Pretty and Easy Birthday Cake, and GIVEAWAY WINNER!

Last blog post i told you guys about a really easy cake that looks so pretty and fancy...

Well... here it is!

It's my daughter's birthday today, and i made it for her... from scratch.... !

uhhh... well almost from scratch...

ok.... fine, it's not actually not from scratch at all

Duncan Hines Lemon Cake mix, and Duncan Hines creamy lemon icing...

 I did grow the pansies though~!`

just bake a bundt cake

ice it

put a little container for water in the middle

pluck some pansies and put them in the water 

and that's it

 My daughter is a trip, she immediately grabbed one  of the pansies off the cake and plopped it in her mouth and ate it right in front of me...

I don't know why she did that... 

i mean, it's ok to eat pansies

and,it's fine that she did

but i probably would have stuck my finger in the icing 

 one thing Ellie is not, is boring!

 When she was a kid, she ate a red ant and a black ant... she just wanted to try them

 She told me red ants are saltier...

I still have a residual eye twitch from her teenage years... 

But if i had to go into battle, she's the one i'd take with me!

This is her now...

she's pretty darn cute

and Loves animals

she has stopped traffic more than once saving a stray dog

She has lot's of boobs 

Happy Birthday Ellie!

Anyway on to the giveaway...

Soooo, the weirdest thing happened...

I received sooo many really sweet emails about the hydrangea painting giveaway..

it made me feel guilty that i can't do a painting for each one of you really sweet special friends...

One of them was from Lou Cinda @ Tattered Hydrangeas

She talked about how much she loved hydrangeas, and planted them in her yard, and carried them at her wedding... 

and i thought wouldn't it be funny if she won the giveaway...

anyway, i put all the names in my pink hat, and took a photo of it with "Bushy" (of course)

(you can see more about "bushy" in the previous post)

and then i took four names from the hat

and laid them on the counter

 and grabbed Mr. Fractured who was clueless about what was going on... and eating nachos

I asked him to draw a name from the four folded peices of paper

and he pulled out a name

and it was Lou Cinda @ Tattered Hydrangeas..!

That just kinda blew my mind

it's like it was meant to be

So Lou Cinda, yay for you! and send me your address! 

because you sure as heck were meant to have this painting!

 ...the end...