New Crafts

I'm sure my husband shudders everytime I enter our local craft store and everytime I sit down at my computer to surf the web. He must be certain that I am going to find a new craft that I just have to try. His fears are justified as evidenced in the subject of this post. I have recently discovered cake decorating. And not just the Wilton class make a rose out of icing type of cake decorating (although I am interested in those as well), I found out that I can use my cricut to cut decorations out of gumpaste for a cake, how cool is that?!?! So here are some pictures of my first foray into this new craft. I probably should have chosen something a little less intricate for my first try but I still think it turned out pretty good. I'm planning to try again for my mom's birthday in a couple of weeks, but I think this time I'll try something a little simpler, like some flowers.

Thanksgiving Placecards

I got my Big E on Wednesday and have spent a majority of the last couple of days playing with it, that is of course, around getting ready for my family Thanksgiving shindig. I hosted the party this year so I had to accumulate extra tables and seating so that we could accomodate everyone, I had to figure out how to do a turkey (which turned out fabulous BTW, thanks to a Giada de Laurentis recipe on foodnetwork.com), and as if that's not enough I decided to make these little boxes for placecards which in my own personal opinion turned out adorable. I used TBBM, SYM, and WIMG cricut cartridges and I also used the ATB label maker for the names. The adults thought they were cute and the kids, not surprisingly, were just excited about the m&m's I had placed inside.