So sorry to leave you all hanging, but after spending a few days getting the family ready for our annual beach vacation our Wifi was out. I am happily sitting in my favourite coffee shop (The Gallery Espresso) in Rehoboth while the rest of the family is napping from a morning at the Beach.
We arrived at my cousins in Maryland on Thursday, spent Friday night with my Aunt and got to the beach yesterday in time for Pizza and the Fireworks. I am not sure how often I will be able to check in during this vacation as well, I am on vacation, so I wish you all a great week and I will be back for sure next Sunday.
Today is the last day to enter for my Blogiversary Giveaway, the draw will take place tomorrow morning!
Today, I am going out on a limb. I am not one to usually use my blog to further businesses that I have, but I really, really want to go to California this September. You see Hubby has a conference in Anaheim. Three years ago it was in San Diego and J and I tagged along. We had a fabulous trip, met up with some fantastic online friends and would love to do it all again and maybe sneak in a trip to Disney while we are at it.
Staying at home with the kids means that I usually don’t get to join him on fun work trips, but this one means a lot to me and I would like to be able to pay for myself, J and Apple to go. Of course, it so happens that the trip is two weeks after Apple’s second birthday, so we would have to pay for her as well. I am not asking for donations but, I am going to offer a 25% discount on any of my Photography packages until the end of the Summer (August 31, 2009), just click on the “California or Bust” photo in my sidebar and it will take you directly through to my photography site. You can use the contact page to book a session with me, just be sure to mention that you are one of my blog readers when you contact me in order to get the discount.
If you are not up for getting portraits taken I do have my Etsy shop stocked and will be adding new items in the next few weeks. Or if neither of those suits you and your kids will be heading back to school in the Fall, I am an Agent for Stuck on You Labels (I have a button for that on my sidebar as well).
I will take any help that I can to make it to California, there are a couple of Ladies, I would like to meet and I have been hoping to go for sometime, but just got word that Hubby will definitely be going with his new job.
The School Raffle Tomorrow.
I think I mentioned in my post the other day that J saw this Beach Cake at my Aunt’s last summer. I asked my Aunt so nicely if I could have the magazine and she graciously let me take it home. When the notes started coming home about the Cake Raffle at school J didn’t even hesitate to ask demand that I make Aunty J’s cake for the raffle.
I started it two days ago and it is now finished. Only one major mishap in that I think the Jello could have been a bit thicker before I poured it into the scooped out area as it started leaking through the wall of the cake. I began to panic, took a photo…
.. then grabbed the plastic wrap. I was able to stabilize it long enough for it to set. However, I did have to get some more icing re-tint it and carefully reapply it over the icing without destroying the sand.
This cake was surprisingly easy to make and if it weren’t for the fact that everything had to be peanut-free I would have had a few more decorations on it.
It came from the June 19th, 2007 issue of Woman’s Day. I would be happy to share all the details with anyone who may want to make it in the future.
