One more picture of the cake............

so you can see how the flower bloomed and opened up to light the other candles hidden inside.

OK, I know I am a horrible blogger. I just so enjoy reading other people's blogs that I don't ever type my own.

But Amanda has been bugging me about posting pictures of Livy's birthday cake that I made almost a month ago. So I will post those now. I don't think there is any explanation needed. Livy wanted a safari themed cake, though I think I ended up more junglish with all of the greenery. I will post pictures of the candle too. I know you are all thinking (all 2 readers) that a candle is no big deal. Not this candle.

This candle was amazing. It was a plastic flower with candles in it. I had received it free at work with some sparklers a bride had ordered. It happened to have 8 candles so I thought it would be neat to use for Livy's cake. The fact that it came with sparklers should have clued me in that this was not an ordinary candle. It was simple to light - you lit this stick and touched it to a dot in the center of the candle and somehow it was supposed to light the other candles and the flower would open. The poor girl at the bounce place lit the candle and it fireworks went off shooting 3 feet into the air and well, you will just have to see the pictures to believe it.