Minimum's Birthday

Well, it was Miriam's birthday, my husband's stepmother, on the 7th and after a stressful year, thought she deserved a special cake...I DO need to keep up my cake decorating skills after all! Anyway,  as my father in law, Bill, was getting her an IPad, I thought it would be appropriate to make an IPad cake, so I searched the internet for ideas. The icons took shape quite quickly and I chose some that were of 'sentimental value' lol. They're accountants, hence the +/-/= etc signs and she loves her cooking and music, hence the others. The uggboot.....lol, is DEFINITELY another story! hahaha. Well, after finishing up at Kyle's cricket, I trotted off to finish the cake. Crikey, it took me almost an hour JUST to dye the icing black and I used an almost full bottle of black dye ON IT! Apparently, there were dark green 'exhibits' for days afterwards! (sorry, but quite funny as I didn't eat the icing, though everyone else DID!)

Miriam was SO excited, apparently only the second cake EVER made for her in her life. Sad, I thought. She's a little estranged from her daughter who married into money and her son lives in another state so I think she was quite touched that I went to all that effort when her own kids hadn't. She carefully took the icons off for safekeeping before she cut it and we tucked in.

And 'Minimum' you ask??? lol. When Brayden was little, he just could NOT get his mouth around her name, so began calling her Minimum....it stuck ahhaha. So, happy birthday 2011 to Minimum! And her age????? late 60s, though a lady never tells!  Hope I look that good at her age. We didn't take any photos of us all though....had too good a time drinking and enjoying each other's company. I shall try to get an updated one soon.