Week 3 Cake

Hi all! I gloriously submit my weeek 3 cake. It is a white cake, with buttercream filling. I made buttercream chocolate icing and decorated it with drop flowers. When I came home from class, Nathan complete with 6 brackets of braces ate 1/4 of my cake. The remaining cake will be eaten by mom & her friends at dinner tonight. We are also signing up for Class II. I am kinda liking it now that I have some idea of what I am doing....

I am also enjoying part of my day witha little nugget named Sarah who is graciously pointing out how dirty my floors are...So fun having a baby in the house! Especially this one!

Oh My Goodness!

Was that sun that we saw in Middle Tennessee yesterday? Indeed it was and the Summar family spent a good part of the day outside because, guess what? It is overcast again today. It rained last night but is still 50 degrees today, the only parts of me that are complaining are my hair and my knees. We went for a 4 mile hike on the greenway yesterday and ended up at the Bark Park. O my goodness! I could live there. I think that I am going to become unofficial mayer of Barkville TN! That was so fun. The kids spent their time on the greenway rollerblading or biking, Nathan and I walked, picked up fallen kids and enjoyed some time in the nice outdoors.

The kids are almost done with the 2010 model of the PineWood Derby. They are coming along nicely, we race next weekend. I do not know who is more excited, Nathan or the kids... hmmm!

Nathan is also getting braces today. Yep that is correct, Nathan, my 35 year old husband is getting some heavy metal. This should be funny. The kids are gonna be so jeolous! They are at the stage where they are envious of the kids in their class that are getting Palet expenaders, so imagine when your dad get braces! The horror!

I am back to cake class tonight. We are making clown cakes that I made last week on my own. I must say, I think I did ok on my own last week, we shall see what I learn. Melissa and I have decided that we will take class 2 and see what happens. My cake this week, drum roll please, has chocolate icing! Oh yea, I am getting really good!

Year Two

Well I was not going to write anything for fear of some water works-but there have been water works all day so, why not.

It has been two years since my daddy died. It on this day that, at the time, I did not know now profoundly my life would change.

I am not really certain that the second year is any easier than the first. The loss is still painful. I think the second year you know with all certainty that life will never be the same and the loss will not subside.

I will say that death often times seperates a family. And while we have all made adjustments to the loss of dad, we have made it through with our love and appreciation that we have one another still. We still have our GG and through her we have dad.

We are a Blessed bunch of people and I feel like adad would be really proud.

Hey No Clowning Around!

OK so cake class was canceled this week because of the little bit of snow that we got. Well making a cake (just he white part of the icing not the decorations) takes me a good day so to have the class canceled was a blow to the schedule. I went ahead and made the cake that we were supposed to make in class and this is how it came out. I must say, I have impressed myself. So next week I will make a very similar cake however I am going to TRY and make chocolate icing! Exotic I know but we shall see!

Bite Me!

Look what I did! I made a descent looking cake. It helps when you:

1-make the frosting correctly

2-understand instruction

So the cake says Bite Me. It is a cake! You are supposed to bite it. I am giving it to my mom and her Tuesday night friends, who all eat together. This way, I do not have to eat it, and I do not have to deal with kids who are bouncing off the walls after havin eaten cake.

High Hopes Dashed in an instant!

Careers are made and broken in an instant or within a couple of tubes of homemade frosting. I think that my cake career is over....don't get me wrong but by the pics posted within, I feel certain that I will be writing checks for cakes for the rest of my life. I can BAKE a cake, no problem. I can even pull a "from scratch" number. I can make homemade buttercream icing as it turns out...I cannot however apply said frosting in any sort of manner that is appealing to the eye. I will continue the whole class, loyal friend that I am. I just do not see myself signing up for more tarte torture in the future. I can tell with every amount of certainty, I have no patience for this! Stay tuned.....this is only just begun.

Cake Part Deux

I would like to give a shout out to my homies over in Japan! I had no idea that I had an international following. If you look at my last post, the comments, I think that that is Japanese. Since I do not speak not write Japanese, I am going to turn off my free for all comments. You will not have to comment and it will ask me to approve it or not. I mean lets face it no one that reads my blog needs Japanese Viagra.

Who knew that you could learn so much from a cake lady. I learned so much that if you think that you wanna save money by making you own cakes, go to the class at Michael's! It is like $20.00 and I feel like I have already gotten my money's worth. That being said, I have yet to complete my first cake. I have baked it and it has a crown (ack! I have to trim it off)- I have made two batches of icing....I will post pics when I am done......Probably next week.

Next Up!

I have always felt that the more that you learn when you grow older, the better person you are going to be when you even older. Also the more well rounded you are as an individual, the better person you are in the end. Life is a never ending process of learning and showing thru your actions what you have learned.

That being said, I am starting a new endeavor....Cake Class. All that stuff about being a better person and learning and being well rounded, sounds good....however I am just hoping that I don't get kicked out of cake Class or have the cake monster as a teacher. I am a member of my scrapping group, and after 3 years they are used to me, my mouth and my sense of humor....I am safe there. I am a little nervous about being in a crafty in a situation with people I do not know moreover they do not know me (poor people).

Cake Class is at Michaels-It is every Monday in the month of February. Cake Class is 2 hours of frosting, cake and things that I should not be around. Why do I torture myself? I have heard that once you spend enough time around cake and icing and all that is YUM O that you then find it to be not so YUM O....I will let you know.

Now some people think that I am crafty, creative and can make and do things that some people cannot. I happen to think that I am crazy in some of the things that I think I can do. For every thing that I have made with some success, ther are more than a dozen things that I have 1- tried to make, or 2- attempted to make and it failed-miserably. I never dreamed that I would want to decorate a cake. However if it gets me out of the house, spending time with my friends, and if there is a chance that I will be OK at it, it is worth a try.

Now about the being OK at it....not a chance. I will do this course and probably not attempt another one. From what I understand and what I can see to be the truth perhaps....Cake decorating takes some amount of patience. Patience is a virtue..a virtue that was not graced on these old bones. I have NO patience and so far in life I have made it by just fine.

So come on Cake, let's see what happens to you!