thankful thursday # 39.

did you see the cute little ghost cupcakes i made for halloween {HERE}?

those things were an enormous pain in the butt.

but it made me really thankful for an amazing life lesson:

{almost} everything i need to know, i learned by messing up the first time.

truth.

homemade rolled fondant that you haven't worked with in years & definitely not since you had the super easy & expensive rolled fondant at school that just works like it is supposed to: difficult.

my little ghost topped devil's food cupcakes were an ACCD.  i knew i needed to roll it super thin, but then the fondant was cracking & it kept ripping off of the ghost body & it just looked horrible.  so i did a little research.  learned what i was doing wrong.  then the Lord blessed me with a customer running an hour behind.  & i had time to fix them.

& although they were a huge pain in the butt & almost didn't happen, i learned a lot about fondant.

& patience.

& just maybe that i'm not going to be good at everything the first time but i definitely am going to keep working to become good at it.

{i can already hear the i told you sos being laughed out loud here.}

so i am thankful today for the frustrating moments when i am truly learning.  in baking & in life.

i hope you can think of something for which you are thankful today.

love love,
kjp.