I wanted to share what I spent a whole afternoon doing last week for Cooper's classroom Valentine's Day party... I purchased these supplies a while back from one of my favorite new shops, Bake It Pretty. Amanda used to have a store on Etsy called A.Bel.Emporium that I loved! But now she has all of her cute stuff in her own shop, and stocks even MORE awesome things for baking. I stocked up on these incredibly cute moustache, mushroom and vintage button chocolate molds (i've seen these vintage button chocolates run rampant in the blog world over the past week or 2!) and all of the other supplies I needed like lollipop sticks, platinum luster dust (which i didn't even know existed), and lots of colors of chocolate melts. :-) I had to hold myself back from buying more of the chocolate molds... her selection is just *cuteness* overload. :-)
I made some moustaches and mushrooms on sticks for his class and plan on making the vintage buttons for another time. :-) I was a little worried because as anyone knows that reads my blog, or knows me well, the kitchen and I just don't jive well. I don't cook. I don't bake. I actually start having heart palpitations when I enter the kitchen. No not really. Wait, yes, seriously I do.
But luckily melting chocolates in the microwave and pouring it into
molds ended up being pretty fool-proof (the fool being me). I did the
moustaches thank goodness first! that were a breeze! the 3D mushrooms
were a bit more time consuming, but still doable! they came out so
cute! there were about 3 or 4 more steps with those... "painting" on
the white dots with white chocolate was a little tedious, but fun. :-)
And I have to say that whoever started the whole *moustache trend* in the indie craft world should be given a million dollars. Or at least a cut of every moustache oriented handmade good out there right now.. they'd be rich. ;-) What a brilliant and clever concept. I couldn't help but jump on the bandwagon with these CUTE lollis! (i don't know why, but i'm thinking it was these guys that started it, but i might be wrong....) :-)
The *MOST* tedious part of the whole thing really was putting on those foils believe it or not. The sheets were pretty small and one barely fit over each moustache, so it took some playing. And they don't really stick that well at times.. more like the foils don't stick well to each other. And they're fragile and tear easily. But they really look amazing! The hardest ones were of course foiling the mushrooms.. those took 2 sheets each... but they were worth the work!
Here's my last-minute-thrown-together little photo shoot i did with these... i needed something to stick them in so they would stand up, but didn't want to use the sand like i did with the unfoiled shrooms above, so i saw a ball of yarn and went with it. And then i couldn't stop adding things like fake mushrooms and a tiny deer.
I wrapped each one in a clear cellophane bag, tied off with a silver twist tie, and then added the tags from my Kawaii Cute Fruits kit and had Cooper write his friends' names and his name on them. I didn't take any after pics, but they turned out cute!
On another non-chocolate related note, Cooper had friday and monday off for school holidays (not sure why the friday... never could figure that out), so he and I had 2 fun Mommy-and-Son-quality-time days that were mostly spent at a park of some sort. Miss Sally Rice came along for the ride to give Mommy a little something to do while watching the boy ride his bike and play on the playground. :-) Luckily he is not phased by mommy playing with dolls. In public. Yet. So I just go with it. ;-)
Although he does get a little miffed when we have to interrupt his bike ride to take a couple shots of the doll in front of a tree.
Made me laugh out loud when I saw this. :-)
Here are the shots minus grumpy boy (and don't feel sorry for him b/c a total of maybe 10 minutes out of about 5 hours were used to take pics of the doll. Heaven forbid. ;-)
She even got to come along for the ride at Coop's swim lesson. Fun times. :-)
Here she is chillin' at the park in my colorful purse...
She travels in style. ;-)
More pics to come from Monday... another day spent at the park.. a different park this time: Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. FUN! :-)
I posted LOTS of new artwork from Kitschy Digitals Creative Team members in 2 posts yesterday... check them out here and here. They are creating faster than I can post! i love that. :-) And as always, here's a small sneak peek:
