Crochet Days

Let me tell you that I haven't crocheted in a very long time. But I found it absolutely necessary this week. Bella has been non-stop obsessing over pumpkins. Everything that is orange is a pumpkin. So I saw this cute crocheted version on craftzine.com and had to make it.

Since I finished the pumpkin in one evening, which is a great thing for me to accomplish, I decided I needed to make something else. And again inspiration came from craftzine.com. It's a slasher victim necklace. I've made 3 so that Lexi, Mary and I could each have one. I can't dress up for Halloween at work so this is my compromise.

Now, Lexi is interested in learning how to crochet so she showed me this cute penguin and I had to make it for Bella since she's going to be a penguin for Halloween. This came from lionbrand.com

The next thing I'm going to make is a cupcake toy. Lexi also found a panda bear and I think I'll start her off on that as her first project.

Bella & Gabe's Birthdays

I loved making the cupcakes for Bella's 2nd birthday. I was scared at first because I'd never tried anything like this before but I had Lexi help me (thx Lexi!) and they turned out pretty cute. We had a penguin theme for the cakes because Bella loves the Penguins of Madagascar cartoon on Nick.

I only did 5 cupcakes like penguins because I was not sure if my cupcake holder would be big enough to hold the taller cakes. The rest of the cupcakes were just frosted with vanilla icing and some got fish and others got coated in flaked coconut. I got a cupcake decorating book for my birthday this year and I love it. It's called Hello, Cupcake! by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson. I can't wait to do more, maybe something for Halloween...

My sister, Mary, decorated a cheesecake for her son's birthday. Gabe turned 8 and loves the WWE.

All she did was "write out" the logo design with melted white chocolate on a piece of wax paper and placed it in the freezer to set. When she was ready to serve the cheesecake, she popped the design on.

I made a John Cena card for Gabe. He has a movable arm to do his "U can't see me" pose. I love this card!!!