DIY Vases

Our July Pinterest party was at Tara's beautiful new home, and we decided to paint vases. I wanted to do two types of vases that I found on Pinterest, painting the inside of a vase and painting a vase with frosted glass. After setting up a well vented area and putting on a protective dust mask, we were ready to get started. 

For the frosted glass vase, I wanted to use rubber bands to give it a cool look. I pre-rubberbanded (I'm sure that's not a word, but I'm going to go with it) my vase at home the night before, and then sprayed it with three coats of frosted glass spraypaint. This vase cost me $0 since Tara purchased the spray paint and I had the vase and rubber bands at home.

For the vase where I painted the inside, I tried to find permenamal paint as suggested, but I had trouble finding it and then accidentally bought acrylic. I decided to try it out, since I wasn't planning to put water in the vase, just some dry twigs. The inside of the vase doesn't look great, but from the outside I achieved my desired look.

Congratulations Cake

My Aunt recently got remarried and she had a small get together with the family to celebrate. I was asked to bring the cake. I don't use flowers too much on my cakes since they can look a little old fashioned at times, but I thought that this was the perfect occasion to use them, and I think the result was cute!

Pea in a Pod Cupcakes

This Tuesday, we threw a baby shower for a coworker a baby shower at work (she is 10 weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy). Her blog is themed "a pea in the pod", so I figured that would be a good baby shower theme also. In addition to cute green and pink decorations along with a "P" crossword puzzle, I wanted to make some cupcakes! Using fondant to shape the peas and a flower cookie cutter to cut out the tiny pink flower, this is what I came up with.

Baseball Cupcakes

We were invited to a BBQ this past weekend for the One Hit Wonders baseball team my husband played on this summer. The captain of the team hosted at his house, and I thought some baseball themed cupcakes fit the occasion perfectly. I used fondant to create the decorations, and decorated the cupcakes as normal. Pretty easy and super cute!

Gender Reveal Cake

Saturday was the big day I got to announce to my family and friends the sex of our baby. Having known since Tuesday, it wasn't as hard to keep a secret as I thought it would be.

At the party, people kept trying to read into everything to figure out what the sex was by clues. My sister-in-law said "your nails are painted pink" to which I replied "but my toes are painted blue." A friend commented that Greg was wearing a blue shirt, and I told them that 90% of Greg's shirts are blue! I had to inform everyone that there were no clues and they would have to wait to cut into the cake I made to find out what it is!

We made everyone choose a team and wear a necklace based on their choice. It was 9-boy to 8-girl.

So after some delicious BBQ made by Greg, it was time to cut into the cake. We let the Grandma's do the honor since we already knew what was inside.

 You can see from the blue filling that IT'S A BOY!

Team Boy

Team Girl

We couldn't be happier to finally know the sex. Now it's time to start planning all the details in preparation for November 15.