Camera Strap

I don't have much time these days to get as much sewing in...I can't wait until June when I'm free of classes and able to do more with my free time...I love that Summer is just around the corner and the daylight lasts longer! :)

I managed to squeeze in another quick camera strap project to go along with my new camera! I love the print of this fabric...it's so fun and bubbly :)

Lemon-icious

I had participated in a dessert potluck at one of my client's company and had taken some lemons that someone had brought and decided to make lemon cupcakes with lemon frosting. The cupcakes turned out well, it wasn't too dense.



I had some left over lemons and was watching Giada De Laurentiis this morning so I decided to make lemon ricotta cookies. The recipe called for a lemon glaze, but I decided to jazz it up by adding some cointreau. The cookies are fluffy and light.


And I wanted to try to bake something out of my comfort zone so I made black and white checker cookies...I need to do a better job piecing the cookies so they're more even. I also think I'll add more sugar than the recipe calls for because they didn't turn out sweet enough.

Homemade Camera Straps

I decided to try and see if I could make my own camera straps, and I must say, for my first try, it turned out pretty well! I'm excited to make more =)



The fabric is from Jo-Ann's and the clip and key ring are from Daiso. I had bought a cell phone chain from Daiso and took it apart.

Biscuits, Muffins and More!

It's been a busy few months and crazy start to the new year, but I've managed to make a few things here and there...

One morning I decided to make homemade breakfast after watching Barefoot Contessa's breakfast episode which included....homemade biscuits!


Went to visit my good friend after she had her second baby girl and made her mango and passionfruit cupcakes with mango whip cream frosting


And lastly, I had the craving for banana bread/muffins and blueberry muffins =)

If Anthropologie threw a shower...

This year has been filled with wedding showers, weddings, birthdays and baby showers! This is the last shower of 2009 and it went off just as perfect as all the other past events have :). My good friend Sumiko is having her baby girl number 2, and Traci, Wendy, Beth, Sherise and I wanted to throw our good friend an awesome shower...

This shower was inspired by the store Anthropologie and here's what we came up with!

The favors, prayer requests and wishes for baby table...


Kind of dark, but here's the entire set up including the food table.



I love these lanterns!


The food made was mostly made by Beth with salad from Sumiko's mom and desserts from me

I made fruit tarts and cream puffs



and flowers! Aren't Hydrangea's so pretty?

And for favors, I made homemade jelly!

since taking the sewing class, I felt inspired by the theme of the shower to sew a "quilt" for the baby. The front were 4 tiles of different print and the back was micro fleece. Here's what came out of it...


And there you have it...if Anthropologie threw a shower, I think it couldn't have looked more perfect than ours :)

I can't wait to meet all the babies!

Traci's Woodland Themed Shower

This past Saturday, I helped throw a woodland themed baby shower for my good friend Traci. I've known Traci since I was an awkward high schooler and she was my discipler...I'm glad to be able to call her my good friend and SUPER excited to meet Emilia! =D Kudos to everyone who was apart of the planning committee...everything came together really well and the food was awesome! Congrats again Traci!

Some highlights of the day...

The table with all the decor and food!


Sumiko and I made these... no, they are not squirrels, they are foxes...
Wendy made the leaves for this tree...and these squirrel stamps that she HAND carved...I'm still amazed!


Traci's friend Shelley, made these awesome birdies!

And she brought this cool vinyl tree trunks and branches...I would really like to have those in our house!


And of course, the food...



I decided to make woodland themed cupcakes of toadstools and moss. The "toadstool" cupcakes were vanilla cupcakes with a lemon frosting dyed red and white chocolate chips, and the "mossy" cupcakes were chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate center and coconut frosting topped with coconut flakes.

And just for kicks, Traci's friend who hosted the shower at her house had this for a knife block...it's so awesome yet disturbing!

There are some awesome photobooth pictures that I'll load as soon as I can.

Baking Portfolio

I thought I'd post some of my older baked goods...


I decided to take a cupcake class at the Professional Culinary Institute to help me perfect my decorating skills...this is what we created in class.




And for my sister's birthday, I made her a mini chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting

My favorite time of the year (next to summer) is coming, which means more baking! =D But first...I'm helping throw 2 baby showers for my good friends Traci and Sumiko! So more posts to come =).