Aggies Do It Better

Since I have two boys, and am married to one, I rarely get the chance to do anything pink or princess-y. My cat is a girl, but well, she's a cat. So I relish the chance to do anything of the sort!! These came out SO much better than I pictured in my head, especially since I kind of decided to change the original plan on a whim. Enjoy! p.s. Can yall do me a favor? If you like my blog can you give me a little clickey where it says "Follow"? I've been told good things will come my way if/when I get alot of followers. I know I'm pretty new at all this, but I'd really appreciate it! Any any feedback or comments are welcomed!

Remember those bridal shower cupcakes I was talking about? I had to run to Hobby Lobby yesterday to pick up a couple things, and saw these on the "Cookie Cutter Wall" (those that have been there, you know what I'm talking about. It's a thing of beauty.) Aren't they so cuuuuuute? The quarter is for size reference. The lady that is throwing the shower said it's very girl-y and princess-y with flowers and pink and brown colors. I got these originally to make little fondant cut-outs to put on the cupcakes, which I was going to either paint or shimmer-up. Then this morning, I was looking through some of my cupcake books and saw this idea, so I thought I'd try it. (sorry in advance for the crap phone pics) You basically smash up some hard candies (Jolly Ranchers or Life Savers) in a ziploc bag and place the pieces in a little pile on some foil. Bake at 350 for 4 minutes until it runs together in a little puddle. Then you take it out and immediately spray your co...

I've spent the day over at Baby Bee Bakery, http://babybeebakery.blogspot.com/ , uploading pics for my website. This blogger picture uploader is so slow! It takes forever. Give it a looksie and let me know what yall think! Oh, and so much for taking the week off from baking! I got a call today for some bridal shower cupcakes for this weekend. The theme is super-girly with colors of brown and pink. Um, how could I say no to that?? That's like one of my fav color combos! yipee!

I've gone back to school. Well, kind of. I'd like to say that "you don't need math for this", but you kind of do! I am taking a month-long cake decorating class at Michaels (craft store) from Wilton. It is 4 2-hour long classes, once a week for one month. They offer a basics class, a Fondant class, and a Flowers class. I'm doing the Fondant class first. And, we are doing some flowers in this class too. I've wanted to take these classes FOREVER (well, since I started doing this) but you know, life just keeps on gettin' in the way. So I'm finally in a spot where I can. And I'm pumped. This is from my first class. We rolled out fondant and cut it into strips with a really cool tool (I'll do a post on all the cool gadgets later) and then fold them into strips and "glue" the ends together with any number of liquids. The goal is to make enough loops for a bow. (Apparently, according to Wilton, the number is 14) These are the ...

Well, I seemed to be forced into taking a week off running because I twisted my ankle last week. It would have been difficult to swing this week anyway due to some other extenuating circumstances, so I figure it's just as well. Hopefully I'll get through this week without getting in a pickle, since running directly correlates with my mood. Run = Happy. More on that another time. Anyhoo, hopefully I'll be able to catch up on my mile-long to-do list. At the top of which is this blog! I have been quite the busy bee :) these past few weeks baking up a storm. Below is the cake I made when my mom was here a couple weeks ago. She recently had a birthday so I told her I was going to bake her something and use it as an excuse to practice. Her only request was that the cake be homemade carrot cake! The top is carrot and the bottom is chocolate. The yellow is marshmallow fondant. I made a whole batch of yellow and used, like, 10% of it. Good thing it keeps! This was inspired by Jess...

I bought some Silly Bandz. You know. They're the newest and coolest thing to put on your wrist since awareness bands. Which is funny, because they aren't really new at all. When I worked at the zoo about 5 years ago someone gave me a pink one in the shape of a hippo. Not sure where she got it. Really cute, but I remember thinking, what do you do with this? We used them as actual rubber bands, or just kept them in our pockets. gasp!! I think I still have it, but I have no idea where it is. I remember last year hearing about these things and I didn't know what they were for the longest time, and when I saw them , I was all, that's not new! Anyhow, I didn't get the craze, and I usually don't jump on "fad"wagons, unless it involves wrist thingies. I do like those. I've been looking at them wherever I see them and figured I'd get them when I saw some cool ones. And then, I did. I saw these at a sports store near here. Actually, I saw Univ Of Tenn o...

Our Neighborhood had a pool party this weekend, and each family had to sign up to bring a side or dessert. Guess which I chose?? These were super fun to make (drink umbrellas=FUN) and took me practically ZERO time, well, compared to the time it normally takes. They didn't turn out exactly as I wanted, but pretty close! I used some more of the afore-mentioned Buttercream for the frosting. Which, as it turns out, is not-so-good for an outdoor summer event. (think to yourself, what happens to butter when it gets warm???) Luckily, they didn't last long. We also had our long-awaited garage sale this weekend, finally. It went okay , I guess, considering prettymuch NO ONE in my town was having any babies at this exact moment. That's who we were looking for! We did luck out as we were closing up shop when a lady that lives down the street who just-so-happens-to-be keeping her out of town grandSON next week and needed some gear and clothes! JACKPOT! So, we pretty much made barely en...