Fabric Holiday Placemats

This past weekend, I made fabric placemats for my mother-in-law's birthday.  I used a black and white polka dot fabric on one side and a red holiday fabric on the other.  They turned out really nice.

I really like the holiday fabric because it isn't too loud and HOLIDAY'ISH.

The black and white polka dots look great on the other side.

Four large placemats.

Oh, and a patchwork trivet to match.

I quilted it in a large diamond pattern in white thread.  I think they would look great on any table and I hope she likes them!

For a tutorial, click here.

Ruffle Cake

I love ruffle cakes and I have been wanting to make one forever!  My mother in law's birthday was a few weeks ago and she is coming to visit, so I thought, PERFECT TIME FOR A RUFFLE CAKE!

I piped ruffles and stripes.

I piped a flower on top like the flower cupcakes I made a few days ago.

I made bright yellow cupcakes to go with it.  So cute!

MMMMM... 

I love layer cakes!

I filled it with homemade strawberry cream cheese filling.  Oh my.

I love this combination.

Flower Cupcake Tutorial

Start by filling a piping bag with your frosting.  I used a #104 tip from Wilton.  I like to use my plastic scraper to get the frosting nice a tight and into the tip.

Start with the fat side down and pipe your first petal.

It should look like this.

Then pipe all around the cupcake in a single layer of petals

Do the same thing on top of the first round, but a little shorter.

Then, for the third layer, turn the tip a little more up and down and make little short petals.

Then top with sprinkles or little pearly dragees.  

They are so easy and turn out beautiful.