Cake Too Good to Eat?

Gabby is a teammate of a friend of mine in Houston who happens to make phenomenal custom cakes (and cookies, and cupcakes, etc.). She custom made this and it looked even more amazing in person I was told. But let's face it, even in the photo it looks pretty damn awesome!

Every detail was accounted for, right down to the Diamond decal, the cue ball return on one side, and the rack slot and ball return on the other!

You can find "Slice of Confection Cakes by Gab" on Facebook via this link.

If I'm ever in Houston and need a cake, I'm contacting this chick.  WOW!

Almost looks too good to eat.  I said *almost* lol.

Upping Your Pool Case

I love the ingenuity and cleverness of players.  Take this case for example:

This is a funny saying a player liked so he added it to his pool case.  His profession is putting wraps on cars, so he was easily able to apply this on his case.

Pretty cool, huh?

Billiards Paraphernalia (solo photo)

Pool is loved everywhere!

Check out what I saw in a restaurant as I walked by heading to my gate to fly out for a work trip back in August:

Nailed It (Again)

I wrote in April that my captain had her nail girl add 8-balls to her nails:

Well, she had them "fixed up" again for ACS Nationals.

For reference, here is our team shirt:

And here are her nails!

NAILED IT.

Love this.  Talk about team spirit and the love of the game!

Pool Table Music Box

I mentioned in my previous blog that many people have pool-related items in their house.... and I have a couple I wanted to share with you that are unique.

Here is the second one (click photos to enlarge):

The detail is pretty amazing!

Cute little mice all over the pool table - in the rack, in pockets, drinking beer, shooting pool with their little cuesticks.  There are also balls in the pockets. 

It's a music box and it's also animated.  The mouse in the pocket goes up and down, the mouse with the cue turns, and the rack sways back and forth swinging the couple.

Movers have moved this music box of mine from Texas to Florida and back and so unfortunately many pieces are actually broken from it (yep, I cried when I noticed).  This is over 18 years old and I have no idea where I even bought it at the time.  But it sure is amazing!

Update:

Links from a friend:

Turns out it's an Enesco Music Box that's very rare, and was made in 1995. It was part of the 1995 Enesco Small World of Music Collection, and the model # is 581275.

A little about the company: http://www.musicboxdreams.net/enesco_company_history.html

The actual catalog from 1995: http://www.estatetrinketsandtreasures.com/enesco-catalog1995.html#pool

Pool-Related Drawing

Many people have pool-related items in their house.  Many of us that do, we probably all have the same items.  Right?

But I have a couple I wanted to share with you that are unique.

Here is the first one (click photo to enlarge):

When I was in Vegas for a tourney about 1999 I think, my friend Shayla and I got a caricature done of us at the Excalibur Hotel/Casino.

There were two caricature artists there, and while one created a caricature of her and I, the other one was making small talk with us.  We told him we were in Vegas for pool tournament, and then he drew the above artwork and gave it to us.

The detail is pretty amazing!  8 Ball "bonking" on the wizard's head, the bridge of wizard's hand on the cue is not bad at all, and there is powder and chalk and balls in the pic as well, of course along with a pool table.  And love his caption, "Next!" 

One of my few VERY fav pool drawings I love!

Not bad for just a little drawing as he killed time talking to us, huh?

Pool Ball Art Decorations (photos)

Found these on Pinterest.  Yep, I Pinterest.  Here are my boards, if you want to see my likes, humor, and thoughts. 

But in the meantime, check out these pool ball deco's (the last is my favorite one, I think):

 

 

Tin the Pool Man (photos)

While checking out a tournament while on vacation (no, I didn't play, I was on vacation!), I came across this guy selling different types of characters made up of cans.

The ones he brought in this day were pool related!

Check out this cool fella!

He had his own cue (looked like a REAL cue tip) and everything!  (click images to enlarge)

Pretty neat idea. 

He can make the canned characters using any idea/theme.  If you need his number, let me know.