Cherry Cheesefake

My youngest brother, Kurt, has a birthday on September 11th. So I mailed him a fake slice of his favorite dessert: cherry cheesecake.

Ingredients include: cardboard, upholstery foam, ivory paint, tan caulk, red Crayola Model Magic, clear silicone glue and some red food coloring.

I'm happy to report that it only took the post office 2 days to deliver this slice (compared to the 5 days it took my brother, Ken, to get his apple pie.)

Hope your birthday is deliciously fun, Kurt!

Foam, Silicon and Just a Dash of Cinnamon

Last month, after I sent my brother, Kevin, a cake postcard for his birthday, my brother, Ken, requested a slice of apple pie for his birthday. Jokingly, of course... but I took it as a challenge.

Mission accomplished.

It took six attempts (and lots of upholstery foam, clear silicon caulk, almond caulk, cardboard, yellow food coloring and yes.... actual cinnamon.) But, I finally managed to make a mailable slice of apple pie. I'm not sure if I'll create any more of these soon. It was a struggle to get it to look right AND stay together. I think my husband was ready to kill me. For about three weeks, I obsessed (and actually dreamed at night) about new and better ways to make this crazy thing.

Here's hoping it arrives in one piece. Happy Birthday, Ken!

*FYI... the pie finally delivered. Although, it took four days to go from Wichita to Salina. I'm sure it got heavily inspected by suspicious postal employees as well as drug-sniffing dogs.

A Mailable Mum for Mom

Forty years later, and I'm still hand-making gifts for my mom on Mother's Day. (I bet she wishes I'd quit already. Ha.)


A few weeks ago I saw a tutorial for these awesome, felt, flower brooches, and I thought to myself "I bet you could just make those really big and mail them like a postcard."


Sure enough. You can. And it only took five stamps to mail it. 


I made two of them - one for my mom and one for my mother-in-law. Originally, I was just going to write a message on the postcard side. But then I decided I wanted to send them both a gift card for flowers too. So I attached these tiny envelopes to the back and put my message and gift card inside for safe delivery.


I'd like to get something like this in the mail, wouldn't you?


Moms like flowers - even mailable ones. 

I cut the petals slightly different on the pink one. They're rounder. More like a dahlia. The blue one looks kinda like a sunflower, I think.

I found some cool scrapbook papers for the back/postcard side.

I attached a small envelope to the back so I could send my mom a gift card.