Jered's 18th BDay

One of my son's turned 18 in Oct. this year and I have been bugging this kid for the last 13 years to let me throw him a Halloween themed birthday party, and he always said no. This year, his girlfriend thought it would be a good idea to have a Halloween themed birthday party...doesn't matter how I got it the point was I got to throw him a Halloween themed birthday party.  Now I had all these plans, and I was going to make so many decorations and goodies, but unfortunately I started back at work Oct 9th...and I couldn't hang.  Although I didn't do all that I wanted to, I think that he had a good time and his friends did too and that's all that matters!  But here is what I managed to accomplish. Most everything I saw on Pinterest so just check out my Pinterest Halloween board if you are interested in doing any of these.

I made little goodie bags shaped like pumpkins.  They were filled with chocolate candies. I didn't hand them out, we just left them on the table since these were big kids  :)

Mummy and eyeball cupcakes.

Finger shaped sugar cookies, don't worry that's not a real one in the middle, it's a prop.

Since I made cupcakes, I went with a small cake.  It's better with the bigger kids, they seem to be messier with cake than cupcakes...go figure.

I made candy holders out of glass candle sticks and glass votive holders I bought at the .$99 store.  I then made faces on my Cricut with vinyl.  Really easy, really fast.  I filled them with the appropriate color candies to represent Frankenstein, ghost, and pumpkin.

I made trophies for the costume contest.  This was a challenge and not as easy as it seemed on Pinterest, of course.

The whole little spread.

I'm Back!

Ok so I have been gone for a couple of months, but there was so much stuff going on.  My son finished his chemotherapy and was pronounced cancer free.  We went on his Make A Wish Disney Cruise and spent a week at Disney World.  I did manage to get some baking in though.

Here's the stuff that kept me busy.

These were individual coconut cream pies...my mom's favorite : )

I made some mini coffee cupcakes before our Make A Wish walk.

This was my 2nd Michaels 101 cake : )

This was my son's graduation cake.  I assisted my sister in law on this one.  My first time playing with fondant.

Our Zumbathon poster with some photos from our cruise.

My son's invite to his girlfriend for Prom...lol!

Hopefully I get back to regular crafting soon.  Kids go back to school in 2 weeks...woohoo!

Michael's Cake Class 101

I finally decided after all my many failed attempts at cake making and the $100's of dollars I spend each year for birthday cakes.  That I was going to take a cake class.  Fortunately,  Michael's offers one and it's relatively inexpensive.   Well the class is anyway, but of course you have to buy "supplies" for the class.  Most of which are Wilton's and not cheap.  Thank goodness for Michael's coupons.  Some of you may laugh...Michael's cake classes...but my sister-in-law took them and she is a cake goddess now.  Beautiful, delicious cakes come out of her kitchen all the time.  I thought maybe it could work for me.  Here is my first cake attempt.  Of course I cheated and used real butter after they told us to use Crisco.  It made the frosting less stiff and harder to decorate the cake.  I also have a very unsteady hand, but it wasn't so bad : /