I had to show you my Valentine Cake and cupcakes I made this year and I was waiting for the One World, One Heart giveaway to end to show you in another post. I am so proud of it. Now, I have never been a cake icer, it always has crumbs in it and yes again it did. My husband picked the cake mold when I pulled it out of my selling merchandise, in fact I had two heart molds. A Wilton Aluminum one and a Clay Romertopf Terra Rosa pan that is Microwaveable. Well, he close the Wilton Aluminum pan so I got two cake mixes as it is so Large! It fact, it would not fit on my cake pan but it turned out OK with the two mixes. I am not a cooking Diva from Scratch like my Mother. He also chose a White confetti cake ( he loves that confetti) over a chocolate cake, I was surprised!
Well, when I stated filling the cake pan I had quite a bit of filling so I also made 12 cupcakes. But, the cake did rise well, better than most I make. It was so big I had to cover a Large cookie sheet for storage in my microwave and it barely fits with the door closing. I don't have to say he is very happy with it!
I also won a mermaid doll like the frozen Charlotte dolls during this event from
Altered Arts Blog. Alicia was very kind to me during the event notifying me of a blogging loading problem and then later I was giving our my blog address wrong on word press blogs. She has been so kind to help me, I am no computer Geek and I just get buy as I can. I appreciate all her help and knowledge. She was nice enough to take extra time to figure out what my problems were with my blog address and I should never try to type from memory. I am a copy and paste kind of girl. I think I had blogspot in the wrong place, backward in other works. Oh well, she got through to me and I found out I won on her second notice. I am grateful that she kept trying for me as I ADORE MERMAIDS and collect them as I can.
Don't you just love her! Well, I named her " Alicia" after my gift giver! She is 3 inches tall and so adorable! I will use her a lot in my art thoughts and photos but never give her away. Please visit Alicia's blog and scroll down to see her historically accurate little books she makes with several friends adding pages. They are awesome and Alicia loves anatomy, hearts for sure. You will see what I mean in her posts.
Here is another mermaid I have but she is in a bin for the winter as she started rusting in my home-made tiered water fountain she lives in during the summer.
The shells I collected along the beach around the Mississippi coast as we went to Texas for the Texas
Round Top Antique Event in my little Teardrop Daisy trailer. The coastline was so devastated with the hurricanes that have come ashore and I have seen them twice since Ike and Katrina Hurricanes. They are re-building and most places do not allow you to get on the beach but they are working on the sand dunes.
Smiles, Cyndi
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