The best gift

So during my family's last Christmas, we had a lot of fun. There was good food to be had, great company  and not to mention the gifts!  The little ones had a blast unwrapping their action figures, games, and other fun toys. My father loved his mint coin that I got him to add to his collection along with a knife(also to add to another collection of his), and a pac man game. My mother wrapped herself with a pretty new pink scarf, and spayed her and the Christmas tree with the perfume from the Elizabeth Arden Pretty gift set. The three dogs and the little kitten also enjoyed Christmas because of all the dinner scraps. Maybe it's just me being full of it, but I think I received the best Christmas gift, not only did I get to spent good quality time with my family on Christmas eve and day, but I also got the gift that I was hoping to receive.

Yes lady's and gentlemen I got anew Singer Futura sewing machine! It is so much better that my last brother sewing machine and it even has an embroidery feature as well!I am such a happy gal. The sewing machine is my new best friend. Here is a picture of my new pal.

The not so professional cake

Okay so in an earlier post I said I would show you guys and gals the cake that I made. I tried hard to make it look like the famous Wilton Brimming with roses cake..........

As you can see I was unsuccessful. Although I do think it is it pretty good for a beginner. I do think next time I will try to pipe the roses using a royal icing recipe, because it took forever for me to get the rose to look pretty because the butter cream was not very stiff and I didn't want to change the flavor by adding powdered sugar to make it stiffer.