First day with fondant!!!

Hey its me Josie this is my first ever blog on... well anything really! I am going to share with you my adventures in trying to teach my self how to decorate cakes! Yesterday was my first day with the evil Fondant. It ended up taking me 5 hours to decorate this cake and everything you can possibly imagine went wrong. Starting with the oven, I turned it on to preheat while I started on my cake and what does it decide to do SMOKE!!! But there's nothing in it? Meanwhile I was texting my friend at the time and as helpful as he was all he said was call 911, I'm like speed dialing my mom, who proceeds not to answer. Then I'm like oh dad will know what to do!!! I call him and hes not answering so I'm frantically fanning the fire alarm so the sprinklers don't go off. I turned the oven off, but its still SMOKING and I'm like why me!!!! Then finally my mom calls back after about 30 min and tells me its just the what ever was left in there  burning. As I start breathing again she says to open all the windows and turn on the fans. As I'm doing this i'm realizing that its really warm outside, but blow it off, because what am I supposed to do about that. Now about an hour passes the cakes are in I am sweating horribly, so I close everything and sit under the fan for 20 min. Then I decided I'm going to play with the fondant and see what I can make! I look on the side of the box and it shows this gorgeous bow and how easy it is to make it, so I was just like okay I'll give it a shot....well lets just say they lied! Then I take the cakes out and was thinking about that show cake boss and how they had to level the cake, so once it cooled I decided to try my hand at leveling it. I grabbed the knife and started cutting then I noticed it wasn't making a straight line, so I correct my angle. Once I'm all the way threw I pull the top half off......it was half the cake cut at an angle, and just to make it so much better it decides to fall apart in my hand!! As I put it down all I say is that's going to be the bottom! Next I dirty ice the cakes and when I go to lift it up its stuck!! So I pull it up and put it on a plate not realizing that i just left HALF THE CAKE  on my counter! After I clean it off I roll out the fondant and it takes FOREVER for this stupid thing to flatten without completely ripping in half! Once I have it all ready I put it on the cake. It looks funny I put it eye level and see MY CAKE IS LOP SIDED!!!!! Then I just put some small dots on it, thinking only me and mom are going to see it so its okay. Then I start making the cutest roses ever with fondant. I was so proud it was my first time and they looked amazing! Now its about time for my mom to come home, so I give her a call and what amazing news do I get shes bringing her work buddys over! All I do is look at the cake and say "really". As I stare down this lop sided cake I realize I want to put my flowers on it, but they need to be pink so I dyed some fondant and my hands were stained hot pink and still are hot pink!!!! Once her friends get here they say it looks great, but no one wants to eat it!!!!!!!! All I can do is think WHYYYYYYYY!!! But this morning my mom took it with her to work and hopefully they eat it.....and live!! :o Well I'll see you later and tell you about my baking adventure for today and I would add a picture but I didn't take a picture of it.....I was to embarrassed! Cya!