"He does landscapes."

I made this for my Gram recently out of oil pastels. It's on a 4x6 card.

 It's modeled after a card she gave me that was originally painted by Monet. The original looks like this:

In other words, it's stunning and completely humbles me.

 

Then I found that someone named Megpi was inspired by Monet to transfer this same composition on to a cake. Looks delicious doesn't it! Well done, Megpi!

 

The Continuation of 'They Make Cakes'

So I have these two friends, Katie & Becca. They make cakes. They're dynamic!

After creating an eye-catching, delectable cake for Becca's brother-in-law,
they were hired to make a cake for a 50th birthday party held at the newly restored Clyde Iron Works.

The birthday guy loves his Harley, so they made him one and I got to help!

I'm hoping these pictures aren't too heinous. They were taken on my crappy phone.

I was honored that they asked me to help. I've always veered away from anything pertaining to the kitchen, but I can't resist making things out of straws. So they had my devotion for a few hours on the terms that we would be able to listen to Earth, Wind, & Fire, The Bee Gees, and an excessive amount of the The Spice Girls.

I had forgotten how much I love building minitures out of straws. I had a doll house when I was younger and I made the furniture out of all sorts of straws and marbles. I'll show you some time.

We worked on this all through the night. Everyone was slap happy.

I couldn't stop saying, "May I smell your fingers?". (It's from that stupid Ford Focus commercial with Doug.) And Becca kept on pretending to see things outside in the woods, which gets me everytime.

  

I happen to love green frosting. So I'm really wishing I could have had a piece of this right about now.

The road actually looked like pavement. Like you could literally get road rash.

There was a debate over a few stones and whether or not they slightly resembled feces. That had to have been around 4 or 5. They all look like perfectly normal frosting rocks to me now. 

I'm so impressed by the Harley logo! I know the perfectionist in Katie was letting loose. Great result!

This bike was made for Gromit...or Wallace.

Couldn't you picture it? We'd need a decent side-car though...

Oh yeah, and Happy Birthday, Mike!

They Make Cakes...

It's what they do. They're "too young to go clubbin'."

I suppose I should explain who "they" are.

They are two Cake Bosses in the making.  Two lovely ladies known as Katie, who I like to call K-trix.

And Becca, who I like to call Becca. ;) Not only do they make cakes, they have earned a reputation around town and in our circle for being able to make the most scrumptious and visually stupendous of cakes.

I'll prove it.

Here's a classic argyle made for Kallie's grad party. I love the colour scheme!

And here's the companion cake they made for Grandma Gigi's 90th Birthday Bash! She loves to golf and these creative cakesters made a little golf cart for her out of special K bars. I would have taken a picture of the main event cake, but I arrived late and it was already GONE!

Can't you just hear someone yell, "FOUR!"? And really, I know everyone says this, but the secret ingredient was love. Really, it was.

Then there was the cake for Jake's Grad Party done in his school colours. The graduation cap is even made out of a Hershey's bar wrapped in fondant. I actually got to watch them make this one so now I know roughly how to make the top portion of a Graduation cap in case I should ever need to exercise that skill. "It appears that way, because I have those skills." (You knew I had to slide that quote, didn't you?)

They've done all sorts of cakes. Big ones, fat ones, some as big as your head (there's got to be a song hidden in that.)

So last night, I was just about to curl up with my laptop to watch a couple episodes of Castle when this dream team called me to see if I wanted to work on their latest project....

Which I will save for another post! Just you wait! It was loads...nay tons of fun to make and some have called it their best cake to date!

 'Til then!