Easter

For Easter I am going to my friend's house, this year I am making some Easter sugar cookies, and a surprise.  Can not say since I know she reads this blog :), if the attempt of this surprise is to my liking I will post it before Easter.  I planned for next week, my sister's baby shower cake, and my little sister's birthday cake (which is in July) and a cake I am making for my Marine seminar class.  I am very thorough when I am asked to make baked goods are it is for a group of people.  Why can't I be like this when it comes to school work.  With all of these cakes I am making in the future, none of them include flowers, so I can not try the flowers that I am making in my class.  Tomorrow there are no classes so I am going to redo my bow, since it collapsed.  This time I am going to use color and a decorative edge, I just don't know what color yet.  This weekend I am going shopping to get what I need for next week's class.  I talked with my teacher about buttercream icing since I cannot seem to make it the right consistency.   She gave me a recipe and talked about what to use and not to use.  So I am going to pick some of the materials up and make it on Saturday.  So if the icing doesn't work out I can go on Sunday to pick up a store brand type to crumb coat my cake for Wednesday.  In the long haul the homemade icing is supposed to be cheaper since the recipe makes about 2 pounds at a time.