Paul, Mallory and I are maintaining our post detox weights. Paul and I are actually down a few more pounds. Mallory is about the same. Paul and I still drink two shakes a day and eat one meal for the most part. We like the shakes. They're healthy and an easy meal replacement. To us it's easier to make a shake than to come up with and prepare a meal so we're sticking to that plan. Mallory has a shake on occasion but mostly eats better. We keep healthy snacks on hand and don't have junk food in the house. From time to time we have a treat and it's fine. Paul went back to having a small coffee each morning but I still haven't had coffee since June 5. I don't really miss it. I make myself a cup of tea in the mornings and enjoy that.
School has started and we're all getting back to our routines. I am working in a new role as one of the secretaries in our school office. I enjoy the new job and look forward to going to work each morning. I take a lunch break around 1245 which makes the afternoon go pretty fast.
This is my principal Aimee in the middle and the teacher I assisted for the past five years, Leslie, on the right. We all had on blue jean jackets the other day so we had to get a pic:).
I've been making quite a few cakes lately.
This was for our back to school staff meeting. The shirt on the cake represented the staff shirts we got for wearing on Fridays.
This was a smash cake for a one year old birthday boy. I was a little worried about the difficulty of these fondant turtles when the girl sent me the picture of the cake she wanted but it wasn't too bad.
I made these cookies for a swimming pool party. I don't care for royal icing so when I make cookies I use buttercream. It's not as neat looking but it tastes so much better in my opinion.
This was a simple white cake for a 16th birthday. The mom just wanted a plain white cake but I added our school logo for fun.
These two cakes were for a sister and brother who celebrated together.
This was for a bridal shower. I love these rosette cakes. So pretty.
I did these rainbow cookies for a rainbows and unicorns party.
I did these cake pops for a baby shower. I'm not a big fan of cake pops. They came out pretty cute but I prefer cake to cake pops myself.
This was a surprise cake a guy ordered for his wife and two sons. I thought it was so sweet of him to to that.
For this one I was given a picture of some paper goods for the birthday so I painted the picture on a piece of fondant using food color as the paint. Horses are so hard to do!
This cake was for a girl graduating from nursing school.
And this was for a special friend of our family, Sydnie❤️
Whew! That's a lot of baking! I also have been painting some. I'm not a real artist but I enjoy painting easy, graphic things. I absolutely have to look at a picture to copy it. Here are some canvases I did for our school on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Kids :
Then I did these for our counselor's office:
All this amongst trying to organize our garage and shop buildings. I'll save that project for another post😉
