Friday Pretties!

Ooooh, I'm participating in a little blog-land funbit! It's called Friday Pretties!

Joyce, over at I Love Pretty Little Things, has put together a lovely collection of Pretty Little Things in blog-land, and every Friday is your chance to check out all that is pretty!

Here is my first Friday Pretties post (oh the pressure....) I couldn't decide...so 4 Pretties MUST be better than one...

A beautiful pretty, that smells prettier than it looks! From a very pretty lady who has a very pretty store...

Pretty treats from TLC, the Prettiest Bakery in Town!

Obviously, this is just Pretty...

And lastly, the PRETTY AGGRAVATING  ;) pretty little wedding cake again by TLC, aka myself and Ms. Cupcake

I had fun playing Friday Pretties...I hope I did it right!

Boo-boos & Brassieres

Look at this beautiful lemon cake! I baked this for Nicole for night shift tonight! It's Nicole's last night on our floor before she trots off to ICU Stepdown. Somehow I doubt she will miss Renal/GI. One of the reasons that I love her is that I watched her on old 3West preceptor as a little baby RN and now she is all growed up and moving on....so this lovely lemon cake was going to get us through the night. It's a very heavy dense, almost like pound cake type cake, so tart. MMMMM. After you cook it, you make this lemon syrup and while the cake is warm, you poke holes into the cake, then drizzle this syrup into the holes.....so it's moist inside and so lemony! I topped it off with a very lemony buttercream all messy and classic. And then, this happened....



I put it on the table but not very carefully. And she fell down onto the floor. (insert sad face here) I picked her up the poor thing, she sure smelled good. Sorry Nicole...we'll still miss you.

To ward off my lemon sadness I decided to go to Zammy's as I heard they were having a sale. I needed new bras and have been putting it off. It has been on my mind though ever since mid season 2 of Mad Men...well ladies have you ever gone for a professional bra fitting???? Oprah wasn't kidding when she said 85% of all women are wearing the wrong sized bra! I won't tell you what size I wear now! I almost pee'd my pants laughing when the salesgirl told me....and of course my husband, well you know how men are...so simple minded! ;)

I spent alot of money....hopefully you get what you pay for. The fit is great, the girls look great...no longer resembling a loaf of bread in my shirt.


Thank you AMC/Mad Men for such a wonderful photo/ad of gorgeous ladies in bras. You inspired the draining of a bank account today! RIP Lemon Cake.
everything happens for a reason. love, ROCKETGIRL. xo

what a day for a daydreeeeam

Sunday is upon us. I love these drizzly fall Sundays.

I didn't have anything better to do other than bake, cook and lounge.

Lounging of course, is an all encompassing term for reading, vegging, snoozing, NOT CLEANING, web browsing, munching and tea drinking.

What did I bake today? Chocolate chip cookies, a cake whose icing colour did not turn out (headin to whistler now...), a practice cake...using fondant! Unless it needs more time to set, the fondant is really chewy...not too sure what i think yet...Argh! I have been awarded the duty of my niece's 1st birthday cake. No pressure at all. Practice photos to come...

What did i cook? Lasagna for dinner tonight, mini lasagnas for lunches and one person dinners, home-made split pea & ham soup, my italian chicken dish into individualized portions again...

The boys are home, my gingerbread candle is alight, and all is right with the world.


d. xo

ok, here is the not so ugly cake

AND, i made a card. (for veronica) some basic pretty scalloped edging thing, with a nursey vibe. i woulda taken a picture but i licked the envelope shut. it was truly nothing impressive.

ps. i'm not so bitchy anymore.

xo

ok, here is the ugly cake

bok bok!

here is my "vegan" cake. which essentially just means eggless. but boy i can sure market the "vegan" bit....for those of you born & bred in the 70's you might recognize the taste of it as chocolate wacky cake. the eggless recipe i used is IDENTICAL to the wacky cake recipe my mother uses, MOIST (whose hated word is that???) and dense, but gooooood.

