Day Two pics from the tour......

Lowell Ma. Directly across from the church is a nice little restaurant and the old guy there made us a great burger. I was glad they were open because I was starving and we had some time to kill. The church is across the street from the venue so we didn't have far to walk. As usual parking is an issue. Anyways just a few candid shots.

whirl wind tour.....Casting Crowns

Well I've spent the last two days with my son doing a short tour with his friends. We've driven about 500 miles and two venues. Luckily we live in the middle of the two venues. Besides the two venues I been working almost 100 miles north of here. I didn't work the days of the venues so that's a plus. The days have been long this week from early am, 4 or 5 am to midnight to 2 am. I'm beat.
It's my first experience with Casting crowns and they were a great bunch of people and do a really great show. So here are the pictures from the shows. I managed to get a short workout before the show and check things out before it all got started. I forget the intro bands name but the main guy, his name is Eric.

If anyone is interested in seeing all my cakes.......

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ROCK AND ROLL. HEAVY METAL STYLE

My sons birthday is tomorrow and as always I wanted to do something special for him. That pretty much means cake.
He plays bass in a band but is an excellent lead guitarist too. Pantera, Black Label Society and the likes thereof are the bands he has learned his music from and like myself, self taught. Last year I did a full size DIME guitar cake for his birthday, kinda hard to top that but I made an effort anyways.
Of coarse I had to choose the two most difficult colors to work with, black and white. In most other mediums that's not an issue but in cake making, at least to me it is a difficult task. It's difficult to get a true black and then when working with the white you have to make sure you don't smudge the white with black and that the black doesn't run into the white.
This particular cake ,dark chocolate with light chocolate espresso butter cream covered in fondant. The lettering and art work all hand done. Overall I'm moderately pleased with the outcome. This years cake....a guitar pic.

Black Label Society cake

The pigs got into the cake!

While I was away working in the Seattle area I had a request to do a Pig themed cake. It was fortunate that they didn't want the cake until now, that way I was able to put some thought and design work into the project. I have seen some done before and I was thinking something a little whimsical but yet something everyone could enjoy. As always I am my own worse critic so I know all the faults but I have learned if you don't point them out people don't notice or care whichever the case may be. Well the cake is ready to be delivered tomorrow and I passed the pre-inspection from the end user so I feel confident enough in my work on this project. Hand made piggies and hand molded and detailed flowers. Hope everyone enjoys it, here are the pictures.

Pigs in Mud Cake