Threadcakes!

Threadless.com sponsors an annual cake contest which I learned about last year on my favorite blog,
Cake Wrecks. Basically, you pick a t-shirt design like this one

and make a cake inspired by it.

I roped my loving  and supportive grandmother into helping me on this endeavor. We make a great team since she has mad baking/decorating skills (she's done every birthday cake in our family for 40+ years) and I have mad art skills. She was uncertain at first. She asked me, "Do you really think we can do this?" The thought that we couldn't never even crossed my mind. There were hiccups, but nothing we couldn't handle. We had a great time and I think it's a great piece for both of us to have in our respective portfolios.

You can view our cake and all the others here.

Our entry includes our baking story and lots of photos of the process.
But in a nutshell, it shows how all of this

turned into all that

Here are some details

The long knobby legs reminded me of dripping water color paint and I wanted the cake to tell a story rather than just be pretty. Including an over-turned paint bucket seemed like a good way to tie everything together. Why are there flamingos on the side of this cake? Well, because a bucket paint turned over and magically spilled to make a pretty picture...Eh, it doesn't completely make sense, but maybe it speaks to that feeling all artists get from time to time- where you're not quite sure what that blank page will turn into, but as you go along it seems to create itself.

SO, here's hoping that we win! There are a lot of fantastic entries this year and more are coming every day. I'm not sure how we stack up against the competition, but we gave it an excellent effort if I do say so myself.