Balloon Dude

One just wasn't enough! I had to make another one. This is truly awesome.

Balloon Dude

Watchmen Cupcakes

After my fail with fondant on a cake I decided to try my luck on cupcakes. They came out great! I used this same recipe for the fondant and Martha's recipe for yellow cupcakes. The fondant's dyed yellow, black frosting for eyes and mouth, and red gel for the blood splatter.

Watchmen Cupcakes

Pirate Balloon Sculpture

Shelby had her birthday a couple weeks ago and I wanted to make something AWESOME! Luckily I've made friends with the owner of the local balloon shop. Dawn owns Balloon Inspirations and takes pride in her work. She is a great person and I appreciate everything she's helped me with. I think Shelby appreciated it too as this picture shows.

Balloon Pirate Girl

Cake FAIL

First off, I love the show Ace of Cakes. I went to visit the Charm City Cakes site and read that, "we require a minimum of $1000 on all of our cakes." I don't know about you, but even though their cakes are AMAZING I need that money for other things. So, I set out to make my own amazing cake. I looked at their flavor list and noticed Peanut Butter and Jelly cake. Never heard of that flavor of cake so I went for a recipe on the internet and found this one. I followed that recipe step by step, popped it in the oven took it out and it looked flat and tasted GROSS! Guess what? The directions didn't tell you to add the sugar! Since Shelby and I made this together I asked if she had more time to try again. She did and we made the recipe again, this time WITH the sugar. It came out great. Now it was time to make fondant which I never done before. I used this recipe which was FUN to make. It came out great, but we didn't roll out enough fondant to cover the cake. It ended up glopping on the cake, so we just added the jelly anyway ready to call it done. Even though it looked terrible I had the best time with Shelby and the cake still tasted Great.


Cake without Sugar



Shelby w/finished Cake




Lesson - Read directions carefully instead of blindly following them. Cakes need sugar! As for everything else... Practice.

Frog and Duck Hat

To suprise my girlfriend I wanted to make hats that we could wear together. We met during the Frog prince so the frog hat is an obvious choice and a duck just seemed cute to make. These are modified versions of this basic hat pattern.

Frog Hat

Duck Hat

Painted Shed

I've learned that I really don't like painting, but when you're told to do something you have to do it. This summer I spent a lot of time painting the shed, jungle gym, and the front porch. Was it fun? no. Was it worth it? Ask the person who wanted it done. She'd say, "yes."

Painted Jungle Gym and Shed

College

You made of noticed the number of posts fall off the map since August. That's because I started my first semester of college. College is alright, but it sure takes time away from you. Now don't think just because I haven't had time to post that I also haven't made anything. I've been crafting more than ever. Posts are here to come, but they will be both old and recent projects. You might ask, "What made this sudden jump in posts?" I looked at the facebook group and noticed the membership started to fall. That upsets me so I hope to bring those members back as well as make many more. Be sure to visit the link below to join ACC on Facebook.



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