New way to shop for Jeans

This post brought to you by Express. All opinions are 100% mine.

 I love shopping. I love going to find cute new dresses and cutest tops. However, I hate jean shopping!! I can never find the right fit or ones long enough. That's why I am so excited to show off Express Women's Jeans: women's jeans. 

Express has so many styles and cuts that it's impossible not to find some that you like. From skinny hean to boot cut to capri style, Express has it all and in different colors too! Check out their Express Jean line {for men & women} here and get 15% off your next purchase! Express jeans

My favorite are these barley boot cut jeans: fitted and yet loose :) Love it! 

 

You love them too don't you? Or another pair of express jeans? Well lucky for us, Express is giving away 50 free pairs of their jeans :) Head over here to enter for a chance to win a pair Express giveaway.

And as if you didn't realize but the 70's are coming back. And Express is on top of the latest trends such as with their Flare jeans

 

Which are your favorite jeans this season? You will be hard pressed to find the style you love NOT at Express. Jean shopping has forever changed!

County Fair Cake Competition (Yikes!!)

Okay so last week I sent in my entry form to the L.A. County Fair Cake Decorating contest and competitions!! I am SO excited for this. My first competitions are on August 30th and the contest is on September 24th.

I am so nervous about this but I know that no matter if I place or not I am going to learn a lot and have fun! I couldn't decide which categories to do for the competition so I put down four: Shower, Holiday, Novelty and Special Occasion. All four of these categories are due the same night (yikes!!) so I need to narrow it down to 2 or 3. I will definitely do novelty and special occasion and possibly holiday as well. I'm not sure.

For the novelty cake I am going to do a kitchen theme...you'll see...I'm the most excited about this one!!

For the special occasion cake I am going to do an engagement ring box cake. It's gonna be awesome...if I can make it! :)

I am so excited for this and will be posting pictures as I start this process. We are going to have family at our house for the next 2 weeks and leading up until 2 days before the competition. I have to get to work!!

On September 24th is the "Perfect Reception Cake Contest". Still not sure what I am going to do with that one but I have lots of time.

Have any of you competed in Cake contests or competitions before? Anything I should know ahead of time!!

I Love you Cake

Nothing says Happy Anniversary better than I Love You! I adore this color scheme and love the draping affect. This was my first attempt at draping fondant. I am happy with how it turned out but I know what needs to be better next time :) I need to make the fondant for draping thinner. Overall I'm happy though :)

Yellow and Black Daisy Cake

I love gerbera daisies and I love this color scheme! The cake was born out of the ribbon. We found the ribbon and just knew we had to do a cake with this theme. All marshmallow fondant :)

I Love daisies!

Sweet Sixteen Birthday Cake

Here are some photos of a sweet sixteen cake I was working on. I was experimenting with some different color and flowers combinations. It's covered in all marshmallow fondant.

Some purple-Dont' like as much

Love the pink with the blue

And this one was the winner & my Hubby's favorite. 

Have a great weekend! I will be working on a fun black and yellow daisy cake. I' sure pictures will be coming on Monday :)

Strawberry Shaped Cake

Aaw this cake was a bit of a challenge to figure out. Someone came to me asking for a strawberry shaped cake. I thought it would be a lot harder than it turned out to be. I had a lot of fun making this one.

The strawberry is covered in Marshmallow Fondant with fondant leaves. The grass is piped butter cream and the little strawberries are all fondant. 

This was for a girls 18th birthday. She apparently loves strawberries!

This was a fun order to get. I love being able to be creative!

My next cake project is a Mario cake! So excited for it! 

Chocolate Cups

I made these little beauties for my boss's birthday. We had these during our department meeting and they were perfect. 

I made milk and dark chocolate cups and then filled them with chocolate mousse and a raspberry and strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. I also dipped some of the strawberries in dark chocolate.

  Yuum! 

I also made little chocolate accents to sit in the cups.