Baking Skillz...

I have never been one to shy away from the kitchen, but it's a special treat for me when I get to bake a cake from scratch. I'm currently procrastinating  in the middle of completing my 100 in 1001 goal list and one of the first goals I tackled was successfully baking a rainbow cake.

I've seen many variations of rainbow cakes and even some that are so far beyond what I feel I have the ability to create, but I had to give it a try at least once!

This was honestly my second attempt. My first attempt was using a Martha Stewart recipe for her version of a rainbow cake. The layers on my first attempt were so thin and the cake tasted aweful. I decided to simply use a recipe for a cake I had previously test and loved and the result was this vanilla buttermilk rainbow cake. This cake was time consuming, MASSIVE and was a challenge to layer without it toppling over (definitely use straws), but definitely worth the trouble! I was a bit disappointed with some of the coloring. I ran short on red so I figured it would be okay to use pink gel food coloring to make the red richer. Instead of brightening the red, it simply came out pink. The purple was also gel food coloring that turned out to be a bit more on the blue side than I would have liked. Oh well!

I doubled the recipe of the cake linked below. I highly recommend this recipe!

Mile High Buttermilk Cake

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Etsy, Treasuries, Creations and Connect with Me

Finally got 17 items up on my Etsy page! Wooohoo!

I'm still working on the social networking aspect of Etsy. I really would like to get to know other shop owners even if they're not into sewing or baby clothes. I guess it will happen gradually as time goes on.

I got around to creating a few treasuries yesterday. I really had fun putting these together! I hope to be able to do another one this evening.

Beautiful Jewelry

Baby Girl Items


I'm in the process of studying for my Ethics test and creating some new things for the shop, however; I'm excited that I finally finished a piece that has been rolling around in my head for about a month now. I had this box of beautiful lace:

And I thought that it would be awesome if I could use some of it for the ruffles on a romper. I was thinking that floral fabric would be perfect, but I was having a hard time finding the perfect floral. I finally came across something I liked and this was the result...

Antique Rose Romper

I am so happy with the way it turned out. Please note that I stuff my rompers with paper so that you can get an idea of the shape. They won't look as full in the front when your little one is wearing it but I want you to see the detail of the fabric and the way the ruffles hang in back.

Antique Rose Romper

This one is size for 6 months, but I will be relisting this one with a "Made to Order" listing tonight so that I can make it again in other sizes. probably newborn to 2T at least.

Btw, I'm open for suggestions on styles, colors, sizes, anything. Feel free to give me some feedback and let me know what you're looking for.

Oh, and feel free to add me:

Pinterest ( Have a Pinterest? Have an Etsy store? Lets follow each other and let me pin your items! I love discovering new items on Etsy!)

Facebook (Will be posting updates today and doing some rearranging on there.)

Google+ (Still working on Google+, probably have everything set up by tonight :o) )

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