Renewed Buffet Server Part 2

Hello again,
  So if you scroll down a little bit, you'll see the buffet server that I bought used and repainted to match my other dining room furniture.  I didn't like that the inside looked unfinished.  Though I know no one really cares about what the inside looks like, I cared.  So I decided to do something about it.  I went out and bought some wrapping paper that I liked and modge podged it to the inside.  Here are pictures of the process.

 Clean the inside the best that you can.  Paint the interior with modge podge and place your pre-cut pieces of wrapping paper over the modge podge.  Try to smooth out the bubbles the best that you can.  Give it about 15 min. to dry and then put another coat of modge podge over top.  I also sprayed it with a sealant I bought at the craft store to make sure it would really stay on there.

Any advice I can give is if you are really concerned with it being perfect, you're going to be there forever.  It took me a couple of hours and mine is nowhere near perfect, but I like how it turned out in the end. 

Happy Birthday Mom!

So I've been pretty bad about updating this with my new projects. I have a few! The first one I'll show you will be the cake I made for my Mom for her 60th birthday.

My mom always says her dream is to be in a rock and roll band, so what better than to make her a guitar shaped cake!

I started off by making an 11x15 inch cake (3 boxes of cake mix), 2 8 inch round cakes (1 box) and a 13x9 inch cake (1 box).  I baked them, let them cook, and then leveled them.

I started with the records because I thought that would be easiest.  I iced the whole thing with black icing (buttercream).  Then I found a website online that let me generate my own record album label.

I printed and laminated it.  Then I cut out the middle part and put it on the cake.  Finally I used a lifting comb (yes, like for your hair) to draw the grooves on the side and the top.

 

Next was the guitar.  I found a coloring picture of an electric guitar online and used that as my model.  I free handed the shape of the guitar onto a piece of wax paper and put it on top of the 11x15 cake.  

I used a kitchen knife to carve the guitar shape out of the cake.  Then I used the remaining pieces to assemble the neck of the guitar.

I did the same thing with the microphone.  I drew a microphone shape on a piece of paper and then I carved it out of the 9x13 cake.

Finally it was time to ice the guitar and the microphone!

I used the black icing to simulate the wire coming out of the microphone to say the words.  There was a lot of leftover cake after carving everything out, so I used the remainder to make cake balls.  That's a blog for another time, but if you want to know what they are google cake balls or cake pops.  They are delicious.  Here's the final product, at the party for my mom.

I also made little purple chocolate guitars and music notes out of a mold and the meltable chocolate I got at the craft store.  It was a great time and everything turned out perfectly!