Face Canvas

A couple of months ago, for some strange and unknown reason, I became a little obsessed with wanting to try my hand at face painting.  I know, right?  Random!  I've always had artistic proclivities, however, my brush strokes have consistently made their way onto primed and framed canvases.  So I decided to run with this new interest and merely transfer the canvas to the face!  I did a little researching online, bought a kit, watched some tutorials on YouTube and went to work practicing on all the wee children I could find, which wasn't difficult as I have many willing nieces and nephews.  What kid doesn't like their face painted?  My family all got together over the Easter weekend and I set to work with my paint set.  This is the result of my impulsive new hobby.

It was fun, although admittedly frustrating at times because those YouTube people make it seem so much easier than it actually is!  Haha.  But I'm working on my strokes and perhaps I will be able to paint faces just as fast and easily as the pros one day.  Or I may lose interest and only pull the paints out at family parties.  Only time will tell.  Anyone want their face painted?

-J

Cake Decorating Method

Hello my lovely followers/subscribers, who may be fewer and fewer these days since I'm a horribly infrequent poster, as many of my friends have pointed out!  I'm pleased to bring you a very simple, yet clever method of decorating cakes.  Although I cannot claim it as my own - I chanced upon a tutorial while web surfing and fell in love with this genius concept.  You can go to the tutorial here where it is explained just as well as I could explain it.  It's called frozen buttercream transfers and it's amazing, especially if you are not very artistic and/or too lazy to free hand a cool design.  I happen to be the latter!  I didn't take any pictures of the process but here is the finished product that I made for my son's birthday cake. 

This was the first time I tried doing a frozen buttercream transfer and it worked quite nicely.  Russell was very excited to dig in!  I'm sure the next time, it will be even better because I'll be more sure of what I'm doing and take a little more time to do some detailed line work.  

Happy cake decorating!

-J