DONE!!!

I know it's been a long time since I've posted anything but I thought tonight would be appropriate to post something... I GRADUATED today. I'm so happy to be done and to be able to move on and maybe get some rest. I will have to post pictures next week when I get the pictures from my moms camera.

Busy, Busy, Busy...

Well I am finally done with my internship and have started my last quarter of school. I have two classes that will be challenging. The first on is running the restaurant in the school. As students we are in charge of cooking and serving the meals. We pretty much run it with the help of one of the chefs. My other class is a Capstone class. We make a business plan and present it in the end. It is going to be a lot of work and I really don't know how I am going to have time between work and the gym. I guess I won't have a life for another 11 weeks. Here are some pictures of things I did my last week.

And I also made this one...

This is a white chocolate curl cake. Every curl is made by had out of a mixture of white chocolate and a small amount of gum paste. I was pretty proud of this one. I had help from on of the other girls at Carries but the other day I made curls from milk chocolate for another cake and it took 5 hours straight by myself... very time consuming.

I made this...

So this is the cake I made on Saturday. I did everything except put the fondant on the cake. I even painted the little branches. Carrie and Brooke(Carries Daughter in law) loved it!! Carrie told me to just follow a picture and do what I wanted to do. And this is what turned out. I loved it and it became a favorite for everyone.

I forgot...

I am moving out on my own. I have decided that I am tired of the roomate situations I am always put in and decided I want a place of my own. Between work, school and the gym I am never home. I am excited to move on with my life.

Updates...

Wow I have really slacked in the past six weeks. Here are some things I have been up to. I have been in my internship for 5 weeks now (halfway done). We have been pretty busy the past few weekends with wedding season. The past two weeks each week we have been putting out 16 cakes. It's crazy busy but I'm learning so much and have already learned more than I have in school.

I stacked this cake and put the dowels in it which isn't that easy to make sure the space is the same height and make sure it's level.

This is just the bottom of a five tier cake. All the dark pink is done in royal icing but was stenciled on. Yes stenciled on sounds easy... It's not!!!! Five tiers, 2 hours, and 3-4 people helping later it was finished.

The summer is here...

And the last 11 weeks have been busy. I have finished my third to last quarter and only have two more left. I have been busy with school, work and with extra little things. I made a photo bouquet for my roommate that just got married. These pictures were taken at the Great Salt Lake I think they turned out awesome.

These are some things I have been doing at work. We are keeping busy with weddings and we are short an employee so I have been picking up full shifts now that I am on break for two more weeks.

This is my Chocolate and Confections final. There is quite a story to this final. We had mad the refrigerator and the stove out of chocolate the week before it was due which was a Friday. On Monday at 6:45 AM I got a voice message from my chef telling me that they had turned off the fans in the kitchens and the chocolate melted. On Wednesday we were able to work on it while everyone else cleaned. Luckily we were able to finish it on time and it turned out really good.

This is my final for Restaurant desserts. This is a key lime raspberry frozen souffle with a raspberry and key lime sauce.

I start my internship with Carrie's Cakes in two weeks and I am really excited. Work isn't too happy because they are short handed but I think we will be able to work it out.

Wedding cake...

This is the wedding cake that Jenae from school and I did for one of our teachers daughters.

The Last Month of my Life..

has been soooo busy. I started one of the last quarters of school that I have. I did find out that I will be graduating in December instead of September due to one class. I am in a chocolate and confections class where we make a lot of candies and chocolates. I am also in a Restaurant Desserts class so we do a lot of fancy plated desserts. This lst weeek I did my cousin Jessica's wedding flowers and also a wedding cake for one of our teacher's daughters but I don't have those pictures yet for that one. Here is some of what I have been doing.

Cocoa Nibb Brittle

Macadamia Nut Buttercrunch

Peanut Butter Cups

Glorified Baked Alaska

Pavlova with mango sorbet with passion fruit sauce

Glorified Banana Split

What I do to keep myself awake during Conference...

So I decided that I needed a project to stay awake during General Conference so I decided to paint my dresser I that I bought in July and never painted. Here is the finished product. I also decided to rearrange my room it gave me more room. So if anyone needs any furniture painted I would love to do it for a cheap price and it would have to be after September!!

Where is Spring?

All I can think of is how we woke up on my birthday back in 98 or 99 to 5 feet snow drifts. I really hope spring will come soon. The other day I didn't realize my alarm clock was on PM and I woke up 15 minutes before I was supposed to be at work. I walk out of my room to see snow out the window. The roads were slick and it was coming down pretty hard. I was 30 minutes late to work. I'm tired of the snow and ready for everything to bloom. Spring please come soon before I go crazy!!!

Happy Birthday...

Madi!!! This is the cake that I made for Madi's b-day last weekend. I made the monkey out of fondant. It actually turned out really good.

Internship at...

CARRIE'S CAKES!!! Carrie's Cakes is my favorite cake designers. They are located in Draper. I just got a email from her today saying she would love for me to come and do an internship with her. So July thru September I will be working the weekends with her. At Every Blooming Thing we work a lot with Carrie. Infact we consider her part of the EBT Family. I am so excited. Here is some of her work:

School, Work, School, Work...

So I feel like all I do is work and go to school and have no time to do anything else. This last week we had a fundraiser called Blooming Hope. This is where we go to the Spring Home and Garden Show and all flowers and our time are donated. We are on a stage for 2-3 hours arranging flowers to raise money for Primary Childrens Hospital. We really don't have any time to think about where the flowers are going or any type of designs. It was really fun to see the reaction of Pam to some of my designs because she never gets to work with me.

These are flowers from the Nordstroms open house for their new store in murray.

Well at school I only have two quarters left. It is really nice to think I am almost done. Here are some tortes from my European Cakes and Tortes.

Oh Valentines Day...

How I hate valentines day working at a floral shop. I have worked 45 hours in this last week. I usually work 20! Anyways Friday I had a 3 hour class so I went to work from 8 to 12 and went to class from 2-5 and then back to work until 11:15 PM! We had three high school dances plus Valentines stuff. Oh how I just want to crawl in bed and go to sleep!

Love Sunrises...

This is what I woke up to on Thursday and I couldnt' resist a picture. I did have to photoshop these a little due to no time getting the settings right but it's pretty true to the colors. Enjoy!

If you get the chance...

You should attend the Draper temple open house. My roomate Gina and I had a empty day and decided we would go to the open house. It was one of the first days and we ended up going to a VIP night for Stake Presidents and Bishops. We got the VIP tour, food after the tour and a MOTAB CD! We were feeling pretty special.

Kairsee this one is for you!!!

So a while back my old roomate from BYU-I, Kairsee sent me this project. The picture was actually done with scrapbook paper but it suggested using black and white pictures. So I got art canvases (12 X 12) painted the edges black. Then you take Modge Podge from Michaels put it on the canvas then put your picture on. Then take the Modge Podge with a sponge brush and cover the picture with it. Then you get a picture that doesn't look like it is even glued on!! But this is the finished product. I thought it turned out really good and can't wait to do some bigger ones later on. I took all of these pictures when I was in the east so there is a lot of the sacred grove, kirtland, and then the Alpine Loop here in Utah.