Navy and Pink Gender Reveal Cake

My absolute favorite kind of cake to make is a gender reveal cake!  I just love the concept of cutting a cake in front of friends and family to discover and celebrate the gender of your next family member.  :)  

The hostess wanted to stick to a navy/vibrant pink theme.  I love the way these colors went together.   

So, what do you think it was??  

PINK?? 

or BLUE??

Since the reveal has already happened I can let you all know it was a GIRL!  The inside of the cake (cake and icing) was colored pink to reveal a pink as pink, no doubt in your mind, you're expecting a little baby girl.

Sports Lover!

This cake was created for a boy who LOVES his sports. :)  His favorite teams are the Chicago Bears (football) and Chicago Bulls (basketball).  He also wanted a Jordan shoe box to represent his favorite basketball shoes. 

Toy Story

This cake was created for a brother/sister joint birthday party.  They both love Toy Story- brother loves Buzz Lightyear and sister loves Jessie.  Soooo, one tier, Jessie one tier Buzz.  ;)

Braves Jersey Grooms Cake

30th Birthday

Belle Cake

Every now and then a cake I make catches my little one's eyes.  They see so many cakes come and go that they've become a little more difficult to really impress.  BUT, when my little 3 year old Olivia (she is convinced she is a real princess) came stumbling into the kitchen at 6:30am and saw me working on this one she stopped in her tracks, got bright eyed and said

 "MOMMY!  Is that for me?? That is the most beautiful cake. 

HOW did you do that!?"

I kinda think she thought I made the Barbie doll too.  Shhhhh.  Don't tell her any different.  I need to be her hero for as long as possible.

And unfortunately it wasn't for her.  Bless her heart.  ;)  But I told her I will make her whatever cake she wants when it comes time for her birthday.  I have a feeling she might want me to "make" a Barbie to put in her cake.  ;))



Hey Ohiiiiioooooo!!! Its election day!!!

AND THIS CAKE'S FOR YOU!!!!!!!

 

 

Listen, I'm sure you're super sick of all the political talk...the phone calls, people knocking on your door, your friends/family trying to sway you into voting "the right way". 

 

 You're an important state in this election and you've been through a lot so I think you deserve a cake today!!

 

 

 

 

Now get out and vote!!! 

 

 And for goodness sakes, vote for my guy, errrr I mean, the right guy for you OK?! ;) 

 

Its all about the shoes baby...

Sometimes a cake just needs a good pair of shoes....

Candy Corn Halloween!!!!

Today I had a little after school Halloween party with some of my daughter's good buddies.  It was a little bit of a last minute party as I started planning about a week and a half ago!!  I wasn't even sure I wanted to have a party until I stumble across MimisDollhouse.com.  There, Holly has created the CUTEST candy corn printable set.  Candy corn- check!  Chevron- check!  Polka dots- check!!  Adorable design- check!  

Ok, that's it!!!  I'm havin' a PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I added a little salty snack to the dessert table...cheese puffs.  Don't give me a hard time!!!  What is the point of adding anything healthy to the table at this point???  Only the highest quality food for these kids right?!?  ;)  Its ONE day mom and dad...one day of junk won't hurt! ;)

How yummy do these top hat cupcakes look????  Swirl of butter cream icing, dipped in candy melts.  OMG!  

The girls had so much fun at the party!  We kicked things off with a Halloween treasure hunt.  I had "scavenger like" clues leading the girls all over the house to different spots.  At each "spot" there would be a treasure and another clue (leading them to the next spot).  They LOVED this!  I got all my "treasures" last year on clearance sales so there was some pretty cool stuff!!  (and for cheap!)

There were 10 girls here so I split them up into groups.  Here is group #1 reading their clue...

Group #2 FLYING through the house to get to their next clue! ;)

Watch this...the treasure was hidden behind the couch...

LOL!!  How awesome/hilarious is this pic!?!!  Sweet silly girls.  :))

The treasure hunt ended with this precious three tier box of goodies.  I found these boxes last year on sale, but they were originally black/purple/green/orange, very cute, but not fitting with the candy corn theme soooo, I wrapped them with Holly's printables to "candy corn them up".  ;)

My little Bailey girl with her precious candy corn shirt.  Big ol' thanks to my mom!!  She was able to use Holly's design and somehow magically (with her new heat press) transfer the image a shirt.  SO CUTE!  Thanks MAAAMA!!  

And my other little monster and me. Olivia is wearing the same shirt as Bailey but do you THINK she could sit still for one second so I could capture her cuteness???

  Don't I SOOO have the "there is a baby on my hip driving me crazy, but I look totally calm like everything is normal" look down pat!?!?!

Sooooo, after the scavenger hunt they sat down to do a craft.    

I found some foam pumpkin cut outs at Hobby Lobby and decided to do something with them.  I wanted to stick with the candy corn theme, BUT I couldn't think of anything super cute.....So I came up with an idea to turn the pumpkin cut outs into OWLS!  

I know, totally doesn't go with the candy corn theme, but if there is anything better than candy corn its CUTE little owls!!!  I mean, HELLO!!! Right?

  So I came up with a design and used card stock to cut out all the shapes (wings, eyes, etc). 

My little Livie hard at work. Didn't she do such a great job!?!!?? (my mom might have been helping her a little)  ;)

How CUTTTTTE are these owls!?!?!  The girls did such a beautiful job.  Little future crafters!

What a fun time!  Thanks to all the mom's who let me borrow their kiddos for the afternoon. :))

 Happy Halloween to all and to all a good night!!!!!!!!!!!!