Fires near and Far!

My Oh My! ekkk

this is the view from my balcony!

Pray for those Fire Fighters!

Marble Falls, Tx. Trip to see the family!

Well, I traveled to my moms house a few weeks ago in Austin. Saw the sister, mom, and dad it was nice to see the family. Whow, i love my Mediterranean climate because Texas was soo hot. My moms car gauge reached 125! WTF thats hot!

Friends and Family day lunch @ Dreamworks....Our friends Claire and Ben gave us the tour at Dreamworks. It was so nice, hopefully damon can work there some day. It's such a nice family atmosphere. Pool tables and foozeball tables set up outside to relax while rendering your projects...

4th of July / Gosia's Birthday

Happy 4th ya'll! Hope everyone had a lovely one!

My 4th started off by going to the beach. We met Gary and Jessica. Whow, traffic getting to the beach was crazy, but being a native Los Angelino we parked in our sneaky lot where you don't have to pay out the hoop-la, it's free! We made our way down the Santa Monica Pier and just a word of advice take a left, South of the pier thats the cool side or where its a tad more peaceful or the "Pretty People are" An unknown source brought to my attention how we had lots of "Bridge and Tunnel" out at the beach. Look, just because it's a holiday doesn't mean you can leave your trash behind, or when you bring your dog it can just take a poop in the ocean. So after pushing our way through many many people, and passing by that cotton candy stand, we made our way to the beach. Damon and I kept the sandals on for the sand is really hot and walk about 100 feet toward the big beautiful ocean. It looked like a scene from jaws (tons of people and their umbrellas). We finally found Gary and Jessica and lay out this beautiful table cloth that acts perfectly as a beach blanket...

This week in Lovely Lady Cakes Land! I made my signature Lovely Lady Cake- Vanilla cake w/ Canolli Cream w/ Vanilla Buttercream...

I made some yummy Homemade Banana Vanilla Pudding for our BBQ @ Flo's & Sandra's

Damon my husband helped in the kitchen this week and made brownies and iced them. They were the hit of the party.

As usually another great 4th @ the Stadlers. This will have been my 6th year to attend their 4th of July parties. Sandra and Flo have these amazing Korean BBQ ribs ahhh to die for. By the end of the night we shimmy onto the roof and watch all the fireworks going off all over Los Angeles. Her house is in Echo Park right by the Dodger Stadium so you have a wonderful panoramic view of downtown and the faint lights of Santa Monica.

Hope everyone had a Lovely night and was safe!

I'm excited! Going home to texas this week I can't wait to see my family! Miss you guys...

XOXO

Fire Truck Cake!

Yummm! Birthday Fire Truck cake. Half sheet cake vanilla cake with vanilla frosting.

Sweenie chillen on the bed..

Have a Lovely 4th of July, and if I see you this weekend I will have the sweets....

Eat Some Wedding Cake

Happy Anniversary to the O'Steens. It's about a month shy, oh well. On May 10, 2008 Damon and I married in Salado, Tx. Well, year one just rolled around the corner and Lovely Lady Cakes recreated the top of our Wedding cake, but this cake tasted the way good ole Lovely Lady Cakes recipe was supposed to taste... (BTW, Lovely Lady Cakes is me I'm the baker) The cake is an Italian Cream Cake with a cannoli and chocolate chip filling. DELISH! My original cake is in my mom's freezer in Texas, and we wont get to eat that till thanksgiving yummmm...

Lovely Lady Cakes will be busy this week. I am making a friends birthday cake for her 3 year old son Rowan. pics will be up soon.

Take care and I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. The June gloom needs to leave. It's summer and we are all ready for some sun.

XOXO

Silly Times!

Yes, this is me dressed up as a cake...NOT!  Lovely Lady Cakes indeed!

Lovely Lady Cakes made some fun Engagement sugar cookies for friends Ralph and Patricia

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During the Atlanta Film Festival, Brian Tee, Damon O'Steen, and Gary Weeks, were asked to be in the issue of Destin Magazine.  They are so cute sporting the magazine...

A proposal and Family Visits

May 23, 2009, my brother-in-law Salem proposed to his girlfriend Delia Joy Anderson up in the hills of Los Olivos California. It was the most romantic day with the flowers in bloom and rows and rows of young grapes growing on the vines. We drove up to a little vineyard called Firestone Winery. We grabbed lunch first, and sat outside to fill our bellies with food before the wine tasting day before us. When all of a sudden after we ate Salem asked Delia AKA: Joy, to go with him to look around. She grabbed her camera and they were off until, Salem asked her to leave it at the table. Much to her surprise she was confused for we needed her camera to document this moment she knew nothing about. Salem took her through the vineyards and while on their walk he knelt down and proposed. Damon was lurking behind cars snapping pictures. Let's just say the rest of the day was romantic and full of wine tasting.

I love this wallpaper. It was in one of the wine tasting rooms. OMG, I'm so recreating this for my house or Lovely Lady Cakes.

One of the many fun activities we had planed while Salem and Delia were in-town was take them to this awesome outdoor movie. We saw "Dazed and Confused" It was projected onto the side of a wall at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. I know a little weird and scary. NO, this was the most beautiful cemetery I have ever been to. Our friends Michelle and John have been tying to get us to go with them since last year. I'm so glad we finally got to go.