Cookie Fun

Our lovely cookies. Jacob and Brandon both had a lot of fun cutting the cookies, but got bored with decorating after about 5 each. After that, Brandon became creative director and chief spinkle guy.

Painted Shirts

JK's Tinkerbell shirt. The pink is not too pink, but really pleased with the wings.

J's shirt that he didn't want when I finished because he was left out.

Our matching shirts, along with a new one for J. I tried not to get the paint too thick so they would look distressed. I think j's actually came out the best (bottom left red one).

And yet another post!

Yep, can you believe it? Two posts in one day from the invisible half of x2. So here are the reindeer cupcakes, which btw, are tricky to fit on the cupcake rack b/c of the antlers sticking out.

I made the antlers by melting chocolate chips in a zip loc bag, cutting off a corner, and tracing over a pattern I made onto wax paper with the chocolate. I keep my chocolate chips in the fridge, so they turned that weird hazy brown, so next time I will make sure I use chocolate that does not live in the fridge so it stays brown. Nobody cared and they tasted yum. I just said the antlers were in velvet.

Brace yourself!

Rough draft of helmet cake. I literally threw on the fondant, but it does have promise. Might actually make it one day with some actual effort. Molding the cake in the plastic hat did work, so that was good to know. Never did get red fondant, though it actually looks redder here than in real life.

My fire cake! So proud. :) The flames have the shimmery Wilton gel on them that I put on with a paint brush. IRL it is mildly sparkly.

At the party. I had to support the metal fire truck (which is a "Code 3 collectible. Be careful with it b/c the mirrors will break off," blah, blah, blah) with dowels underneath, but the stupid plastic drive shaft made it sit crooked on the dowel. Now, why does it need a fake drive shaft? Who knows.