Craftibilities: mix

We recently had a bake sale for our local library and were talking about cupcakes. One of the volunteers kept saying she would bring cupcakes but couldn't make the icing fancy or pretty looking. I was talking about decorating tips but it's really a lot of icing. The day of the bake sale she showed up with her cupcakes and they looked fabulous!!! They were the most popular by kids and adults.

She did two different color themes with blue and pink and mixed a bunch of different sprinkles together for each color.

Instead of blue and pink I called mermaid and unicorn.

I'm throwing a luau party at the retirement residence this weekend and a lot of them can't have too much sugar. It's a lot of sprinkles but probably less sugar than a mound of icing.

In a small mixing bowl I added orange, yellow, and pink sanding sugar and crystal sugar, light pink and yellow dragees, Valentine's day mix of nonpareils, and a mix of yellow, white, pink, and orange (I picked out all the green) jimmies. It was kinda fun just grabbing different sprinkles and adding a little of this and a little of that. In the end sprinkle mixture reminded me of pink lemonade.

I did use a round icing tip to start. This way I would apply about the same amount of icing.

Smoothing the icing out to a thin layer and closest to the edge without getting it on the cupcake liner.

Dip or lightly tap each cupcake in the bowl of sprinkles until all the icing is covered.

I found these cute flamingo baking cups and toppers at Micheal's.

They turned out so cute and all the residents loved them!!

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Today is a sad sad day in our house. Our beloved Rolo passed away.

We knew he was winding down. :( He has had trouble gaining weight for awhile and now he is loosing strength to stand. We decided on the way home from school to grab some cement mix and made a memorial stepping stone.

Tub of cement for $7.97 and Home Depot and at home had some glass, stones, rocks and a couple cake tins.

I mixed 4 1/2 cups of cement with 1 1/2 cups of water in a gallon ziplock bag so it could be disposed of easily. I put rubber gloves on to spread the mixture in the cake tin and tapped it on the counter to make the top smooth.

We helped Rolo stand up and pressed his foot down to make one print in the center. We used a bowl of warm water to wash his foot off.

We originally tried to write in the concrete but it looked a mess. I searched for lettered stamps but I must've gave them away when we recently moved.

Used cardstock and cut it into strips to make some of the letters and numbers.

For the letter O and zeros were made with icing tips.

After we made the dates and his name we were going to use little stones and crystals but the boys just wanted to add a dog bone. We used a real dog bone to make the impression.