Belly pic

I just realized I haven't put a pic on here with my growing belly yet so here it is. I also had extra time to actually do something with my hair this day so it is an alright picture. This is at 26 weeks...

More Cake Decorating

So I have taken a few more pictures of a few cake decorating styles and decided that I should write another post. So here we go...

This is a complete look at my fondant icing cake. It was really fun working with fondant because it is more of hands on and shaping things rather than using a spatula or piping the icing on the cake. I loved making this cake and learning fondant techniques.

This Image is showing the drape that is done in pink. I'm not so much a fan of this. It is also showing the rope border I did. I make it first and wasn't quite sure what I was doing yet so one strands of the rope started drying out and cracked a little.

This picture show ribbon insertion and crimping. I really like the idea of both of these and they both look really good!

This picture shows inlay the pink heart was cut out of other fondant and replaced a heart that was cut out of the fondant on the cake. The white part is brush embroidery. I didn't do it as well as it should be, but can look very nice.

This picture shows eyelet embroidery.

This is a fondant rose. I liked making it! It was a lot easier than piping a rose out of buttercream icing!

This shows the frill. It was hard to do, but I think can look very nice on a cake.

These are apple blossom flowers. I made them the colors I had available. They were made out of gum paste and not fondant, but were somewhat difficult to make. However they look nice.

This has been my favorite thing to make recently! They are out of a kind of icing called color flow. You do the outline let it harder and thin the icing. Then you fill in the outline with the thinner icing. It was really fun yet easy to do!

This is my favorite one. A butterfly that I'm going to use on a cake that we will be making in the next couple weeks.

I hope you enjoy looking at all the fun things I have been making in my cake decorating class. Oh and don't forget only 92 more days!

98 Days!

So I'm really excited because the baby counter says I only have 98 days left today! I can't wait to just be done and get back to feeling normal. Yes I love feeling my little girl move, but I would rather hold her in my arms. I'm sure James would love that too! He and I are both excited because we graduate this semester too! I'm planning on walking along with James at graduation, but I'm going to be huge so we will see how that goes. I can't wait until all these fun and exciting things are here. Then it will be off to North Carolina! I'm excited about that, but at the same time it makes me nervous and I'll for sure miss my family. It will be nice to have my in-laws around however. So anyway I was just happy to see that I have less than 100 days of being pregnant as long as she comes on time or even early, but not too early of course. I just can't wait!

Cake Decorating

So I'm taking a cake decorating class here at BYU-Idaho. I'm learning quite a bit and I'm loving it! Here are a few pics of things I have learned and cakes I have decorated so far.

First cake I did for a grade. Got a 97% on this one!

Close up of the stars.

Close up of the flowers.

My second cake that I got an 96% on. It was fun to make, but a little more difficult!

Don't shoot the deer!

This is a rose bud. On my beautiful purple frosted cupcake!

I thought I did quite well on this rose! They are hard!

Writing I did for a performance test. Hasn't quite been graded. But not too shabby.

Don't worry there will be more to come of my wonderful cake decorating skills. Maybe one day I will be better than James. He however decorated his first cake at about age 12, so I have a lot to do to get as good as he is! He has been a lot of help through this class.

Blog

So thanks to everyone who has helped, my blog is actually starting to look better. Thanks!