Hotlanta, here we come!!

OKay, most of you know that I'm going to audition for American Idol. Well, MeLinda, Kelly and I are leaving tomorrow around noon. It's going to be about a 10 hour drive, but I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be a time where I can be a fun girly, girl. Well, we'll probably end up being giddy litte school girls that get into trouble for being to loud or too mean. I'm wanting to make sure that no matter where I go, I have a positive attitude and show God through me. I want to lift people up and keep my eyes on Jesus. I am wanting to sing positive songs for my auditions. No sleezy lyrics or anything negative. I want to be different and give God praise, honor and glory as often as possible. I don't want to come off like the "crazy Bible thumper" because that's not who I am. I just want to be a different kind of "Idol". I probably won't even make it to Randy, Simon, and Paula, but please pray that my friends and I show the love of Christ everywhere we go this week. I'm super nervous about the whole audition process, but I'm going to have a great time and have wonderful fellowship with some great women. I'm so blessed to have such great friends in my life and I thank God every day for the people He has placed near me. Thanks so much for reading all this. Until next time

Music to my floppy ears

I have an unusually busy week this week because I'm leaving on Monday for Atlanta to audition for American Idol. It's just for the experience. I've wanted to do it since the show began, but never really could or was too afraid of rejection. Anyway, I don't want to look back and wonder "what if".

I just got this order on Tuesday evening for 2 carved cakes. They were pretty ambitious on my part. I think I pulled them off, though. I had an order for a guitar cake and a cake that looked like a favorite stuffed animal. Here they are. The guitar has more pics because I was so focused on the animal I forgot to take pics until the end.

The carved body of the guitar

The tuning keys and other "nubbies"

The finished neck

The finished guitar

The stuffed puppy all done

Well, I have to go to bed now. Thanks everyone for looking at these blog posts. Please let people know about my blog and about my cakes. I'm really hoping to get enough business here to be able to open up my own bakery one of these days. Thanks for spreading the word.

Until next time!

Cupcake pops!!

Okay, it's been such a long time since my last post. I know that all 5 of you have been anxiously awaiting my new post, so here it is.

I have done cake balls before, but they didn't ever turn out well. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but I think I was adding liquid instead of just icing. Then I saw Bakerella's blog and how she did such cute things with cake balls. So I started practicing and I think i have it down. Cake balls are just baked cake and icing mixed up then formed into balls and chilled. It's really easy and they are super yummy. Okay, so here we go...

I started out with chilled cake/icing mixture. Formed them into a small star cutter I have and made my "cupcake". I chilled them again while I got my stuff ready to dip them in. I dipped the bottom first then the top. I then put on an M&M then sprinkled little sprinkles on them. Stuck them in the floral foam to dry and then wrapped them. I made some for a fundraiser for church this past Sunday, but forgot to take pictures of the process, so I had to make some more. Oh, well, I'm sure they'll get eaten.