cakes and quilts

It's been ages since I've had time to work on my blog, November and December just seem to be so busy. My twin nephews recently turned 7 so I have a cake update. The theme for this year was Power Rangers. I had to google them to see what they looked like, my kids must have been the wrong age when they were popular the first time around. It's amazing what you get to learn when you have kids in your life! The first two cakes are their family birthday cakes, then a photo of them in their Halloween costumes, which my sister made for them and then the school birthday cake!

I also found some quilt photos that had gotten missed so I'm putting their photos in now!

I designed this lap quilt myself using fabrics that reminded me of the fabulous week Barry and I spent in the Mayan Riviera in Mexico in 2011. I loved the bright colours of Mexico, especially the turquoise water!

This is a wall hanging that I started several years ago and finally finished!

 Last year I wanted to design my own quilt pattern. It was much harder to do than I had expected! I made the one above in blues and greens and it reminds me of the south of France.

This was the first version, unfortunately the colours in this photo don't really show up as well as I'd like, that's why I made the second version in brighter colours!

more birthday cakes

I managed to find a cute photo of me and my birthday cake from when I was four, it looks like angel food with the yummy pudding and whipped cream frosting!

Some of our earlier, not so fancy cakes...

This one is for Barry.

                                        This one was for Great Grandpa Stoesz


       My niece loves to bake and decorate cakes, she did this one by herself for me this year!

               My niece and I designed and decorated this one for my daughter, who turned 21.



                              These are the cakes I have decorated for my twin nephews.

                                             This is their first birthday cake!

                                  Third birthday, the dirt is crushed oreo cookies.

                                 They each wanted their own cakes for age 4.

                                              Buzz Lightyear and Bowzer for age 5.

                                                          Age 6 Monster cakes.


                                                                Age 6, class party

                                    Chuckie cake make for my nephew several years ago

                                  Cake made for my friend's daughter for her first birthday

it isn't a birthday without a cake!

Besides quilting, and going to flea markets I also like to bake and decorate cakes. Over the years I've become the unofficial Stoesz family birthday cake baker. My mom always made my birthdays special and I remember the cakes being delicious and pretty. She usually baked sponge or angel food cakes with fluffy whipped cream and pudding frosting, still one of my favourites.

These are some cakes I made for my daughter Taylor

                                                                  age 11

 
                                                                  age 13
                                                                   

Age 15, she decorate this one herself!

Some of my son, Carson's birthday cakes

My niece's birthday cakes

age 2, with cousins

age 3

age 4, friend cake

age 4, family cake

                                                                    age 7

                                                                     age 9

age 10,she designed this one and we decorated together!

quilt retreat 2012

All year long I think about the our next Quilt Retreat, and then, suddenly, it's over! We had a great time again this year in Gimli, Manitoba. There were 20 of us that were able to attend, some of these ladies I only see once a year at Retreat, so needless to say, although alot of quilting gets done, the chatting is the most fun, the food a close second. We get some really great, and filling meals served to us and inbetween the meals they serve us snacks! So we always joke when snack arrives but somehow we manage to cram down those yummy muffins and danishes, too. It was cloudy on Friday but Saturday and Sunday were beautiful sunny days! Even though it was only 12 degrees I had two nice walks on the beach looking for beach glass and nice stones, which is one of my favourite things to do.

             No quilt weekend would be complete without buying a little fabric for the stash!

These are some of the squares I completed this weekend.

                                Some of the quilts others worked on this weekend.

Saturday evenings two prize winners, bags sewn from recycled juice boxes and filled with goodies.