Thing-a-Day. Last Day. Day 28 So that is it for another year….personally, my second year of participating in Thing-a-Day. I can proudly say that I have posted the full 28 ‘things’, on time, for both 2009 and 2010. It isn’t easy but it is well worth the effort for the feeling of satisfaction and achievement [...]
Thing-a-Day. Day 27 Well, I have finished all the bits and pieces for the floral arrangement on the Mother’s Day cake today. I now have 12 yellow sugarpaste roses with leaves, 50 white sugarpaste filler flowers, and a couple of dozen purple sprays of sugarpaste flowers. I will only be using a few of these [...]
Thing-a-Day – Day 26 Ooooo…What a fiddle! I have been trying to get these little purple sugarpaste flowers done today. I like to have these in my arrangements because they add a bit of height and stop all the flowers having the same sort of profile. They are very forgiving to make compared to most [...]
Day 25 I’ve had very little time today… very busy baking cakes!! And my grandchildren are just about to arrive for their tea!! I have managed to get a bit more done for my sugarpaste roses. They now have their calyxes and are ready for wiring into an arrangement. I didn’t quite manage to get [...]
Day 24 Today I made a bunch of yellow roses….4 full bloom, 4 partly open and 4 buds. They are just so satisfying to make…almost a miraculous transformation from flat flower paste to a glorious rose! Ok – so it wouldn’t fool a rose gardener, but on top of a cake on the head table [...]
Day 23 In the space of 24 hours I have received requests for a cake for Mother’s Day and an order for a wedding cake…both of which will require some sugarpaste flowers. As it is spring time – well, almost! – I am looking at doing a little arrangement in ‘spring coloured’ flowers for the [...]
Day 22 During Thing-a-Day 2009, I promised my six year old granddaughter that I would make her a tiara if she helped me to sort out my bead box… Terrible woman that I am, I have not fulfilled that promise to her up until today!! Well, you know how it is…sometimes life gets in the [...]
Day 21 I have never been known for throwing things away that may still have some useful life left in them. My parents, who had lived through WWII, had the motto, ‘Make do and mend’, and I am proud to say that I have taken up the banner! Take for example my laundry basket… I [...]
Day 20 It has taken me a great deal longer than half an hour to finish Joshua’s Cake…and I’m sure I will still be fiddling with it right up until the time I have to deliver it…but there was no way I could fit in another creative enterprise while I had this on the go. [...]
Day 19 Following on from my ‘thing’ for yesterday – I am proceeding with the birthday cake I have to deliver tomorrow. Having my grandson here is proving to be a bit of a hindrance but I have made a start and I will just have to get up very early tomorrow morning to finish [...]