here is what i don't like, those ugly cake boards. from now on i will buy plain & cover...and my dots are getting better, my writing was...mmmm....not so good, maybe more piping gel??

the reason i made a vegan cake, a gal from our unit is leaving, and i told her i would bring her a cake, she does not eat eggs, et voila! again with my star tip. ohhh faithful friend star tip. Thank you to Masey Moo Cow who looks at me with utter amazement with each new creation, and to Pushpinder, i will miss you immensely!

the circus is coming!

so my clowns weren't as bad as i thought. but i only made two.

my other cupcakes were just for fun. i had to use my halloween liners tho, i ran out of brown ones :(

next week is cake class graduation. my icing is getting better, my chocolate icing is da bomb! i'm well versed with my star tip as you can see...my children think I am FRICKEN amazing. man that is a good feeling for a momma!

mix mix, stir stir

getting ready for lesson 3 while hubby is doing some side plumbing work today....

boys & i are heading to costco. on the list; big bag o' icing sugar.

making batch after batch of icing today in stiff, medium & thin. you know, for breakfast.

goin to Michael's to get some more icing bags & some more couplers & regrettably, clown heads as well as tip #1 & 67. capiche?

making cookies with the boys today for their class halloween parties. and cake. and cupcakes.

i'm obsessed.

have a sugary saturday. xo

cake boss

Well, there she is. Cake number 2. Everyone in cake class had to bake and ice the same one.

I admit, it ain't that pretty. There's crumbs, there's blobs, but I do think it looks maybe, sorta, kinda cool...at least my workmates thought so. I mean who doesn't love cake on nightshift?

Next week we learn clowns. Whiiiiich I find creepy. Creepy clown cupcakes. Yikes.

So what else is new? Not much.

Had a lovely weekend away avec le Spruits. Homemade Eggers, venison...teacher teacher teacher!

8 shifts left on my home floor. Sad.

Miss my schmoopy poo. The boys are wonderful. Roy is a pain. But cute.

I don't want to sell the house anymore. So sick of showings etc. Meh.

Buckshee arrives soon! yay!

And I ate icing for breakfast. True Story.

for judi on night shift

cuz she got up today and said...what? no update?

okay. here it is.

so i went to cake class. it was, well, interesting. i took notes! i did! i tell ya, that cake lady makes it look so easy.

so i baked a cake today in my new 3 inch deep pan, so i can cut it in half with my new cake leveler......and then i told mason, hey cake for dessert! what colour would you like?? (as i cross my fingers that he doesn't come up with anything remotely difficult) white he says, with purple dots. DONE! that sounds easy right????

i can tell you this; the cake was less than beautiful. but quinn & mason said it looked like it came from the store! but tastes better!

i so love that they thought it was so amazing looking...they didn't even notice the flaws, and there were many. it warmed my little heart to see those looks of amazement on their faces. yep, that's me. CAKE HERO.

here is ugly cake number 1. in all honesty, i was practicing for when i have to go to cake class on tuesday.

be nice.



ps. i know, what the heck are those pointy things? my goal is perfect dots.

something for me

I'm in a REALLY pissy mood these days. I don't have anything nice to say to anyone. Not a thing. To no-one. I pretty much hate everything. Do you know, I have never ever ran my mouth about my ex in public. I'm not about to now....but that COULD have something to do with my mood. And I'm tired of everyone's bloody negativity. It's really not good. For some reason it attaches to me like a magnet. And it grows & festers til it overcomes me. I feel mad and angry and sad. I'm good at building walls around me. It's safer that way. Nobody gets hurt.

On the flip side, I signed up for a beginner, Wilton Level 1 cake decorating class. Why? God only knows. We don't eat cake. Although I think we should.

I could only wish to be this happy right now. I guess I should probably start taking orders. Cakes by Rocketgirl?