Cakes/Birthday cakes and cookies!

Only an amateur...

I enjoy decorating cakes and finding things to make, especially children's birthday cakes and cookies.  It brings me great JOY to know that some of my cakes/cookies can lighten the lives of children. ☺ 

Here are just a few of them.  Most of these cakes have marshmallow fondant decorations.

Sleepover birthday party.

LDS Baptism cake #1

Batman birthday party

Hanbok 한복 
(Korean Native national dress)



Spongebob Squarepants
(Backwards theme)
I didn't have enough red food coloring. (Boo!)

Hello Kitty birthday party

Butterfly

Present

Lego birthday party
(Yes, he is a little out of proportion and over weight. But, no bullying allowed!)

LDS Baptism cake #2
CTR = VDR
(Choose The Right = Velg Det Rett)

Frog birthday party

Dog birthday PAWty

Minute to Win It birthday party

Minecraft birthday cake
Made with three layers of "cookie" 
1, brownie, 2, chocolate chip 3, no bake

LDS Baptism cake #3

Butterfly Rainbow cake

Hula girl



Rainbow cake 



Emoji birthday party.  
Each girl made their own emoji.


 
Monster cookies with homemade eyes made of Royal icing. 
I am not responsible for children who might have nightmares because of these cookies,  ;-)



I entered a local gingerbread house contest.
These were my creations.
100% edible.



Cream fruit cake.



Malasadas. 
A donut orginally from Portugal that is popular in Hawaii.



Snowball cookies.



More birthday cakes!



Pumpkin roll cake.
This just proves that nobody is perfect. ;-) 
Tasted good!



Songpyeon/송편
A Korean rice cake.  
Usually eaten at Chuseok/추석, Korean Thanksgiving.
This was our first time making them. 

Food, Glorious Food!

Just some of the foods we enjoy in our home. Don't let the pictures make you hungry!  ;-)

Shish kabobs, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, Norwegian way of eating hot dogs (pølse and lompe), open faced sandwiches, apple cake, Korean-Kimbap 김밥, fruit kabobs, Sand cakes, cookie cutter pizza, wild berries, Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas tree shaped pizza, Korean stuffed pancakes called Hoddeok 호떡, Korean staple food-kimchi and last but not least, crossants stuffed with a chicken mixture. 

Stained glass Christmas sugar cookies made from crushed hard candy.

Homemade chicken nuggets using bread crumbs and cookie cutter shapes.

Mini sized chicken pot pies.  Made in cupcake tins.

We froze heart shaped creamers to use in our hot chocolate.  ♥

School lunch! 

A fun way to make deviled eggs!

Fun with pizza!

Braided garlic bread.

A traditional American Thanksgiving dinner. 

Another Pinterest idea complete!

Only 974+ more to go! ;-)

Playing with food is okay to do in our home.  ;-)
By the way, this is Korean-Kimbap 김밥. Similar to sushi.  
Only difference is kimbap is made with smoked fish and regular rice
and sushi is made with raw fish and sushi rice.  

Arts and crafts time!

Here are just some of the arts and crafts we do.  

The art of folding paper.

Origami or in Korean, jongijeopgi 종이접기 .

Freezing water in between two different sized bowls with flowers, or your choice of decoration, inside.  Plus some ice glasses and drinkable straws.  

 A ukulele made out of cardboard and rubber bands.

We melted the leftover small pieces of crayon into a heart shape mold to make one big colorful crayon.

These were supposed to be crayon dog bones.  I ended up having to make the mold myself using aluminum foil because I never found one to buy.  They kind of turned out?  :-)

These are the birthday invitations for that same dog themed birthday party. The dog bones, with the birthday party info, can be pulled out. 

Make your own kite out of grocery bags and wooden barbecue skewers.

Melting Hama beads in the oven to make these bracelets.

Hama beads, the original way.

Lena's artwork with some playdough we got from Amy.

Silk paper flowers.

 Carved "pumpkins" Jack-O-Lantern faces out of empty orange peels.

Using a nail and hammer we made these lantern pumpkins.  
These were hard to make, and I do not recommend children doing this.  I had originally planned on making five, but stopped after two because of a sore thumbs.  
**Original idea taken from this blog:  
http://growcreative.blogspot.no/2012/07/tin-can-lanterns-tutorial.html

 A couple of our seasonal door decorations.
(Snowman not shown)

 Staying cool in the summer!

We love rainbows!