Decorating with a little shine to it

I may have started a really bad thing! Being single and the youngest one in my office I conveniently become the brunt of a lot of teasing. After one particularly intense day, I warned, "you better watch out." That night, Candace and I struck with two rolls of aluminum foil in hand. We covered everything in one guy's office that we could: pictures on the bookcase, calendar on the wall, clock, every binder on the filing cabinet, every drawer front, keyboard, mouse, speakers, 3-hole punch, monitor, lap top, light switch cover, a ceiling panel, and every paperclip in the box. We didn't want to mess anything up with papers on the desk or we would have covered the desk too but lucky for him he's too messy ;) The pictures don't really do it justice.

Too bad we ran out of aluminum foil and it was getting late or we could have gone to town. His reaction the next morning was price less! We may have also hid an alarm clock on the bottom of a desk drawer to go off at 10:15 in the morning. For some reason he automatically assumed it was me that did it!

Happy Birthday/St. Patrick's Day Katie!

My little sister, Katie's, birthday is on St. Patrick's Day. How cool is that? A holiday that most don't really celebrate has become kind of fun the last couple years whether it be a completely green surprise dinner or just a fun birthday cake. I found a way cute cake decorating idea on the Wilton web site and not being a very experienced cake decorator, went to Kitchen Kneads to find someone who could teach me. This cake used Color Flow icing for the leprechaun which I had never even heard of. Kitchen Kneads suggested a lady named April so I called her up and she was super nice and let me come over for a couple hours the Saturday before St. Patrick's Day to make the leprechaun.
Katie actually wanted a Cheesecake so she didn't really appreciate the cuteness of the cake but it was fun making it anyway! Quick cake decorating tip: put one small box of pudding in the cake mix to make the cake more dense and easier to decorate.