Ladies and gentlemen, may I present you with my very first decorated cake:
Sorry for the crappiness of my cell phone picture (which has a slightly orange tint in every damn picture). I'm a little impressed with my skills here--everything on this cake is what we learned in class last night (the dots, the zig-zag, the vine-type stretches, and the blobby shapes [I can't remember their proper name]). Go me!