Nyjacky's Veigar plush

I can't believe I spent 10 hours straight (with help from my mom) working on this plush and never posted it >.< I made this for MLG Raleigh for Nyjacky's birthday. He was very excited about it and I was able to get my picture with the entire Curse team and he posted a picture of me, him and Veigar on the Curse facebook!

Overlord Earings

I have been wanting to make some little clay figures for a while now but have not had time. I decided to start with something kind of easy today. I did not have any gloves so sadly they did not turn out as nice as they could have so these will be my practice set. I got the idea from a StarCraft commentator named Soe who is also a wonderful artist. I used Sculpey and jewelry findings to make the cute dangly legs ^_^. I hope to have more soon as well as in my Etsy for sale!

Adventures in Gaming

Well I baked cupcakes for RUaGamer?'s grand re-opening last Friday. There was a really good turn out and all my cupcakes got devoured :) Sorry for the lack of pictures but they were nothing special. I just made chocolate with vanilla frosting and yellow with chocolate frosting. Loving my new job and being able to play for free. I finally beat Dead Space at 1am this morning! It was so much fun but it kept scaring my friend who was watching me play (and no, it was not a girl...). I got the pro Military suit for beating the game and it kind of makes me want to play the game again just because I'm wearing that. Since I get to play for free at my job I started playing Dead

Space 2 tonight and so far it's amazing. Hope to beat it this weekend! :D

(Military Suit of Left)

Oh and new pics of my mom's birthday cake soon!

Dead Space Cake

This is the cake I made for my brother's 19th birthday back in December. It is Issac's helmet from Dead Space (video game for those of you who don't play). The cake is red velvet, covered in vanilla butter cream and then MM fondant. This cake was pretty easy and only took me about a day and a half and I made everything from scratch. I have an awesome picture of us cutting it open but it's on a different card that I don't have right now. I have not had many cake requests and have been too busy with classes to play on my own. Hope to have some more pictures up soon though. Hope everyone had a great MLK long weekend!

Warlock Cake

After making my boyfriend his Moonkin cake, naturally one of my other friends wanted a World of Warcraft cake as well. So for Dylan's birthday this year I made him a cake based on his character, a Blood Elf Warlock. I would have loved to do more with this cake but I only had a day to work on it so I did as much as I could. I used a new chocolate cake recipes from my book Collete's Cakes. It called for coffee and almond extract which made an interesting but amazing (and very sturdy!) cake. I topped it with vanilla buttercream and, of course, marshmallow fondant.
The little felhunter on top of the cake did not want to cooperate but I finally finished him and, at least for the pictures, was able to keep his little tentacle things to stay in place. I really wish I had taken some picture before the hot, 45 min car ride to my friends house but sadly I was running late already and didn't have my camera. A bubble formed under the fondant and made me very sad but it still tasted great! Just wish I had a picture of it when it was all nice and smooth.

I was so happy to add the little felhunter to my collection! They are one of the reasons I rolled a lock ^.^ Dylan wanted to eat him but he would have either thrown up or gouged himself on one of the 4 wires I used to put it together. Everyone loved the cake which always make the hours I put into each cake so worth it! I have 3 more cakes this month so far so I hope to have lots of pictures for you!

Tanner trying to murder my cake!

I'm 21!

I turned 21 yesterday! My amazing boyfriend hung out with me all day and made sure I had a great time until I went out with the girls that night. I got to order my first drink at Jack Astors called a Frozen Raspberry Twister which was pretty good. Did I have a vegan cake for my birthday? Yes. Who made it? Me of course! :) Hunter even helped me by coloring fondant and cutting out the ghosts. He's an awesome helper :) I made a Pac-Man cake with ghosts around it. The level on the game was 21 and the high score is my birth date. Several people in the restaurant came over and asked to see the awesome cake everyone was talking about and after dinner I gave our server a slice. He came back and told me how much he enjoyed it and thanked me several times which made me feel amazing. I really need to make some cards to give out to people who like my work... But back to my birthday. After dinner and cake we went to The Ale House and shot some pool. I thought it was going to be kind of quiet since it was a Monday but no...I had forgotten that it was the basketball Championship game. Duke vs. Butler, so of course the place was packed. We still had fun and I got to try two more drinks. I got a kamikaze and a Red Headed Slut (love the drink names lol). The latter was Much better than the first which tasted like acetone. It was so nice to be able to have some girl time. We had to cut the night a little short sadly but I can't wait for us all to get together again! Thank you everyone for making my 21st birthday a memorable one!

(I don't know why it does this to my pictures sometimes -_-)

Birthday Cake

Hunter and his brother just turned 21 this past Tuesday yesterday so today I made them a birthday cake. I was going to make a WALLE cake but around 10pm last night I figured out about how long it was going to take and how many supplies I was going to need. It was going to take me way too long on my own so I started brain storming. There was no way he was going to get a regular cake after my awesome chess board cake I made him last year. Hunter really likes the Moonkin form on his druid in World of Warcraft so I decided to go with that. It was so much fun and everyone loved it. I made a yellow cake with chocolate frosting (his favorite) and then used my new grass piping tip for the decorations. We just got a ton of little wild pansies in our yard so I picked a couple of them to add some more color to my cake. I'm making my cake tomorrow for my birthday Monday! I can't wait! I finally get to have a girls night out. I miss having girl time. I hope everyone has a great Easter!

Cuppycakes!

I have had a very busy day of baking and decorating! I've been wanting to learn to do some decorating on my own and work on building my portfolio. So today I made some vegan chocolate cupcakes and some (almost vegan) vanilla honey cupcakes. I decorated the chocolates with pink buttercream and marshmallow fondant roses with leaves. It was my first time making fondant and only my second time using it to decorate.

The vanilla ones I topped with a circle of fondant and then
made them look like Ace playing cards. It was a lot of work doing
everything from scratch but it was good practice. My friends even
bought them from me so I at least got paid for my work. They also all said they were delicious! Hoping to play some more this weekend. Enjoy the pictures! Hopefully they'll look even better with a little more practice.