Halloween Cake Pops

Here are some photos of some cake pops I made recently for two potlucks at work:

Eyeballs and Jack-O-Lanterns! 

The eyeballs are red velvet cake and the pumpkins are pumpkin bread. 

These are from the second potluck, and as you can see I didn't have the time to decorate these as elaborately as the first. Some were vanilla cake mixed with chocolate chips, some were chocolate cake, and some were both :)

Bakerella gives instructions for this on her site. I used the same basic process, but suggest using only 3/4 of a tub of frosting instead of the full tub as her recipe states because I feel they hold together better that way.

*****Warning - Do not attempt unless you have many hours to devote to this!******

It took me the better part of a day both times to make these, but the less-decorated ones took only about five hours...(Yeah, you have to REALLY want to make these lol). 

But, the taste and certainly the presentation just about make up for it :)

Wolverine and Welcomes

Hi there, welcome to my blog!


I'm mainly going to use this space to highlight my finished projects as well as to add some tutorials, but there may be some outside content posted here from time to time.


To start things off in a bad-ass direction, here's my Halloween costume from last year.



Wolverine! (Read: not "Lady" Wolverine)


Wolverine has always been my favorite X-men character because of his general bad-assery. This is the original that I modeled my costume after:




My entire costume was made by hand, except for my eyelashes. The majority of the costume was made using t shirts and cardboard. The black was a shiny miscellaneous fabric I stole from a jacket sleeve. 

Here are some in-process pics:


One boot cover completed, halfway through another...you can see the t shirt I used on the left side



Top, fitted tank made from a t shirt with appliques. I alternated the pattern of the stripes from the original image to better suit a female figure. 


Buckle and one set of claws, pre-paint


Full Costume:


Back:








I had a blast making this costume, and it was even more fun getting people's reactions in public!


If you're interested in a tutorial for any piece of this costume, just leave a comment!