Here's just a few cakes from this weekend. More info. on the cake show will be posted after my kids go to bed but I'm breaking up the posts since there are so many pictures. These are not pictures of my cakes and I do not know who did them but they are all great!! Squirrel! Great details! Beginner cakeone of my absolute favorites... also a beginner cakeWe loved these cookiesThis looks so real! my #1 favorite cake of the entire weekend. The details and stringwork was amazing. … [Read more...]
Austin people
March 1, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
We are back from Austin. It was a great weekend and I feel like a true, authentic Austonian now, or at least that is what I like to tell myself. I did place third at the cake show in one of my divisions. I will share more about that and lots of pictures later this week.Tonight we are really tired so I'm not going to share pictures tonight. I'll just tell you that Saturday we hit up all the local Austin hot spots and so I am a true Austonian. I was never taken for a tourist, even with the mom jeans and huge camera around my neck. Everyone probably thought I was just another cool college kid.... … [Read more...]
Cakes and things
February 8, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
You thought I had fallen off the face of the earth, didn't you?Well the good news is that I did not fall off the face of the earth because the earth is round. Kinda like my bottom half.It's that time of year again, cake time! I'm once again preparing for the sugar arts show in Austin and I am busy! busy.. busy.. busy... I am 75% of the way done with my first cake and have at least two more to go. I might throw one more in there when I get closer to the show. Who knows. I don't.I always have these perfect cakes in my mind, planned and ready to be made. However I always change my mind on the … [Read more...]
March 3, 2009 by · 2 Comments
My last post was january 13th. eek! I stopped posting then so I could start working on my cakes for the cake show and had planned on casually posting personal updates between now and then. However, 1st trimester tiredness followed by both girls being sick with strep and the flu, then followed by them giving me the flu, prevented all of this from happening. So... Here I am! Back from Austin and the Sugar Arts Cake show. Life can finally get back to normal if I even know what that means. The last week before the show was crazy! I was up until wee hours of the morning every night working on the … [Read more...]
