Yay You Did It

Well it's time for another round of Yay You Did It where readers have taken something I've done and did it for themselves. 

We have a few more cake decorators on our hands from my Decorating Cakes with NO Stress Post and I'm telling you each one that is done and sent to me is so unique and amazing and makes me want to give up my diet and dig in! 



These latest two come from some awesome and loyal blog followers and readers of mine, Corine and Lorie.  They both did amazing jobs and inspire me to make some more of these easy and stress free cakes. 


Corine's Cake with Candy

 Lorie's cake with strawberries.

I may or may not have just licked my computer screen. :)


So have you made one yet?  If not you better get busy and watch your family and friends oohh and aahh over something so easy but so stunning! 

 

Happy Hump Day Ya'll.

Yay You Did It

Susan from Sanders on the Pike wrote me to tell me that she's made 3 Barrel Cakes since she saw my post.

She served the first two at a luncheon for work and got such rave reviews that she entered the 3rd into a cooking contest at work as well.

Her beautiful cake won second place for presentation.  Susan says "Love this cake idea and it's so easy."
I love it too Susan!  Congrats to you all of your cakes are beautiful! 

Have you tried your hand at this cake yet?  Send me pics so I can feature you. 
Don't forget Monday to link up for All About You with your football posts or any craft project post. 

Happy Thursday Ya'll.

Yay You Did It

Well it's time for another round of Yay You Did It where readers have taken something I've done and did it for themselves. 

We have a few more cake decorators on our hands from my Decorating Cakes with NO Stress Post and I'm telling you each one that is done and sent to me is so unique and amazing and makes me want to give up my diet and dig in! 

This one comes from Dawn over at That Girls Deals.  Dawn made this beautiful strawberry topped barrel cake for her son's birthday.  What a great mom!  Doesn't this just make you drool all over your computer!

Hollie sent me her version that she did for her bookclub one night. I wish I was in a bookclub, that always sounds like so much fun and a great way to meet people, maybe I should find one here!  Anyways back to cake listen to this, she made a 3 layer white cake with buttercream frosting, and mint choc chip ladyfingers to go around the edges. Then she dipped strawberries in choclate and and put them on the top!  I know I know, we all just gained 5 pounds just thinking about it!  Needless to say her girlfriends loved it! 

This one is made by my fellow blogging buddy over at Cut Or Copy And Paste.  She had done one before and sent to me but didn't stop there, this is her 2nd one and it is to die for.  Well anything that's pink and brown and I can eat in my book is to die for! She made it for her friend for her birthday. She was originally going to add a strawberry ribbon around the cake with just plain Piroulines but couldn't find the ribbon anywhere. Instead, she found this great chocolate brown and pink ribbon so she made the cake to match it. She colored Wilton white chips with a couple of drops of my Americolor Neon Pink Gel Paste to get the pink. It really is very simple to make this and the procedure is VERY forgiving. The layers actually split in the middle and she "glued" them together like I showed in my original post with chocolate icing. She also piped icing out of a bag along the inside of the Piroulines to make the cake level. When she put the strawberries on top, you couldn't see the repair work. BTW, the Piroulines can be found at Dollar Tree which makes them super cheap!

So have you made one yet?  If not you better get busy and watch your family and friends oohh and aahh over something so easy but so stunning! 
 
Happy Hump Day Ya'll.

Yay You Did It - Round 6

This week I recieved 2 more cake creations from you awesome readers.  Ya'll doing these has gotten me motivated to make another one.  I'm thinking of doing one for Poppa for Father's Day this weekend.  I think I'll do another one with the cookies and fruit this go around.  But that chocolate sure is calling my name! 

The first one comes from Monkey's first babysitter, Brianne.  We love her and she loves Monkey so of course anything she does I think is great.  She made one for the kids and staff at the school her daughter attends.  She said they LOVED it!  What's not to love?!

The 2nd one comes from one of my awesome readers, Tracy.  She made this one for a friend and she said that she really loved it. I love tht she used Peanut M&Ms.  See how different you can make each one!  She also said that she's wanting to try one with the cookies and strawberries later this month so I can't wait to see that one too! 

How fun are these cakes?!  Have you made one?  I'd love to see it and showcase it.  Be sure to grab a button ladies. 

Happy Wednesday Ya'll.

Yay You Did It - Round 5

Wow can you believe I still continue to get emails with pictures of these wonderful, beautiful, amazing cakes?  I love seeing everyone's own personality and twist on them.  Keep it up! 

Rustown Mom from Cannary Family sent me an email and picture of one she did.  She did it for a luncheon and said it was a huge hit!  Of course they are, who can resist, cake, icing, and chocolate?  Well not me, have you seen the floppy arms and thunder thighs?  Yep, give me more cake people! 

Go over and tell her hi and ooo and aahh over her beautiful cake. 

Happy Wednesday Ya'll

Yay You Did It - Round 4 and Thank You

I have to admit that lately my inbox has been filled with many awards, personal emails of why you follow me or something that you thought I'd enjoy and I can't explain in words the way it makes me feel.  My purpose in blogging started out for family who didn't live close by to be able to keep up with us and I moved the family blog and kept this one as a way to meet and develop new friendships and that's exactly what has happened.  I could take the blog down a different path and try to make money or get stuff for free but that's now what I want.  I have other endeavors I'm trying to make money at. This blog, it's about me and you. 

Did you know that I don't even charge for my advertising slots?  Nope, if it's a blog or a company I truly believe in and think my readers will benefit from then I put it up there. So that's why there's only 2 up there.  I may add more down the road or change how I handle it but for now I have it set up like this. 

