Halloween Cake made using my Silhouette {Omaha Birthday Cakes}

Halloween cake for Mr. Cade.  His birthday party was held at the Omaha Children's Museum...because it is October, they have a really fun haunted house set up so of course he needed a Halloween cake with his favorite Halloween things:  skulls and crossbones, spiders, ghosts (not pictured), and haunted houses!  This cake was really fun to cake and everyone seemed to like it when I dropped it off at the party. 


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Wordless Wednesday (it is Wednesday, right?) Pooley's Pumpkin Patch, Bennington, NE

We let 2 two year olds lead us through a corn maze.  After about five minutes or so we actually wound back up at the beginning of the maze!

this house was super creepy from this point and would make for a great horror movie.

one little chicken got out of its cage.  i tried to get kylee or ethan to pick it up and put it back.  they wouldn't.  neither would i...i was scared it'd peck my feet off (i had on flip flops)

yay for pumpkin suckers (that were orange

My pumpkin pie blizzard AFTER a fun morning with Ethan, Crissy and Kylee at Pooley's Pumpkin Patch

Just Say NO

***Pictures are 100% unrelated to the post, but I just took them Saturday so I wanted to share. :)

Sometimes I have a problem.
See, I want to please everyone around me (even strangers sometimes) and I seem to get myself into a pickle with not having enough time to do it all or I rush and do everything sloppy, not something I like at all.
Recently someone asked me to do something that I think I'd actually be very good at...but I turned her down.  When I ran the idea by Bart, he looked at me like I was crazy for even suggesting it, what with cakes, etsy, craft fairs, family, church, etc, etc on my plate.

So, I embraced saying no, even though it leaves my friend in a bit of a bind until she find someone to be the right fit to say yes.

Then, last week, Bren's teacher asked me to cut some things out with my Silhouette for his class.  IF it had been after my next craft fair (11/5), but not right now, I just have too much to juggle.  But, I felt a moment of guilt...I mean, she is the one who is with my son all day, who is teaching him and loving him and helping him become a good citizen.

But, I kindly but firmly said no, I could not help cut out scarecrows for the third grade.  It was so hard to say  no, but I did, and I was so relieved I did!  I'd cut things out before, and won't mind doing it again in the future, but I just knew I had to say no for my sanity.  YAY ME!
Do you ever say no to some of those requests coming your way?  Or do you feel obliged (as I often do) to just try and do it all, sleep, housekeeping, and your family be damned?
Sometimes, just saying no, to keep your sanity together, and yourself and your family, is very important.  :)

electronic cutters/CRICUT CAKE DECORATING CLASS ONLY ONE WEEK AWAY! {Omaha, NE cake decorating}

POSTPONED UNTIL NOV. 12

Have you signed up for the Electronic Cutters/Silhouette/Cricut Cake Class? You should! For just $60 you will learn how to use YOUR Cricut or Silhouette (NOT just a Cricut Cake Machine, ANY electronic cutter!) to decorate beautiful and unique cakes that will leave your friends and family amazed and impressed.

It's being held at Precious Treasures in Fremont, NE, just a quick drive from Omaha, NE...totally worth the drive!  You will LOVE her store.

There will be goodie bags, cakes to decorate (provided by Alotta Brownies), instructional DVD's and more!  Email me today for all the details and to sign up:  confetticreationsbyjessica at yahoo dot com

Little People Love

No, not people of less then average height little people....the ORIGINAL little people!  From the time the first set came into our home as part of Brennan's first birthday, we've had a love affair.  The toys, the DVD's, the c.d.'s for the car, the books...we've have it all.
Ethan loves to dump out the entire bin (it's a big bin, too...3 boys x 8 years + good sales = lots of little people) and surround himself with them.  He even "talks" for them, which is really funny to hear.
I've gotten rid of all the baby toys and  I have no plans on keeping most of the other toys as they are outgrown, either, but our Little People collection will be here to stay...one day I will be an old grandma and surrounded by grand daughters and they will have just as much fun playing with these fun friends as my boys have today.