Happy New Year!

Hello!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday and is enjoying the excitement of a new year and a new decade!

Now this is more like it!

Mary came over for a visit on Christmas day. She brought over her brothers' wonderful bourbon soaked fruit cake and I broke out the champagne.

So here's toasting everyone for a wonderful and creative new year!

So you may be wondering where the heck I've been. We took a vacation to Captiva, FL. We really lucked on the weather and only had one cold and rainy day.


We rented a house on the gulf, which was decadent and wonderful.


Aren't these bed "skirts" cute? My daughter was delighted with her room.

Lovely birds-

Pretty shelling. I ended up with twice this amount. I'm thinking about trying a "sailors valentine" with them.


Famous Bubble Room cake, oh my. The red velvet is a family favorite and we also tried the buttermilk, brown sugar, orange cake, which I loved and want to try and recreate.


These sewn paper slippers were a compliment of the Tampa airport to use during the security check-in. I think they are so funny.


Santa brought me many wonderful gifts this year, including a new Apple Computer (yikes, no whining about learning new things). This was one of my favorite gifts. I can't wait to play it with my Cupcake girls!
Look how cute the pieces are.


I have a lot of blog reading to catch up on as the connection at the beach was not good.

There's no place like home~