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Sun-bathing piggy cake

This was one of the most fun cakes I have made! A friend of my hubby's was watching wrestling with his daughter, Julia, and they showed a pig cake at some point. She loved it! He asked me if I would be able to make one...just a plain pig he had in mind. Julia is a fantastic swimmer and is on her school swim team and likes to scuba dive. That gave me an idea!! So for her birthday I had to girl the piggy up! Bathing beauty style!

Her cute little face:)

A side vewe of her laying out in her "bathing suit"...how do you like the swim cap? LOL!

The tail is so cute!!

She kind of looks like a Hawaiian piggy with the flowers I chose to do.

Here she is just arrived to the party.

I even gave her top a tie in the back...and those ears...so cute!

I guess you can tell I really loved her! I made her out of a WASC (white almond sour cream recipe here) and used RKT (rice krispie treats recipe here) for filling her out in some spots. I used modeling chocolate (recipe here) and some fondant decorations (here). Thank you so much for stopping by and reading:)

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Labels: Cakes

Onesie dress

I love all the adorable baby girl stuff out there on the web, and wish I had a little baby girl to make all this stuff for! I have one daughter and she just turned 19.....

oh how time flies:( Well I do have a new little niece and she is 3 months old and now I have someone to make all the cute stuff for:)

I made the dress in size 12 months so I don't have any pics of her in it yet:) I can't wait to see her in it though!

I don't know if you have been to visit Prudent Baby and if not you must! LOL! They have some of the cutest tutorials for baby items. I found the cutest 10-minute onesie dress easiest dress tutorial and had to give it a try. It is so easy and of course you can change it up how ever you may want to fairly easy. I decided to use some "rocker chick" type fabric and added a crown iron on and a bow. It turned out adorable! Almost makes me want a baby......ha ha almost! LOL!

I have a couple others I am working on that I can't wait to send to her mommy:) Thanks for stopping by and reading my post. It really means a lot:)

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Labels: sewing

Trash to treasure

I was driving with my husband to my in-laws house and along side the road I spotted this entertainment stand. I was like "honey stop I gotta check this out", he of course was like "no way!". So we got to my in-laws house and of course I mentioned the treasure along side the road and her and my father in law were like lets check it out. LOL! Well we ended up bringing it home:) My honey was even surprised at how good of condition it was in.

Sorry for all the Christmas decor on it. I got this treasure and took pics before my bloggy days:) So yes, this was in the trash on the side of the road! Not a thing really wrong with it. I just did some touch ups with one of those stain markers and washed it up and moved it into my den. Well I knew I wanted to do something to give it a new look, but wasn't sure what. So it stayed like this for two years and then we moved into our new house and then I decided what I wanted to do. Here is the after picture:

I sanded and painted it a country white. Then I sanded some more to give it a distressed look and wiped it with a dark walnut stain. I didn't really want to keep the glass in the front so I spray painted it black and stapled it to the front. The iron like star knobs I got for .99 cents each a a little store called Cape May Wicker in NJ. I love that place! I live in Florida now so I don't get to go but maybe once a year. So what do you think of it? I love it! Its a new look for now:)

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