I need to practice lots of techniques...

Kids are leaving in the morning (already gone to their nina's tonight) for 3 WEEKS ... yes 3 WEEKS without the kids ...

I want to practice things that I couldn't normally do with the kids...

where should I start first???

Help my friends

Christi

I am no help!


Because I would sleep!!!!!!

LMAO .. I will do that also

lol sleep sounds great hehe

i would start by making a list of things i wanted to try. then when you have the time just start working your way down the list until you do them all.

i envy you the kid free time hehe

i have one of my neices for two weeks, yea me, lol but shes the good one so things are going smoothly so far hehe

have fun and be sure and let us know what you make and post some pics!!!!

Well I guess I could bake the cakes for next week.. and freeze them... make up the buckets O buttercream LOL...
Clean closets .. ummm...

I wanna decorate something but ... IM DRAWING A BLANK LOL

Ohhhh I am sad already.. they have been gone less then 2 hours and I'm already bored

Christi, this is off topic but what is going on with your castle cake? I've been watching your pics to see if you post it...is it for next week. I'm living thru you vicariously because I would love to make a large castle cake

Oh I ended up not taking that one Lori

It was huge... and I get the hebby (sp) jeebies

So I of course backed out. Plus it was strange.. they were sooo uncertain about everything that I started feeling like the lady was going to be a PITA ... she made me more nervous then I already was.. soo... once again I backed out.

Sorry I should have posted that

Well I'm sorry to hear that...but I understand why you would turn it down. So I guess I will just have to make one myself if I can't live thru you

As for what to do without the kids...

Sleep in...

try a new recipe...

take a nap....

try a new gumpaste flower....

take a nap...

practice your extension work...

go out to lunch....

then take a nap....

then have hubby take you out to dinner....

then go to bed early....maybe invite hubby to join you

LMAO Lori!!

Well I think I will take a nap LOL


Now if DH would sleep on the couch I'd really get rested up!!!!!!!!!

I am going to lay by the pool for a few days... these pastey looking legs are whiter then wedding white fondant LOL (ya know your a decorator when...)

Hey Christy, I know what you mean...don't know where to start...so much to do, so little time. I get distracted trying to come up with a list. I would probably give up on my list, climb up in the hammock, read a book and take a nap. Then about 2 days before everyone comes home I would get totally inspired and drive myself nuts trying to do stuff at the last minute. See right now I should be in the kitchen making 22 cups of whipped cream buttercream, 15 cups of chocolate cream cheese icing and coloring fondant. I procrastinate terribly. I think you should follow the advise of "make a list of things you want to try and work your way through them" I hope you bettter luck than I would Enjoy you alone time, make the best of it and have FUN
Melanie

Enjoy your mini vacation

Well I think you all are right..

I am a HORRIBLE procrastinator.. Sooo.. maybe I should break that and just make all that bc and all the cakes up for next weeks cakes..... so much for not working LOL

when I have spare time (hahah!) I go to the florist and pickout a flower I think is pretty and take it home and tear it apart and make it in gumpaste.

OH, I have this plan to use a stencil and scrape RI onto fondant. I bought the stencil... now to get rid of the kids...

Well........ you could go visit friends Or have lunch at a favorite cake shop one day Or tend to your garden and grow big tomatoes for your friends.........

LOL send them to florida!! LOL


YES.. that is a VERY good idea... in fact.. I can't remember who.. maybe .. LisaMS said she got some plastic poinsettias and took them apart.. cleaned them and spread chocolate on them to make chocolate poinsettias.. maybe that would work on other flowers!!! Or maybe even vein them??? WOW.. ok I really didn't think of that.. THANK YOU

And I just got my shipment of GP in WOO HOO Shopping trip???

Hot dog......... company's comin' I will get out the good chinet and the not so worn towels....

Hey Christy you can try Edna,s calla,s on her video !!!

That is a great video... she is a natural....

3 Weeks! What a great vacation!

I wouldn't even worry about cake the first week or two. I would get a haircut, facial, and pedicure.

Then I would go to the movies. Often.

Plant some flowers or tomatoes.

Visit people or places that I have not seen in a while - or ever.

Take a long drive, rent a motel room in a town 8 hours away, eat at diners, do some early Christmas shopping in truck stop gift shops, and then worry about how much money I wasted on gas going absolutely nowhere - after I get back.

Theresa

She does such beautiful work !!! I cant wait for more vidoes !

Enjoy your kid free time Christy! If it were me, I would sleep, read, watch movies, sleep, sleep, sleep!

messybaker, those are beautiful shoes... but I didn't see a template for them.. just the link for the patchwork cutters

OH yeah...I have been wanting to try my hand at gumpaste shoes!! Those are so wonderful and fun...Christi I vote for making some beautiful stilletto's!! Maybe some Jimmy Choo's

Bless you Lori LOL.. ohhh you meant the shoes

The calla tute is a great idea.. just wrote that down..

Ok ..
here it is..

Gonna do a calla lilly using Edna's video..

Gonna do some Christmas shopping for CC friends at the truck stops LOL

Gonna take 6 hour long naps

Gonna kick DH to the couch LOL

Gonna grow my maters big!!!

Gonna go see Laura's new package of Chinet and eat a dog LOL



Ohhh I think I'll need a bath also LOL

Perfect........ you are all set now... the time will just fly by.........

What comedian came up with the idea of "Naked Thursday"? Without my kids here I'd give it a try.