A Marvelous Mess Party and A Laundry Room Sign!

Hi!!

You here for the party?

Can you wait just a second?

I wanna show a project I finished recently:

It's to fill up some wall space in my Laundry Room. 

With two dogs, we have a lot of dust bunnies around.

To make this I just used a piece of plywood and painted it white.

Then I painted it, very sloppily, with orange.

Then I printed out an image of a feather duster from the graphics fairy and glued it on.

I used transfer paper and traced out the words I had printed, as well as the bunny image, and painted them black:

You know, that fast bunny image actually reminds me a bit of Chloe:

Ready to zip off after the next startling sound. 

Of course, she isn't always as fleet as a rabbit.

Sometimes, she's quite slow.

Actually, I'd say quite a bit of the time she is pretty darn sluggish.

What is that saying?

 "A rolling stone gathers no........stones?":

You can find this project linked at any of the parties in my "parties" tab above and these ones:
Making The World Cuter
Between Naps on the Porch

Alright.....

Enough from me and my doggies.....

What about you??

Here is my fave from last week:

Eggs in a Muffin tin by One Little Project

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Now, on to the party:

Can I just show you all something????

This is a puff pastry filled with lemon curd, topped with fresh maine blueberries, and homemade whipped cream. 

I had this for dinner last night.

In a school cafeteria.

True story.

Boston Terrier Birthday Cake

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Somebody asked me to make them a Boston Terrier birthday cake. 

Here is what I came up with:

Inspired by my very sweet, but not edible, Chloe Biscuit. 

That's a super goofy picture of her. But, Boston's eyes really do kinda "pop" out (especially when they see something of interest....or are carried into a room where they had just *pooped on the rug* and know they're in for it). I was inspired to make my cake Boston have those eyes. 

The cake is a alternating yellow and chocolate layers with a very simple vanilla buttercream frosting. 

To make the ears, I just used leftover pieces of cake (I made a whole bunch of 9" ones and then trimmed them to the size I wanted) that were triangular in size and (with a little frosting) stuck them to circular top layer.

The grey frosting is just my regular frosting mixed with black tube gel frosting. I used the black gel to decorate the rest of her face and to place little dots around the sides of the layers.
I also used a little edible "pearl" dust and sprinkled it all over to make this cake shimmery.

I even made the parties "goody bags" into "doggy bags" with this stamp:

and this paw print stamp:

Super simple. 

The "treats" inside were little safari brand plastic doggies. 

And some cow tails, which doesn't follow the theme.... but, darn it all, they just taste good. 

Anyone else done a puppy themed Birthday party?

I've got plenty of projects that have been inspired by Chloe:

Bulb Box to Dog Bed

Squeaky Leather Lion Toy

Pallet Bed 

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You can find this project at any of the parties on my parties tab above, or at these lovely blogs:
Between Naps on the Porch
Craftionary
Making the World Cuter