Ravi's cake

Ravi emailed me and wanted a cake for his mother in law and very pregnant wife, Rashmi. He also asked that I include a stork with baby Ria in its pouch.
This cake was really fun to make, since I don't always get the chance to sculpt, which is my favorite thing to do in cake making.
I went to Google images and studied sari patterns, so I could paint the designs onto the pillows.
In the picture you can't really tell, the ladies' saris are different colors, one's more teal and one's more sky blue.
They were so nice, when we got there to deliver the cake they invited us in and gave us a soda, and talked with us for a while. Great people.
Congratulations !!! I'm sure little Ria has been welcomed into the world by now, and I hope you guys are having fun, hanging in there, and getting enough sleep in order to function :)

Congratulations Eric !!

My baby brother graduated from college. I still can't believe it!! It makes me feel so old, and a hundred times more proud of him. What a rockstar! Not only did he graduate, he moved out of mom and dads house and was living independently, paying bills, feeding his stomach, for four years! I feel as though the independence was more worth celebrating than the diploma.
Eric earned his B.S. in social ecology, which, when I googled it, sounded like an environmental kind of thing. Which is why I put the earth on the cake, and the little white dove.
Congrats Eric!! So proud of you !!
now go get a job ~

Kristie's 30th B-day

Kristie is my daughter's friend's sister. She's super nice, and a great teacher. I wish she had time to come to more school functions, because she seems like a really fun person to be around.
Anyway, Kristie's mom, Leanne, who is also super nice, asked me to make a cake for Kristie's 30th birthday. (I still can't believe Leanne had a baby 30 years ago, she must have been 10 when it happened).
Kristie asked for something pink with zebra stripes, and "girly".
I love the way this cake turned out, such a modern girly cake!!

~ Happy Birthday Chiara !! ~

One of the first cakes I ever posted was the stacked presents cake with teddy bears and lollipops. That cake was for Chiara's mommy's baby shower. And Chiara just turned 1 ! I can't believe it's been over a year since I made that other cake.
Chiara is Italian and Japanese, and her mommy wanted to incorporate both of her cultures into her cake. So, I found this tuscan pottery design of lemons, and painted it on one of the pillows. The other pillow has japanese cherry blossoms, and the hello kitty on the top is made of rice krispies and fondant.



~ Happy Birthday Chiara! Can't believe you're already one ! ~

~Congratulations Jesse ! ~

Ron's coworker called me up. Her son was turning 17, had just graduated from high school, AND got accepted to Stanford University on an academic scholarship! Amazing! So of course she threw a party for him, and she ordered a cake.
I made a stack of textbooks, they were almost the actual size of the books Ron and I had when we were at San Jose State.
The Stanford Logo is handpainted on a piece of fondant.

Bon Voyage to the Andersson Family !!!

So, our wonderful friends, the Anderssons, decided to move back to Sweden. We first met when their son was in kindergarten with our daughter, they became great friends right away. My other friend, another mom, Sonja, decided to throw them a going away party, so I made them this cake. I looked up those words on google, and the translation is something like "Good Luck! You will be missed!"
And we miss them already. Good luck you guys!!! Come and visit soon!!

Mary Jane Cupcakes

These were a gift for a friend of ours. The plants are all made out of gumpaste, so don't get all excited. Well, I guess that if you thought they were real, I should be the one getting all excited~
I did spend a good amount of time looking at google images to get the right texture on those purple buds. :)
and, no, they're not "specialty" cupcakes, they were chocolate and red velvet flavored.

Happy Trails !!!