If you love cupcakes...

(if you love cupcakes), then clap your hands, (clap your hands)...

Or just enjoy these pics of some cupcakes that will seriously make your mouth water for more. I have always used icing from the can...gasp! With this class, I have had to make my own icing...I really didn't know what I was missing. ( Still love me some icing from a can though! ha!)

Tonight we learned how to make clowns (creepy) and little flowers as well as the second step to the rose (not fun and may be the end of me...j/k). I practiced the clown but did not want to waste money on clown heads. I decided to get a little creative and make other figures from another book. (I seriously should not be in a class because I really just like to do my own thing)

Enough rambling...here are the pics!

Sweet little elephant is all lopsided after turning over on the way home...oops!

It may or may not be a goal of mine to see how many owls I can sneak in my cakes during this class. We have required cakes some weeks but I may just have to tweak them a bit. I was lazy this week and didn't mix new colors which is why there is a pink elephant and then pink little owl. Makes it more fun with fun colors...don't ya think?!

After two animals, I got really lazy and decided I would practice these little flowers because they are really really easy and super fast. I think this might be one of my favorites from class so far. I mean seriously, how cute are these little flowers. I tried one out and it was simply delightful.

No cake in fondant class Saturday which will be very nice. We will be learning how to use royal icing! Woohoo!

Hoot Cake! (Beginner Class)

Tonight was class two of the first course. I just had to do an owl! I know you are all so surprised. The book wanted us to do a rainbow (no thank you) and our teacher let us pick our own design if we wanted to do something different. We could have also picked the character cakes and I am so glad I did not as it would have taking forever to do all those little stars. I added dots for fun and added a few too many...oh well...that is why I am practicing! ha! (The green looks better in person...at least I think it does)

Southern Fried Labor Day

We had so much fun this weekend in Atlanta with family. Most of the weekend was spent outside watching football and baseball, too! We laughed about family stories, watched the kiddos play and dance, and ate way too much good food!

The Bama boys watching game day before the game. I love how they lined up to watch tv...they are a little too much! ha!

The Bama boys getting ready to go to the game! We went in shifts...which was awesome. Some of us went much later. We were all dropped off on the side of the road which was funny and great all at the same time...very little walking! After the game our rides were waiting on us!

Our traditional victory picture! I have to sit on my uncle's left side during the games...he won't let me sit anywhere else. Well, this game we were on the other side of the field, and he wanted to be closer to the 50 so I was on his right...until the second half when I reminded him of our typical sitting arrangements...guess it worked. ha!

This picture is out of order but was pregame where the player met in the middle.

Another pregame pic...my cousins during our 5-10 min. tailgate!

"A" cheering for another team


These are some of my favorite pics from the weekend. I had a lot of favorites but just picked a few! The first are at duck pond where we met a photographer to get some pics of the little ones. They weren't too happy about it, but she did get some good ones. These were some I took as we were leaving.

4 generations!

4 generations!

Matching PJ's!

Coloring a birthday picture for their Papa!

"A" wearing the shirt I made! She is the cutest!!! Also, she has an owl on her bday invites which is just awesome and so very cute! She might just need an owl creation!!!

Project Pics!

A coworker is going to my favorite place in a few weeks and bought the shirt/fabric for me to sew her little girl a shirt to wear while they are there. It is not perfect but turned out pretty cute. I hear she has a matching skirt! She also had someone else who has an embroidery machine make a really cute shirt with a girl with mouse ears...I think. It was really cute though and something I would definitely like to be able to do...maybe I will get an embroidery machine one of these days and the software for DW stuff!!

One of our coworkers took a job in the school system, so we had a potluck before she left us. She said she loves strawberry cake so just a few days after making dad's cake, I made some cupcakes to take to work. There were not many left at the end of the day! This picture is really bad, but the sprinkles are pearl white and so pretty! ha!

We are headed to see family soon, so I had to make stuff for my cousins! My cousin is having another little boy in Dec., so I made her some burp cloths and a bib with an Alabama/Football theme! I think they turned out so cute!

My other cousin has a little girl, so this cute shirt is going to her! It did not turn out how I wanted it to...oh well!

This one is going to my cousin's little boy! I really like this one and the shirt from ON is so soft! The football is with corduroy fabric!

These cute letters are for a coworker. We went to HL one day to buy these and scrapbook paper and everything else she needed to make the letters. When we were getting stuff, I decided there was no reason to buy stuff when I have it all at home. She picked out paper that would work to match the bedding but it didn't have any orange in it. I was thinking about it when I got home and decided it would be too cute painted to match. I told her if it looked bad I would cover it with the paper. It turned out pretty good and matches, too! It is not perfect but they like it and that is all that matters! ha!

I still have more projects on my to do list that seems to be growing instead of shrinking...good thing I enjoy crafty things! ha!

Dad's Birthday

Friday night we all celebrated dad's birthday. We went out to eat and then came home to dad's favorite cake...homemade strawberry cake! He got this as a surprise last year and requested it this year. I wanted to try something new; however, he reminded me that it was his birthday and that is what he wanted, so that is what he got. :) After cake and ice cream, we played a little Wii! I had not played in forever, so my arms were burning the next day.

Cheese!

I am sure his wish was for Alabama to be #1 this year!

Me with the birthday boy!

Happy Birthday dad!

Around the Clock Shower

My mom and her XO friends hosted a wedding shower at our house today. Here are some pictures!

There were clocks everywhere!

Food!

Very delicious cupcakes!

Very cute, too!

Cute little fruit cups.

XO sisters, the bride, her mother and future MIL!