My Creative Side...

Recently I have been feeling very crafty. The problem is sometimes I start a project, get distracted (kids, dinner, laundry, a loud crash coming from the other room followed by my son running like the wind!) then I never seem to find the time or energy to get back to it so then I decide to start another project which I get distracted from and the vicious cycle continues. Eventually I will remember my dust covered projects and finally finish them but its never in the time line I originally thought. Oh well, at least they get done right?!

Here are some of the recent things I have done...

Chocolate covered Strawberries for Valentine's Day

A bouquet of Pink Chocolate roses for someone in my ward. I sold these for Valentine's Day and they turned out really nice. I had other orders of red roses and some dark or milk chocolate but I don't put pictures of those. Here is another picture of a bouquet that I did for my friend Kaitlin. It shows all of the different kinds I made...

This has been an ongoing project for a while. I managed to acquire a big stack of old jeans and cut out the pockets and patches of the denim. I sewed them together in long strips and made a blanket top. John and Josh absolutely LOVE it! I'm still not finished with it but I'm getting there. I just got the batting for it so now all I have to do is put it together with the back, sew or tie it together, bind the edges and voila! Sounds easy right...WRONG! I'm pretty pathetic when it comes to sewing and I have no idea what I'm doing or how to make everything go together. Daniel keeps telling me to quilt it together because my new sewing machine has a "quilting" option but I think it's too thick for that. What do you think? Would it be better to tie it together then bind the edges or should I be brave and attempt to quilt this bad boy together?



My favorite form of crafty that I have been lately ties in to a Cake Decorating class I am currently taking. My friend Jacquie is teaching it at Michaels and it is so much fun. I am learning things I never even considered before even with a professional cake-decorating mother!

Here is my very first attempt at a cake...

The poor fish had a droopy mouth and HUGE eye. It didn't turn out like the picture but I still think he's cute!

Last night I made my second attempt at a cake. My wonderful friend Annie is having a birthday this week and I made this for her last night. It took me 4 different tries to get it to look like this but at least I finished it and she said she liked it. I was too close to the project and kept finding all the mistakes but I was happy with the finished result.

This next week we're doing cupcakes which I'm REALLY excited about. I really look forward to having this class each week and I think I will be sad when it's over.