I’m so glad tomorrow is finally Friday. I’ve been counting down the days until Bonnie flies in tomorrow. Honestly, I am so homesick…so any resemblance of home, especially seeing Bon will make everything better 🙂 Of course we have our tickets to see Twilight Saturday night and hopefully we will have a nice dinner at Cheesecake Factory and enjoy a Godiva cheesecake! Soooooo looking forward to tomorrow and the weekend ahead….

Bow making


Okay, I’m going to try and demonstrate how to make a bow. The ribbon I am using is not very good for it because it’s hard and papery. I prefer the softer ribbon, it’s easier to fluff. This will give you the general idea though.

You start out by fan folding your ribbon back and forth. The length can be however long you want. The longer your ribbon, the more poof you will have in your bow. The bigger the folds, the larger your bow will be.

You should end of with something like this.
Now you are going to fold it over in a U shape.

Trim the top of your fold.

It should end up something like this. An “A” shape at the top of your fold.

Unfold the ribbon, but don’t lose your grasp on it because you want it to stay together. The middle should look like the above.

I used a staple to secure the center of my bow. Last year I had clear twist ties and they worked much better. I forgot where I placed them, so for the time being I’ll just use a staple.

Now you just want to pull your bow apart and fan it out. It would normally be fluffy, but because I am using old crappy ribbon today it’s stiff. It still works though.

You should end of with a pretty bow at the end! It’s a lot of fun and something a little personal you can do for your gifts. Just remember the ribbon makes ALL the difference! Happy bow making!!!

We did a little Christmas shopping tonight. I found some cute wrapping paper at Target. I can’t stand the thin paper that tears when you touch it. It has to be the thick paper you can leave a good crease in.

I love this paper from Papyrus, but at $8.95 a roll I don’t think so!
I also love this paper from Container Store, but at $8.49 a roll that’s still steep.

I did buy most of my paper last year at Container Store though. They got major points from me because they showed me how to make those big beautiful bows out of ribbon. The lady in the store took her time with me and spent like 30 minutes showing me how to make all kinds of bows! So nice! I just hope I haven’t forgotten all the skills I learned last year???

Now this people is the best invention created by man besides the wheel I guess…and a bunch of other things. But for me it is a masterpiece! I love it and how did I ever live without it? It’s one of those Scotch paper cutters, you just slide it along your wrapping paper and whoa-la!!!! A STRAIGHT LINE! Well, that’s all for now! Sister is coming to visit me from Vegas next week…I’m getting SOOOOO SUPER excited! Already thinking of all the fun things we are going to do together 🙂

Cake Balls!!!


Well, I thought I would try to make the cake balls everyone is talking about today while I was off work. Gave me something to do anyways! Here is how it went…

Bakety, bakety, bake..bake..bake…

I just had Terence test one out for me. He said they were pretty good! It was kind of messy though and the red velvet cake dye didn’t help much, whatever it touches turns red! I’m glad I finally tried it out to see what all the fuss is about. I made smiley faces. I wanted to do some sort of fall them, but it didn’t work out that way. I bought the cute little jeweled skewers and it looks like the smiley faces are throwing a party with a kazoo coming out of their mouths. If you haven’t made these cuties you can find recipes for them at BAKERELLA.