Monday, January 26, 2009

ANOTHER THANK YOU!

I just want to thank
Cathy at Bloomers
and
Debbie Peysar Vintage Celebrations
for encouraging me to be a vendor in the Bridal Fair!
They are amazing Professional Women!
Thank You for your Support!
Bloomers has done our families last three weddings!
They knocked it out of the park!
All the bridal flowers, arches, centerpieces, and flowers
they placed on my cakes were so beautiful!!!!
I highly recommend them!
I was really impressed with ALL of the amazing artist,
Photographers
Event Planners
Etc.
That participated at the Bridal Expo!
Top notch people!

VISIT OUR WEBSITE!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

BRIDAL EXPO

This was our finished booth.
I was really happy with how it turned out!
My daughter Jenny was over the decorating.
This Tiffany Blue Cake had Jenny's
beautiful handmade Orchids on it!
I do not know why we did not get a picture of it finished!
I think this Dammask Cake was our Show Piece!
It took Jenny and I about 6 hours to Airbrush it.
It was really beautiful! 8 tiers high.This is a picture of the cake before the roses.
You could do so many fun things with it at this point.
The Purple Cupcake Tower also showcased Jennys Flowers
These cherry blossoms were darling!
150 Cupcakes
I thought the wheat grass was soooo cute!
Jenny designed and made this cake,
but did not really like
how it turned out.....
I thought it was fun!
This cake was simplistic and pretty...
Jenny handmade all the butterflies.
The orange was airbrushed on the sides only.
The blue flowers were lined with piping.
Contemporary! Once again this is Jenny's Cake Design.
She airbrushed all the layers and
handmade all the flowers.
It was really elegant.So we decided to do the Bridal Expo and in 2 weeks we:
Ordered everything we needed to make Dummy Cakes
(Styrofoam Dummies etc.)
Ordered business cards
Ordered a Sign
Kendall built me some really cool tables
Designed our booth and ordered accordingly
Put together 8 Cakes with dummies
Made 15 Gallons of Fondant
Handmade sugar butterflies, orchids, gold flowers and cherry blossom twigs
Covered around 34 dummies with fondant
Air Brushed 16 Layers
Decorated all 34
Dowelled them all together
Baked 700-800 Cupcakes
Frosted them all
Used ???200 bags of Pwd Sugar approx.
If you licked my walls in my house right
now I think they would taste like sugar!
Placed the finishing touches
Made a Picture Book
Ordered Shirts and had them embroideried with our Logo
Set up the booth
Did the show
Tore down the booth
CRASHED!
Yeh, we are pretty spent!
That was a pretty big undertaking for that amount of time.
When I say we.....I definately did not fly solo!
Jenny was amazing!!!
She stayed up till 3-4 A.M. with me slaving away!
She made all the sugar flowers and butterflies!
Designed,
Decorated
Cleaned
Worked on our website.
Designed and created most everything!
With very little compensation I might add!
THANK YOU JENNY! YOUR THE BEST!
Then there was Jeremy!
He is the greatest man!
He emptied out his work trailer, cleaned it and hauled
all my tables etc. to the Dixie Center (in the rain).
Helped set up, and take down, and hauled it back home.
Thank you Jeremy!
My Husband Kendall!
Built 8 sturdy tables all different sizes.
Round on the top with a Square base so they are flippable!
Built me the coolest Air Brush booth with shelves,
a tent over it and everything!
Put up with a messy messy kitchen for a week!
Although he left town on a golfing trip the day before the show.....
I Love You Ken! Thank You!
You are a great support system!
Jentry cleaned for me!
Tara gathered a few Pics and printed my book.
Gave moral support.
AND CRITISIZED where needed!
Shaun and Brian H helped set up.
My Sister Velvette came from Vegas on Friday
Ironed tablecloths, cleaned, helped set up, helped make cupcakes
till the wee hours, waited on us, feed us etc.
Thank you Vel!!!! You are awesome!
Also a shout out to all my friends that had imput!
Dale-Rae and Ashleigh
Janece, Sandy and Whitney
So many people were so supportive in my
overly ambitious undertaking of
getting ready in two weeks!
Next year I will start now to plan!!!!
I love all you guys! You are the best!
I could have never done it without all your help and support!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

BUSY BUSY BUSY!

