Bake Sale for Bella

On Saturday, my mom, KM, and I volunteered at a garage sale being held to raise money for an amazing little girl! Her name is Bella and she is the daughter of my high school assistant band directer and she is fighting brain cancer. She has a wonderful spirit, beautiful smile, and never ever gives up!

Our crew was in charge of the bake sale and Friday was a crazy baking day at all three houses. Mom made muffins, chocolate covered pretzels, rice crispy treats, and brought donuts and fruit to sell. KM and her mom made M&M and chocolate chip cookies (I got to lick the bowl while watching the Olympic opening ceremony!). We had a lot of other friends volunteer to bring treats to sell and ended up with a full table!

I made devil's food cupcakes with strawberry frosting, red velvet crinkle cookies, and chocolate alien cupcakes.

I put the cupcakes in plastic cups (like the ones you get on airplanes but nicer) then wrapped them in plastic treat bags with a ribbon. This helped keep the frosting pretty! The alien eyeballs are premade candies that you can find at Target or Michael's. They were a big hit with the kids! There was even a lady that came to make balloon animals and gave her proceeds to help!

It was a fun and successful garage sale with a lot of helping hands all there to support Bella! Bella's family has a blog that can be found here. They do most of their updates on Facebook but are getting back into the blog!

"What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it." ~ Unknown