Thursday, August 13, 2009

Special Treat


Shaving cream clouds on the kitchen table. Good times. I bribe my boys (Luca mostly since James only responds to basic commands) with this activity. If they're really good on a car or shopping trip we might get to make a mess when we get home! I love James' eyes in the next picture. It's like he's looking to Luca to ask, "Is she really letting us do this?"


Here is my first attempt at a fondant covered cake. I made my own fondant. I'd really like to get better at cake decorating. I didn't have much trouble with the fondant, but the cake itself was kind of lumpy so that made the covering not look as nice. It was fun though. I'm going to keep practicing. (I have to add that I do not own a single cake decorating tool at the moment.)



Here are some of this year's Dahlias.
This is an older pic of Luca and Sydney at the zoo. They loved climbing in this turtle shell. It was such a fun day!
4th of July.

4 comments:

The Nielsens said...

Holy Cow!! I miss you guys! That cake looks amazing. How the heck did you do that?

Nora said...

joanie!! i found your blog through anna's. how are you? i miss you. your cake looks totally rad. let's catch up soon. love you.

Becky said...

Hey Joanie! I found your blog through Anya's. I'm super impressed with your cake decorating skills. I've worked with fondant from time to time but I've never made my own! Good work!

Jenny said...

If we lived closer we could take a cake decorating class together! I just bought my first tools a few weeks ago, to make Hailey's b-day cake!