If at first you don't succeed

Tonight I am going to try again to carry out the plan I had last night of working on that birthday present for the girl at work. I ended up falling asleep on the couch at 6:30 and never got around to working on it. Now, not only am I behind on doing that, I'm going to fall even further behind on getting around to visiting all of you.
But it is Friday and it's supposed to be another cold weekend

I'm going to turn on my faux fire

make myself a good hearty breakfast

and hope that I follow through.

light cake

If someone were to offer you a cake that had no fat or calories would you take it?
Well I mentioned yesterday that one of the girls at work is having a birthday this Saturday so I made her a cake. I left out all the fat and calories and decorated it with little pink roses since that's her favorite color. I even made a special box for her cake. She's turning all of 19 but I only have one candle on the cake.

I wonder if she'll share?
If you haven't seen these before, they are made using the battery operated tea lights. You just glue on the paper and decorate. I thought they were the cutest thing. Thanks to Ann Martin from All things paper I learned how to make the folded roses which are the perfect size to fit on these cakes.
So this was project #6 that I was talking about. Tonight I may be taking off from blog reading so that I can work on finishing the other thing I'm making for her. I'll catch up with all of you on the weekend.

Sneak Peek

The other day I mentioned that I had 6 different projects going at the same time. Tanya from Allotments4you suggested that I might give a sneak peek at what I was working on so that's what I'm going to do today.
I have 5 pictures here of the started and as of yet unfinished projects in the works. Tomorrow I will show you number 6 which I did finish.
I have two different things going on the knifty knitter looms. One on a round one and one on the long one.
I started this one first

Then I decided I wanted to make a birthday gift for one of the girls at work who's birthday is this Saturday so I started this.

No, this is not my laundry

Valentines Day is getting really close

Jumbo quilling

just for fun

I don't play around with photoshop elements as much as I used to but sometimes I just feel the urge to do some mindless editing. I'll take a picture that really isn't anything special and just start messing around with it. I don't have any particular plan or idea, I just try things.
I took this picture while I was sitting in the car waiting for Wade one day.

 Don't ask me why I took it, I just do things like that sometimes. When I'm bored or killing time I pull out the camera and take a picture of anything. Sandra might refer to these as Snapper shots.

So I took this shot and started messing around with it to see what I could do with it. I couldn't tell you what all I did because I never remember when I'm finished. But I rather liked the way it ended up looking.