How to add my shop

Hi Friends and Family-

How to post my shop onto your blog:

Step 1- go to layout in your blog & add an HTML GADGET on the side.

Step 2- paste the html I email you into your HTML message area.. because blogger is being lame and won't let me just put up the HTML... so email me for it.

Step 3- save :)

and you're done! HUURRRRRAAAAY! Thanks for you help so very very very much! It would be very exciting to get this going- especially because I have a lot of photos to share! Keep checking my shop though... I am always making something new! Not just taking pictures :)

GLORIOUS!

It's the weekend.... "hear angels singing in the background"... I'm photographing at the Ascend Gala tonight, so no break for me. Me work. Oh joy. But I'm excited to try out my new flash! Hopefully this one won't explode on me. That'd be embarrassing... "Lavell Edwards! Smile!....Hey, there's smoke coming out of my flash!"

Anyway. I'm glad the weather should be nice. I plan on going OUTSIDE, I don't care when how or who with but I WILL go outside! :)

And yes, that is about all I've got. I'd better go, we're having a pizza party in my AP Art History class because we're talking about Rome! :) Yay!

Cake

So I decided while Evan is in China I needed to learn how to make topsy-turvy, mad-hatter style birthday cakes. What possessed me to do this... still trying to figure that out. Luckily, I had a way to get rid of the cake so I wouldn't eat the whole thing...let's call it "I'm saving me from myself" or, "Happy Birthday Sarah Miles" :) Anyway. I'm sure most of you will find this boring but here's how I did it....

First, I lined the pans with parchment paper, then I baked them.

After the cakes were baked, I repeated the process so I would have two layers of each size. Then each of the four cakes went into my freezer overnight.





Then I made the frosting, cut a hole into the bottom cake the size of the top layer, shaved down the edges to be angled, cut the tops of both at an angle, and I frosted both the top and bottom and in between each layer.








After I finished all of that, it was back into the freezer for both layers (now two).

The next day, I put two cakes on top of each other and made one big cake.
After my big cake was completed I decorated it with decorator's frosting...not quite what I wanted to do but I was already late for the party!





Ta-da! It looks kind of silly but it tasted really good since I used butter-cream frosting instead of fondant. Next time though I would need maybe two more days so I could do a few more layers of frosting (this is only one and you can kind of see the cake through it cause it's so thin)