Sunday, January 17, 2010

College Reunion




Reconnected with a wonderful group of friends from the first years of my college life. We haven't seen each other since about 1994... A lot has happened since then- We had a lot to talk about! :) Facebook reconnected all of us but it was nice to see each other and truly reconnect. It was fun listening to everyone share stories and talk about the old times. We even broke out some old albums... I feel so fortunate that I had such a great group of friends when I first moved away from home. We have a bond that is undeniable. I'm hoping this is one of the first of many get together's...
Andrea (who was my roommate my freshman and sophomore year) celebrated her birthday yesterday so it was only perfect that I got to make her a cake. I used some of the new tools I picked up at the cake convention. I also used my clay gun for the first time to make the rope for the leaves and around the base of the cake. The cake was raspberry with buttercream icing and fondant accents.

Pictures of the cake coming together...
Used my clay gun to push green fondant through for a nice even rope to make the leaves and the base around the cake...



Used my new flower plunger/cutters. They make it easier to make flowers because the plunger pushed the finished flower out from the cutter. I rolled impressions of leaves on each petal and piped yellow dots for the centers.




The larger daisy flower is drying in the flower former... I wanted it to stand up from the cake to give a little more depth...

The finished product. I was happy with they way it turned out...

My super cute friends! In the back row- Anderea, Amy G & Amy V, Front Row- Robin and Jacqui


My very first roommates- Amy G & Andrea... OooohhHH the days of triple room assignments...

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Australia Day



This weekend we had our annual friends christmas dinner. Denise out did herself with the theme, decorations and the food. It was yummy... It is always great to get together with our friends. This group of friends is unique in that we are all pairs of sisters. It started with my sister's three friends and then grew to include a younger or older sibling and now includes husbands and kids... We have annual trips to NY, hang out at summer picnics and are generally making our way through life together. Good times...

To go along with the Australian dinner theme I made cupcakes representing various aspects of Australia.
Here are some pictures of them coming together...

Naked Cakes:


Flags...

The multicolor base of the oprah house... Water and Sky...


The boat looking cupcakes are the Sydney Oprah House... See it now...


Cupcakes ready for transportation... The red shelf liner kept them from spilling in transit. It really worked well...


I played with some of the toys I got at the cake convention. The flowers are hydrangeas... I made 1/2 a dozen flowers with cupcakes just to test them out...




Pictures of some of the many happy little faces that got to eat cupcakes.... :)


(The red cupcake is what it looks like when Lindsey is finished... The blue is Lilly... I'm not sure why I bother making the cake... I should just bring icing and let them eat it off of spoons...)