Posts Tagged ‘Themes’

It’s always a pleasure to get a new client via referral. The following cake was requested by Therese, a friend of Amy’s.
Therese’s daughter Aden was having a birthday and wanted a leopard print cake. So, I set out to find a great pattern I could recreate in royal icing.
I spent several hours piping icing into [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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What could malted milk balls….

and bendy straws have to do with cupcakes?

You’re about to find out!
Yet again, I failed to remember to get my camera out at the beginning of the process (oops!) I did [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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With Valentine’s Day just 48 hours away, why not whip up a batch of these for your sweetheart?

I started by combining all the dry ingredients.

The filling was made from cream cheese, a dab of sugar, [...]

The following is a project I did in college for my Experimental Bookmaking class. We were to use the Venetian Blind binding technique and here’s my result, a book that commemorates all the trips I’d made to different parts of the world at that time.
The covers were made from .5″ foam core board wrapped in [...]

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s time to start considering a thoughtful, handmade gift for your sweetie. ((I can help!))
Two years ago, I made this book for my (then) boyfriend, who is now my husband!…not that the book caused that transition, mind you, but I’m sure it didn’t hurt either.
It was a [...]

This past Fall, I was flooded with orders for personalized journals. It was great fun to be so involved in so many people’s gift-giving for 2009!
I got a great email from a woman I’d never met before. Her name is Peggy and she wrote: “My children are grown and married [...] for Christmas I want [...]

A sweet gal I know named Deleise wanted to order her friend Amy a “biggish” sketchbook for her birthday. Amy and her husband Josh run an amazing ministry called “The Tapestry Project”, which, as described on the site, “is revitalizing a deteriorating neighborhood through renovation, restoration, and connecting people in need to the resources that [...]

A very MERRY CHRISTMAS from our home to yours!

Here’s a “blast from the past” cake…I made this over a year and a half ago for a friend’s little boy. He was turning 4 and the theme for his party was “Pirates!”
I started with a 12″ two-layer chocolate cake, frosted a pale peach/skin tone color. I used a red fabric bandana and a plastic [...]

My friend Mary wanted to get handmade journals for two of her best friends for Christmas. She bought a square Red Velvet one from my inventory, and wanted a custom one for her friend Julie.
Julie is a designer and photographer, so grids and frames are very important to her. I chose the inside papers to [...]