tents aren't just for camping

I survived the Wilton Tent Sale. Here's my tale. Short (not really) and sweet (it's Wilton, what did you expect?)

Packed up the kids, picked up my mom. Drove on "the high road" (what my son calls the highway) and made it there. Ended up parking across from a McDonalds. No stroller in the car (WHERE IS IT!!!). Got a shopping cart, and walked in to this...
6 REALLY long aisles of boxes and boxes of everything... sprinkles, pots, pans, fondant, cupcake liners, scrapbooking stuff, picture frames, stickers, cake decorating tips, cookie cutters, candy molds....
Food consumed: granola bar, Cheerios, graham crackers. Only one major meltdown - it ended up that I wasn't looking under the correct pallet on the ground for the Silly Putty that my son dropped. Yeah, it was that good.
Then we walked outside of the tent in the 50 degree weather to stand in the checkout line.Luckily, there were 3 port-a-potties for my son to choose from. Only mildly traumatizing. I won't go into details there. The line moved pretty quickly and we were outta there.

Remember where I said we parked? Yep, good old McDonalds. So my son enjoyed his first McDonald's Playland experience. Mark this day down in history. At that point - whatever! I was just proud of both my kids for surviving.
Now I get to come home and enjoy all the lovelies I got for 50% off!!!!
I have 2 angled spatulas (didn't have any before, now I have two sizes!) - more parchment paper & decorating bags, a LARGE coupler & star tip, jumbo nonpareils, a few new food colors, candy melts, small "cookie lifter", and cool blue ice cream scoop.I think the cart was a little too close to the merchandise because I swear I didn't pick out all these cupcake liners & cookie cutters. There is a daisy muffin/cupcake pan, stackable Easter Bunny cookie parts, a fondant people cutter set, and tall sparkly candles.Next year we decided my mom gets the kids & I'm going by myself. And I am going to be there bright and early - the parking was INSANE when we were leaving.

My next cake adventure - 40th Anniversary for my in-laws. This Sunday. It's a small intimate gathering, but I'm dreaming up something fun!

shopping

I went shopping this afternoon. Look what I got...

The orange, green and purples are added to my collection of Eric Carle Very Hungry Caterpillar stuff. My collection started at Christmas time with the panels & blue numbers. Now I'm hunting down some more to make a twin size quilt. I've heard there's some Brown Bear Brown Bear too. I'm a huge fan. (Did I mention I was a children's librarian? I have Curious George in the bathroom, though that may be soon changing to Dr. Seuss, and the nursery has tons of children's book art in it.) HUGE fan.

This bunch of stuff is going to be something for my son. I'm going to go through my stash for some reds & yellows to add a little color. Then I'm going to paper piece a couple instruments - an acoustic, an electric, and probably some music notes and stuff. I love paper piecing but haven't done any of that in a while. I'm looking forward to getting back to it. It's fussy work and very detailed, but so fun and rewarding!