Flowers

In my cake decorating class we're learning how to make full blown roses out of frosting. It's lots of fun to see how you cane make frosting look like a flower. I'm getting better at it and my hand is getting stronger; it takes a lot of hand muscle to squeeze stiff frosting out of a pastry bag.
We also learned how to do rose buds. They're one of my favorites to do cause they're easy and are super cute! I did these on some cupcakes just for fun and we took them to our ward basket ball game to give them away cause like I said in the last post, we're sick of cake. :)
A neat trick I learned in my class if that you can make these flowers with a Hershey Kiss as a base. That way your rose is a little better tasting if you really wanted to eat it, other wise it would be a mouth full of frosting, yuck!

Caking or Camping?

Here is a cake I made and it was super fun! I made it the same week Brian went on his IBC camping trip so I told him it was his cake, but that he didn't have to eat it all. We took it over to Liah and Rod's and shared it with them and I ended up taking the rest of it to my job Saturday morning. Brian and I are kind of getting sick of cake. :P

The tree is made out of an upside down ice cream cone that I put royal frosting on with a leaf tip. Also in class we did those tress with a star tip so it looked for like an evergreen tree but I liked the look of the leaf tip better. I also put roots on the side of the cake, I thought it would be fun.The rocks over the river are Take 5's that I got in one of my classes. The river is made out of piping gel that our teacher colored blue. I also put some white frosting streaks in the river so it looked like a current. Our teacher brought in some plastic animals we could choose from to stick on the cake as well.It was a lot of fun I had a blast making this cake!

Dogs and the Mailman

Today on my walk to campus I saw a big shaggy dog sitting on the grass in front of a house. As I walked I watched the dog and was just thinking to myself how that dog will need a hair cut with the warm weather coming on. Then all of a sudden the dog gets up and starts running. He runs into the street towards oncoming traffic and I'm thinking, "do you have a death wish? what are you doing dog?" And then... I see the mail truck. The dogs nearly jumps in front of the truck barking at it and running. After the truck passed the dog went back to his yard and laid back down.
I had never seen a first hand account of how much dogs hate the mailman. Someone said that dogs hate the mailman because they invade their territory and I had never thought about it that way before. I just thought it was the funniest thing so I wanted to share my experience. :)