Pretty little ladybug fairy!

Yup I finally finished my first homeade costume! People have said Ohhhh your sooo creative but really it was so easy to make. Making a tutu is surprisingly simple. Just a band of elastic (you do have to sew the ends together) and then using knots to attach the tulle. SIMPLE. Then two coat hangers with white pantyhose (spray painted red) and some black (glittered) felt for dots, and some glue, YOU HAVE LADY BUG WINGS! Then I took a head band, painted it black attached some cool pipe cleaners with little red poms glued to the end and youve got bug antaneas. Then Cameryn insisted that she needed a "bibbity bobbity booo wand" so we got one and made it work for a lady bug. Cameryn is sooo dang cute!!!!! LOVE IT!

My recipe:

Buttercream Frosting:

1 c butter (unsalted)
6-8 c powdered CANE sugar
1/2 c milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla or almond extract

When you need the frosting to withstand warmer temps you can do half butter half crisco or even all crisco but then you will need to add butter flavoring. The crisco stands up to warmer temps while butter tends to melt and turn messy really quickly. You add more milk to thin out the frosting and add more powdered cane sugar to thicken it. It is very important that you use CANE powdered sugar, sugar beat powdered sugar does not work as well or taste kinda funny. So just look for it to specify cane sugar.

New favorite find!

One of My Favorite new finds for cooking is Knorr Pesto seasoning. Its pretty much awesome. You can sprinkle it on buttered noodles, or throw in some cream cheese and or chicken, and it can really help spaghetti sauce too! I dont add a whole packet to spaghetti but it can really take my spaghetti sauce to that YUMMO!!!

SPLURGE!!!!

Ok. So Im super excited. I finally splurged and got myself a cake decorating kit, I even got the frosting dye, cake leveler and the almond and butter flavoring! Im so pumped. So this weekend I have to work but Im going to be doing a cake here pretty soon, but i need to make some frosting just to practice all the different things to do....thank god there are internet instructionals and hopefully I can figure it out! Now i just need to find the time to take some classes. My goal is to make the kids' birthday cakes!