{"id":3519,"date":"2012-04-09T22:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T05:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2012-04-09T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T05:22:28","slug":"crafty-tuesday-all-things-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"Crafty Tuesday ~ All Things Birthday."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, it was a little someone’s birthday around here. And you know how we love to do it up on our Birthdays in our house. It gave me a few opportunities to break out Eva and make some tees…<\/p>\n

Our traditional “number” t-shirt to wear on birthday day:<\/p>\n

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Next year we will have to get a bigger shirt, big enough for 2 numbers. (sigh)<\/p>\n

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Birdie #2 and I are a little bit obsessed with the British “Keep Calm & Carry On<\/a>” signs, (or anything British, really) so when I saw these being knocked off, I had to make a volleyball one for Em:<\/p>\n

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And for Easter we made carrot whoopee pies. It was a mix I found at Target, but the packaging was so stinkin’ cute, I couldn’t walk away. I mean, look at it!:<\/p>\n

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They were ok. And then Em decided for her “treat” to give her classmates, she wanted to do whoopee pies as well, except in chocolate. Seemed easy enough, I mean…easier than the cakepops<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n

While I was reading the recipe, I realized they were just using a cookie sheet to make the “cake part” of the pies. Now, thanks to JB, I do own a lovely whoopee pie pan, but it only makes 6 pies at a time. I needed 36! So I decided to try the cookie sheet to speed things along. Epic fail. So worth the extra time it takes to make the pies in the proper pan – or buy a second pan, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Not that they tasted bad, but those irregular blobs that didn’t quite puff up like they were supposed to kinda grated on my perfectionist sensibilities. I mean look at these:<\/p>\n

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And now look how pretty these are:<\/p>\n

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See? At any rate, the pies were finished and delivered to school to the delight of all the third-graders (and a few choice first-graders, too!):<\/p>\n

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And I’m sure the kids didn’t get my pun, but I liked it and I guess that anything to keep Mama happy when she is covered in flour and frosting is good:<\/p>\n

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And the birthday girl enjoyed them, so that is really all that matters:<\/p>\n

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