Graduation

Tonight I graduated from Cake Decorating Course 1. We created a final cake that used many of the techniques that we used in class. I am already registered to take Course II with Candis (Lisa and Amanda are going to wait until the summer to take it.) Here is a picture of my final cake (I do have to give some credit to Candis for the cake - she brought it to my house to take for her this morning and she was called to go to Oklahoma to be with her Grandmother as they take her off of life support so she said I could do whatever I wanted to do with her cake. What happened to my cake? That is another story . . .)

Cake #2

Tonight's class was making flowers and decorating a cake with a couple clowns. This week went a lot better - I think we were doing more things that I was interested in making. Next week we do more flowers and stuff I was hoping to learn so hopefully we will have a cake that we will actually use. The teacher was impressed with my "add lib" on the boarder - the black drizzle. Here is my picture.

Cake Class

I started taking cake decorating classes with 3 friends last week. We are in course 1 and so far it has been pretty easy. Last week we learned how to make icing and bake a cake. I would say that I am a little beyond that stage but there are things in the class that I would like to learn so I am waiting until the 3rd and 4th class to learn those techniques. Tonight we spent the first 1 1/2 hours practicing and then with 15 minutes left in the class we finally started to decorate our cakes. Lisa and I had our "hands slapped" for moving on beyond the rest of the class from making stars to practicing writing. I did not pick the picture on the cake but here is a picture of my cake from class tonight. Iam not very happy with the writing but I started that part at 8:55 and we had to be out by 9:00 (30 minutes AFTER the class was supposed to end!). I believe that next week is clowns - which I am not sure I will use much but maybe we will practice making roses.

Finally . . .

We have finally received our computer back. Our friend Nick worked very hard on it!!!! He was able to save all my pictures and all of Rob's documents - we are so grateful!!!!

We will admit that while it took a while to get used to the inconvenience of not having a computer at home, we have been able to get a lot done. It is easy to get distracted by the computer and not do everything else that needs to be done. But, since it has been back we have made up for lost time. I have spent countless hours backing up all of our pictures on-line and catching up on blogs.

Not much is new here right now. This is the busy testing season in schools so Rob is really busy. A week and a half ago he had another kidney stone attack which finally passed a few days ago so he is feeling great!!! He has never done that before without having to have surgery so we are very glad!!!