Happy Halloween Birthday

My sister Jana has twins and she likes to make them each their own individual cake for their birthday (which I think is a great idea!). I love to help her because we get to do something that we both enjoy and we get to spend fun time together. This year she decided to have a costume party since their birthday is in October. It was a fun party and we had good time coming up with spooky cake ideas. We thought a spider and a mummy would be cute, so here is what we came up with. I decorated the spider and she decorated the mummy. This was our first time experimenting with fondant. We actually made our own fondant and it worked out perfect for the mummy. Jana did an amazing job on her mummy. I was really impressed. The boys loved their cakes and that is the most important part!

3 Little Mummies

My sister had a girls night at her house and we thought that these mummies would be super cute and easy to make. We found the idea at Craftaholics Anonymous!



We thought it would be fun to make our mummies all different sizes instead of all the same size and I think that they turned out to be quite cute! I really dirtied up my mummies, because I liked the look better. We used smaller google eyes on ours, but that is because we couldn't find the bigger ones, but either way they work out great!

They definitely make my mantel look fun and festive for Halloween!

Arrrgghhhh Matey!!

Our son, Easton, turned 3 this month and he wanted to have a pirate birthday party. I am always excited about making cakes for my kids. They are always happy with the cakes no matter how they turn out and that makes me happy. This is what a put together for my little pirate!

I always have tons of fun coming up with an plan and then watching the idea come to life. This cake turned out to be really fun! It was a hit with all the kids at the birthday party and especially the birthday boy!

This cake was actually one of the quickest/easiest cakes that I have made. It was easy to frost because I didn't have to try to get anything smooth due to the fact that I was going to make it textured like wood. I also was just able to decorate using M&M's, Fruit-by-the-foot, Rolo's, chocolate coin candy, jewels etc. Nice and easy! I was excited that it turned out as well as it did and the brown sugar sand added just the right finishing touch!

Coffee Filter Wreath

My sister Jana was in charge of coming up with a craft idea for Super Saturday, so she decided that she would try making a coffee filter wreath. She gathered the supplies and came over to my house so that we could either succeed or fail together. She thought it would be fun to put the initial of our last name in the middle of the wreath and I thought that was a great idea! She picked up the letters at Hobby Lobby and also got us a cute piece of polka dot paper to decorate it. We just used spray adhesive to attach the paper to the wood letter, used a razor blade to cut around it and then sanded the edges. I also used a little bit of distressing ink to add some extra cuteness to my "Y".



Jana went to the grocery store and picked up coffee filters that are brown (no tea dying required - yipee!) and she also bought some cardboard pizza rounds from the bakery/deli. We just cut a circle out of the middle of the pizza round and we were ready to get started. We took 5 coffee filters stacked together, folded them in half and stapled them in the middle at the fold. Then we played around with them (fluffed them out) until we figured out what we wanted each "flower" to look like. We ended up putting 15 "flowers" onto our cardboard wreath form. We attached them with a hot glue and voila! Jana hung her letter "P" with a ribbon, but I couldn't get mine to work, so I just hot glued it right to the coffee filters. I think it looks cute hanging on my front door! Thanks Jana for crafting with me and for getting all of the supplies. This was a fun and SIMPLE project!