Hello out there!

This boy has been BUSY! I've not any time to sit and blog let alone get any real rest! Between work and the Holidays I'm going mad! All said and done I really don't mind the way I've been busy. This year I feel like I got to GIVE a lot and that's a wonderful feeling to have. For the first time I got to help with this organization that my Aunt Rhonda runs with and amazing crew of volunteers called Karing for Kids: Jennifer's Closet. I have posted a picture of just a few of the people that were there Friday night to wrap the 6,000 + gifts we had to wrap. I think the total of volunteers was around 300. It was the best time I've had. I could have stayed there and wrapped gifts ALL night. It felt so amazing to know that the gifts were going to kids and families that would wear the biggest smiles on Christmas morning. I can't wait till next year to do this again. I plan on helping more throughout the year as well. They do more than just Christmas gifts. They do back to school just to name another big time of the year. They do some amazing things and I'm so glad to know them and be a part of this amazing giving.

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I finally have a few minutes to sit today and wanted to post a slight update and let you know there are things to come! I have one more Christmas dinner to do and the desserts I'm making will be one of the upcoming posts. I also have a small post coming for a dessert I made on Christmas day. I hope that everyone has had a great Holiday season and that the New Year will be a great one for us all! 


I'll be back after the first of the year with a few new posts and I really hope to dedicate tons more time to this blog and make it into what I really want it to be! Thanks for all the support!

Fondant Baby Blocks - A Tutorial!

I'm back! It's been far to long since I've done an update here on the blog. I've been VERY busy lately. I went right from Thanksgiving to a Baby Shower cake. Between the getting the baby figurine made, the fondant blocks, and work I've had very little free time. 


(Going back to Thanksgiving for a second, I have to say that I had a GREAT one. I was off of work for the first time in 6 years! It was wonderful to spend the time with my family and friends. I couldn't have asked for a better Thanksgiving.)


I decided to make my first blog post about the Fondant Baby Blocks I made. At first I decided I could just buy some blocks and put them on the cake. I, for some reason, thought I would be able to find pastel baby blocks...WRONG! It was even next to impossible to find baby blocks in general. Now, it doesn't help that I had a certain look in mind. After running from this store to that one I decided I should just make them. When I was looking around online I had the hardest time finding a tutorial on how to make baby blocks from fondant. Most of the things I found were about using cake and making larger blocks than I wanted. I started to feel a little lost and was going back to my original plan of using plan ole blocks. However, I did find a few pictures that sparked some ideas. I took what I needed from those and I came up with this...

Baby Shower Cake!

So here's my most recent cake. This one was quite a bit of work! I hand sculpted the baby figurine out of clay and I also handmade the baby blocks from fondant. I'll have a post up in the next couple of days on how I made the blocks. There seems to be a short list of tutorials on fondant baby blocks, at least ones like these. 


This cake was for my cousins baby shower this past weekend. She's having a little girl named Payton. The cake went over well and everyone loved it. I'm quite happy with how it turned out as well. The blocks weren't exactly what I wanted them to be but everything works and looks great.


And so, here it is!! Welcome Baby Payton!!

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