Stu's Tuesday (Friday) Challenge

Stu's moved his challenge to a Friday so that we have the weekend to get our picture and then the week to get it in to him.

This week the theme is Limitations:

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with the most fantastic idea. What would you shoot if time, money and skills were no issue? Then work within your limitations to realise your dream. See what unique surprises occur.

I am a bit slim on fantastic ideas at the moment so i thought i take a nice picture of my cat...

what I got was

and

never work with animals...

Sugarcraft: Colour

This week we started adding colour to out flowers.

To be honest I played a little at home, but Chris seemed to think it was the results were alright :)



They look more realistic when there is a little colour on them
(the bottoms one is real)

As well as dying the paste you can also use the powder to make speckled carnations



this is not the best picture but one is green and one is gold, along with the the peach one and the old fashion white one.

Next week we are turning a powder and paint using alcohol may need to get a better powder and some vodka.

Also I will be working on a Starburst at home.

Job update

today they told us that they ere extending consultation period

this is there reason:

"It is acknowledged that the consultation process is taking longer than the original 30 days, this is due to the constructive nature of the discussions that have taken place so far. In view of this it is proposed to extend the consultation process by a further two weeks to Friday 6th November."

constructive nature of the discussions ... surely is they are constructive it will be faster and not slower!

I am sure it has nothing to do with the lack job offers and people being on holiday! anyway the consultation is extended by 2 weeks which means more waiting,wondering and pay!

the cake - pictures

Nom!

Sugar Craft - half term

So for this week I have tried my hand at making a few more carnations, which a fiddly but I will get there with practice.

I have also made my first Gluten free cake, turned out better than expected.

I've decorated it for Helen's birthday tomorrow , and for a first attempt it is not to bad but I have a list of things I need to improve on for next time.

I will post picture tomorrow or Tuesday as I don't spoil the surprise

There is 7 months until Helen and Stu wedding which should give me to perfect baking, icing and decorating skills.

Priorities

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus: Contains infrequent strong language, scenes of threat, hanging and smoking

we need warnings in case people are smoking now! seems a little OTT to me.

Sugar Craft Week 3: Calix, rosehips and Carnations

So another Tuesday night and I took five new roses to my class, the old ones had a little accident and smashed into very small pieces. This we we put the calix on the rose (it is the little green leafy bit at the bottom) and then we put the rosehip on.
Rosehips are the little round bit at the bottom of the rose where the seeds grow. they are usually green but turn orange/red in the autumn.

So the roses now look like this.

we then made a carnation, they are fiddly to make but the look affective.

there is no class next week but I have a birthday cake to make...

British biscuit advisory board

You may have seen the TV ad about eating biscuits safely and healthily but according to several papers over half the have been injured by biscuits...

http://bbab.org.uk/promoting-reputation-uk%E2%80%99s-biscuit-and-snacking-sector

With the most dangerous biscuit is the custard cream the safest is the Jaffa cake (which is a lie because it is not a biscuit)

Anyway if you need to check out the safety of you and your favour biscuit then try taking the BITE test

http://www.rockybiscuit.co.uk/bite-tool.html

I have a moderate threat with ginger nuts!

Sugar Craft Week 2

The mission for this week was to find a list cutters and tools that we would need for this term. The local shops recommended either, bumped there prices up by selling cutters singly instead of groups or denied ever hearing of well known brands. Luckily the trusted Internet came to the rescue.

I also practiced making some more fondant icing flowers

This weeks class we made roses on wires which used the same techniques as last week on a thin wire so that you can form it in to a display. These roses are made from sugar paste which you roll until they it is so thin it is see through.

It is more awkward making the roses on wires and I think I will need this week to practise, these are last nights attempts.

We will be adding the calix and rose hip next week so we need to hang them upside down to dry, I think that is wear my spice rack comes in handy!

Next week - Calix and Rose hips

Wayne and the Steinway

We went to Cornwall at the weekend and popped in to Kingsley Village ( a local produce shopping center) to pick up some Fudge/Biscuits for work.

While wondering around we came a cross a antique Steinway Grand piano with a sign which read "Feel free to play me if you are any good, No Age Limit "

Wayne met the criteria so he played a few tunes and then asked if he could have it as a birthday...um no!

I did have a picture but have accidentally deleted it from my phone. Doh!