shout out to ali spagnola!

so this week i was looking around on the internet for ideas for my son's 1st birthday party (zoo theme. it's gonna be awesome.) and i happened upon a really cool website/blog created by the artist ali spagnola. you should check out her site, but the idea of it is that if you send her an email she'll create a piece of art for you-for free. so she's been doing this for a whole lot of people, and some have sent her things for a "trade" of sorts...reading this, i decide that we should trade a cake for a painting.
we've been emailing for the last couple of days and this is the deal. i get this painting:



and she gets a cake of her choice whenever she wants. but i'm working on another cake for this weekend and had some leftovers, so i made her this as a little "thanks":




unfortunately it's not really in "okay to go in the mail" form, but i thought she might enjoy it.

you all should go check out her site and throw her some support. she's just another artist doing what she loves. only she's way cooler than me. just sayin'....

http://alispagnola.blogspot.com

oh, and when i open up my bakery, she's SO doing the art for the building.