Posts from ‘July, 2009’

It’s rare that I usually just get to play around with materials these days, as I am most often creating for a specific client, or at least, a specific purpose. School was a great place to explore crazy ideas and materials, and I have plans to bring some of that experimental spirit back to my [...]

Last year, Andrew’s daughter Sierra turned 9 and in honor of her birthday, I made a very girlie cupcake tower, complete with apple blossoms and gerbera daisies made from royal icing. I set up the tower before she arrived home from school, and we kicked off her birthday celebration with the extinguishing of a single [...]

I enjoy having enough cake-making skills to be able to whip something up for a friend in need. A buddy of mine at work came to me one day and asked me to create a cake for his father’s 75th birthday celebration. I made a chocolate 10″ round with milk chocolate base icing and dark [...]

From the looks of the exterior and the immediate inside of the cover, this book may not appear to be anything extraordinarily special. Sure, the swirly fabric is fun and all, but it just doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to put together…right? Wrong.

Though there are a small number of binding stations, this [...]

After coveting a friend’s copy for months, another pal gave me my very own copy of the book Hello, Cupcake as a wedding gift. For the past several weeks, I’ve been leafing through the pages, wanting to create something and being a little too intimidated to start. That all ended with this post by my [...]

In college, I took a class called “Experimental Bookmaking.” One of our assignments was to create a book with multiple folds in a single sheet. About that same time, I had been studying the art of illuminated manuscripts and gold foiling and I was particularly drawn to the Book of Kells. In that manuscript was [...]

Last Tuesday, I posted photos of the wedding guest book I made for my friends Mégan and Angel. Today is my chance to show you the cake I created for them.

For their reception, Mégan and Angel ordered cupcakes from Cuppies and Joe for their guests, but they still wanted to include the tradition of saving [...]

Mégan was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Oklahoma, so of course I was ecstatic for her when her boyfriend Angel asked her to marry him. I was also honored when Mégan asked me to make the guest book for their wedding, as well as a small cake they could [...]

Wow! Long time, no post. Since my last posting, I:
*Married my soulmate and inherited two daughters

*Traveled internationally

*Ran a half-marathon and have recently been meeting for health & wellness accountability with one of my best friends

*Hand-addressed my sister-in-law’s 260+ wedding invites
*A number of other amazingly beautiful, wonderful, time-occupying activities
All that to say, life has been too [...]