazer lily as well as a few leaves also made of gumpaste.

Here's another lily with a few red roses.

Another close-up of a flower grouping.  Here is a plumeria, a red rose and a daisy.

This was a ring cake.  Attached to one of the ribbons was a small ring.  As a Peruvian tradition, all the single women pick a ribbon and then pull them out of the cake.  The one that pulls the ring is the next one to be married, similar to the tradition of tossing the bouquet.  As a side note, my 4-year old daughter ended up pulling out the ring.  It was so cute!!!

Bridal Shower Gift

My Dear Sister-In-Law, who is more like an actual sister, is getting married soon and her bridal shower is coming up.  I was trying to come up with a creative gift for her.  So, I decided to make her some towels and an apron.  While I was in the process, I thought how fun it would be to pass along to her some of my family's favorite recipes.

The apron was made using a Martha Stewart template I found online here and then added my own twist.  I made a few changes to the original.  I made the apron skinnier, shorter and added the ruffles and a lining on the back.  I also changed the way the top ties were attached and made the pocket smaller.  Overall, I love the way the apron turned out. 

 I used some basic plain white tea towels and backstitched a tulip design on them. 

Here is a closer look at the detail on the towels.  I did them both the same so that she would have a matching set.

The recipe book was actually one of my favorite projects.  I used CTMH Life's Delight paper packet to make the cover and the divider pages.  The actual recipes are actually just written on 4x6 index cards.  After all the pages were finished I bound it using my YourStory binding machine.

Front Cover

This is what the book looks like after it was bound and open

dessert divider page

bread divider page

chicken divider page

beef divider page

Birthday Cupcakes

Yellow swirl cupcakes with multi-colored sprinkles in cupcake stand

Pink Wedding Cake

3-tier offset square wedding cake with white piped swirls and bead border

Cupcakes and large Cupcake

Large pink and purple cupcake with smaller cupcakes