Did you know that when I do the giveaways that I do which are few and far between that it comes out of my own pocket?  I think of things I think my readers, my friends, might enjoy and go buy it to offer up.  No one pays me, it's my way of repaying you.

Sure I sometimes "envy" those big blogs that have thousands of followers or make money but when I get an email or a comment or a picture of something you've done because you were inspired by something I wrote then I'm instantly reminded that I'm here for you, I'm here to make friends, I'm here to inspire and be inspired and that envy is melted away. 

So thank you to each and everyone of you that listens, that reads, that comments, that emails, and that tries their hand at something I've made.  You make blogging worth more than any amount of money! 

Now on to Yay You Did It.  Don't you just love being enticed and teased with yummy goodness on a Wednesday morning!? How do you think I feel when my inbox gets filled with calorie goodness after calorie goodness? And you know I'm dieting so don't be surprised next week if Dear So and So really goes off on the diet. But we all love eye candy and at least it's calorie free until I run home and make myself one or two.

Kenzie from 9 O'clock Dance of Joy helped throw one of her girlfriends a bridal shower and when she saw my Decorate Cakes with No Stress Post, she of course did one for the bride.  I can't tell you how much I love the colors and the way this cake turned out.  It is stunning and looks like she picked it up from a bakery.  Just beautiful Kenzie.

Kenzie has got some great crafting posts, beautiful girls, and lots of fun over at her blog so please go tell her what a great job she did on the cake and see what else she has to offer her readers. 

Have you done something you saw here, maybe the key fob, tutu leggings, a cake, send those pictures in so I can showcase you. 

Again, thank you for being such awesome readers and for coming on this journey with me. 

Happy Wednesday Ya'll.

             

        

Yay You Did It - Round 3

I continue to get pictures of dressed up cakes that you awesome readers have done and I get blown away by all of them.  I want of course to taste each one!  You should see the drool. :)  I received a picture from a sweet gal, Alecia.  She doesn't have a blog yet but she does have a cool cake website.  Sweet Sparkle Cakes.  You can imagine my surprise to see someone who does cakes already and even has their own site try out what I shared on this post.  Isn't this cake just devine! 

I'm so loving those chocolate dipped strawberries! 

On a different note, totally having photobucket issues and can't seem to be able to fix it, I deleted a bunch of photos to free up space and now it's like it locked me out, I can't even get to their main home page, says it's under mainteance.  I'm freaking out, annoyed, frustrated and all my pictures are missing and my blog looks like poo.  Thanks for letting me vent! (Got it fixed, yay!)

Happy Wednesday Ya'll.  Yeah Right!

Yay You Did It - Round 2

I showed you last week on Yay You Did It some of my awesome readers who not only attempted the Decorated Cakes With No Stress, but blew it out of the water, well I continue to get emails and pictures and links and am so amazed by all of them.  I have a few more coming up in the next few weeks but had to show you this one today. 
Wendy over at Silly Steeneck's made not one, not two, but three of these babies.  She was making these for an auction and her kid's helped her decorate each one.  She even posted how much they sold for, I'm not going to spoil the surprise, but WOW, go check it out for yourself. 

Just look at these beauties, man I could eat cake for breakfast right about now. 

Don't they just scream goodness!  Have you made one yet?  I'd love to showcase it.  I'm thinking I need to make a few more to catch up to you awesome ladies. 

Happy Wednesday Ya'll.

Yay You Did It!

One of my favorite and most popular posts to date is my Dress Up Cakes with NO Stress where I share how you can take the stress out of decorating a cake but still get the ohh and awww factor when you bring it out.  I love to bake and decorate cakes, I pretty much suck at the decorating part but I still enjoy doing it and wanted to make cakes look professional and great without hiring a professional.  This post generated so many comments (70 WOW, that's a lot for me), emails, and even pictures and posts of your very own little masterpieces.  To me this is one of the great perks of blogging, to have a reader see something you did and find inspiration and motivation to redo it them self.  I know that my blog is filled with projects I've done that I've gotten from you wonderful talented folks so you can imagine how honored and flattered I have felt having some of you do the same with my little cake how to. 
Monkey gets real excited if she does something like put her shoe on or sees you do something like put your shoes on and she jumps up and YELLS and claps "YAY YOU DID IT" or "YAY I DID IT" she gets tickled pink to see an accomplishment come to pass and that's exactly how I feel seeing these cakes so hence the title YAY YOU DID IT, but when you read it, be sure to yell it and clap, I'll know if you didn't. :)

Rachel at Mommy Topics did such a fun barrel cake adding bright colors and a step by step tutorial even teasing us with pictures of the half eaten cake.  She's a lover of peanut M&M's so she used those on top.  See how it's so easy to tweak it to you or the recipient's desire?

Midwestern Gone Idahoan made one for her dad, awww, and since he loves wafers she used that instead of candy bars, I love this twist and again it really shows the receiver you know them and love them!  Plus people thought she bought it and couldn't get over that she made it. 

Tori sent me these pictures, she did not 1, not 2, but THREE cakes, wow don't you want to be her friend!  And she too added a different element by using Twix, now that's a girl after my own heart, Carmel, chocolate, wafers, and cake OMG!

Jalinda at The Craft In Me went all out and did a sheet cake, she needed to feed a bunch of hungry co workers this did the trick!  It just yells goodness doesn't it!

I hope you enjoyed seeing how easy this process is and how fun it is to step back and receive so many compliments.  Did you make one?  I'd love to showcase it!  Grab my "I've been featured" button ladies. 

Happy Wednesday Ya'll.