"Under Construction" Birthday Cake

This past weekend we had the chance to celebrate my twin nephews birthday. My mother in law wanted to do a fun construction cake for them, so after we did a search on pinterest and google we decided how we wanted this cake to look and started. My mother in law was kind enough to do all the baking, the decorating was up to me.

 This is what I had to work with and I got to work immediately. :)

 I used chocolate graham crackers crushed up for the dirt and the oreo's for the darker dirt.

  We wanted to add orange construction cones but zurchers was all sold out. My mother in law found these orange kaleidoscope instead and so we thought we'd try them.

The twin absolutely loved their cake and so did their brothers. :) It was a lot of fun making it.

Cupcake Tray

This past weekend I decided to check out the dollar store and try a new craft. I decided to try a cupcake tray. So after I cleaned up the plates and candle sticks I used Gorilla Super Glue to glue the candle sticks to the bottom of the plates.

  I let the glue sit over night and then spray painted the whole thing. You can spray paint before you glue if you'd like too that way you can get a two toned tray. But I wanted just the one color.

 It was a pretty hot day so the paint dried fairly quickly but I still let it dry for a day and this is how it turned out.

Easter Food Fun

I did a few things to help out with the Easter meal preparations. The most labor intensive I think might have been the jello cups I made. They took me 2 days to complete but were lots of fun. I also did some baby chick and baby chick bums as well as rice krispie hollow eggs with M&M's in them. Again I didn't take pictures of the step by step process, I guess I should really do that.

Spring and Easter Craft

As another holiday was fast approaching and we still had a lot of scrap wood. I thought it would be fun to do a Spring/Easter craft. I cut the blocks to the various sizes that I wanted then sanded them. My best bud and partner in crafts came over and we got to work. We painted all the blocks with a base coat of white and then made sure that the edges had at least 3 coats of white and the faces of the blocks only had 1 or 2. We were going to be painting them a different color. She wanted hers to be different than mine and since hers was going to be more labor intensive we decided to both work on hers first. I didn't do a very good job at taking pictures of her project as it commenced, but here is the final outcome. (sorry about the pictures, I couldn't get some of them to turn the right way.)

  This is a single white lily, it's suppose to represent the Savior.

I helped her do a lot of the big painting, the sky and grass, and putting on the vinyl. Then I was in charge of the flowers, bunny, grass, etc. She had to leave it with me because it was getting so late in the night and her poor little girl was fast asleep on our couch. :p So I worked on it the next day and got it finished. I think it turned out really well and I am fairly pleased with it. the blocks I decided to do wasn't near as intricate, but I like them all the same. :)

Both sets of blocks are reversible with Happy Easter on one side and Welcome Spring on the other. I am very pleased with how both sets turned out and I am excited to try more things in the future.