I Made a Wedding Cake!

Aww check it out, I made a real wedding cake! And this was for a real live bride who is neither insane or completely lacking in taste. Lucky for her, I've taken just enough Wilton classes that the cake came out fairly successfully. It was white coconut cake with a lime curd filling. I baked cake layers for two weeks before I finally came up with a recipe that I liked. Luckily I have two refrigerators in my home.

I'm really happy with how the cake came out, and I'm glad I had taken all those classes. The roses are handmade of gumpaste, and the pearls are made of gumpaste and fondant and covered with different shades of pearl dust. The ribbon border was a last-minute addition as I was having trouble getting my fondant border to look nice.

Before the wedding I swore I'd never do it again but after seeing the finished cake at the wedding I found myself ready to do it again. I hope I get the chance to make another wedding cake soon!

Cricut Projects

Here's a few pics of some Cricut projects I've been working on, including vinyl on ceramic tiles and freezer paper t-shirts. The monogram on the tile is from myvinyldesigner.com. The tiles were $.54 at Lowe's. The t-shirt designs use fonts and images I downloaded from the internet and cut with Sure Cuts-A-Lot (SCAL).

Olivia's shirt. I wanted to do an outline image, but she decided to do multiple paint colors and it just didn't turn out very well, but you can see what the freezer paper looks like anyway.

A t-shirt for a boy. The font is "Stencil" which I think is on most computers and is wonderful for stenciling and t-shirt painting because there are no little pieces. No wonder the military uses it. The tank is from a dingbat font of WWII tanks.

The kids, very happy with their shirts!

I love these tiles. I've seen a number of people do these in the blogosphere and decided to give it a try. It was incredibly easy and a very economical project. The tiles were about 54-cents, and the vinyl is the black Cricut vinyl. The monogram alphabet was $4.95 at myvinyldesigner.com. I haven't sealed the vinyl at all, I just applied it directly and am leaving it alone. I have to deliver these tomorrow so I'm not going to mess with them. But I will experiment some more with other tiles and will try some sort of lacquer. Does anyone have any suggestions for sealing products that won't give me cancer?