Sea Theme Scuba Cake for Richard's Happy Birthday!!!

 

Happy Blue Monday to everyone hosted Sally  at Smiling Sally.  I am joining a little late today.  Be sure to visit Sally for many other blue posts. 

 

Happy Victoria Day to all my Canadian friends. 

 Today is our holiday Monday and I am home from work.

 

We celebrated Richard's birthday last night.  Robin scuba dives but Rich has to snorkle and said he wanted to take scuba lessons instead of having to snorkle with the kids all the time. We put our money together and gave that to him for his birthday towards lessons.   Heere are Richard and Robin, both wearing BLUE.

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Geoff and Kiley and Austin, dressed in BLUE (Madeline couldn't make it.... :o( )

I baked a cake and therefore the theme had to be a blue sea theme even though he'll be snorkling in lakes.  It was a chocolate mocha cake with my marshmallow fondant covering it.  The shells and octapus were made of fondant and then I added gummy fish and shark and dolphins. 

I made a treasure chest box on the top and we wrapped the birthday money in a plastic wrap and tucked it in there.  "Gold" chocolate coins hung out the opening.  BLUE tablecloth....BLUE cellphone.

We gave him cards and the last envelope held a clue to open up the chest.  He did and he was so happy about the prospect of scuba.   Marc and I singing Happy Birthday.

We had a nice evening....

KitKat Cake for Geoff's Birthday....Yay...

We celebrated Geoff's birthday on Saturday.  His birthday was actually on the 9th but because of his working schedule and he had a little vacation, the celebration continued to Saturday.

We gave him one gift bag with cards from us all.  We all chipped in and put in some money and told him he could use it for a new grill.  He needs one and he was very happy.

Here is Madeline, Geoff and I.  She is getting so big and has braces and her teeth are looking great in only 3 months.  See the KitKat - M&M cake  baked for him?  A real sugar high....

My mother is back from vacationing in Florida and here we are....

My youngest son Rich and Robin....

Marc took a silly picture of himself...being afraid he wouldn't have his picture taken otherwise...How attractive...

Is it spring your way yet?  Well its only 46F out there right now which is twice as warm as it was on the weekend about this time!  I am SO desperately waiting for the 'real' spring to arrive. 

If you have it...enjoy it!  Have a great week... Judi xoxo

Happy Easter....

Happy Easter to all my blogging friends.  In whatever way you celebrate today I hope it brings you much happiness.  I'm sharing a picture of an Easter cake order I had....

We had a small family Easter dinner yesterday.  Small because my mother is still in Florida, Robin had her tonsils out and Richard has a throat infection and cold.  Austin was with his dad.

But those of us who did get together were happy to be together but no pictures were taken!  Have a wonderful day.... Judi xoxo

Blogshop Week Twelve

I am participating in the Blog Shop Week Twelve hosted by our Beverly at How Sweet The Sound.   Blogshop has all kinds of goodies being sold by bloggers.  Be sure to check it out!

My handmade decorated sugar cookies at Sweetcreationsbyjudi.etsy.com are what I am sharing and offering to sell this Blog Shop week.  Some of you may already know of my decorated cookies handmade using butter, pure vanilla and royal icing made from scratch.  Cookies are made fresh to order. and delivery is throughout Canada and the U.S

Baking and decorating my cookies has been so much fun.  My cookie cutter collection is growing and I welcome custom orders where I make my own templates.

They make a fabulous hostess or guest favor for a special occasion, showers, birthdays, get well, holidays or serve them platter ready.

Follow me on Facebook  and see what I've been baking.... I hope you'll "Like" me there.  I have Giveaways and your "likes" enter you.

Have a sweet day.... Judi xoxo

Sweet Purse in Many Ways...

Today it was in the 40s and it is starting to feel like spring.  The rain is washing away some of the snow yay!

I am sharing a cake I baked fit for a sweet little girl's celebration. 

I think its rather adorable...

I saw the idea online and thought it was so sweet in more ways than one.  I used my marshmallow fondant that I coloured with gel colours.  You probably recognize the handle of the cake as being a candy necklace which I strung on some wire.  There are gummy candy butterflies as well.

I added something to the picture if it was going to be for a more mature party.

It is a champagne bottle wax candle not fit for a little girl but just replaced in the picture...making it a more "of age" celebration option cake as well.

It was a fun little cake to decorate...