customBAKEDcakes

Love making them. Don't so much love the clean-up, but am thankful for my cake-skills and tools none the less!

A two-year-old's imagination. . .

I love to watch her play in her own little world.

My Paper Bag Skirt.

Thanks in part to this tutorial, love of this skirt, and my improving sewing skills. I made this:

Love it.

I will be posting a tutorial in the near future on my other blog.

Connect Pass.

Love this card, here's why...

My sister and I, along with my two girls and a little girl she nannies, had an enjoyable and quite busy Wednesday, for FREE.

We began our day at the Hogle Zoo and because of the chilly morning all of the animals were out and active! Here is the Leopard, hungrily pacing back and forth in front of my Ada.

After the Zoo, we walked across the street to This is the Place Heritage Park. I'd never been there and it was awesome! If you've never been, it's worth a trip out there. It's about seven bucks an adult (I think 5 for children over 2years). In the summer though, the admission is only 2 dollars on Wednesday. I'll definitely go back.

Ada enjoyed riding the pony and next to that seeing all of the baby animals in the petting area. A train circles the park and there is something fun at every stop. We panned for gold, look at what turned up, we're rich!! We traded some of the gold to the bank for candy :)

After This is the Place, we drove up the canyon to Snowbird and we rode the tram to the top of the world ;) The girls loved the ride and the fresh air.

After Snowbird, I met Mark downtown and we enjoyed dinner at The Lionhouse Pantry, then Ada, Hannah and I enjoyed a laser show at Clark Planetarium. What a day!

Thanks to a friend of my sisters we got to do all of this for free, but had I payed for the pass I could have done all of this for just 24 dollars! Not bad at all.

tickets please.

Today, as I was on my way to the library with my two girls, I got pulled over by a cop. A bike cop. I was speeding and I got a ticket (do not love it, but what are you gonna do? (not speed, right?)).

Here IS what I love, it did not ruin my day.

I loved being able to control my thoughts and realize that stressing about a ticket was not going to make anything good happen.

Lesson learned: happiness comes from within and I can be happy no matter what, as long as I wanna be.

New Rose

I love surprises like this:

My plant has been rose-less for nearly two years, but not anymore...

this machine.

Could spend hours using it, feeling more confident every time I do.

Love to see the result of paying attention to the rules.

Reading patterns over and over until I understand.

Getting good enough to improvise.

This machine is older than me, it was used to create things I wore as a child and now I am using it to create for my own daughters. Love it.