I hand placed every single one of these beads on by hand, with tweezers. it took over 8 hours!!!!
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Mama Sisson's Birthday Cake
Papa Sisson's birthday cake. it started to fall apart a little in the car ride home!.JPG)
My final project at school
and he's not missing an eye, he's playing peek a boo!
These are the cakes I've done in the last few weeks. It has been insanely busy because we had two buildings in two weeks and apparently this is very rare. This first building was the second of the two buildings and as you can tell, it is definitely an improvement. The first one (which is the castle looking one) my supervisor did about 25% of the work, but this second one I did entirely by myself which was the coolest thing ever!! I spent about 25 hours total in a two day period doing this cake start to finish. I also got to help deliver it and the people at the school who ordered it were thrilled. They loved it, and it just made my work even more worth it to know that our clients liked my work. When I got to work the next morning my boss had put out a note for me telling me that i did a good job, and she had put $100 in the envelope which she said was a bonus for my work on this building. It was very sweet of her and such a great opportunity!
It's a replica of a building for Union College in Albany. They just remodeled it and were having a big dedicatory ceremony.
This battalion of the army is being sent to Iraq so they had us do a cake for the farewell dinner they were having for the men. I drew all that out in frosting.
These cupcake stand, tier thingy's are the new style and very popular. They look nice but I HATE doing all the stupid little cupcakes. I sure hope they go out of style soon.
I had to do 70 of these.
Another cupcake stand
The other building. We were given 2 days notice on this building so it's not as great as I would have liked but the customer's were happy. It's another replica of a college building in Richmondville
i saw that tawnya wrote 100 things about herself and i thought it was a cute idea and i enjoyed reading them, so i decided to do the same. even though i'm not even close to 200 posts. i think this makes number 17 for me WAHOO!! some you know, but others you probably don't. and i'm sure someday my kids will laugh over some of these things.
1. i love my family
2. i love my nieces and nephews
3. i only want to have one girl and the rest boys someday
4. i want a set of twins
5. i LOVE my job
6. i love where i live because it's so green and beautiful
7. crunching leaves in the fall is one of my favorite sounds
8. diesel engines are my other favorite sound
9. i love the smell of burning weeds, branding cows and gun powder
10. i hate ketchup except for on hashbrowns and tinfoil dinners
11. i love almost all fresh vegetables
12. i love real maple syrup
13. i want to meet emeril lagasse and duff goldman
14. i hate wasting time to capitalize when i'm typing
15. i have to have my toilet paper roll from the top
16. i organize my credit cards
17. i alphabetize my movies
18. i really like boys
19. i had my first kiss when i was 12
20. my mom gave me a haircut when i was little that made me look like the mushroom guy on mario brothers
21. i talk in my sleep
22. i never taste my food when cooking, i judge it's flavor by smelling it
23. eggs were the first thing i ever cooked.
24. i've only been bucked off a horse once
25. i've never had a mosquito bite
26. i'd never had stitches until a month ago, and now i'm known as scarface. ha ha
27. i love hunting
28. i love my horse and want to bury him in the family plot (or at least the garden)
29. my first cow susie rode home in the the front seat with dad and me when i was 5 and sucked my fingers the whole way
30. i used to have a lamb that would give me ticks when i bottle fed it. i never named it and i'm not sure why
31. i hate r & b music
32. potato salad is probably my favoritest food (if it's done right)
33. my sisters are my best friends
34. i only lied to my parents once in high school, and felt so guilty that i told them the next day
35. i have a very extensive driving record
36. i have 3 metal screws in my knee
37. those screws set off the metal detectors at the sacramento airport once and i had to be rubbed down by a security guard
38. i'm extremely accident prone
39. there is good reason for my nickname shortbus
40. i made a piglet cake at work last week and laughed!
41. i hated it when camille did my hair as a kid because she would hurt me and call me a baby plus she use to rat it and give me wings on the side of my head! she never got out of the 80's hairdo's i guess. lol
42. the man from snowy river is my favorite movie
43. i love my sunday afternoon naps
44. i love the rain and lightning storms
45. my friends and i used to do drive by shootings in college with marshmallow guns
46. i won the spelling bee twice in middle school
47. i took third place in district
48. i won an award in sixth grade for a poem i wrote
49. i still have a boss from years ago that calls me on my birthday
50. i secretly love it when little kids swear because i think it's hilarious!
51. i love the smell of babies, but who doesn't
52. thai food is my new favorite cuisine
53. i HATE the city
54. it is my favorite thing to watch people trip, there is nothing funnier!!
55. i love to laugh
56. comedies are my favorite movies followed closely by action
57. hearing, reading, or seeing anthing about soldiers makes me cry
58. i've only killed one deer in my whole life
59. i have slayed many many rabbits
60. rabbit hunting with quinn is high on my list of favorite things to do
61. i've read over 1000 books in my life, i've written them all down
62. i love to collect quotes
63. i hate scrapbooking but wished i liked it because i think they're so neat
64. i hate fancy restaurants, they make me feel out of place
65. i cry very easily over sentimental things
66. i consider myself a hard-worker
67. i worry daily that i won't be a good wife
68. i work better under stress because then i don't procrastinate
69. i've read the whole harry potter series 5 times
70. i've read the whole marry poppins series 4 times
71. i collect childrens books
72. i want to teach a class on childrens literature someday
73. when i retire i want to teach at a culinary school
74. i miss my grandma everyday
75. i still have my baby blanket and pull it out occasionally. i would more often but the fabric is so fragile that it pretty much disintegrates when you touch it.
