showers and cupcakes and bears, OH MY!

So I know it has been a bit since I last updated and I am truly sorry about that to all of you who actually read this on occasion...  Recently had my big sisters baby shower where she received a large amount of stuff.  She was thrilled and very grateful and we made her a ridiculous Shower Hat.  For some reason everyone kept asking, "are you going to make her a big bow?" and I continued to ask, "what bow are you people all talking about?" but no one would answer me!   So I finally asked a waitress if she had a paper plate of some kind and she came back with a take away container lid, lol.

My mother and I made cupcakes as favors for the shower.  As my mother describes it and to be specific... my mother MADE the cupcakes (the icing, the cupcake itself, etc) and I DECORATED the cupcakes.

and they were given out in these very cute little boxes that my aunt made.  My Dad helped my mom and me put them into the boxes the morning of the shower...

My mother showed me how to use the piping bags (not hard...no offense to bakers out there) and then she allowed me to play with extra icing she had, thus how we got little booties on some and flowers on others.  My mother piped all the flowers and I piped the booties and there's like 3 cupcakes with bears on them, lol.  My mother made the icing then went, "here, put that on all the cupcakes" lol as well as she made the cake part of the cupcakes themselves.  Such a talented mommy.  Now I can add "cupcake decorator" to my list of things I can do but am not an expert at! lol

I finished the christening blanket.  Here it is below.

When everything is done I am going to get the patterns written out for all of these.  Basically it was just a bunch of cables to make this blanket.

 This is how I wrapped my sisters stuff from me.  The blankets in there and then there's an outfit with a little hat with bears on it, the bib set has bears on it, and then the hat I made.  I made a point to tell her that there was nothing from Vera Bradley in the box when she opened it.  But it was very fitting for me to re-use an orange Vera Bradley gift box to give my big sister her gift.

Finally, because my sister is not a chocolate cake fan, and the cakes at her shower were chocolate cake... and cheesecake... my mom and I made her a Diaper Cake.

My mother refuses to take credit for any of this cake BUT SHE DID HELP.  I can not make bows to save my life... and so she made that big ol' boy in the very front.  I made the ones on the side and we just stuck ribbon and stuff around it.  I can't bake but I can apparently make diaper cakes with my mom!

So that's the update.  Sorry it took so long, been crazy busy.

HAPPY KNITTING

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