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Amazing Grace Barn Board  Sign

5/12/2018

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Last month Jack and I visited my grandmother’s house, somewhere I haven’t been to since she passed away years ago. The purpose of the visit was to collect some boards from the barn in the back of the property for a few projects that I’ve wanted to do. Her barn was a special place for me growing up, there were so many summers that I would play in there with friends, or see the new baby farm animals, I even learned to milk a cow in that barn! I wanted a piece of the barn to always remind me of my wonderful childhood there. I have a few projects planned, but the first one I started with a Mother’s Day gift for my mom. The barn was her mother’s and I wanted to make a sign for her home. I decided to go with “Amazing Grace”, I’m not even sure why I decided on that phrase other than it spoke to me. It also reminded me of how much I loved to sing that hymn as a child in church.

After sanding the board smooth, I painted it using watered down grey acrylic paint. While the barn board was drying I typed out the phrase in the size and font that I wanted. It took several pieces of paper that I trimmed down but did not fully cut out all of the letters. Instead, I taped the paper together and then on the dried board and traced each letter using a pencil. The pressure from the pencil created groves for me to use as an outline for the paint. I used white acrylic paint and a fine point paintbrush to paint the letters. Once the paint was dried I sealed it using a clear paint sealant and added two hanging hooks on the top of the barn board.

​I can’t wait to give it to my mom on Mother’s Day. I know she is going to love it as much as I do!



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Rainbow Graduation Cake

5/4/2018

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This was a really fun cake to make and it was for a really special occasion. The cake was to celebrate a very special high school graduate who won a college scholarship from the local PFLAG chapter. I have done several cake for the person who requested it, so all she asked specifically for was it to include a graduation cap and the PFLAG logo, the rest of the design was for me to create. I've done graduation caps before usually made from fondant and rice crispy treats, so I wanted to try something different. I thought it would be cool if I turned the top tier into the cap. I carved a dome out of the 6" cake and covered it in chocolate black fondant. To create the square, I just covered a piece of cardboard with the same fondant, sorry I'm not experienced enough to make it only out of gum paste. I used buttercream and a skewer to hold the top in place.

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The bottom tier was a simple white fondant cake and added the logo using letter cutouts and then rolled out red and orange fondant for the triangle and heart shapes. I used the same letter cutouts for the rainbow-colored congratulations and then different stars for the rainbow of stars. To complete the cake I used rainbow rolled out fondant to create the colorful tassel.

​The chapter loved the cake and the winner of the scholarship was so surprised they won! I'm going to have to keep this design in mind for future graduation cakes since it is so awesome looking!!

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