{"id":14688,"date":"2020-11-09T13:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=14688"},"modified":"2020-11-09T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:42:46","slug":"monday-check-in-and-mermaid-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=14688","title":{"rendered":"Monday Check-in and Mermaid Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know where last week went! I blinked and here we are back at Monday again! I WILL do the Halloween post this week still. Sorry about that…<\/p>\n

This weekend I made an adorable Mermaid cake for one of our friend’s daughters who is turning 7 tomorrow. She had no opinion on it–I basically just made it for fun and asker her what her favorite color was (gold!) and then went off of that. Frosting a cake in gold is pretty tricky, so I decided to just make the focal point gold. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I think it turned out super fun!<\/p>\n

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The mermaid tail is a paper plate cut and white frosting smoothed over it then sprinkled in edible gold. It was delightfully sparkly, but you can’t really capture that in pictures…<\/p>\n

She really liked it.<\/p>\n

Weight Check-in: I lost another 2 pounds this week bringing me firmly into the 180’s (187 to be exact)! I’m pretty stoked about that. And Tim is into his off-season and starting to make healthier food choices, so it’s starting to get more fun being able to eat healthy together. My chain is ever so slowly shrinking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know where last week went! I blinked and here we are back at Monday again! I WILL do the Halloween post this week still. Sorry about that… This weekend I made an adorable Mermaid cake for one of our friend’s daughters who is turning 7 tomorrow. She had no opinion on it–I basically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14694,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14688\/revisions\/14694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}