Here comes the bride...

This week my husband's brother, and his new wife came to visit. They live in a far off province. They married on one of those cruise ship weddings, very romantic, and very intimate. My sisters in law and I thought it would be nice to have a little special thingy happening at our dinner the night before they left to go home again. I baked a wedding cake. Haven't done one in a long time. My sisters in law and I are well insinc, when we do dinner for Christmas, each of us has our specialities. Chris does the turkey, Teresa is responsible for fruits and vegetables and salad, and of course fat me get the dessert. I really use them as guinea pigs you know. Anyway here is my adventure in cake decorating.

In the middle of running back and forth to the fridge to keep things cool, my cat decided I was not paying him enough attention. I swear he's trying to trip me,
the biggest challenge in these bakeoffs is refrigeration. It's been so hot, that even with the AC going, by the time you are baking and icing things, refrigerator space is at a premium.

Best Wishes to the Bride and Groom...

P.S. There is nothing that doesn't look better with a little baby's breath and roses, even chocolate.

For Today...

FOR TODAY
Outside my window... it's overcast, not too sunny, but hotter than H..L
I am thinking...should I bake the bottom of the wedding cake first or the top?
I am thankful for...my husband going off to work,
From the learning rooms...I'm learning to remain calm, it doesn't always work but that's what learning is...
From the kitchen...cake, cake, and more cake.
I am wearing...my pyjamas (did I tell you I love to bake in my pyjamas)
I am creating...quite a mess, with baking in one room and life happening in the other...
I am going...to the supplier store, haven't gotten a topper for the wedding cake yet. I'm thinking if it's too hot to travel by bus, I may just use some real flowers
I ...just finished reading "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"
I am hoping...no one of the guests can taste my "feeling" in these cakes. But even if they do, they will only taste my complete joy of baking/and eating cake.
I am hearing...our ceiling fan whirl around.
Around the house...I've decided I need to focus on this cake and it's assembly so it will just be clearing up kitchen after baking. If I am /when I'm finished I'll do a quick crumb coat and then pop them into the freezer, much easier to decorate a frozen cake.
One of my favourite things...baking
A few plans for the rest of the week:Dr. appointments, seniors visits, another stopover at my mother's, and then... no painting this week,
Here are a few pictures I am sharing...remember that rose that's given me such a lovely view all spring and summer, I just needed to capture it.


The inspiration






So when my cat was sitting at the window, I decided he was uncomfortable, not to mention he keeps falling off and getting mad, I thought I'd paint a shelf one of my painting buddies gave me.




The purpose.




It looked like this when I got it.






I painted it a black/brown and photocopied a sheet of music, (the actual sheet was too thick to apply) I then painted the copy with tea, yes tea, applied it to the shelf (which was already dry) and let it dry also. Then I painted these two roses on top. Fini








What do you Think? It will be screwed to the wall just under the window frame. I'll have to put a protective coat on so I don't have claw marks.




I have two of these so, one for the kitchen window and one in the dining area. Not to0 cheesy?

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P. S. Jennifer asked how I applied the sheet music, I use a product called Right Step, is a prep for surfaces to be painted. I suppose you could decoupage this, but I'm using this for my cat, so I expect it will need to be washed or dusted and any sort of moisture in my experience re-activates the decoupage medium, whereas, the Right Step can be painted, sanded and varnished and it works well with water, like when I leave the window open and it gets rained on, or watered with the sprinkler, I can even sand it lightly and re-varnish. So depending on what you do with it... I believe Right Step is available at Michaels, and other craft/painting stores.

P.P.S, you'll notice my Dutch Clogs in the background of my photo, it's my little reminder of a Welcome to my World, wish I could remember to speak Dutch, we did when we were kids, can you imagine Polish kids speaking Dutch, it must have been quite an ear full.