THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO

I was looking through some pictures from the previous holidays and realized I didn't get to show off some of my projects. ;) I know its a bit late, but oh well!
For Halloween, I put together this ginger bread haunted house. It was a bit difficult at first. I was being a guy and didn't bother to read the intructions. I couldn't figure out why the walls of the house wouldn't stay together. The icing was used as glue, but somehow didn't keep the two pieces together. I messed with it for about an hour until I finially decided to read the instructions. Turns out that I had to let each piece dry for an hour. AN HOUR! There were like 6 pieces, it would have taken me forever to finish it. So what did I do? I iced all the pieces together. And instead of holding each piece to each piece, I had cups and bowls to hold them up. My little house was surrounded by cups and bowls. Quite messy actually. So I left it to dry over night and started designing it the following day. I gotta say, coloring it was a lot easier and not to mention, fun! The kids sorta helped me with it. They kept munching on the candy though. But yea...this is how it came out.

My sister's birthday was on the 27th of October. Kinda late to be blogging about it, but yea. Her kids didn't really get anything for her birthday so we decided to make her a cake. So of course, I baked the cake and bought the supplies. I made chocolate cake with chocolate icing. I went to JOANNS and got this already made fondant icing, which is hard icing. The kids made the strips of ribbon and I put everything together. Everything looks pretty good except when it came to the tasting part. I gotta say, that fondant icing wasn't so yummy. It tasted like nothing, well almost like wax. So when the time came to eat the cake, I had everyone peel off the hard icing and just eat the cake. The kids didn'tlike the icing, neither did I, or Uncle Ben. haha So we had cake, with a side of goo'ie crap. Pretty cake, yuckie icing. :)