Weekend Recap

Happy Monday! I enjoyed my weekend and it was mostly very relaxing. For being the first weekend of Spring the weather was kind of blah with lots of fog and overcast-ness, but we did see some sunshine. 

On Friday I finally decided to just buy the shoes so I went to buy them online (because they didn't have my size when I had looked in the store) and they were sold out of my size online! The horror! So I formulated a plan to go to another Target close to work on my lunch break and see if they had my size (Once I decide to buy something I want, nothing can stand in my way).

Obviously they did. I proceeded to wear them all weekend and I luuurve them! 

I survived the cupcake baking and delivery on Saturday and all was well. The most stressful part was driving around St. Augustine for 20 minutes trying to find a place to park that wouldn't require me to carry 9 boxes of cupcakes 3 blocks. I ended up parking in the very narrow street behind the venue and praying my car wouldn't get towed. 

After the delivery I decided I deserved Dunkin' Donuts so I stopped there for a Butter Pecan Iced Coffee. So, so good. 

I stopped by the house to change into shorts and the shoes and grab Hurley and headed out to the RC Club to hang with Adam and the gang for a bit. They were doing a special event out there this weekend so Adam was out there all day on Saturday. 

Hurley thoroughly enjoyed himself with all of the new people (and a new pup friend!) to say hi to and all of the new smells. 

Sunday morning I spent at home cleaning and doing laundry and all that fun stuff. We went out to lunch at Hurricane and I had my favorite there, the Grouper Tacos: 

After lunch we drove down to take a quick walk on the beach. It was really overcast and grey, and a little chilly, but still nice to be on the beach! 

Then, because we hadn't consumed enough calories at lunch, we stopped by the new frozen custard place at the beach. Well, new to us, it's been there since May of last year. It takes us a while to try new things. 

So yummy! 

'Twas a very nice weekend! But I'm ready to tackle Monday and kick it's butt! 

Hump Day Confessions

I have 100 cupcakes to bake this weekend and I am so not feeling ready for this. Every time I have a cake job these days I get this "Ugh I haven't done this in a while, I feel off my game" feeling before I start, but then I get going and it's like second nature to me and I pretty much breeze through it. I guess when you spend 2 years baking and icing a case full of cupcakes (among other things) 5 days a week you get efficient at it and when you go back to it, it's like riding a bike.  #icingfordayzzz

I think I found the perfect printable for my kitchen, you guys

Y'all. These shoes that are on my Spring Must-Haves list are on sale at Target, this week only,(because they like to torture me) and I'm supposed to be done with any clothes spending this month. Can I get a rain check on that sale until April 1st? Pwetty pwease? #budget

I feel like I should clarify something- none of these links to clothes and all that I post are affiliate links. I was reading recently about how apparently some bloggers who use affiliate links aren't very clear about it (although all the blogs I read are very clear about it and have disclaimers on every post, so IDK?) but none of mine are at this point. Not that it's at all a problem for bloggers to do affiliate links, I think it's awesome! But I actually have no idea how to even do the affiliate link thing and I don't think I'm cool enough yet. Maybe someday I will but if I do, I promise I will always let you know! #babyblogger

Have you ever had your quads get so sore and tight during a workout that you literally can't keep going? Like, if I do one more of these squats or jumps I'm going to land on my face? That was definitely not me on Monday during Plyo Fix #lies

I get irrationally angry and want to throw things at the TV screen when I get to that point and can't complete a set. It just makes me so mad because I want to be able to do it but my body is like "Girl, please." I may growl at the people on the workout DVD a little but no one can prove it. #Adamcouldtotallyproveit

The "Check Engine" light has been on in our car for longer than I would like to admit. We should really probably get that checked... #oops

I just created a snack consisting of chocolate graham crackers + cookie butter + bittersweet chocolate chips and it's my new favorite snack. I would post a picture but I ate it too quickly and it's gone now. #imayhaveaproblem

What do you need to get off your chest today? 

My Favorite Custom Cakes

Happy Monday everyone! My weekend was wonderful, I got so much done around the house and surprised Adam with his favorite coffee cake, plus got a lot of resting done, planned my meals for the week and went grocery shopping, and even got to the library to pick up some books for the week.

