Breaking Dawn Cover Art

Here it is peoples! Don't forget to go stalk your local Barnes & Nobles/Borders/Books-A-Million/wherever to read the first chapter of BD in the special edition of Eclipse that was just released TODAY! To read an exerpt of said chapter, click HERE!

Good Riddance...

It's over... finally. I just finished Ender's Game. I'm sorry to say I am not to be added to the millions (I'm sure) of fans of this book. It started off better than I expected, and I was actually kinda starting to like it there for a while... But then it got repetitive, too repetitive. It was like beating a dead horse into a second life and then killing it again, ressurrecting it into it's 3rd life and then killing it once more. Not my kind of book, sorry... I tried, right?

Phew, now I can concentrate on reading The Host- woohoo!

5 down, 1 more to go!

Today I got my 5th Lupron shot which means I'm officially down to my LAST one next month, wooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooo!!!
My ticker is even excited for me, apparently, because it's changed from a monthly countdown to one in DAYS!

That's all. :)

Is that a rain cloud following me?

Ever feel like you're stuck with one of those cartoonish rain clouds following you around and raining only on you? Yeah, thats me right about now... I've had the most rotten luck these past few days. First of all, my car got backed into on Thursday, grrr... Some girl driving a huge GMC Yukon wasn't paying attention and rammed into my poor little Focus in the parking lot of a store. The front fender is now dented and cracked right below my headlight, lovely. Her insurance will be paying for the repairs and a rental car in the meanwhile but the inconvenience is a pain. Then this morning I woke up and was about to let the dogs out when I realized that our gate in the backyard was wide open!!! I ran upstairs to wake Ben up and see if maybe he'd left it like that last night... He said no, of course, and "Is there anything missing?" So we both run back downstairs and sure enough, my bike was gone. Someone actually jumped our 6' some inch fence and opened the gate from the inside, argh!!! We had to call the police and they came to file a report etc. We don't expect anything to show up, but felt it should be reported anyhow, just in case this thief/thieves have been hitting other homes around us as well... We will be padlocking our gate now as well as adding a deadbolt to our sliding back door. This isn't supposed to happen here!!! I grew up in NYC, this is the kind of stuff you expect there, but here? Ugh... I hope whoever stole my bike gets a flat tire, falls off, and breaks their arm or something... that should teach them! Grrr...

Another Baby Shower Cake!

Here is my newest creation, a clotheline themed cake for a baby shower my sister-in-law was hosting for a friend. This cake was extremely fun to make and I got to try out some more new techniques and it even forced me to get a little inventive! I'd originally planned on coloring the dowels up top (that make up the poles for the clothesline)brown with a marker but then I couldn't find the brown one so I decided to try to cover the things in fondant (like you would with modeling chocolate). After a few tries they turned out pretty cool! This is all starting to get a lot easier with practice, and what once used to take me 2 days to complete, I was able to do in one afternoon/evening! The only thing is that we're left with SO much cake at home... after all the trimming and leveling is done I have mounds and mounds of leftover cake and I just can't even stand to look at it, blegh! ;)

This is the cake's car ride over. Yes, on the floorboard of my car, lol. Some day if I actually get really good at this and start making bigger cakes this probably won't work so well... But for now it'll do!

The finished product once I hung the onesie and made sure nothing had fallen off during the very bumpy ride... courtesy of crappy Oklahoma roads.

My favorite part of the cake. I was so tickled when I found those itty bitty little clothespins!

So anyway... tada!!! :) I think I'll get some dummy cakes soon so I can work on bigger things, like elegant gumpaste flowers, etc.