~ A special thanks to Jessica of
Zakka Life for giving me the heads up
on this fantastic cake pan
that I got from
Williams Sanoma!The next time we have a "smaller" party, I plan to use the recipe that came with pan!
For Dyllan' party we had 19 kids and almost 30 adults! Quite alot of baking! So I went with easy Betty Crocker in a box!
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~ I'm glad I took photographs of the cake when I finished it the night before as the humidity made the peppermint wheels dissolve over night! The middle cake was for the adults, meant to be a hill side complete with circus animal cookies!
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~ Dyllan stayed up late helping me decorate, he would not have it any other way! I was hoping by staying up late that he would (let us) sleep in, but he was up at 6:30am sharp!. Go figure.
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~ I'm really in LOVE with this cake pan and am already dreaming up something spooky for Halloween!
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~ Since we live in a cul de sac, we hosted the party in the garage. I bought a roll of green, (Dyllan's Favorite Color) plastic table cloth and used it to cover our shelves and less than pretty garage items. I also hung streamers, Diego themed stuff and balloons everywhere!
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The kids had party hats and noisemakers. I also made cool treat bags filled with all of Dyllan's favorites; airplane, ring pops, dip-in-stick, candy buttons, toy race car, games ans more!
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My friend Teresa lent us her bounce house. The kids had a blast!
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~ Here I am lighting the 4 candles on Dyllan's cake. You can see the peppermint wheels had started to dissolve. Still yummy though! Also since we had so many kids/people, I did not have anything big enough to hold the train cakes and hill side. So I took the lid off of Dyllan's plastic toy storage tote and wrapped it in some green plastic tablecloth. Taped it to the undersides. It worked fine!
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~ This was our first Party where we could have a pinata! So fun!
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~ All you could here were the
kids exclaiming..Candy!
Candy!
Candy!*********** The winner of last months July post for the
Goddesses of Craft is: Jan Thompson!
~ Make sure you visit the Goddesses of Craft often so you don't miss out on fabulouse shop specials and RAK's!
***********The winner of my blog giveaway for last month is...
Fiskateer Karen#4500!
***********~ Last but not least....
Remember The Pink Artist Doll I contributed to?
Well she's in the new Art Doll Quarterly! I don't have the publication yet, but if you do.. you can see her on pages 50, 51, 52, 53!
I am one of 180 artist that contributed to this lovely creation. You see my Square
here.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_q2eHBPJB4Zfl6sBYobiB_gl_hnuyHD8Q97t6_tno_F6K1-LBdbeLtYcuV3Ei_7637bFiOemrobXC7nfk6zXpWCyVFTNtk3DJb3-qeh47WgGOJH8AEublKB0495I63YeT7MtHJAUr6GCw/s400/ADQcover.jpg)
~ Please help fight Breast Cancer! You can purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win this amazing treasure and learn of her fabulous artistic journey
Here!