Whimsical by Shelley

There's not much that keeps me from crafting, baking and creativity in general. However, baseball is one of those things. We have two kids in regular little league and one kiddo who plays for a tournament team that has more games during a much longer season. And while I love baseball, this could mean 3 games in 3 different towns on any given day and conceivably a game every day during May and June and All Star Tournaments in July. Craziness. It also means that I have a lot to do where my creative work is concerned to catch up. Here is catching up looks like... Graphic design  Since Cafepress changed the way they do business a year ago, I've been gradually moving my newer designs to Zazzle instead. I have over 800 designs at CP but will probably only move about 200 of them and put any new creations at Zazzle as well.  Zazzle isn't as popular as CP yet and I don't love what I feel are limitations, but I have hopes that once I get my designs listed, it will be better....

The trouble with making cakes and being a mom of boys is that once you've run the gamut of sports and other boy themes you have to really get creative. Braden is 17 and up until this year has been the recipient of those very same sports cakes. I wanted to do something different. Braden has a great sense of humor so we decided it should be something fun. My next hurdle was making a cake with B in the house. I like to surprise the kids by not letting them see the process until the finished product is ready. Sometimes that is easier said than done. This time I had to wait until the family moved outside to play with fireworks to sneak in baking time. Something I've learned along the way is that no cake is ever without crisis. Be it your favorite fondant turning out funky or the mysterous cracked rolling pin broken by that pest named "not me" and his brother "I don't know." This time it was my own fault though... I had forgotten that I...