Red Wine & Creative Inspiration

Scrapbook pages on dispay ................................

Often when I scrapbook I don't put pages directly into an album.  Sometimes they are placed in a stack until I figure out what I want to do with them.  Sometimes I'll just display one or two.  I liked the idea of displaying my "stack" and rotating them into albums when I'm good and ready.  This gives a little time to enjoy freshly created pages for a while before they are tucked away.

Here is the "Sweet 16" cake for my daughter last weekend.  Can you believe there are 28 eggs in that puppy! The diamonds are from black fondant and all other frosting is a great butter cream  recipe....great tasting frosting was an important element to me, thus the very small usage of fondant, I'm not a fan of the flavor.  This was my first tiered cake endeavor and I must admit I put quite a bit of research in before even starting (thank God for Evernote & my IPAD).  All in all, I think the end result was great and I would tell anyone if you are willing to do a bit of research and learn from others ............. don't be afraid to tackle this.  The payoff for my daughter was so worth it.  Yes, the cake feeds a ton of folks so if you are having a large party this would do beautifully.

Cake details:

• 3 Tiers (14", 10", 6")  The 14" tier was a 3" deep vanilla bean cake.  I used the Wilton 3-tier set and was so pleased.  The 10" tier contained 2-3" layers for a total of 6"; this one was chocolate on one layer and a wonderful orange cream on the second.  Finally the 6" tier was all chocolate and turned out so dense and yummy.  In the end my favorite was the chocolate & orange layer.
• Decorated with butter cream frosting, fondant(for the black diamonds), bubble gum Mardi Gras coins, a mirrored sweet 16 pick, and Mardi Gras masks & hand streamers.

So today we embark on a journey. . . . . . . . . .  I guess I'm a little late to the game since everyone has a blog these days.  Nonetheless, every journey must have a starting point and this one begins here.  Hopefully this blog inspires creative action and becomes a destination to absorb creative inspiration for your life, and an outlet to wind down with like-minds.

You can expect content related to:

• Scrapbooking
• Photography
• Home Decor & Artisan Projects
• Party Ideas
• Cooking Adventures (yes adventures, cooking is a creative activity and in my world.....often an adventure)

........................................so what about the WINE?????
I thought you'd never ask!  So here's the thing, I LOVE red wine!  Simply LOVE it.  I love everything about it.  The beauty of the process, vineyards, grapes, leaves,cellars, oak barrels, bottles .............I am sure you get the picture!  I love that wine is associated with love, special occasions, romance, and CREATIVITY.  Wine in itself is a true art.  I believe art should be celebrated (and especially in this case, ENJOYED!).  So, you can expect musings on the broad and lovely subject of wine. 

So that's the long and short of it.  Hope you are as excited as I am, I look forward to sharing with you. 

Thanks for stopping by!