12. Fondant cookie pops

I enjoy making cookie pops and kids love them! In the past I have always done them in royal icing or color flow. This was the first time I decorated them with fondant. I started by cutting the right size of black fondant then the wing colors cut and "glued". Next came the dots, eyes, antennas and putting the little black dots on the eyes. From start to finish it took me 4 hours to decorate the 20 cookie pops! I'm hoping that with practice it will get quicker but it was a good experiment to try them out. I hope to get to try out more fondant cookie pops soon!






To go along with the cookie pops I made a ladybug cake. The ladybug was yellow cake and the bottom part was a 3 layer chocolate cake with butter cream icing.



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Mix CD # 5 Mu's

As I expected this CD was most unlike what I listen to on a regular bases. I didn't know any of the songs on this CD. While a couple of the songs I didn't exactly like I was presently surprised on how many of the songs I really enjoyed. I was also surprised that I knew a couple of the artists. A good number of the songs were instrumental, which were specially nice to listen to while driving on a nice sunny day.

Here is the list of song's from the CD:
Intro- the xx
Deep Red Bells- Neko Case
Night Drive- Chromatics
Untitled- Interpol
He Turns Down- Cat Power
Nightlife- Amon Tobin
Tell you now- Le Tigre
Mal Poli- Yelle
When I Come Back Around- Jamie Lidell
Dust- Dorothy Ashby
First Sleep- Cliff Martinez
Hodie- Jocelyn Montgomery/David Lynch
Tannaim- John Zorn
Why I Stay- The Black Heart Procession
Solo su voz- Juana Molina
No One Knows My Name- Gillian Welch
The Man Who Told Everything- Doves
Blood Red River- Beth Orton
Strawberries- Mia Doi Todd
Stai Con Me- Etta Scollo
Spirit Fingers- Four Tet
In the Wire- Friends of Dean Martinez
Something Wicked This Way Comes- Barry Adamson
Babs- Robbie Basho
Close your eyes and you'll burst into flames- Kaki King

Next week's CD Scott's

Mix CD # 4 Justin's

So, Abby had the most random CD award till this week. Justin now has the most random award!
I knew all the songs on this CD as we have been together over 8 years and married over 3.5. For the most part I enjoy these songs or at least like to listen to them every once in a while

Here is the list:
Bus stop- The Hollies
Just Dance-Lady Gaga
Scar Tissue- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Take You There- Sean Kingston
Barbie Girl- Aqua
Butterfly- Crazy Town
I kissed a girl- Katy Perry
Jumper- Third eye blind
We have all time in the world- Louis Armstrong
Lightning strikes- Lou Christie
Young girl -Gerry Puckett
Don't let me be misunderstood- Santa Esmerealda
All along the watch tower- Jimi Hendrix
All for you- Sister Hazel
I'm gonna be (500 miles)- The proclaimers
Bonnie and Clyde- Beyonce and Jay-Z
Hooch- Everything
Africa- Toto

Next week's Cd will be my uncle's CD, I expect this will be the most unlike what I am used to listening to.

11. Cuscatleco

Like most of my new experiences this one involved our wiigue. We decided to try out a restaurant most of us hadn't been to. Katie suggested Cuscatleco, a near by Mexican restaurant.
I was really excited to see that they had fried yucca in their menu. It was an appetizer and it came with fried pork, which turned out to be really yummy, and cabbage. Katie enjoyed the cabbage and I am happy to say the yucca was good! It was much, much better than the last restaurant I tried fried yucca at.
Justin had nachos with steak, I had a chicken quesadilla, Katie had a vegetarian special and I can't remember what Angelique had. We were all happy with our food and we'll going there again! It was very reasonably priced and service was good.

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10. AIM-Train

I've been teaching Wilton classes for almost an year now and had been looking forward to the aim- train, annual instructor meeting and training. But, because of snow the training got postponed due to weather. The first weekend in March I finally got to go to Aim-train! The training was at the Marriott in Raleigh, only about 20 minutes away. It was really informational and entertaining.
I had taken the classes and watched all the DVDs which really helps but it was a lot of fun to go to training. The people leading the training were the people in the actual instructional DVDs which was really cool to get to meet them as they have been with Wilton for a long time.
It was great to meet other instructors and get to talk about the classes, what we enjoy, what students have trouble with etc.
The training was all day Saturday and Sunday and I learned tons of things! We also got to some information about new products Wilton will be releasing soon.
Another really cool thing as all the free products we got, I came home with a huge box of supplies, and if you know me you know I love free things and a great deal!
There were lots of fun things we learned about and got to keep!

That's all I can say about training for now...

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