First Birthday Cake

A few weeks ago I did a cake for my nephew's (Zach's sister's son) first birthday. It was a luau-themed party, so they had some cute ducks to add to the cake. I just had to provide the blue frosting and a border to match the ducks.

I have a new camera that I'm still getting used to, so the picture is not the best, but here it is:

The foil on my cake board is making a strange optical illusion on the photo. It doesn't really have a bunch of blue frosting underneath the yellow border on the bottom. I had fun with this cake - the extra blue tip #16 star on top of the yellow tip #21 stars made it just a little more polished than if I had left it with just the yellow stars (as I have in the past).

The school year is just a month away, so my cake making should ramp up again. I will probably make a cake for the first week of school to kick things off (and remind the staff about my availability to make cakes!).

I have a few non-cake projects on deck that I've been mulling for a few months now. The first is a set of paintings I've been wanting to do for our bedroom. The canvases are purchased and prepped, so now I just have to make some final decisions about color and create a vine stencil that I want to incorporate. Also, we just got back from a great vacation in Arizona and Utah, where we visited the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell. I got a few shots that I'd like to matte and frame, so that project will be coming up as well. I'll post photos of both as soon as they are complete!