Summer treat

Just a picture of a cute summer treat I did for my students right before school ended. Chocolate covered nutter butters turned into flip flops. HOW FREAKING CUTE!?!

Cakes

I've always idolized people who can work wit fondant and make incredible cakes. Usually my attempts are mediocre at best, but I think the challenge is so much fun. Recently it was my boyfriend's friends birthday and I was asked to make the cake. Not knowing how many people were going to be there I ended up making two just to be safe. One I got from Bake or Break, which if you havent seen her recipes I HIGHLY suggest you check em out. Every one Ive made from there has been orgasmic!  I made a chocolate glazed hazelnut mousse cake which got RAVE reviews! Making it would have been easy minus the fact that my springform pan broke in the process and i had batter pouring everywhere. Two hard wear clamps, a dad and mom, a cookie sheet, and an extra pan later, the cake was done! Oh and just a side note, hazelnuts are NOT easy to find! Who knew? Anyways heres a junky picture of a delightful dessert.

The second cake I made----dont hate me----a boxed cake. I know I know, but I work and just didnt have time to make it homeade. Plus I knew I was going to try to decorate it so awesome no one would even notice it was boxed. 

Of course in the life of Corey nothing comes easily. My oven broke and it took 4 hours to cook what should have been a 30 minute cake. UGH. But it was done. One blue cake and one green cake (dyed with food coloring) stacked on top of each other and iced. FONDANT TIME!

I didn't want to cover the cake in fondant because I personally, dont like the taste. So instead I iced the cake and just decorated with it.

The person this was for is a HUGE fan of Lost. I never seen the show, have no idea what its even about, but I googled it and got a picture of something called the "Dharma Initiative"- whatever, I was gonna make it in fondant. 

Lots of black food coloring later,  I had a pretty neato cake. Oh- FYI Jon is the birthday boy. I switched the word "Dharma" with his name. Hope that doesnt offend you Lost fans!

The computer was the pic I was going for. 

I love the dollar store

Yes, yes it's true. The dollar store holds a very special place in my heart. At one point I was looking into making resin jewelry. I read that silicon molds were a good mold to you to create them. Well, of course the dollar store had them for super cheap. So around Easter I picked up a bunny mold for a buck. It was too cute to not use for candy though!! Don't worry the candy was the first use, NO RESIN touched these molds yet. Anyways, I made these adorable chocolates for my class. They Loved them!

Another Shirt

As mentioned in an earlier post one of my good friends got engaged. Naturally, we had to go out and celebrate! My crafty ass couldn't just go out though. Oh no. I had to make sure everyone knew why we were drinking our faces off! ha. So I made her a shirt. I think it was rather clever.

Sorry about the junky pictures. The next few posts will have them. Mainly because taking pics was a total after thought and I ended up doing it with my cell. 

Isn't this cute though!?!?! LOVE IT!

 

Rings

Kim over at A Girl and A Glue Gun showed us Ric Rack Rings. She linked em to another site which showed a tutorial. I, fell in love. Made one, and wore it to school. We had a party that day, and one of the parents raved and raved about it. I literally took it off my hand, and gave it to her. It made her day. So finally, I made more. Only these didnt come out as well. You could see the hot glue. I dont know how to fix it. Maybe marker that matches?

See the glue?!

3 rings, all glue. YUCK!!!

On a side note, I just had to pull out 3/4 of the baby blanket Im making bc i realized that Ive been adding a stitch each row and it was getting wider and wider. I wish I noticed before I was like 30 rows in. Booo. 

Collage

I saw these a lot around blog land and decided to make one. It was made using paint samples mod podged onto a canvas in collage form. Then using a dark varnish you paint it on, and wipe it off. This gets the colors in the crevices and gibes it an aged look.
My boyfriend works at Sherwin Williams. He easily got me paint samples.  I put this together months ago. STILLLLLL have yet to varnish it. Its on my to-do list i swear. So heres the half done collage. I will get it varnished and completed soon. I will I will I WILL!

Looks nifty though. Made an awesome background for some pics of other crafts. haha. 

Advanced Crocheting?! I think not!

Mandy on Mandipity did an entire series on how to crochet. I tried, and failed most. She did post this one though, about how to make a flower. I tried. It came out mediocre. You could tell what it was, but it was nothing to write home about. I also crocheted a basic circle. Same result. So now I had these two mediocre crocheted things with NOTHING to do with. So, I made a bracelet/corsage thingie.

I glued the circle on top of the flower, then glued a crystal button on top.

Simple elastic (used to make skirts and what not) used to make the wrist band

Whala!