Ice Cream Soda

Cherry On Top

Who's Your Boyfriend?  I forgot!

Is it A, B, C, D, E, F, G......?

Do remember singing that jump rope song as a kid?

I completely forgot about it until my daughter was skipping rope on the back patio while singing it.

Of course, we had to make Ice Cream Soda Cherry on Top Cupcakes!

Ahhh....Memories.  Days of jump ropes and silly songs!

Chocolate cupcakes with cherry cola frosting.  Top it with sprinkles and a cherry and you have got yourself a cupcake sister!

Now, off you go.  Jump rope with your little girl today!



Goodbye School ... Hello Summer!

Hooray!  I am so excited the kids are FINALLY out for Summer Break!

I love living in Southern Utah, the kids are out of school before Memorial Day, the weather is fabulous and screams "HELLO SUMMER!  COME AND PLAY!"

This year my Little's (they really aren't little anymore - soon to be 4th and 2nd graders) wanted to take a little treat to their classmates.  A treat that said something like

GOODBYE SCHOOL
HELLO SUMMER!

  I remembered I had about 50 baby food jars!  Perfect for storing little treats.

Want to make some for your Little's?

Here is what you will need:

Recycled baby food jars

Ribbon and twine

Printable Labels - You can use mine if you want too!

Spray Paint

Mod Podge

M&M's or Skittles

Print labels and Mod Podge labels to clean jars.  Spray paint lids black.  Fill with M&M's or Skittles and tie with ribbon and twine!

HAPPY SUMMER!!!



Sunflower Cupcake & Spring Birthday Cake

Who loves a birthday?  I do, I do!

Seriously though!  Who wouldn't?  What is a birthday without cake?  And what is cake without FROSTING?  So, here is the latest SPRING cake and cupcakes for some fabulous birthdays I have had the privilege of being apart of!

These sunflower cupcakes are to DIE for.  My sister ordered these for her boss.  She told me requested:

"SOMETHING CHOCOLATEE, LEMONEE, AND MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A SUNFLOWER....PLEASE."

Chocolate Cupcake, Lemon Custard Filling and Lemon Frosting decorated into a Sunflower. 

Simply Beautiful!

Shutter Up

Really.

I LOVE Char over at Crap I've Made.  She is hysterical.  And, I'm in love with these. 

Her KEY LIME SHUTTERS. 

I want to track her down and take them.  But that would be mean.  So I won't.

I will, I must. MAKE. MY. OWN.

I headed out to Habitat ReStore and found my own set of of shutters. 

Only FOUR DOLLARS.

Yeah, I'm that good.

Stay tuned... Those bad boys are in the works and will be posted soon!

Easter Essentials

Easter has snuck up on me without me knowing! (besides, driving tractor on the farm for my brothers all day kind of fills my day) We have been pretty busy lately, so all the good intentions of fun activities had to lay by the wayside. I only managed to get one new Easter idea done this year.

This darling Easter Egg countdown, of course, from the cute gals at Eighteen25. The kids have been having fun opening an egg daily and doing the activity. The great thing is that you can fill some with candy and then make up your own activities to put in the others. That way, this countdown is personalized to your family Easter traditions. How cool is this?!!!

*Extra Perk* If you haven't made this countdown, wait until after Easter and score some plastic eggs and grass super cheap and make a bunch for next year. What a great gift to give family, friends, neighbors, etc.

There is one more activity on my MUST do list for Easter this weekend: Resurrection Rolls. Feathers from my Nest has a great tutorial on these. What a great lesson for the kids and yummy at the same time.

Happy Easter Friends!

Don't forget to use some of your good not-left-out-in-the-sun-too-long-during-the-hunt-colored-easter-eggs for the super de-lish Egg Salad BLT's recipe Julie posted (next post).

Egg Salad BLT's

 Remember when Tara told us how EXCITED she was to get this? 

Well, since then I have been drooling over of the recipes on their BLOG and tonight we had these:

Egg Salad BLT

They are DELICIOUS!  I added a few extra ingredients - avocado slices and provolone cheese.

You know it's good when your kids eat it and say this:

"Wow mom!  This is the best dinner ever!"

Perfection.

Cupcakes Galore!

(paint­ing by Etsy seller, jennys­bakeshop)

A few days ago a friend posted a similar picture on my facebook wall stating "This so SCREAMS Julie."  Little did she know how my week was shaping up, these little words of encouragement helped me make it through. 

 Jade, you were inspired in your post, not only did I have A cupcake - but I had THREE HUNDRED cupcakes! 

 Just to clarify, I did not EAT three hundred cupcakes.  I only ate one, or two...!

Want to know a little secret?  I didn't start building this bad boy of a cupcake tree until Thursday night around 8:30.  Friday was my "bake the 300 cupcakes and cake day" and Saturday was the wedding.  I started to think I may have procrastinated a little to long.  But, it all started coming together.   I then realized I shouldn't doubt myself.  I had everything all under control.  All I needed was to heed these wise words of advice:

KEEP CALM and HAVE A CUPCAKE!

Stay calm.  Eat a cupcake.  Or two.  Everything is going to be fabulous!

Update:  When talking the bride and discussing the theme of her wedding, I found this cupcake stand.  This is where the inspiration came from in creating the piece.  The first website I found, the stand was selling for $349.99, Boss Manufactoring has it for $229.99.  I knew I could create something on a larger scale for MUCH less than that.