And voila! It's November!

Wow, time got away from us!  Karen was down to visit me, and then the rest of our family stayed after she left, so I've been busy with relatives.  However, I have been crafting!

Check it out: baby hats!

Also, I'm now on tumblr.  Visit me at daniemakesthings.tumblr.com

Fall fail

So I'm now in the bee-yoo-ti-ful state of Georgia. And I'm looking through the pictures on my phone, when I realized that I forgot to take pictures of my fall challenge :( Epic fail Karen, epic fail. So I made this really cool yarn wreath with felt flowers. And yea, I can't show you. Lol. So this weekend at the Georgia house, I am going to make a fall wreath for Danie. Because I am going to Jo-Ann Fabrics and Hobby Lobby! And I can't freaking wait!!!!!


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Fall Challenge - Danielle

I would just like to point out that it's sooo unfair to give me a challenge when I have houseguests!

That being said, I rose to the challenge.  It didn't quite turn out the way I wanted it to, but hey, I learned from what I did.  I learned that I need full access to my baking supplies to do justice to chocolate molding.  

Anyways.

Here is my offering for the Fall Challenge.  It's more Halloween than generic Fall, but it's tasty.  I used Wilton's Haunted Manor Cookie Candy Mold, orange and dark chocolate candy melts, and Oreo Double Stuf cookies.  I think that next time, I'll find my chocolate paintbrushes to apply the first color (you can see how the orange of the pumpkins spread all over), rather than muddling through with a spoon.  But the results were tasty!  You can see where I sampled the product ;)

It's a Challenge!!

I decided to get off my butt this week and I have challenged Danie to do a fall themed crafty blog post. I feel a teensy bit guilty, having only sprung this on Danie on Friday and not leaving her much time to prepare for this. But she has a secret weapon in her back pocket this week.....Mom. Our Mother is down visiting for 3 weeks, and Nora and I head down on Friday for a week as well but Danie gets her for this project. Lucky duck!! Happy Sunday to you all!


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Catching Up

I feel like I've done so much lately... but I don't have anything to show for it lol. I do however have a project that I made a couple of weeks ago and I finally loaded the pictures onto the laptop :)

One of Paul's co-workers hired me to make a birthday cake for a party that he was hosting. The theme was penguins...I was VERY nervous for this cake but it turned out awesomely!!

I started with the cake, and I made it from scratch - so many people keep asking me why I don't make cakes with boxed cake mix - I feel that it makes them too light and fluffy to decorate.


I started with alot of eggs and butter, I used a recipe from my Cakepops book.
It was fun to make the cake. Paul helped to make the igloo for the top of the cake, we took the idea from Cake Boss and made it out of Rice Krispie treats :)
I then iced the cake with white buttercream icing - and I used a spatula to create the "snow" effect on the top of the cake. I mixed blue food colouring with piping gel to create the water in the pool at the bottom of the little slide.
Then we added fondant penguins and more water around the base of the cake. Everyone was in love with it. And another friend wants me to make her wedding cake! I'm pretty pumped about that.

So here is the final cake!

Can't blog. Knitting.

No, seriously. I'm rushing to finish two baby blankets. Photos will be posted when I'm done. Promise.

So freaking busy lol

So I am no good at posting on here but I have been insanely busy, especially on Fridays lol. I thought maternity leave was supposed to be a time of relaxation lol.

Nora and I were in Winnipeg for awhile so not too much crafting was done there. And it just so happened that my Dad's retirement fell on a Friday - reason for no post that day lol. The following Friday was the day after Nora and I got home. We slept most of the day lol. Which brings us to today.

I held the first Stampin Up party I've done since I had Nora on Wednesday night. It was a huge success and my stamp club starts again tomorrow night! Yay!
AND I'm making a friends wedding cake too. And planning my wedding. It's going to be busy.

Happy Friday blogworld!!!



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