I didn't get any pics to share however, and I don't think a detailed description of my vacuuming and dusting would be that entertaining, so I thought instead I would do something a little different today. A few of you have shown some interest in my former life as a cake decorator, so I thought it might be fun to share some of my favorite cakes that Adam and I did for our customers:

This one was for a baby shower with a jungle theme, I had waaay too much fun creating that little lion! Everything is edible, the lion is made of gum paste and royal icing. 

This one was a groom's cake for an Alf fan. If you don't know who Alf is, I don't want to know because it just makes me feel old. 

This one was another baby shower, obviously a western theme. I LOVE baby shower cakes, they are just so much fun and always have a cool theme that's easy to get creative with. Once again, everything is edible. It's iced in buttercream with piped buttercream paisley pattern, the boots and hat are made of gum paste,  and the rope is made of fondant. 

We did this one for a local school fundraiser, they were doing a fall "cake walk" type event, so we thought it would be fun to do a Jack O'Lantern! 

This was another groom's cake, the groom is a hunter. And yes, it was red velvet inside. I know. 

This was a first birthday and we had SO much fun with this one! The hat and candle is gum paste, all of the other decorations are fondant. 

This was for a styled wedding shoot. A styled shoot is where many different wedding vendors get together and create a mock wedding with a certain theme, it's meant to showcase a certain theme or style. This one is covered in fondant and the decorations are meant to mimic tissue paper poms and are made of gum paste. 

This was a birthday cake, at the height of the chevron craze. I still kind of love chevron, even if some say it's tired and overdone. 

Another groom's cake, this one we modeled after the groom's electric bass. 

This was also for the local school's fundraiser, they always have it in the fall so we did another fall theme. The "barrel" is a cake covered in fondant made to look like slats of wood, and the leaves, owl, etc. are gum paste and fondant. 

Finally this is a wedding cake with the fondant ruffle effect. I love how the bride chose the ombré look, one of my favorite looks on a cake. 

There are TONS more in our archives, but these are just some of my favorites that we have done over the years. Thanks so much for looking! Even though we don't do it much anymore, I still have a passion for it and get a lot of joy from designing and decorating. I hope to pick it back up again someday, even if just for fun. 

If you have any questions about these designs or just cakes in general, I am happy to answer! 

Linking up with Biana, Ashley, and Bella!

Let's Confess

Have I mentioned yet how excited I am to have a confessions link-up again? Because I'm excited. Thank you to Melissa for hosting, whom I found through Nadine! Also linking up with Bella! Thanks ladies!

- I've already had to use white-out in my 2015 planner. ::sad face:: I really need to remember to buy some mini post-its next time I'm at the store.

- I totally cheated on my eating plan with Chili's on Monday night because Hello, College Football National Championship. Must watch, and we don't have cable, so Chili's it is. Yes, I am aware I could have ordered a lean protein and veggie and had water instead of Dr. Pepper and Quesadillas. Shut up.

(Why do spell check and auto-correct keep trying to tell me that Quesadillas is not a word?? I mean I get that it's technically another language, but come on, if we can add "selfie" to our dictionary, we can add Quesadillas.)

- I may have just taken our Christmas tree and other decorations down this past weekend. But I can neither confirm nor deny this.

- I also may not have even noticed until he told me on Saturday that Adam had taken the lights down off the house the week before. I'm real observant like that.

- Other than checking in with my 21 Day Fix group I haven't been on Facebook in a week now and I really don't miss it. I'm just kind of over it. I found myself getting easily annoyed with pretty much everything people were posting, so I decided I needed a little break. I'm trying to decide how to proceed because it is a good way to keep up with people, but should I try to keep up with people more by, I don't know, talking to them instead?? (And no, I did not announce that I was leaving Facebook and make a big deal out of it)

- Is it bad that it's only two weeks into the new year and I already want to take a day off of work?

- I'm starting to get the itch for cake decorating again. It started with Christmas and realizing I was actually enjoying the baking I did for the neighbors. Now I'm starting to look at pictures of pretty cakes again and my brain automatically starts dissecting the design and figuring out how they did it. From here it's probably only a short step to volunteering to making a cake for someone just so I can practice some new decorating technique I saw on Pinterest.

