The Sweetest Gift.

An innocent comment made a two months ago inspired my sweetie to have master artist CakeSpy paint a portrait of us as cupcakes.  I think I said something along the lines of "Boy, I sure hope we get picked for the Cupcake Hero Grand Prize...so I can get CakeSpy to do a painting of us as cupcakes!"  The two of us collaborated and won April's Cupcake Hero event, which got us an awesome prize pack (which I'll show you Monday).  But I had the Grand Prize in my sights:  custom artwork by Jessie Oleson, aka CakeSpy.  Turns out I didn't need to win the Grand Prize after all (though that would still be nice), because someone was thoughtful enough to have one commissioned anyway.  It was supposed to be part of his Plan, but he decided to propose 9 days ahead of schedule!  ♥

Check out....THE DETAIL!  *swoon*

How stinkin' awesome is that?  Michael gave CakeSpy my blog address, and she incorporated not only my blog name but also a few nods to my posts in the portrait!  See that pink & white cake on the left?  I totally made a strawberry cake recently.  And the chocolate swirly-top cake?  Made that too!  The only thing I can't identify is the thing near my mixer (which is accurately colored too, by the way.  Michael is a sneaky little man.) that looks like a wedge of cheese.  Slice of Bundt cake, you think?  Anyway, Michael is a whiz in the kitchen himself, baking up breads and whipping up batches of his "famous" peanut butter fudge when the mood strikes him.  Though how he can find the time to do any of that is beyond me; most of his time is spent being incredibly thoughtful and sweet.  (Sorry, enough gushing.) Don't you just adore our portrait?  We've already decided it will ABSOLUTELY be on display at our wedding reception! :)