Prudent Project Round Up


Top: Liberated Mind made a Top Knot Baby Hat | Ashley made a Shirred Summer Dress/Top | A Bit of Sunshine made Kevin’s Famous Scones

Middle: Dohdums made a Most Flattering Shirt Dress | Out of Alabaster made a Snappy Toddler Dress | Roubidou made a Bow Tie

Bottom: A Nest in the Making made a Beginner’s Bias Tape Bag | Covet Collective made Drawstring Backpacks | Be A Good Mom made Beautiful Dress Up Wings

Leave these ladies some love in the comments, you just might win this week’s Fabric Friday yard for fave comment!

So many fun ways to share your pics with us and the other Prudent Mamas:
-Join the Prudent Baby Project Pool on Flickr
-Chat with other awesome Prudent Mamas and upload your pics to our super fun Prudent Baby Facebook Page
–Tweet them to us.
-And of course you can keep sending them to us through our Prudent Baby Contact Form.
Your “As Seen On Prudent Baby” Button is down there on the left. Thank you!

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Wilton Workshop: Behind the scenes (part 2)


As a geek-level lover of sugar arts, I was over-the-moon to get an invite to Wilton headquarters for buttercream and fondant lessons, a sneak-peek at new products, a behind-the-scenes tour and the baking supply tent sale of all tent sales. We are talking “things I must do before I die” level of excitement. Like I said… geek.

Want to see all the goodies?

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Wilton Workshop: Behind the Scenes at Cake Decorating Headquarters


A few weeks ago Jacinda and I (and our friend Rebecca from Cooking With My Kid) had the good fortune to be invited to jet off to Chicago for a Wilton blogger workshop of fantasy cake decorating goodness and joy. We learned some basic cake decorating techniques with buttercream and fondant, had a little competition with some bloggy friends, hit up the Wilton tent sale, and best of all, got a full behind the scenes tour of Wilton headquarters. There’s a “decorating room” full of people whose job it is to decorate cakes! All day! It’s amazing! Check out pics after the jump…
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GIVEAWAY WINNER: A Month of Advertising on Prudent Baby


Congrats to Crunchtime, the randomly-selected winner of one month of advertising on Prudent Baby.

Check out this fantastic site for beautiful food photography, winning healthy recipes, great tips on feeding your family better and a little bit of the funny. We love the funny.

If you didn’t win, but would like to hear more about advertising on Prudent Baby, email admanagers{at}frecklednest{dot}com. Our rates start at $50. Bargain! We would love to have you on board!

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Link Love

Why oh why did I not see these before the Sleeping Beauty Party?

A DIY custom specimen chart just might be the most perfect gift to celebrate someone special’s passion.

Elizabeth from Growing Home shares a DIY for an adorable Hot Mess Mommy Summer skirt. The Flirt Skirt!

Loving this sweet cloud and umbrella lunch combo. Sure to bring sunshine to your little one’s nosh.

ALSO {don’t you go anywhere!}

Our babysitter spends “my” money getting adorbs feather extensions in her hair at the salon. Here’s how you can get the look at home.

Hello, Pizza Pot Pie, my future lover.

Gingercake has an adorable new pattern, A Hobo-style Lunch Sack, that you are going to want.

Has anyone found a craft teacher through Betterfly? What a great concept.

Wow, this paper airplane party is stunning.

Angela Richardson, the photographer who did our family shoot a few months back, posted more of our pics on her blog. blush.

And we babble…

The tiny top hat trend {a slideshow}

The 20 most amazing tree houses in the world {a slideshow}.

Jaime ponders The Princess Phase

Prenatal yoga that defies gravity

What floats your boat? Last chance to leave a comment and maybe win the fun zoo fabric!

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GIVEAWAY: A Month of Advertising on Prudent Baby

We are wrapping up our roster of lovely advertisers for July and we want one lovely Prudent Baby reader (and small business dynamo) to join the party. Actually we want all of you to join the party, but we want one of you to do it for FREE! You will be sharing space with some of our favorite folks from around the web including:


Leave a comment here between now and Monday, June 27th at Midnight. Simply leave a link to your business.

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Fun with Fondant: It’s Easier Than You Think


Before heading out to the lovely Wilton Workshop (that we were facebooking and tweeting about non-stop a few weeks back), my daughter made me promise that upon my return we would make some cake for her class party at school. NOT A PROBLEM! So, while at the ridiculous-giant-amazing Wilton tent sale, I snagged a bunch of fun pans, one of which was this popsicle mini cake pan.

These are perfect for playing with fondant! I had used fondant once before, to create a ridiculous over-the-top cake for Scarlet’s Circus First Birthday, and I think I was too ambitious and scared myself off of fondant for a few years. Well, after getting some basic instruction at the workshop, I was newly excited to dig in for some fondant fun, as was Scarlet. It really is a blast to do with your kids. You might even call it edible play dough? Wait, play doug is edible isn’t it? Well fondant tastes better. Let me show you how we made a different kind of cake pop and some fondant basics after the jump…
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