Saturday Stumbles

So here we meet again.  Another week behind us and another weekend (and beautiful one here in GA!) upon us.  What did you find stumble worthy this week?

I found some great birthday party ideas.  I don't have little ones, but I love a good party...and a themed one at that!

Butterfly Vintage by with joy

photo by with joy 

Through the Woods by From Passys to Parties

photo by From Passys to Parties

Fear Factor by The Nuthouse Five

photo by The Nuthouse Five

What is a parent's role in the education of their child?  Ms. Paradise has some great advice!

...and just because it wouldn't seem right without posting a recipe, this Cookies & Cream Peanut Butter is just waiting for me to eat it up!!

So have at it!  Check out the guidelines and link up below:

Abstract Puppet Cupcakes

That's some more of a title?

My friend, Oh Amanda, was celebrating her daughter, Lydia's, 4th birthday with a puppet party! She and I were both on a puppet team in high school. Yes, we were that cool.

The party was so cute. Kids made several different types of puppets, watched old Muppet videos, and took home cute little finger puppets as party favors. All the kids had a blast!

I've been doing Lydia's birthday cakes since her first birthday. This year, though, proved a challenge with the puppet theme. Of course, we all know some famous puppets: Kermit, Big Bird, Elmo and all their friends. But it wasn't a Sesame Street or Muppet party...it was a puppetry party.

So, what I decided to do was take all those familiar and lovable characters that are so recognizable and use aspects of them.

See if you can figure out who these characters are:

These would the lovable Elmo. I made the texture of his fur by spreading a generous amount of icing on the cupcake and then did a sort of spackling technique by lightly slapping, for lack of a better word, the icing and then pulling it up.



These are Ernie. They are the same color stripes as he has on his shirt. Please ignore the shoddiness of my stripes.


This is Bert. Again...turn a blind eye to the stripes.



The infamous Cookie Monster!



Here's Oscar the Grouch. His garbage can lid is an Oreo wrapped in tin foil.



"Kermit the frog, here". I liked this one because the icing, batter, and cupcake liner were all green.


And last we have Big Bird. I used a leaf tip to make a feather like look. For the "feathers" on top, I melted candy melts, dyed them yellowish and put them in a ziploc bag. I cut off the corner to make a very fine point and just made the outline on wax paper.

And here's what they looked like all together at the party!