Someone else either wanted or was talked into this:  Clifford jumping over the moon.  Taking the old nursery rhyme a new direction.  All the food dye colored everyone's mouths a lot!

A wish for a New Orleans style King Cake, but later in the year for a birthday.  The candles are faux-crayon candles.

He loved (and still loves) red and Cars.   Skipped the frosting for red sugar.  (At the edge is a Baskin-Robbins Thomas the Train ice cream cake.)

The teen wanted a big cookie rather than a traditional cake.  (I'd done them before, but with less personal decorating, so those aren't pictured.)

Resident artist, with favorite colors of red and blue.  There was a bit of hippy chic going on, too.  The family values religious learning, and that has stayed alive through these growing ages.

Monster theme!  Sometimes Walmart and Kroger affiliates (as well as others) have some pretty fun decorations.  The teen asked for these.

Sweet 16 for the one who loves red & blue.  Clouds drifting by in a blue sky to suggest dreaming and daydreaming.  

Eclectic sports preferences.  (UNM is University of New Mexico; LSU is Louisiana Sate.)

The "idea" was basic on this one because the teen didn't have any preferences.   It caught the age, a favorite color, and the high school colors!

The Barbie Movie was a big deal.  Amazon had cute decorations to oblige! 

At 19, this teen still liked The Railway Series.  "Thomas" is derived from this, but the books have so many more good lessons (and higher-level vocabulary) than the various TV series.

Something literary for this young adult.  Amazon was a help, once again, in finding a creative way to decorate.

A couple more for adults.