I had my final test tuesday night in Course 1 Wilton Method Cake Decorating.  For our last assignment, we had to do a whole cake, not just cupcakes.  I did a two‑layer chocolate cake, with white buttercream icing as my base.  I’m pretty happy with the way my final cake turned out, considering I didn’t have a specific plan in mind for how I was going to decorate it.  I kind of just went with it!  Here’s some pics for you (don’t drool too much, now):

I’m now terrified to make Kyle’s birthday cake though.  One of the ladies in class was trying to make a Strawberry Shortcake character cake and she was having a devil of a time.  I think that if she was at home alone doing it she would have given up or started cursing a blue streak!  Apparently character cakes are pretty hard to decorate.  My mom made a Ziggy cake for me for my 10th birthday, and she said “If I can do it, you can do it!”  Of course she would say that.  She’s always been very supportive and uplifting.  Anyway, I’m going to try to make Lightning McQueen for his birthday cake.  We’ll see how I do!   Next Lynn and I are taking Course 2.  At least I get a little bit of a break from cake for a week or so.  Our next course starts on the 8th of July.  I can’t believe next week is July already. Kyle’s birthday is coming way too fast!!

Oh, and because I didn’t get a chance to post a picture of the clowns we made in our second to last class, here they are.  They are very cute, and dead easy!  I like this picture because Kyle’s head is just peeking over the counter – he snuck into the shot just at the last second!  So cute.  He can’t say cupcake very well, so he calls them pupcake. :p  These pics are also in the gallery called Photos which you can find on the left hand side bar. 

I haven’t had time to work on my next lesson for the Jessica Sprague Now We’re Rockin’ class.  We’ve been prepping for our camping trip for the last couple of days.  I’m hoping to have it mostly done tomorrow before we leave so I can show everyone.  Check out the gallery to see some of the amazing layouts the other students have created!

DeAnna

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So my friend Lynn convinced me to take a cake decorating class with her. I thought to myself, sounds like fun! Of course, I didn’t think about the fact that I’d have to bake cupcakes, lots of cupcakes, to practice on and bring to class. People at my office have a hate-on for me right now! I’m threatening their summer diets, don’t you know. I’ve gained about 5 pounds in the last 2 weeks! It’s been fun, though. Take a look:

Then, one day I was checking Kimi Kreation blog, and she was talking about how she was hating her D80. She wasn’t liking any of her photos, they were flat and lifeless. Uh, okay. I thought they were pretty good. Then she showed us what they look like after changing some of the custom settings as recommended by Ken Rockwell. Well, okay, I see your point! I quickly went to his site and made the appropriate alterations, and holy crap! What a difference in my photos. We took Kyle to the park and met Lynn and Nyla there. Kyle and Nyla make such a cute pair! Kyle actually asked Nyla to hold his hand. He’s not even two! Awwww. Just look at the saturation in the colours on Kyle’s shirt – beautiful. And check out the sky in this photo! Absolutely amazing! I’ve done nothing to these photos except make them smaller for the web. Unbelievable!

So then, this past Monday I started taking Jessica Sprague’s Now We’re Rockin’ digital scrapbooking class. Great class, so much fun so far, and we’ve only been doing it for 1 week. Here’s the layout I completed from Lesson 1, featuring, of course, my cupcakes.

I have also been checking out this great website, The Pioneer Woman.  This woman is absolutely hilarious, and has some great content, ranging from general farm life, her amazing love story, photography, cooking, etc.  You have to check her out.  I have laughed hysterically every time I have checked out her site!

Anyway, life is pretty crazy.  Kyle has his 2nd birthday coming up, we are going camping next weekend, and there is just not enough time in a day to do everything!

Talk to you all soon! 

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While we were in San Francisco, we went driving around sight-seeing, heading in the direction of the Golden Gate Bridge.  We drove through Presidio and came to a nice beach called Baker Beach.  From the beach you can see the Golden Gate bridge quite well, from the base of the bridge near the San Francisco side.  It was quite cold and windy that morning, and very cloudy, but I guess the locals are used to it because Rob found some people playing volleyball on the beach!  Kyle was sleeping in the car, so Rob was the one who had the pleasure of walking the beach to get as close to the bridge as he could.  Here’s one of my favourite pics of the bridge.

On the way back Rob saw this amazing wooden staircase, and as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to do some cool vignetting to it.  

That night in the hotel room, I was checking Kimi’s Kreations blog, and she had a link to this great website called Keep Designing, which happened to have a free download of some very cool vignettes.  I downloaded it, and this is what I came up with:

I totally love this picture.  It was such a great coincidence that the Keep Designing download featured a staircase in the woods!  I added a layer and filled it with a nice neutral colour, put a gradient on it and changed the blending mode to Soft Light.  I think it gave it a really dreamy look.

I think I might have to print that one out and frame it.

DeAnna

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