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a great week : )

new business cards + vintage kitchen goods!!

front + back (click to enlarge)

more photos coming soon...

for the tooth fairy...

My cousin's son has recently began losing his baby teeth, so I've been inspired to make these tooth-shaped pillows with a pocket to put under your pillow for the tooth fairy. The body of the tooth is made with a cotton fleece, printed with images of nursery rhymes and the pockets are sewn of a solid cotton blend fabric (in pink, blue and yellow).

here's a tooth

pockets... (I like the dramatic lighting from my sewing machine...)

maybe with the scraps I can make a little garland....

new business cards!

good morning world,

It's cold and gloomy in ny, and I'm all bundled up in my apartment with a cup of hot tea. A major craft day today, testing out a new screen I made and hopefully getting a lot of sewing done. I just finished the design for my new business cards + ordered them yesterday and I can't wait till they come! In the meantime, isn't this the sweetest gift? 

sugar, graham crackers and ants. all on a cake.

busy busy!

I had such a busy weekend... on Friday I had to make a cake for a guest at the restaurant, attend a party that my friend was throwing for castreach at the Gates, helped plate for one of the busiest nights at the restaurant, and I attended a party that my roommate was the guest of honor for at Kiss + Fly in the West Village. 

No photos from the crazy festivities, but here are photos of the cake from Friday! It was her 30th birthday and I played off of a facebook picture I found of her at the ant exhibit at the Melbourne Museum. Luckily the cake came out as imagined and I hear it was well received. The dots all over the cake are little chocolate ants. Here are some pictures... 

bird's eye view... can you see all the ants?

birthday girl inside the sugar dome. in front of her, ants and a juicy STEAK

back view... the ants are crawling into the cracked sugar dome

if you look very closely, she's actually got her hands on the sugar dome

The birthday girl really does wear silver ballet flats, and she works for Botkier.

This is my fondant version of the Botkier "Jackie" Bag.

they're perched outside the entrance of the ant exhibit.

Here are some pictures of the cake in the making....

painting her face... the facial expression she has in the actual photograph that I pulled

Botkier "jackie" bag

steak + arms

resting.... she has a pink flower on her blue shirt

silver flats.

Things aren't slowing down any time soon... I have another special cake to make this week and I'm updating my website with the help of a special friend... here's a quick brainstorm of what the homepage will hopefully look like....

(sneak peak!)

halloween + other sweets

Hello world!

It's Wednesday evening, and as I am doing my laundry, I'm making sketches for a custom cake I am making for Friday evening... A young woman who works for Botkier is having her 30th birthday at the restaurant I'm a pastry chef at and I've been asked to make a cake! This is so exciting because I feel like I haven't had any time to work on cakes and cake toppers which I would eventually like to sell online, so this is a good opportunity to actually make one. The sketch I've come up with so far is this:

The setting is an interactive display at the Melbourne Museum, where visitors get to look thru the plastic dome and find themselves surrounded by Ants. So, I'm going to make a cake with herself in the plastic, looking frightened, surrounded by ants and a piece of steak (she's a vegetarian). On the side of the cake I plan to put a couple of items about her personality, like silver ballet flats, a botkier bag, a scarf (because it's really cold in new york), and these items will be propped next to the entrance.

I hope it turns out as planned and that they love the cake!
Wish me luck, I've got such a busy schedule for the rest of the week... or more like the rest of this year. I feel like I don't have a moment's rest!

Oh, and here are some halloween pictures, trick or treating with my family...

ninja!

feet! and...paws?claws?

Max from "where the wild things are"!

johnny cash

He doesn't realize it, but he's standing in front of a "where the wild things are" display

A catapulting woman

shark + wolf are good friends

protecting his brother from any more pictures. can you hear his roar?

sigh* laundry is done and needs to be folded. I love the feel of warm fabrics against my face, especially when they smell like lavender.

goodnight**