Moving forward with Dreams, Felt and Dinosaur cakes

Well, not much has changed here. I am still trying everything I can think of to round up the money to get back home to California. BUT, there are somethings that I have started to think about that may bring about some change.  Hopefully, change for the better.  I have decided that if I am to get through the next 9 mths that I need to stop wallowing in self pity and start trying to plan for a future thats just about me and my kids. 1st step: Get back home, 2nd step: Get the kids enrolled in school and readjusted to life, 3rd step: Get off my butt and start working off the 30 lbs I've put back on in the last 6 mths, 4th: Do something I have been dreaming about and putting off for far to long and that something is school.  As soon as the kids are back in school this coming fall I am going to go back to school myself and finally start working towards my degree - hell I might even bump it up a notch and get not only a degree but a Doctoral or PhD. Lol What's another 10 yrs huh. :)

In regards to my crafting escape, I have been pretty busy over the last couple of weeks.  I finished the ABC book along with an adorable play felt mailbox with envelopes, and a felt travel playmat/hotwheels carry case.  I am currently in the process of putting together a new felt book.  This one is another counting book, but it has more of a simple design and is made using some of the softest and prettiest wool felt I have yet to work with.  I would have finished it by now but I took a break from it to plan my youngest son's birthday party.  He's four now (such a big boy, I don't quite know who gave him permission to grow up) and really wanted a dinosaur party with a dinosaur cake made by Mom.  Because of this I started searching Pinterest (another new obsession, if you don't know about Pinterest yet you are totally missing out, lol) and found a cake I thought I could recreate. So, recreate I did. It took me all day and quite a lot of shooing kids out of the kitchen with bribes of frosting, but I did it and I think it turned out pretty good.  It's not as good as the inspiration cake, but heck we can't all be cake decorating wizards now can we. D loves it though and really that's all that matters to me. Here's some blurry iphone pics of the cake.

This shot makes it look as if the top tier is totally lopsided. I promise it's not, I just happened to take the picture at a horrible angle.

 If anyone is interested in seeing the cake I tried to recreate I found it on this blog (which is a great blog, btw). LickThe Bowl Good

As for pictures of the other projects I finished, I'll have to post pictures of them later, right now I am too lazy to go fetch the memory card out of the camera. :)