Homemade Christmas present bows

Last week we were a foodie blog, today we're a craft blog. Don't worry we're not getting fancy, these just turned out to really make me happy.
1. Productive
2. Cute
3. Recuse something I already had
4. There was a need
5. Kate could assist
6. Free
7. Use up scrapbook supplies I don't use often



Dang it. My annotations didn't work and Grant is getting mad. So much for being a cool craft blogger today. I'm still just a hurry up and post momma blog.

The Cake & Abby's Special Day

Yesterday was my sister's birthday. If you know us, you know Sister Birthday aka Special Day is sacred. I am ready to go. I have dressed in the assigned outfit and am so proud of the cake. The journey... the google image research, the youtube education {yes I expect you to watch his whole video, he's awesome. Click on his ad. Plus he promises to be your best friend...I'll wait} and the actual day long, highly assisted, heavily guarded, very coveted job of construction.

I made the chocolate cake from scratch. The scraps were dang good. I recommend this recipe.

I made the sugar glass.

(Sorry I'm not cool enough in the foodie blog realm to take progress pictures. I do good to keep 40 fingers out of the icing and 300* lava hot sugar)

I broke the sugar glass...on purpose.

(It feels good to break something on purpose.)

I decorated the cake and the sugar glass.

(I guess this is where pictures along the way are what make it cool.)

It turned out awesome and as soon as my scrapbook embellishing sister gets here (and the birthday girl in route away from wifi) with the gator and swamp people you can see it too.

laa dee dah, lah dee dah...

Are you so excited? I am. I'm excited for meat treats too, I haven't eaten all day... frosting doesn't count.

Aren't you so in love? Don't you wish someone loved you enough to spend all day making you a Swamp People cake? If you need to see the best 70 of the 180 photos taken at Tucanos in four hours {yup 45 an hr, one every 1.333 minutes...it's a wonder why our quoted 2 hr wait was 20 minutes}, visit us on Facebook.

PS: The rude balding lady, in the red sweater, that pushed Kelly with her plate...we know where your husband works so back up! Tonight we shared the restaurant with the Provo PoPo's finest, scary. Thank goodness my registration was up to date there were cops crawling all over the place.