Lily Catastrophe!

I've been having so much anxiety over these baby shower cupcakes today. Its so different making them for fun and just showing up to occasions with them compared to being asked for specific ones - they just never go the same. I worked so hard on them yesterday, exhausted dragged my butt into bed..where I lay WIDE AWAKE until 4 AM because I'm so nervous - will people like the way they look? taste? will they think they're totally lame?!

So this morning I just wanted to finish icing them and stick the rest of the lily's on and get it out of the way...oh boy what a catastrophe! I only made the lily's last night so they haven't had much time to set - I made 6 extra just in case. Well I broke 12...so I made an executive decision that the coconut ones would have a white rose with airbrush'ed orange tips instead of a lily. Finished that, put them in the carriers (I have 2 that are just baking pans with a plastic cover and handle on top and 1 Wilton one that is huge! The wilton one worked great, the others, well started crushing my lily's and smooshing my icing! AHHHH

So I made a quick trip out to Wal-Mart (I found the Wilton one on Monday on sale for $10!! there) looking for another 2...went to the aisle where there were lots before - GONE! luckily I remember they were also at the end of a completely seperate aisle and found a few left there. I was so relieved. I came home transferred the cupcakes to their new carriers, fixed up the broken ones and can now breathe a semi-sigh of relief.

Now I'm just worried about the delivery, I'll put them in the trunk (flattest surface and drive really, really carefully and pray really, really hard..

wish me luck today!

And of course some pictures of the finished product (before the new carriers of course LOL)

All together!

 

Chocolate/Devils Food (BTW we decided against the banana filling)

Vanilla (note the awesome carrier that they all now currently reside in!)

And the coconut (sorry for the fuzzy picture I was shaking with anxiety over these things!)