Cork board cake

This cake is for a faculty meeting for the computer science department at MSU. Mr. McHacker helped me come up with the idea of making it look like a cork board with calendar pages tacked onto it. I think it's pretty cute. Hopefully they'll like it.


I'm heading down to Lucedale tomorrow to do a wedding cake, cupcakes, and cookies for this weekend. I'm gonna be so busy, I'm not really looking forward to all of the work since my back has been bothering me a lot, but i promised to do it, so I am. I'll post pictures of everything next week.

Windmills

I saw this segment on Good Morning America last week and I just can't get it out of my head. They had an interview with a young African man named William Kamkwamba, who built a windmill to produce electricity for his family's home. At the time he was 14 or 15 years old and couldn't go to school because his family couldn't afford the $80 a year tuition. So he went to the nearest library and borrowed books about physics and generating electricity and taught himself. He built a windmill out of junk parts he could find lying around. It just amazed me that this boy who had nothing, had so much initiative that he would do whatever it took to make his family's life better. It's such an amazing and heartwarming story.

On this page at Good Morning America's website, there is a link to the video of the interview, I think it's the 4th link listed. There is a feature length documentary about William, called Moving Windmills, in production now. You can watch an excerpt of it here. I hope you will take the time to watch the videos, they're about 5 or 6 minutes each.

He also wrote a book, with co-author Brian Mealer, called The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

I'm not trying to sell anything, and no one asked me to write this. I just saw this young man's story and it touched my heart so much that I had to share it with y'all. We always hear about so many bad things happening around the world that I thought we all could benefit from an inspiring story such as this. I hope you are all having a great weekend!

Shopping trip 9-26

I haven't made a couponing/ deals post in a while, so I thought I would post what I bought today. It wasn't the most money I've ever saved on a trip, but I got a few good deals. I went to CVS and Walgreens, but just took one picture of everything.

CVS
1st Transaction:
2 small boxes Nutter Butter cookies
1 small box Ritz crackers
1 small box Oreos
$1 each, used 2 $1 off 2 Nabisco coupons
2 Right Guard deodorants $2.99 each, used $1 off 2 coupon, got $2 ECBs
Gillette Fusion cartridges $14.99, use a coupon for free shave gel ($4.29) got $3 ECBs
Used a $4 ECB and $17.07 on a CVS money card
Total out of pocket $2.95

2nd Transaction:
10 oz Glade soy candle, used a rain-check from several weeks ago making it $6.99, got $6.99 ECBs back. Used the $5 worth of ECBs from the first transaction.
Total out of pocket $2.48

Walgreens
2 Glade scented oil candles with holders, 2/$5, used a $2 off 2 coupon, got $1 Registar Reward
Electrosol gelpacs $3.99, used $.50 coupon, got $1 RR
2 Aussie shampoos $2.99 each, used a $2 off 2 coupon, got $2 RR
2 small boxes of Cheez It $1.99 Buy one get one free
Total out of pocket $13.65
Not the greatest deal, but I did save $10.51 from sales and coupons, and got back $4 in RR that I can use on a future purchase.

I hope y'all are having a good weekend. Remember to get a paper tomorrow for the coupons, I know I will!

Another birthday cake

This cake was for the principal at the school where I used to work. I've made him a birthday cake and Boss's Day cake for the past 3 or 4 years, so I'm starting to run out of ideas! After I took this picture, I fixed the little bit at the bottom that was crooked, but forgot to take another picture of the cake. Oh well!

Wow Wow Wubbzy cake

Wow wow Wubbzy is another one of those Noggin shows I think. A friend ordered it for her friend's little girl. I have another one of these to do next week, it'll probably end up looking exactly the same way!