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Whatcha workin' on?

No cakes for me tonight. January is always a verrrry slow month. Next Friday night should be slammin, though.

I'm up.

Was going to bake a cake tonight (just two 8" hexagon layers of lemon butter cake) so all I have to do tomorrow is ice and decorate (it's for a church meeting on Sunday), but I forgot all my butter was in the freezer. So, the butter's on the counter and I'll be baking the cake in the morning.

I have 3 bananas that are as ripe as they can get, so I'll be baking a loaf of banana bread in the morning as well.

Normally I try not to bake and decorate on the same day b/c of the heat, but in the winter I can get away with it. If it's too hot, I'll just open a couple of windows and decorate in a sweater.

Hubby's going to be gone most of tomorrow w/ his guy friends to a trivia tournament, so I can crank up the radio and play in the kitchen to my heart's content!

I *should* be asleep right now, but I'm not sleepy. So I'm browsing CC and working on my cookbook.

Watcha up to, Leah_S?

DH and I went to an orchestra concert tonight. Verdi's Requiem. Quite majestic! I have a dear friend who's in the orchestra, so I frequently get free tickets.

Ooooo! Lucky!

I made chicken and dumpling stew for dinner and we watched this week's episode of House that we'd DVR'd earlier this week. Pretty laid back evening.

I've got a wedding next Saturday and a HUGE wedding show next Sunday on "Super Bride Sunday" aka Super Bowl Sunday.

Come on, all you lurkers. 42 looks and only 2 of us talking. Come on in to the cluhouse1

Finished the orchids for my cake show cake. Fought with fondant for an hour before I decided I'd had enough and put it back in the bag. I'll try again tomorrow.

Geez, I normally don't have fondant issues but this time it's been awful. Thinking I probably didn't start out with a large enough glob of fondant and rolled it too thin, then it started drying out so the elephant skin started. UGH!!!

Has anyone ever seen a basketweave design done in fondant rather than buttercream??? If I can't get this cake covered with a layer of clean, smooth fondant I may switch gears and do some kind of pattern with the fondant instead.

Finished two of my three cakes. I still have a 2010 mustang to do.

Things have been slow for me also since the week of Christmas. Finished two cakes today for delivery tomorrow.

Newmans, I've seen rollin pin with a basketweave pattern on them (and other patterns also) but have never used one. I have used a swirly impression mat all over fondant. I did like that effect.

All my cakes are done! working on designing some gift certificates for my next bridal show this sunday and my valentine's day flyer.

No cakes for me this week. There's plenty I could and probably even should be doing for next week. I'm pullin' a Scarlet...."I worry about that tomorrow..."

Next weekend I've got cookies and mini pound cakes to make for a charity event and then all the food for our Super Bowl Party, but fortunately hubby's in charge of some of that!

Then for Valentine's weekend I've got 2 birthday cakes, one for a friend, and one for my nephew's 2nd birthday. I'd love to make a cake for the Valentine's contest, but not sure if I'll have time. If I do, it'll have to be a dummy as hubby and I are both on strict diets at the moment.

Anybody heard of the Project Wedding website. My Google Alert just showed me a few reviews of my biz on there, and I've never heard of it before.

And if you're not using Google alerts you should be.

Made some chocolate cookies from Toba's cookie book and decorated them with my new stencils. Now I have to figure out who to give them to.

:raises hand::

Me! I love cookies!

I've not heard of it...

dstbni, that sounds like me. I've never made a wedding cake but would like to practice but what would I do with all that cake?

alene: that's why we have cake dummies!

I am supposed to be baking a chocolate cake tonight...but decided to wait until the morning. It is for a friends son's 1st birthday. Very simple 9" round with blue fondant and a bear face on it and a matching smash cake.... Should take me an hour maybe to decorate.

Although I do have to squeeze curling in there sometime tomorrow..... Next week we are curling against the Chinese Olympic Curling team! Not really that exciting, they are using the rink we practice in to practice before the Olympics in Vancouver, and they want us newbies there to make them feel better lol just kidding

Anyways, I'm done blabbering now, enjoy your Friday night everyone!!

Dummies all the way! I threw one together tonight just for the heck of it. Picked some vine flowers and voila! Instant portfolio padding!

Hope everyone is doing well with their cakes tonight. I have another weekend off. Double wedding next Saturday though!

Crazy day....NOT ready to give up my lovely avatar pic yet!

Oh, my word, Jamie! That avatar looks like little Suzie meets Bubba meets The Grudge! oof!

chelseak, I love the Olympics. I think it's exciting to do anything with an Olympian! Wish I had paid more attention to where the winter Olympics were. I would love to attend. Oh well... next time.

Sitting here watching tennis waiting for the women's final to come on. I should be working on DH birthday cakes but I'm too comfy on this couch. Oh well, guess I'll keep "researching" on CC for awhile.

Trying to get motivated to work on some orchids and a gumpaste guiter and skateborad to go on a cake next week. I should also be working on some stencils, BUT I don't feel like it.

Jamie what is up with the freaky looking avatar?

:d Just being cheeky. Had a rotten day. I tried to post something rotten looking, but maintain some sort of funnyishness. Just made up that word. How ya like it?

Wow. I want to be able to make up a word...

LOL! It's moving Jamie!