We just had my daughter's birthday party this past weekend and before I show you all the pictures of the cake and different things that I made I thought I would first show you pictures of what I did for her last birthday party. I recently showed pictures of what I did for my son's Hot Wheel's/race car birthday party. So now I will show my daughter's last party, a Rapunzel/Tangled party. So I wanted to make at least part of her cake and I got the idea from a friend who made one for her daughter. I made the tower that Rapunzel lives in by the water in Tangled. I used marshmallow treats for the tower itself and then I put an ice cream cone on the top for the roof. Then I covered in Wilton's Whipped Icing mix and decorated with flowers and vine looking stuff that goes up the tower in the movie. I think it turned out pretty well.

I didn't put it on the cake until that morning because I didn't want the weight of it to squash the sheet cake. We bought a sheet cake at Kroger that had a stream of water on one side like in the movie and a couple of bushes. I put spotted gray jelly beans in the water to look like rocks. But you can't see them too well.

Me and my husband also made her a dollhouse out of half a bookcase. Put plywood in the middle to section off the rooms. Covered the walls and floors with scrapbook paper. Printed out pictures from the internet and framed them with colored paper.

The bedroom

Printed out pictures of dressers and nightstands and glued them to cardboard that we made into squares or rectangles and covered with white computer paper for the bedroom. Printed out a picture of a window and glued above the dresser. For the bed I used the top part of the package that my razors came in. I covered it with stuffing, and hot glued fabric down for the bottom sheet. Cut two pieces of matching fabric and glued them together with fabric glue for the covers. Then cut a small piece of fabric and covered some foam for the pillow.

The bathroom

We couldn't figure out how best to make the bathroom furniture so we just bought dollhouse furniture for the bathroom at Toys R' Us. Then just glued framed pictures throughout. Glued a picture of a stained glass window to go above the tub. And glued two pictures of bathroom shelves next to tub.

The living room

For the living room I just got a picture from the internet of a fireplace and glued it on the scrapbook papered wall. I found a tutorial on you-tube on how to make a couch and chairs out of cardboard. Then I just covered them in fabric and glued beads on the bottom to make legs. We bought the cabinet thing at Michael's for $1. We bought the tv at A.C. Moore in the dollhouse section and put a printed out picture of a tv stand on the top of a ring box. For the plant I just got the bottom part of a small bubbles container and put a clipped off small piece of foliage. And cut a square piece of scrapbook paper for the rug in front of couch. And since her party was a Rapunzel theme I got a picture of  the painting that Rapunzel painted in the tower.

The kitchen

Cut cardboard and glued together to make the shape of a refrigerator, and for the stove and dishwasher area. I printed out a picture of a refrigerator and glued it on. I cut out a picture of a stove and glued that on. For the top of the stove I glued on a square piece of aluminum foil and then glued on round pieces of black consruction paper. I drew on the drawers and glued small red beads onto it for the knobs. We bought a microwave and toaster in the dollhouse section at A.C. Moore. I glued a picture of a dishwasher onto the other one next to the sink. I drew on the drawers on this one as well and glued small red beads for knobs. For the sink I carved out two small rectangle shapes, covered with aluminum foil and then for the faucet I hole punched a hole (before I glued everything together) and then I cut off the top piece of a bendy straw and put into the hole. We also bought the table and chairs in the dollhouse section. As for the top shelving section, I just again drew on the cabinets and glued red beads for knobs and glued on a picture of shelves with a plant onto the middle part. And there you have it, a dollhouse! :)

Mustang Car Cake

I am getting ready for my daughter's birthday party. I have been doing a lot of work to get prepared for the party. Making all sorts of things for the party and as part of her present too. So before I showed pictures of what I made I decided to post pictures of past parties.

So my son is into cars now. Like Need for Speed kinda cars.......fast sporty type cars. His favorite is a Mustang so to go along with his Hot Wheel party I decided to try to tackle the job of making a Mustang shaped cake. It took about 5 hours total between baking, carving and decorating. But I think it turned out pretty good for my first ever 3-D cake.

I copied a picture of a mustang from the internet and made it as big as I could. Then after I printed it out I cut it out and used it almost like a stencil. I just put it up against my cake and carved out the shape. I used pound cake because it is more dense and so it is easier to carve with. I had to use two cakes one on top the other so it would be high enough. Once I got the shape I wanted then I covered it with frosting. I used Wilton's Whipped Icing Mix. (Very easy to make all you do is add ice water and beat until it gets thick. Then I put it in the fridge for a little while to make it even thicker and easier to decorate with.) I also like it because it isn't very sweet. For the black outline and tires I just added black Wilton's icing coloring to the icing and used a paintbrush to 'paint' it on. For the windows I used sugar paper which cuts just like paper and it stuck right to the icing. Then I just used a little bit of blue food coloring and water to make the tint on the windows and just brushed it on. Same thing for the lights.

And I also made cupcakes for that extra something. I used Oreos and just put lines with the frosting to make it look like tires or rims. I should have done that on the car itself but I didn't even think about it.

I think it all came out really well and everyone loved it. The only thing I would do differently is put a little bit more icing on the cake. The cake was so thick that it really needed a thicker layer of icing. But it was really fun! :)

                                                            Cavalry Helicopter Cake

My husband is getting out of the army and I made this Kiowa Cav cake for him for his farewell bbq. I made it with pound cake and the Wilton's whipped icing. I painted the helicopter on with a brush and icing.

                          

Baby shower presents

I went to a double baby shower and I made a couple of things for presents.


I made this picture frame for the friend that is having a boy. I found a bag of buttons/charms on sale for 50 cents so I bought 2. I didn't know what I was going to use them for yet but I thought they were cute. I cut off the circle part on the back where the string or beading goes and just hot glued them to a picture frame. A cheap personalized present.

I also bought another frame for her that said 'I am the little brother' at Burlington Coat Factory and it is magnetic also. I didn't want to buy a card so I decided to make one. I think it came out pretty good. We are all army wives so I decided to find a cute picture on the internet that had to do with that. I found this really cute picture that was perfect. I found it on zazzle.com. I cut it out and pasted it on card stock. I made it about the size of one of those really small cards.

Then on to the envelope. I didn't want to just have a plain envelope so I searched on google image search for that too. And I found the perfect picture that actually matched the wrapping paper that I already had. It looks like it came with the wrapping paper. And I just pasted it on the front of the envelope.

Same colors and everything! I found this one on mygeorgiegirl.blogspot.com.


For my friend that is having a girl I did buy her one outfit and some socks and then I made her two frames. The first one is just like the boy one I made only girlier. :)

When I took this picture I didn't realize that one of the charm things had fallen off in the left corner. It was of a baby onesie. So I had to glue that back on. I got all the charm things at AC Moore, I forgot to mention that.

And then I decided to make a sort of scrapbook like picture frame also.

 So instead of decorating the frame itself I did a scrapbook page and put it into the frame. And then just put a flower on the top corner.

Welcome to my blog!

I have always read blogs whenever I was looking for ideas on making things. Crafty, creative things whether for a birthday party, school or whatever. I like to make things and I enjoy the expression on people either verbally or facially (is that even a word?), when they saw whatever it is that I made. It is fun and I sometimes look to other people to get my creative juices flowing. So I decided to start a blog to share some of my own ideas along with some ideas I tweaked from other people. I will also share some of my stories and at times advice. I can't promise my blog will be as insightful and witty as other's I have read but I will certainly try. So here it goes!