Rainbow Cakes in Jars

 RAINBOW CAKE! These jarred lumps of happiness were a lot of fun to make, and nearly mess-less. 

We used:

1. Cake Mix

2. Food Coloring

3. Zip Plastic Bags

4. Clean, dry jars

5. New jar tops (w/rubber seals)

6. Cooking Spray

1. Cake mix. Mix it up, partition it into however plastic bags you have food coloring for. I used four bags. Insert food coloring into bag. Mix by squishing (don't pop it!).

 2. Cut a hole in the bottom of the bag full of cake batter and squeeze the batter into the oiled jar in layers. Don't go above half full.

3. Bake at the appropriate temperature until done (toothpick test worked fine).

 4. When the cake is done, pull the jars out of the oven and give them a minute to breathe. You should then cap them and gently screw the tops on the jars. You'll hear popping after a minute or two, which means that the cake is sealed in the jar.

Enjoy the cake FOREVER.


Ok, not forever, but it'll keep for a while.

Nightingale Mask

Well this was a project! I volunteered to do costumes for my high school's Drama Club, and they're doing "Once Upon A Mattress". I was responsible for organizing all the costumes and making the Nightingale costume. Here is my Process for making the mask.

First I used a half-face mask for the base, and sculpted a beak out of air-dry clay. After the clay had dried, I applied Felt pieces to the mask using hot glue. These pieces were guides for my feathers.

The feathers all had to be shaped, so I was COVERED in feather fuzz. I then applied the feathers one at a time using little globs of hot glue. I added sequins under the eyes to give the eyes a wet, living look to them.

 Here I started applying the last layer of brown
feathers. I had to add a rolled up piece of felt under the back of the brown guide felt to help the feathers stand up. The peacock feather also had to be trimmed,so I used the left  over feather for eyelashes, which seemed to work pretty well. The brown nose felt worked well for securing the beak to the mask. The beak was spray painted with gold and sparkles, which doesn't show up very well in the picture.
 

Jello Citrus Slices

This was a fun little dessert that my sister and I made one afternoon. It's fun to make, and with all the orange and grapefruit we had, it was actually kind of healthy. Go figure.

 We hollowed out the citrus halves, then filled them with jello.We then sliced them up using warm knives before arranging them on the platter.

The tastiest were definitely the ones in the lemons, oranges coming a close second. The grapefruit had a weird bitter taste to  it the closer the jello was to the rind, so we won't be doing those next time.

The aftermath. For how long it took to make, it disappeared awfully quick. Next time, we're trying a rainbow version!