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Hey Y'all!  I'm back!

2014 was one crazy year in my life personally.  I can't believe we're almost half way into 2015.  I feel like I'm still recovering from 2014.

To recap, I moved three times and gave birth to my second baby.  It was a lot and I hope I'm done moving for at least a few years.

I've been very, very busy loving on my sweet new baby that was born this past October.  I've been baking here and there but nothing like what I used to do.  There's just no time!  Taking care of two little ones is so much work, especially when one is high energy 99.9% of the time, like my son. :)

I want to share a few of the past projects I had but forgot to share.  There's some good ones!

Birthdays

This was for a former student's birthday party

Birkin Bag cookies?!?  Yes, please.

I love, love, love this first birthday cake.  How sweet is this??

Girlie Curious George Birthday Cake

Might be the hardest birthday cake I've ever done.  It turned out so cool though.  

And the cupcakes that went with the fire truck cake.

Showers

Bridal Shower Cake.  I love the colors and sugar flowers on top.

Baby Shower

It's been nice to have a break but it feels great to get back to my hobby with benefits. :)  

Baking is definitely an outlet for me so thank you for the orders and the opportunity to practice my creative side!

Time Flies Birthday

A friend of mine just celebrated her little man's first birthday.  The theme was "Time Flies" and she played up the airplanes, vintage feel, and retro colors.   She has great taste and I knew she would come up with something clever and cute.

Here is the invitation she had personally made for the party

She only wanted decorated cookies and didn't want them packaged so here is the finished product:

The red and white ribbon isn't edible but I thought the "1" needed a little extra something. :)

All boxed up and ready to go!

Tutu Birthday

I've been getting lots of orders for tutu cakes and cupcakes.  It is very popular among the little girls around here.  

This order was for a first birthday as well.  I did some regular size cupcakes and then the mini cupcakes were the tutu's for the kids.  The cake was done in all buttercream and I got to use my new ruffle tip for the bottom layer!

Snips, Snails, & Puppy Dog Tails Birthday!

 Benjamin, a sweet little friend of ours recently turned one!  His mom picked out the theme, "Snips, Snails, & Puppy Dog Tails" for his first birthday party.  She had this adorable invitation handmade for the event.

I blurred out sweet Benjamin in respect of privacy for my customers.  He really is a doll though. :)

Here are the treats:

The cake for guests.  And not pictured is his smash cake, which looked just like the top part of this cake.

And his cupcakes:

We had so much fun celebrating you, Benjamin!  Happy 1st Birthday!!!!

Bump in the road but I'm back!

Well Hello!  It's been a while.

My family and I decided to move at the beginning of the year and I'm just now getting back into the swing of things.  I've missed documenting so many orders and wonderful celebrations.  I apologize to all my past two month customers that don't get their own dedicated post, but this is the best I can do right now. :)  I even missed a few orders because the camera was still in a box when the order was finished.  Hopefully some pictures were taken and I can get those to share with you!

Here are the birthday cakes:

I did a Charlie Brown birthday cake for a returning customer, Katie M

A cute Sock Monkey themed order- smash cake and cupcakes for little Landry!

A customer favorite, I did this cake again for a very sweet little girl who was also my old neighbor!

Her mom was doing a chalkboard theme, with her monogram, and a blush pink color for the accents.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the chalkboard cookies.  It was a first for me and I think they turned out so cute!

She also ordered some miniature cupcakes for the little guests at the party

And this was Vivian's smash cake

And the baby shower cake I have photos for:

It was an light grey & pink shower with elephants.  The grey fondant kinda showed up blue in some lights but it was light grey when I mixed it!

The coordinating cookies for guests to take home

I love the monogrammed cookies with polka dots.  I found something similar on Pinterest and I could resist!

Again, hopefully I can get a few photos of the cakes I didn't post because I would love to have them for me and share them with you!

Happy Birthday Luke

Luke turned one this past December and his mom loved the cake I did for my son's first birthday!  She wanted the exact same cake.  It was fun to make my son's cake again because I got to re-live his first birthday (which seems like forever ago!).  If you missed that post, click here.

I also made some cookies to go with the cake.  This was a small order but a cute one!

Happy 1st Birthday Luke!!!

Back from Holiday!

I've been really enjoying my time off work.  I haven't been doing anything- no emails, no photos, no baking (except for personal consumption), and no cleaning TONS of dishes from baking!  It's been so nice.

I left on my holiday break without posting all of my orders from the end of November and December though.  So here's to a little catch-up!

First up, is a very small, yet very adorable, baby shower cake for an old college friend of my husband.

It's iced in buttercream with a small, white fondant onesie on top.  Simple and cute!

Thanks for the order Kim!

The same weekend, I had an order for a first birthday for a little girl.  The mom saw this post from my blog and really loved the cake.  So, she wanted me to recreate that with a little tweaking and then make a smash cake for her daughter.  Here they are:

I think this is the third cake I've done like this and I still love it.  I love this version of it too.  The added aqua works really well with it. 

Happy 1st Birthday sweet Adeline!

Happy First Birthday Julia!

Have I mentioned that I'm loving the pink and orange combo right now?!?

I received this order for a first birthday cake for a little girl turning one.  Her party was going to be at a pumpkin patch and the invitation had three little pumpkins with a cute designs on them.  Her mom sent me an email of a few cakes she liked and I fell in love with one of her favorites.  I ended up trying to recreate the cake she liked with a few tweaks to coordinate with the invitation as well.

Here it is!

She loved the tiered look of the cake but didn't need as much cake as that would make, so I came up with a plan to give it a tiered look without the extra cake.

This bottom part (the orange and white chevron) is actually not cake.  It's a cake dummy covered in paper!  The pumpkins and flowers going around the bottom are made out of sugar, as is the name banner, but not the bottom of the cake.

So, the only real cake part is the top which was covered in white fondant and decorated using fondant.  Everything is edible except the orange bows holding the draped pennant banner and the cupcake wrapper on the top.  I mounded the icing at the very top on the cupcake to give it the height it needed for the finished look.  I made the orange "1" a few days earlier to make sure it was nice and dry.

She also wanted some cupcakes, large and small, to go with the cake.  Since the event was at a pumpkin patch, it was a lot easier to eat cupcakes than slice a cake.  I made this custom cupcake stand to hold the cupcakes and to go with the cake.  

I loved how it all turned out and I hope she had a great first birthday!

Happy Birthday Julia!!