Handmade Picks of the Week!

Three shops I think you should check out on Etsy...each amazing in it's own special way! I found my favorite in each, just click on the links to see their shops :)

I'm a sucker for black & white and this messanger bag by CDChyld is no exception!


This girl is one of my favorite Etsians and persons :) HeartSizedCrush's tattoo inspired jewelry is truly, well, inspiring!


Another one of my favorite people and the most amazing designers I know, aNGrYGiRL Gear makes the most bad ass corsets, hoodies and shrugs.

Wanna See My Lastest Cake???

Check it out at my new blog location HERE!!

Poisoned Creations Giveaway!

My friend Kim is the beauty and brains behind Poisoned Creations.
She makes gorgeous clothes and accessories for the rockabilly/pinup crowd.

Some of my favorites are her pencil skirts:


And her fascinators:


Right now she is holding a giveaway on Facebook to win this gorgeous bustle:


So please please please fan her Facebook Page by clicking HERE and tell her Faboo sent you!! Then you can join in for your chance to win as well!!

Spring Clearance Sale!!!

It's time to clean out my brain and spark some creativity! The best way to do that is to get rid of the old stuff - so now through Sunday, all items are marked down to move!!

Check it out at Fabulously Fierce

It's Moving Time

Now that my website is up and running, I will be moving this old bloggy blog over there. I'll probably double up for awhile and then fade this one out, so if you want to stay up to date please follow the new blog!

http://www.fabulouslyfierce.com/blog/

Final Cake!

Tonight was the last class for Course 3 and it was fun, fun, fun! The only requirement was we had to make a 2 tier cake, beyond that we had free reign. I went with fondant, because it's my new best friend. Originally I had wanted to make a red and black marbled cake, but sadly my order of fondant didn't make it in time and all I has was white...so white cake it was. I was pretty undecided on what I wanted to do with my cake when I got to class, all I knew was I wanted to make some fondant roses. My black fondant came in right before class, so being the dark and twisty girl that I am I made black roses and sprinkled them with black cake sparkles.

I decided to keep my cake kind of simple and classy, so I added black fondant bands at the bottom of each tier and made a gum paste/fondant skull applique with more sparkles for the top. Being obsessed with all things red and black I had to add a few red details with the little bow and some red buttons.

So here is the final product, I am very much in love with it!

I Freakin LOVE Fondant!!

After a couple week break I am back in action with the cake decorating classes. I started Course 3 last Thursday (yes, I skipped Course 2...long story short, they don't offer them in order but you can take whichever class you want after finishing Course 1). The first class was a lot of talky talky with a little bit of piping work but nothing too exciting to talk about. Last night though, we started fondant and let me tell you, I am in LOVE! I instantly took to it and had a ton of fun messing around although it is a bitch on the wrists.

We started the class making fondant roses which came out so much better than the buttercream roses I attempted a few weeks ago. I love the fact that I can play an active role in molding and shaping these roses to make them look exactly how I want them to. I'll break down the process for ya: First you have to knead your fondant until it's nice and malleable, then you can work in the coloring...I chose purple. Then you roll it out until it's super smooth and about 1/16th of an inch thick. Next you use the handy little rose cutter and cut out three shapes like this one:


Once your shapes are cut out you take a weird tool that looks like a plastic pencil with a ball on top and you thin out the edges of the petals and make them kinda wavey.


After you do that to all three of your cutouts you place them one by one onto the rose center shown here:


You can use vanilla extract, water or vodka to brush onto each petal and then you gently curl them up and around the center until they stick where you want them to.


Once all your layers are on and sticking well, you can pinch and pull at the petal to get the look you want, this was my finished creation:


After working on a few roses, it was time to cover my cake with fondant. Again you have to do a lot of kneading and rolling, making sure you have it big enough to cover your entire cake. Then you roll it onto the cake and start smoothing, smoothing, smoothing until you can't smooth no more! I was pretty damn proud of how my first attempt came out!


Once my cake was covered, I colored more fondant, this time going with a gorgeous blue color that I decided to leave a little bit marbleized cuz I thought it looked cool. I cut out strips for the ribbon and bow and a bunch of stars to applique on my cake and voila!! I love, love, love how it turned out. I was even proud enough to take to work with me today to show my coworkers :)






I can't wait to do more with fondant, I see very fun projects in my future!