September 5th 2010

Today my mom taught me some more cake decorating secrets and now I can make the ribbon rose out of butter cream icing



I also helped my mom decorate a cake that she wanted to make for work. Really she just wanted to practice doing the basket weave on a cake instead of just on paper and she had promised she would bring in a cake to work. My mom had already made the flowers while she was in the cake decorating class out of royal icing




Finally mom taught me how to make Wilton roses and rose buds out of royal icing. In November I am going to make a Rapunzal cake for the new Disney movie Tangled. The cake is going to be a tower with a fondant princess on top and roses going up the side. So I made small versions of the rose buds and full roses.

September 4th 2010

Today was busy but I still managed to fit in some creative time. Mom taught me how to do the basket weave and reverse shell boarder for cake decorating. Sadly I forgot to take pictures but the basket weave is actually really fun.

September 3rd 2010

I didn't do much at all in the creative field at all today and I have no idea which way I want my story In Witch... To go next. So with a serious case of writers block and the fact that I can't locate my writing help guide I decided to work on a different story I had stared a really long time ago, kind of a retelling of Beauty and the Best, and see what I could come up with. Having the entire story in a single characters head as a series of journal entries is way harder than I thought, but I love a challenge.

September 2nd 2010

I finished my Little Sister's dress...well all but the zipper which I will get this weekend because I forgot to get it when I got the material for the dress. It is so cute, will totally match her doll's dress, and was super easy to make, even if the Project runway pattern was hard to understand.







Simplicity
2989
top size 5 skirt size 6

September 1st 2010

So I have a whole shelf full of things to make and things that need fixed, I finally sat down and fixed something, a quilt my mom had made for my kitten Panda because she loved to sit in my arm chair and would get it covered in black and white fur. Bad thing was that once the blanket was covered in hair I tried to wash it and some of the seams came apart because it was made out of flannal and didn't hold up well.
Well now my baby kitten has her blanket back even though her brother is now using it.






I then went back to my Little Sister's dress and started putting it together, I now have the top and sleaves all put together. It is going to be so cute.

August 31st 2010

So I started off trying to make a banner for my story In Witch... but then I realized that I still have no idea how to do anything on photoshop.




I was trying to recreate this picture but it didn't work



So knowing that I needed to actually do something creative I started working on My Little Sister's dress for her birthday.

August 30th 2010

Today was the final project for out fondant and gum paste cake decorating class. When we got to class we didn't realize that the cake wasn't supposed to already be on the cake board so we had to pry it off then cover it with fondant and then put it back on. You can't really tell we messed up at all thanks to the grass boarder.