Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Friday, May 6, 2011

Birthday Present Project

The Birthday Present project is complete... And she loves it!

My daughter has always loved horses and riding them. She had riding lessons for many years, worked in a stable for many more years and was even on the Equestrian team in college. It has been her dream to own her own horse.
She collected many of the Breyer Collectible horses over the years and has them displayed in her home. So last fall I was in a consignment shop and I spotted a model Breyer horse, purchased it and I thought, "I will give this to her for Christmas". Then, the more I thought about it, I decided it needed a home. So then I decided to build a stable and make it for her birthday instead, which was on April 24. (Easter, this year.) I started working on the project in the middle of January. I couldn't show this from the beginning, obviously, she may read the blog and see it, so I will show the progress over the next few posts. And this is the reason for not blogging much over the last few months.

So, here is what I started with...




I took the drawers out and turned it sideways...


This became the first floor of the stable and I built it up from there...





Here is the finished project....





Just to give you an idea of what I was aiming for...





I was very happy with the results and she was so surprised!!!!





I will show more of the construction on my next post.



'Til next time, Love ya, Jean

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Two More Cakes!

Boy, it never rains but it pours! My daughter's friend saw, tasted and liked my grandson's graduation cake and asked me if I would please make one for her son who was graduating this past Saturday. So, I did. But today (Sunday) is another grandson's birthday, so I needed to make a cake for him, too. Now, I have never made two cakes for the same weekend, so I was curious to find out if I could pull this off. I started by baking the birthday cake on Wed. night. Then, I baked the large 12" x 18" cake on Thursday morning. I also made some of the icing that morning and crumb coated the birthday cake. I went to work at 12:00 'til 6:00 pm. Thursday night, I crumb coated the large cake and decorated the birthday cake. Friday morning, I iced and decorated the large cake and finished it up by noon time when I had to go to work. "Piece of cake!" No problem. Fortunately, everything went smoothly and I finished in record time. Here are some pictures of those cakes:


First, is the birthday cake for my 7 yr old grandson:
He wanted a beach cake----

(click on the pictures to enlarge)

Sand and seashells:

Beach umbrella--


Sand castle:


Message in a bottle:




See the little shark fin?





These pictures are of the graduation cake for Jonathan--


Borders:




Graduation cap:














Little scroll and some of the writing:







Another shot:




Overall picture of the cake:




I love making these cakes and I love to make people happy. And seeing the recipients so happy makes it all worthwhile!
'Til next time, Love ya, Jean