Cake Decorations

Everyone loves a cake. It's one of those things that "keeps on giving" in that you feel good when you make it, when the recipient sees it and when you all consume it! Mike's birthday was Tuesday and, of course, Ella picked a theme to celebrate --cowboy. Yeehaw! Giddy-up and away we went to buy cake mix and decorations. We galluped into a great find: Home Cake Decorating in Maple Leaf. This is a tiny shop but I was blown away by all the fun items for cakes and the incredibly helpful owner...who ever thought that brown sugar would make great dirt? Here are the results. Not Martha and proud of it!

In this photo, Ella is placing the 40+ candles that she insisted we do. We had a few burn victims, including 2 cacti and one cowboy. As the smoke cleared and the melted items were removed, Ella said, "Maybe we should've bought the two number candles."