My new cake plates!

Through my continual search for inspiration and my addiction to blog hopping, I have seen many different lovely home made cake plates from different blogs. I have loved them and have wanted to make my own for a while. I finally took a trip down to the good old Utah DI and picked up a few things. I get a little excited for the projects I am doing and always forget to take a before picture of everything...so instead you get a before they were painted, while the glue was still drying pic!! :)

Here is the first one, upside down (glue is drying) I loved this plate! It was so springy I could not resist and the bottom is a ceramic candle holder.Although I actually liked the candle holder or what ever it was with the hand painted flowers and bees, it just does not fit anything that I would use it for, but it was perfect for a taller cake stand!And here is my springy cake stand next to my tulips from the backyard!And the taller one, I spray painted black for a cohesive look.And the two together! I love them!!

Jewelry Box and Earring Holder

My daughter was sick yesterday so I got to be a stay at home mom for a day! And I LOVED it! It got to take care of my little girl, do some deep cleaning that I have been wanting to do, and CRAFT! I have a whole long list of to do crafts from following all of the wonderful blogs that I do! :) For the life of me, I cannot remember which blog that I found the jewelry box re-make idea, but I did see the earring holder from here!
So I got to mark 2 of them off of my list! Yeah!
Jewelry Holder...
First, I started with a frame I just had!

Then I painted it black!

I had some old placemats that I thought would be perfect! They have a pattern on them similar to burlap - and since I had them, it was FREE! So I cut out a piece and stapled it to the back of the frame. Then I drilled a couple of holes and pulled ribbon through and tied knots. I had a couple of flowers in my scrapbook supplies and thought they would look cute on the frame as well!

Then I simply put my earrings through the little holes and hung it in my bedroom! I love it!

Next was to revamp this tired jewelry box. All of the furniture in my bedroom is black, so I went with the black theme again! I liked the idea of adding fabric to the glass and went with a deep red to match the red accents in my bedroom. I also had a little burlap flower in my stash and added that and a pearl to the front for a little girly-flare!

This is the inside...

And here they are together in my bedroom! Love them!! And better yet, I spent absolutely no money! Yeah! I LOVE stay at home mom days!!

My Sister's Baby Shower

So I held my sister's baby shower this past weekend. Here are a few things I made for the shower. To see more about the shower, go to my family blog!

OK, let's see...where to start...Well I wanted to decorate some letters for Alexis' room when she is born. The room is mainly Winnie the Pooh and pink - but I wanted something that would grow with her. I found some really pretty rose colored paper, some beautiful brown, rose and glittery paper with butterflies on it and a white and pink damask looking paper, so I used those. I painted the letters white and added the paper just on the inside of the letters. I found a really pretty butterfly and some flowers to add to the letters with the plain rose paper!

This paper is my FAVORITE!


I added some cute white ribbon to each letter to hang from!

Next, on to the cake and cupcakes. I wanted to make a cake, but the ease of cupcakes when you have many guests make them so much easier to eat! So I did both! And my sister got to take the cake home to eat with her hubby!

Since the theme was Winnie the Pooh for the shower, I made bees for the cupcakes!

Here is the process!

Step 1) Make bee shape out of yellow fondant - I used MM fondant - and use a dotter tool to add little eyes and a mouth! We want happy, Winnie the Pooh bees here! :)

Step 2) Add some antennaes. For this, I used some of the flower stamens I had for my sugar flowers. I just cut them down and colored the ends black. This was VERY time consuming! :)

Step 3) Add some black fondant around the body

Step 4) Add some wings. I used fondant for these as well. I just cut out some small circles and softened up the edges with a petal tool and attached them via a little vanilla!

Step 5) Make the icing on the cupcakes look like a beehive and attach bee!

I love how they turned out!

Now on to the baby!

Although, you will never see underneath the blankie, I wanted to bum to poke up just like how real babies sleep!

I decorated the fondant blankie like a little quilt and tucked her in!

Here is the final cake with the baby and a few buzzing bees!

Next is the diaper cake. I wanted to make this my present, as well as it being part of a game so there is a lot of stuff attached to the cake!

I got the cutest idea for some headbands off of one of the blogs I follow - Craftaholics Anonymous

Check out the link, she provides a tutorial and gander around the rest of her site! She always has so many great ideas! I have so many things from her site on my To Do list!

Anyway, these little nifty headbands are made out of knee high stockings! REALLY! They are soft for a newborn baby and they are stretchy enough to fit on an older girl!

I got a pack of knee highs from Walmart for $0.33!! And with items to put on the headbands from my stash of items I already had, it was only sixteen and a half cents to make each headband!!

My daughter is my model!

This one, I just took a piece of fabric and pulled all the sides and corners in and attached to the center using a button! And then added a little rhinestone to make it sparkle! (I also used both of these 2 headbands in the diaper cake on my middle and top tiers!)

Then I made one for my daughters!

And here is Kaitlyn trying it out! So cute!

Well a lot of planning and preparation over the past couple of weeks, but I think everything turned out good and I even got a little business out of it! Yeah!

A Couple of Projects

Here are a few Christmas projects that I did during the month of December!

First, for my brother Travis and his girlfriend Jackie, I decided to make a vinyl design to put onto a red decorative plate to fill with hot chocolate and goodies. it took me a little while to get the design lined up and the sizing correct, but I think it turned out pretty good. Here is a picture of the vinyl before I applied it to the plate.

And here is the plate with the vinyl on it! So cute!

Next are a few little holiday signs that I made for the girls at work!

My mom, sister and I always find a project to do together for the Christmas season! I found this cute little penguin and this year we also had Kyrstin to do the project with us!

This is my moms! I love how her eyes are a little crooked...I tried to get mine a little crooked and they just are not crooked enough to be noticeable!

My sisters turned out so cute with the blue...but she was being a little camera shy!

Kyrstin did a cute read and green striped scarf on hers with red glitter trim!

And here is mine. I love how each of our personalities are so different that even when we do the exact same project, they all turn out so different!

And lastly, I made this for my little sister! I think it turned out so cute! Love ya sissy!