"Home Making"

I have told many about the fort that Adam built in Angela's room, about a month ago, but I have neglected to post pictures. I really wanted to post pictures where it wasn't a mess and full of stuff everywhere, but I decided to quite waiting around. There were always reasons why I couldn't take a good picture like Adam had to take it all apart and seal it because the wood smell was really strong in her room, then her toys were everywhere from playing, then Adam had to clean the carpets so everything got put up and around it so it was off the floor. That is what happened yesterday, so it's a mess but you can see the contraption he built. Now you at least get the idea of what we had been talking about.

The view as you enter the room ( you can see her messy bed on the lower part)

Then as you enter more...

the ladder to the top level


Part of the top level
Sorry I couldn't get better pictures from different angles. It's just that her room is so small the the fortress takes up 2/3 of it so it's hard to zoom out with the camera. Anyways...Angela really likes her fort, but it's something she enjoys more when someone is with her. So...Adam and I climb up there a lot, but hopefully she can play with her friends in it. We were thinking of putting a sheet down around the bottom half to close it off more like a fort and add a few other things, but we've decided to hold off for now.
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Here is a cake I made this weekend for a teacher in our primary. It was her birthday on the same day as our primary activity so I thought it would be fun to bring her a cake. I needed some practice with fondant since I hadn't covered a cake with it for over a year and a half. I really wanted it to taste good so I used all homemade fondant instead of the store bought. The Wilton fondant is definitely a hundred times easier to work with and looks a ton better, but it tastes kind of nasty to me. So, this was more challenging and it didn't turn out that great because some of the flowers are a little crazy and the fondant had bubbles, but I am still learning. The more practice...the better. :)

By the way, it's a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for the filling and frosting under the fondant. I have made this recipe before so I knew it was a winner. Even if my cake didn't look perfect I knew it would at least taste really good.