..::Baking for Bridezillllla Part 1::..

So I know I've been sick all week and kind of in a blah blah mood, but let me just say this: TODAY WAS THE BEST DAY EVER!

Phew glad I finally got to get that off my chest ;) But seriously being sick is the WORST and being sick during the most BEAUTIFUL week ever is even worse than that. Seriously how do you cuddle up in bed when its 80+ degrees outside? You don't - welcome to my misery this week. I was finally feeling up to par this morning so I headed to work thinking that I might be able to suffer through the day. To my surprise, even though my voice sounded like I had smoked cigis for 100 years, I was feeling pretty good once I got some coffee into my system. I threw myself into the PROM 2010 prop installation and before I knew it the day was almost over. Nothing like wearing a SPARKLY CROWN and playing with DISCO BALLS and streamers to get my motor running!! So here I am thinking I'm having a pretty fantastical day when all of a sudden I stumble upon an email I missed while under my DayQuil/NyQuil haze all week stating something about a BONUS. Surely this was a mistake, I thought to myself. IMAGINE my REACTION when I got home today and checked the mail....I pulled out my bi-weekly paystub and opened it to file away, when out dropped something else. A BONUS CHECK!!! I kid you NOT when I say that I was SHOCKED. I gave myself all of 30 seconds to come back from the shock of the UNEXPECTED check to notice that there was a BLOOMINGDALES flyer in the mail - a flyer for their 1 DAY HOME SALE. UMM HELLO?!? I'm in the midst of moving - BLOOMINGDALES HOME SALE is right up my alley and you know what I found in that flyer....the KitchenAid standing mixer that I've wanted, um probably since forever, is on sale from $399 to $179. I'll let you guess how quickly I was in the car.... Clearly from the pictures you can tell it wasn't long before I was the new proud owner of my very own KitchenAid Mixer. Just in the knick of time too - I'm attending a BRIDAL shower on Sunday for a wedding I'm a BRIDESMAID in and I volunteered to do the dessert table. Here are the before shots....just WAIT until you see the after decoration pictures....my fav part of any baking project, naturally.