Confessions in memes:

Weekend Recap

So I did pretty much nothing this weekend but it still felt like it flew by. Why can't time go that fast during the week and slow down on the weekends?

Seriously though, thanks to allergies I spent most of Saturday feeling like crap and getting very little accomplished. Sunday was slightly more productive, I got the house cleaned (ish) and did laundry. This was also my first weekend back on the 21 Day Fix eating plan so that was an exercise in fortitude. (But I did pretty well, yay me!)

Today completes a week of exercising every day, which I hadn't done in a looong time, so I'm pretty happy with my consistency so far.

I also got some work done on sending info to Sarah for installing my new design template! That's why I was randomly posting those "Contact Me" and "Favorite Reads" posts, in case you wondered. Trying to get the blog ready!

I got my first Birchbox:

I signed up at the end of December, so this one was actually for December and I'm supposed to be getting the January one in the next week or so. I hope to do a post on what I got soon! 

Sunday I met one of our former brides to give her the complimentary anniversary cake we do for all of our couples. 

And I got to play with the metallic sharpies I got for my new wall calendar. 

And then I did a little shopping and found a jewelry holder at Kohl's on clearance! I had been looking for one like this to put my most often used jewelry to make it easier to find and grab in the mornings. 

And it actually perfectly matches our bedspread! 

Adam made the BEST chicken for dinner: 

I ended the evening with Downton Abbey, Yoga, and reading. Not a bad weekend, all in all! 

2014 Recap

I can't believe this year is over! It's been a year of new beginnings for us, and it's great to look back and see how far we have come.

January, February, March:

I started my new job! (Ok, well technically my first day was December 30th, but close enough) I had signed up with a temp agency in December and they needed someone to fill in last minute the Monday after Christmas. I jumped on it and I'm so glad I did! I love my job, it's seriously a wonderful place to work and I feel so blessed to have it!

In February I started on my fitness journey. A friend of mine had been posting a lot on Facebook about her progress with Beachbody programs and I was amazed at her transformation! After a stressful couple of years I had let my weight creep up and I just didn't feel good. It was time for a change. So I started the 21 Day Fix with her and a group of ladies on Facebook. It was hard at first, changing pretty much everything about my diet and exercise, but then I started to see results and I was hooked!

We also took a trip to St. Augustine and went to the Lighthouse for the first time:

April, May, June:

In April my brother got married! And we got to do the cake for them, which was so much fun! 

We also took a trip to St. Simons, where we got married 8 years ago (wow, we're old!): 

In May we took a trip to Fernandina Beach: 

And in June I turned 31! 

We also took a trip to Tulsa and got to see Adam's family, including our darling niece and nephew!

July, August, September: 

In July we celebrated the 4th with friends: 

And we celebrated Adam's half birthday (because having a December birthday kinda stinks, no one is in town or available for birthday parties):

In August I started this blog! 

And we celebrated our 8th Anniversary at this beautiful place: 

September was the start of another, um, interesting season of Florida Gators football.

And we took our trip to Disney! 

October, November, December: 

(Almost done! Believe me, I'm as relieved as you are. This post is A BEAST)

In October we made cakes, watched football, dressed a dog as a pumpkin, played Dorothy, spent a weekend solo (but with my friends Ben and Jerry), went to the fair, and went to the beach (because why not the beach in October?) 

November was Thanksgiving (Thank you Captain Obvious) for two and finally getting pictures for our Christmas card taken: 

And last but not least, December was a flurry of Christmas parties, food, the Nutcracker, baking, family, and fun (Wahhh, I don't want it to be over)!

Wow, when I look at it all together like that, I feel so grateful for such a wonderful, fun-filled year! And a little tired...but mostly grateful! 

I'm really excited for the new year, I have some goals in mind (of course), some things I want to continue from 2014 and some things I want to start in 2015 (but more on that tomorrow). But right now it's good to look back on a year full of fun and blessings. Cheers to 2014! 

And if you actually made it through all that, seriously, thank you. Because I almost didn't make it through myself. 

Linking up with Bella and Lisa!