while friday might not have seemed as busy....it was. first thing friday morning i made a trip to the store to pick up and extra cake pan, and then got started on baking the 2 tiered cake. while the cakes were baking and cooling we (tonya and i) started making the icing. we did the first layer of icing and let it dry, then tonya had to go home for a bit. after the icing dried i did the second coat and let it dry again. once it was really good and dry i could start smoothing it out and making it pretty :) when tonya got back we put the finishing touches of the fondant paw prints and the fondant kitty and yarn ball on top. thank goodness we pre-made the cat and the yarn ball a few days ahead of time....we were cutting it close to time as it was (the cat and yarn ball took us about 3 hours and then the whole baking/cooling/icing process took 7.5 hours). but man the look on the little girls face when we brought the cake over was so worth it! she was just so genuinely surprised and happy. it was such a great feeling to see our art appreciated that way.
saturday was also just as busy, but at least i got a little bit later of a start....pictures for my girls team were at 10:30 and from there we traveled to their game on a different part of the island....where they won 5-1!!! go girls!!! after that it was back home to get changed and then over to tonyas to start on the second cake....only this one was even more special. it was for tonya's daughter. miss k wont actually turn 3 until the end of april, but her dad is headed to afghanastan this weekend, so we did the party early so he could enjoy it too. so sara and i got to tonyas at about 4:45 and didnt leave until around 10:30. tonya had already pre-cut all of the fondant, had the flowers ready to go and had the cakes cooling waiting on me to get there :) the only problem this time was we didnt have as much time in between the icings to let them fully dry.....which gave me a really big scare when i couldnt get the icing to do what i wanted. finally tonya had the idea to put it in the fridge for a while and leave it alone. i quickly drove home to get little miss some pj's and my "magic" icing spreader and when i got back 20 mins later the icing was ready to behave and do what i wanted it to do. once that was done, the rest was....well....cake..... we put on the flowers, the fondant, and the cake topper.....tinkerbell! the cake was just so cute!!! with tonyas creativity and my handywork the cake was amazing (if i do say so myself).
of course sunday didnt slow down either, little miss and i ran out to the craft store to get some "pixie dust" (edible glittler) for miss k to sprinkle on her cake, we helped set up the party and put finishing touches on the cake at noon, party started at 1, then my soccer game was at 3 (i was a few minutes late...tonya came at half time)and then we went back to their house to dig into the food that i couldnt before hand.....it was a great party and a great way to end a busy weekend.
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