Congratulations Marianne & Domenick

On Thursday evening at 8:45pm, Marianne and Domenick welcomed their new baby girl
NATALIE
7lbs 11oz
19 inches long

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Belly Casting

This past week I had the opportunity to do a belly cast on a pregnant pal. I did a body cast on myself in college for a project (very difficult and near impossible to do solo!) and I have done hand casts on the kids at school in art studio for the past few years. So when I heard my friend wanted to have her belly casted I offered to do it because it would be fun to do some "art" and it would be a nice memento for her. I think it came out great! This is 38week and 2 days belly.

Happy Valentine's Day

Here are some yummy Valentine's cupcakes that I made for the kiddies at school and the "people" at dog class.

Cuter Baby Cakes

They may be cuter than the last ones but what a ton of work! These were made for Marianne's work shower and it didn't help that the day before I spent an hour looking for the little square that is used to easily cut out the squares for the quilt. So unfortunately it then took hours to measure 480 1/2 sq inch square patches for the quilts. I think I am just going to buy another set of square cutters. These were a ton of fun to make even though they took a long time. (almost 8 hours for 25 cupcakes but that includes the 1 hour search party for the square cutter!) They are totally edible and made from fondant. One girl from work took one home and refused to share with anyone. She said it was too cute to eat!

Marianne's Baby Shower

For Marianne's real shower Paul and I gave her a diaper cake of course! But no ordinary diaper cake ---> a FIVE tier cake with a poodle accents to go along with the theme of the shower. I sort of cheated though when it came time to rolling the diapers. Since Marianne wanted me to come over the night before her shower, she was enlisted to help roll the tiers! She thought it was fun but I am sure in a few weeks she won't want to see any more diapers! Baby Girl DiNardo will be here soon!

Happy Birthday Paul, Jeanine and Jerry!!!

And the celebrations keep on going...

This month Paul (Jan 11), Jeanine (Jan 20) and Jerry (Jan 27) all celebrate a birthday so we had a little party to help them feel better about getting old(er). It was supposed to be a Simpsons theme party but they don't sell Simpsons party goods here in the U.S. and to have them shipped would have cost around $30-$50 on top of what they cost. So they had to settle for my "Homer" cake and some Simpsons decorated cookies I found.