I am in full-blown lemon decorating mode. All month I have been decorating the house with lemon stuff. Maybe it is because of the bright and sunny yellows make this abnormally gloomy month a little brighter. I have been looking for a little lemon sign for my bathroom, ideally saying “So Fresh So Clean”, but I wasn’t having any luck finding something small enough. I did find an image I liked and decided to print it out and Mod Podge it to a board just like I did for the Godmother and Proverbs 31 signs I’ve made. Thankfully we already had lots of lever over scraps of boards and Jack was able to cut two boards to the size I wanted. Before gluing the image in place, I painted the boards white with acrylic paint. Once dry I cut the image to the shape of the boards. I put Mod Podge on the front of the scrap piece of wood and carefully place the image, smoothing it out slowly. After it dried I used a clear acrylic sealant and painted the whole sign.
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The Sign came out so perfect and cute that I ended up making another one for the kitchen!

​I love making sesame street cakes with bold colors and fun characters! The bottom of the two-tiered cake features fondant cut-outs of the shows main characters along with ABC letters. The top tier had the child’s name and their age in the style of the street logo with different sizes circles. To finish the cake, I added fondant stars on dowels and red and yellow fondant ribbons along the bottom of each tier.
 
To make the adorable smash cake I started by cutting a half oval in black fondant and placing it on the top of the cake where the mouth would be. Next, I colored buttercream red and slowly piped out the fur texture using a grass piping tip. Once the cake was completely covered in the red buttercream, I completed Elmo by making eyes out of white fondant and adding small black circles on each one. Lastly, I made his nose out of orange fondant rolled into an egg shape.
 
Both cakes were so perfect and I loved how adorable they were and seeing how excited the birthday boy was when he saw his Elmo Cake!

May the Fourth be with you! I love that I got to make a Stormtrooper cake for this day! The best part was I had to make a quick stop at Party City and there was a dad in line dressed fully at a Stormtrooper buying a lightsaber for his daughter who was dressed as Ray! I loved this so much and can not wait to get Andrew into things like this!
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Anyways back to this awesome cake! To create the general shape of the Stormtrooper helmet I used a Darth Vader cake pan that I had bought years ago. I cut down the shape to make it a little more round as they are compared to Vader’s helmet. I also created the curves of the helmet by shaping the cake and adding thicker pieces of fondant. To create the lines of the helmet I used smaller pieces of fondant instead of one large piece. Once all the white pieces were in place, I began adding small pieces of the blank fondant to finish the details of the helmet.
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I am super excited how this cake turned out and I was able to adapt an old cake pan to make it come out so perfectly!