Cake Business

Well, through no pushing on my side, it looks like I might be in the cake baking business :-)
This has all been through my husband's work.
I've made some for different occasions in the past, but lately they have kept me busy.

Here are a couple of the recent ones I've made.

The first was for a baby shower. I created blocks with the frosting, then topped it off with some spoons (that can be used when the baby starts to eat)



The second was for a retirement part. This was two cakes, one was cut in half to make two layers. On the double layered one, I put a road with construction vehicles on it. The road leads down to the bottom layer (other cake). That has a a peaceful pond. For this, I put a "fish" in it (a fishing lure, sans the hooks). Then made a little boat out of pie dough with cocoa in it for a camouflaged look. Dotted around the pond with special M&M's that sort of look like rocks. :-)

A couple of #1 spots on Helium.com

WooHoo, as of this posting, I'm in a couple of #1 spots in Helium.

One is titled: Places to visit in the US for art school students
And the other is: Poetry: Who killed who?

And all my writings are here: http://www.helium.com/users/340631

A new kitchen....Yeah!

Ok, I have been MIA lately. But there is a good reason....planning, designing and constructing an addition to our home. Actually, it's a brand new kitchen!! For 14 years we have squeezed into a little galley kitchen. Anyway, here is a video of the progress of this brand new kitchen...

Dad-In-Law's birthday present

Last week was my Dad-in-Law's 80th birthday. He's a great guy and I love to listen to him as he reminisces about his younger days. He loves the outdoors and use to go fishing and hunting all the time. So for his birthday, I humbly painted him a picture. I wasn't there when he opened it, but later got a call from him...he really liked it. Yeah!

Okey doke, so I've just set this blog up. Not really sure what I'm doing or why I'm doing it. But I'm going to plug along at it anyway. :-)

I'll be posting some of my artwork on here and talking a bit about them.

But right now I'm posting a video of some lizards. I found these 4 lizards eggs (about the size of a tic tac). They were nestled in a fire ant pile and knew they wouldn't have a chance if I left them there. And then today, I was out working in the garden pergola and found 3 more eggs in the same area! Those silly mamma lizards will drop their eggs anywhere. :)