And now we have white!

The final stage in my "Changing Seasons" series.
It took a while to get a complete blanket, but here is a view of our backyard, winter style (in the middle of a snow storm!) And yes, I did open the patio door to take the shot...they were just REALLY big snow flakes!

Shannon turns 5

Birthdays are always exciting and much anticipated events. For the past number of weeks Shannon has been telling all who will listen that her birthday is coming up soon, and when they ask how old she will be she extends out a handful of extended fingers.

While getting her breakfast ready this morning she held up her hand with extended fingers again, counted the fingers, and commented to herself, "Well, I'm done with that hand, time to move on to the next one!"

Time to move on indeed. But not too quickly, please!

"I'll Love you Forever. I'll love you for always. As long as you're living, my baby you'll be!" (Robert Munsch)

Time to Party!

It's done!

Here's a picture of the hack job I did on the inside of the cake...


Then I had to roll out the fondant into a 19" square...lots of rolling! I enlisted Mark's help to lift it onto the cake. No rips, tears, misplacements. YAY!!!! Shannon wondered if the other girls were scared when their mom's put the dress on.


We gave Barbie a top of the same fondant and stuffed her down. A few simple decorations and...


All in all, a fun project, and I don't think any more difficult than using icing. No messy, greasy bags and finicky tips to clean out. But if I had wanted different colours I don't know how I would have achieved that. They say you can knead colour into the fondant by hand, but I think it would take forever to get it as even as the mixer was able to do, not to mention getting the colour on your hands! Maybe next time!

I should also mention that I made Marshmallow fondant. Apparently 'normal' fondant tastes terrible. This recipe calls for Marshmallows, water and icing sugar....Nummy!

I'm not sure we'll end up with beautiful pieces of cake on our plates though...but then again Shannon wants to keep her Barbie cake "forever and ever and ever" so maybe we won't have to worry about that!

AND...while I was working on this project, Mark had one of his own; building a new pantry/storage unit in the laundry room...My husband ROCKS!