And so it begins....a week of cake making!!!

    Every April for 1 week , Im a cake maker :) Not a very good one but its a tradition that started when I had my daughter, Jenavieve. I don't like store bought cake, so I vowed to always make my kids a homemade cake.  Her first birthday she had just a simple carrot cake, pretty easy.   For her 2nd birthday  I made was a Backyardigans cake, nothing too spectacular but she sure did love it!

For my daughter's 3rd birthday I was 9 months pregnant with my son, and I didn't have the energy to make her a birthday cake :(   She had a store bought cake .... 5 days after my daughter's birthday I gave birth to my son, Jacob.  From there on, the tradition continued.....
    Jenavieves 4th birthday and Jacob's 1st was a princess and the frog theme ( This was before the movie came out ) . I made a castle cake, a frog prince cake, and basic princess cupcakes :)

The next year was my daughter's 5th birthday, the year she would get her first horse :) She had been asking for a horse since she was 1 1/2 yrs old, I always told her if she still wanted one when she was 5 I would get her one, and I did.  So that year her birthday cake was also a horse and my sons was a tractor!

     The tractor had a few issues, it originally came out really good. The wheels are chocolate donuts, the hay bales are rice krispie treats, the smoke stack is an oreo stick.  Originally I had a nice windshield done, and a stearing wheel but my kids decided they wanted to try the cake before the party and ran their fingers through it :(   So I had to cut off the front part of where the windshield was, use what I had left for green frosting, then I wrote my sons name on the front to try and cover up the mess....Oh well, it was about as good as I could fix it right before people starting showing up for the party...
    The following year my daughter decided she was too old, ( 6...lol ) to have a themed  birthday party with her brother..For her I made a Unicorn cake, and Jacob I made a dragon, dinosaur type cake...?

 

    Did I mention my husband's birthday is the day after my daughter's birthday, 4 days before my son's and so I make him a German chocolate cake every year as well.
    This year I have even more cakes to make, today I will be making tye dyed cupcakes to send into school tomorrow for my daughter's birthday. Then Thursday I will be making my husbands cake. I am having a big family birthday party this weekend to celebrate my kids birthdays, my niece's birthday, her boyfriend's birthday, and my nephews birthday.  For Saturday I need to make a cake for my daughter, she has requested a hello kitty cake. I will be making a cake for my son, he has requested, a scooby doo cake.  For my niece and her boyfriend I will be making a LOST cake.  Then for my nephew, I really don't know, perhaps some cup cakes of some sort.....I will post all the pics as I make them through out the week.
 It's going to be a busy week......I am a cake maker for a week :)

   

How to crochet a soap saver

   A good friend of  mine recently taught me how to make these soap saver bags. She left me the pattern and Im going to share it with you. They are incredible easy to make and they are amazing.  If you want to get the most out of your soap, you will need one of these bags. Save all your small pieces of soap and put them into one of these bags and enjoy the amazing lather they make in the shower. You can also put an entire bar of soap in one if that is what you prefer.  When you are all done washing, just make sure you hang the soap saver up to dry.

For materials you will need medium weight yarn and a crochet hook K (6.5mm)

Pattern:
Start : Chain 8
Round 1 : Chain 2, half double crochet in third chain from the hook and in each chain across, working on the remaining loops on opposite side of chain, half double crochet in each chain across, slip stitch in the top of the beginning, chain 2,  16 hdc.
Round 2 -10 : Chain 2, hdc in each hdc around, slip stitch in the top of the beginning, chain 2, 16 hdc.
Round 11 : Chain 2, hdc in the next hdc, chain 1, skip 1 hdc, then repeat. Slip stitch in the top of the beginning, chain 2, finish off: 8 hdc

Drawstring : Chain 70, then weave your string in and out of the chain spaces that you created in round 11. knot the ends of the drawstring together forming a loop. YOUR DONE!!

Note : You can adjust pattern to whatever size soap saver bag you want