I've Gone Quackers!

These little darlin's are for another fundraiser at the weekly band concert. They are yellow cupcakes, dipped in yellow frosting, with a donut hole for a head and 1/2 a marshmallow for a tail. The eyes are mini M&Ms.

What frustrated me was the dipping portion. I did chill them but I'm thinking freezing them slightly would have been better. The heads kept falling off and I ended up with yellow frosting all over my shirt, shorts, hands, countertops...you name it...there was yellow frosting on it!

My favorite is the one that is butt up - he's camera shy.... :D

Wedding Photo

It's a month late but I'm taking a moment to look back on my wedding to Chaz on June 12, 2010. It was a rather small wedding, with the children standing up for us and both sets of parents watching from the front row. We had a nice group of family and friends witness the vow exchange and despite the rain, everyone was all smiles for most of the day.

Chaz loved the dress! I looked exactly as he had pictured in his head - classy and elegant. He loved the hair up in a beautiful twist and was tickled all kinds of colors at everything we had put together. Here is a photo of the bouquets and the gorgeous toasting glasses my parents gave us.

There was not a thing I would change about the day (not even the rain bothered me!) I was happy and could not stop smiling all day.

KOI cakes

Ok so it's 90 degrees out and I'm making cupcakes (of all things!) Not just plain, ordinary cupcakes...oh NO! I have to get fancy and make KOI fish cupcakes! I got a new book called "What's up Cupcake?" and this was the first one that caught my eye (well honestly, I liked the yellow duckie ones that are on the cover that made me buy the book!)

They are made of yellow cake, buttercream frosting, two circus peanuts cut apart, M&Ms for the eyes and one lone apple jack for the mouth. Before I put the fish on, I frosted the cupcake and then dipped it into blue colored sugar so that they look like they're floating in the water.