76. i have every letter i've ever received in a box (a few boxes actually), including every note from mom and friends
77. i think my mom is one of the toughest women i know
78. i've spit off the top of the empire state building
79. i always wanted a pet elephant growing up, and still think it would be pretty cool. imagine cleaning that stall lindsay! lol
80. landon and i used to eat "cheesies" when we were kids which after growing up, i realized are actually just a weed. thanks big brother!
81. i also have my brother to thank for getting me to lick a frozen pole, try chew and beer, and eating a fried banana because he said he would too even though he lied and just laughed when i ate it and he didn't!!
82. bananas are the food i despise the most and can't even eat out of politeness
83. i've had to do the heimlich on mckenzie twice
84. i cried after the first time it happened
85. i've been arrested once
86. nobody at school here in ny knows my name, i'm known and referred to as "utah" by everyone
87. i love weddings, they make me smile
88. "fishin in the dark" is the one song that can ALWAYS make me smile no matter the mood
89. i have a friend in another country
90. your mom goes to college!!
91. i need some chapstick cause my lips hurt real bad!!
92. i hate the feel of dry dirt on my hands when i'm gardening or planting flowers
93. i hate painting my fingernails, but have to always have my toenails painted
94. red is my favorite color recently, i'm sure it will change though
95. if i had one wish it would be to have a good singing voice
96. i love to quilt and wish i had more time for it
97. i've always chewed the same flavor and brand of gum. peppermint extra
98. i can't go anywhere without my chapstick and mint is my favorite flavor
99. i have to marry a good looking husband because i really really want beautiful kids
100. i just love life in general and after many years of working hard to become this way, i now consider myself an optimistic person.
Well I don't have really anything exciting to report other that things are still going wonderfully and amazingly well! I was talking to a friend the other day about jobs and what we do in our spare time and I told him that I would still want to do what I do for a living, in my spare time. And I realized how lucky and blessed I am cause how many people can say that? How many people love their jobs enough to want to do it all the time? So I feel very lucky to, as dad would say, "Have something to be excited about when you get up in the morning." So thanks dad for always teaching us the importance of this principle, it definitely stuck with me and after lots of work and school I am now being able to utilize it.
I don't have pictures of my latest work as of yet because I wasn't wearing my pink helmet on the short bus I guess, and I left my camera at school. But I took pictures on my boss's camera and she is going to email them to me. I was very excited this week though because my boss let me do my first wedding cake, start to finish, all by myself. I have been helping her with them, but never allowed to do one all by myself. I guess I'm improving or something, for her to trust me with that responsibility. I'm sure you all laugh at me and I know this makes me sound like a geek, but it is such a rush to work on these cakes and then see the finished product, and think "wow, I did that!"
Plus I got to make a John Deere cake this week!!! It was awesome!! My boss had never done one before and she knows how much I love John Deere so she saved it for me and just told me to figure out how to carve it and build it, and then just run with it. So I did. I wasn't able to spend as much time as I would have liked because it was just a small birthday cake, but I think I've come up with ways to improve it. It did turn out very adorable though if I do say so myself.
Okay, okay. I'm sorry all I ever talk about is cakes. I wish I could say there was more going on in my life though, but there isn't too much. I'm so busy between school and work and traveling between the two that I don't have time for much else. I have been on some dates though with some guys upstate, which I have to say, I definitely prefer the upstate guys to the ones downstate. They're a little more rugged and more to my liking, although none are worth mentioning in detail. I also really like the ward a lot, everyone is very friendly. All in all life is fabulous! So to quote Robin Hood "OODALOLLY OODALOLLY!!" (and yes, I came up with the spelling all by myself! I'm not a spelling bee champ for nothin, ya know!)
Well so far this is all I have to show for my attempts at turkey hunting. Ridiculous I know! I've been out three mornings and two of the three I shot a bird but they both got away. I'm extremely ticked about the whole thing!
So here's the story on how I got my extremely rugged battle wound. I was up in the tree blind which has plexiglass windows that hangs down, and you just prop them open with a piece of wire while you're hunting. Well after waiting for 3 hours, a tom walked out almost right below the tree blind, so I just barely stuck my gun out the window, setting up the shot when the window closed and slammed the scope into my eye which is how I got the black eye and the cut under my eye. This of course scared me because it was the last thing I was expecting and I jumped and shoved the scope up into my forehead giving me the big cut. But even after all this the turkey was still just sitting there, so I took off my sweater and tied it around my forehead to stop the bleeding and took the shot. I hit him and he dropped but he got up and ran away. And I had blood gushing into my eyes so I could barely see to take another shot. I am still so mad about not getting him cause he was huge too!! But I still have a month to get one so that's good. Eight stitches total, 6 on top and two on bottom. But even with the injury I definitely enjoy turkey hunting!! It's been some of the funnest times I've ever had hunting, other than rabbits with Quinn of course!
The ironic thing about it, is that most of the Sisson boys have this exact same scar in the same place from getting hit in the eye with a scope. So when I got home they all hugged me and said "now you're an official member of the Sisson family!" It was pretty funny.
These are the cupcake baskets we do. We do them in lots of sizes and they're very popular. We made 25 of them for the centerpieces for this particular wedding. It took forever!
I handmade each of those frosting flowers. about 700 total!
This was the wedding cake that went with all the cupcake baskets. They went to australia on their honeymoon. Hence the hideous cake toppers.
Sweet Sixteen party
Elmo
Christening (I even made the shoes!)
Wedding
This is the cake topper. How cute is that!!.JPG)
