Made by hands, expressed from the heart.

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Flying Saucer Cookie Tray


It is almost Summer and the school end of the year parties are starting.
My son's Astronomy Club will end tomorrow and at his request I am sending cookies. I was too lazy to bake the cookies, so I grabbed some Chips Ahoy on sale at ShopRite.
I wrapped 2 cookies together, but they looked too plain. So I decided to make some labels on Photoshop.
But then I didn't know how to serve them, a plate or a box looked very sad. That is why looking at some astronomy images, I saw a flying saucer and that what I decide to make.

As always my budget was low, so at the Dollar store I found some trays that could do the closest job. And a clear cup to place on top.

Next I used some blue paint tape in parchment paper to make circles.
I taped the circles in the clear tray to make little windows.
I painted the inside of the tray with silver (in the inner circle), then black paint on the outside. It needed about 3 layers of paint to cover the clear parts.
After the paint was dry, the blue tape was removed to make the little windows. On the clear windows I made some drawings in paper.
They were each glued on the inside part, with the aliens facing outside.
I made this little alien with clay and a little control panel in paper.

Then glued on top of the upside down painted tray.
And finally glued the clear cup to cover.

The serving tray is ready.
And this is how aliens with their flying saucers are in my head.
Happy and peaceful.

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Pokeball Cake.



For my son's Pokemon party I was really out of ideas for the cake. So my friend Leslie, who I call my other brain, showed me some pictures of a cupcake cake. That was a great idea. She helped me with the baking, which was great.
Then it was just a lot of pipping.
To make the black stripe, I used some black candy balls from Party City, because there were no black frosting or black food coloring available.
The kids were very happy with the cake.
And serving was very easy.
Mission accomplished, until the next party.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Pokemon Party Preparations- Mega Blastoise


It has been a while that my son had a birthday party. Now that he is turning 10, we are preparing a nice party, a Pokemon party.
He likes a Pokemon called Mega Blastoise, so I did my best to make this turtle like creature. First molding in aluminum foil, then covering with white clay.
And I used acrylic paint.
The weapons were made of paper.
Now that he is ready, I realized it is too heavy to sit on top of a cake.
I still have a couple of days to figure out where to put him.
Now, to the next project.