I am trying to get ready at the last minute to
have a booth in the St. George, Utah
Bridal Fair.
It is in 1 week. Yes 1 week.
Check out my new web site:
Jennifer has been SOOOOO much help!
She is working on my Web site, Making Gun Paste Flowers.....etc.
We zipped to Vegas to get some supplies. Ordered a ton on line.
WHAT DID WE DO BEFORE THE INTERNET???????
We stayed at the new Encore. Very Nice!
I'll catch up on things after the 24th.
LOL
Heidi

Friday, January 9, 2009

Jenny's Wedding Cake

Jenny's Wedding was at Entrada. It was so beautiful with Snow's Canyon's Red Rocks for the Back drop.
Her colors were lime green and purple.
It was a gorgeous Wedding!
Her Cake was a SIX tier center support cake,
By: ME (Icing)
with Fresh Flowers by Bloomers.

BRIDAL FAIR

Well, what have I got myself into?

I just love it though!

I am going to have a booth at the St. George Bridal Fair.

Sat. January 24th 2009

I must thrive on stress. Why do I just go looking for it?

I am busy getting ready. My booth is going to be silver and white.

Jenny and Tara have been helping me with my logo etc.

There is really a lot to do to get ready.

I just decided one day and signed up the next (yesterday).

I hope I can pull it off!

I just want things so perfect.

Its hard to have so many people look at your work.

I wish I had more time to prepare, make display cakes etc.

I do not want to be so rushed!

SO MANY I"S!

I just started this off last year for fun.

But I do really enjoy it.

I have made wedding cakes over the years for

friends and family.

Maybe making money at it will be cool.

Monday, January 5, 2009

OPTIMUS PRIME FOR COOPER M.

I made a Transformer cake tonight for a Birthday tom.
It turned out good I think.
I used Ding Dongs for the tires, Ho Ho's for the side tanks.
It is All cake! I used 7 square cakes.
Made and frozen the day before.
Then cut them up tonight.
I Silver dusted the exhaust pipes, grill and knee guards.
Pearl dusted the grey fondant windows.
Covered 13 separate pieces of cake with fondant.
I made some of the fondant pieces 2 days ahead
to dry
(hands,the head, helmet, exhaust pipes, gun and grill).
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!
I still have to write Happy Birthday Koda
on the body of the cake.
This guy turns into a diesel.
"Optimus Prime"
Cooper was in my Primary Class this year.
He is an amazing kid!
Very educated in the gospel.
He always knew all the answers.
He is just turning 5!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KODA!!!!
YOUR AWESOME!
I am really going to miss having you in my class!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Stella's Blessing

What a Beautiful Blessing!
Stella had a very special day!
She looked to pretty in her blessing dress!
My Parents drove down from Parowan to be here at 9:00 a.m.
Thanks so much for making it!

Tae and Jentry

Lindsey and Stella
Tae and Curt
Curt and his wife Erica drove up from Las Vegas
to be here at 9:00a.m.!
Thank you for being here guys!
Me and our precious Stella. Adi always wants Shaun to make cookies. She likes to eat the dough! He makes the best oatmeal, wheat, chocolate chip cookies! He has so many observers! June Bug is watching real nice. Adi is waiting...... Gabby loves a party! She wanted to show everyone her dress. Lindsey was emotional.... Gab kept saying Momma Sad! Momma Sad! I said: "Momma not sad...those are happy tears"! Gabby is so much fun.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Gabrielle and Stella

Stella smiled so young.
She is only a month old and I swear she smiled at me at two weeks.
She is so adorable! Gabrielle loves her.
They will be best friends.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
This is a Picture of Hong Kong.
No connection, I just thought it was beautiful!
I asked Kendall tonight what his New Years Resolutions were....
he said he had not thought about it.
So I asked him if he knew me well enough to know what mine were.
Sure enough he got 4 of the top 4!
Which really means I have had the same ones every Jan!
I have so many things I need to work on!
WHERE SHOULD I START!
OK... Here they are:
  1. Weigh 120
  2. Keep current on "contributions"
  3. Stop drinking Diet Coke
  4. Pay off CC monthly
  5. Dive in Belize
  6. Work on Christmas and Birthdays NOW
  7. Be more positive
  8. Go to bed earlier (it is now 2:47 a.m.)
  9. Get up earlier
  10. Try to learn Spanish "AGAIN"

Oh and so many more!!!!!!

Why do they look so easy on paper?

OK, I am going to write down in a notebook how to

accomplish each resolution!

It's a good start right?

Fireman Saving Time

If we could only save time!
We could record the precious moments!
Fast Forward through the rest. Like TEVO!
Go back in time to relive our favorite segments!
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR SAVED MOMENTS?
WHAT SEGMENTS WOULD YOU DELETE?
WOULD WE BE THE SAME PERSON TODAY
IF WE DELETED THE HARD STUFF?
SOMETHING TO PONDER!
I WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE
A LOT TO SAVE AND A LOT TO DELETE!