So, I've been away awhile...

   So, I've been away awhile... New job takes up most of my time and energy. Between that and barely staying on top of my laundry I have to scrape time together to work on cake planning for someone else's birthday and planning my own birthday this Friday. Throw in a traumatic pet death and you have one hell of a fortnight! Slowly getting there, getting into a rhythm with work and building stamina back up for long days... Anyway, I just put my finished invite up for my birthday and this is what it looks like:

   Not too bad for half an hour at midnight after a full day at work. On a Sunday. Not the best either, but its good enough for me! I'll come back with progress pics of my rose making...

The cake idea...

   The girl who I was putting the "Let Them Eat Cake" idea together for is now having her party at an awesome club that would drawn out any attempt a guest could make to have a theme, so I have embraced the decor of the club as a theme and the birthday girl's love of girly and pink as a guideline to follow.

{the venue, isn't it beautiful?}

   I have spent awhile thinking about what I am personally capable of and what cake I would like to make her and how big a cake 30 people can eat... In the end I decided on two tiers done mad hatter style wonky and it had to have some sort of flowers or plant life with parallel lines and dots and swirls. All in pinks. And gems. And silver...

   To much? I think not! Probably going to have to go with faux flowers though as I don't personally have the time to make a hand full of sugar ones...

P.S.

   Sorry I haven't been posting as of late, I got a job that's leaving me drained most days and I just had a traumatic pet death. Still have to plan my own b'day celebrations, yay me!

My birthday!

   Its my birthday this month and I thought I might have a celebration after all. I had been thinking of a purple theme with red roses and gold flake and this reminded me of a shoot I saw on Save the Date for Cupcakes. It was titled Amore and was apparently loosely based off of a very lush banquet style period in Italian history with lots of over flowing platters of fruits. This shoot really captured the look I was thinking of as well so I've taken inspiration from there and thrown in some purple cakepops and some cupcakes--although mine will have purple frosting with roses in gold liners...

   I put it all in a gold frame because it looks pretty.