Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Cake Tuesday: activities.
I am NOT feeling inspired today. Part of it is that there are mockingbirds nesting in the wisteria, and every time the cat goes outside they are SCREAMING at her. Which happens pretty much every five minutes. And she's deaf, so the only one they're disturbing with their screaming is ME. I go outside, find the cat, bring her inside, and go back to work. Rinse, repeat.
I'm trying to be responsible, answering emails, phone calls, juggling dentist appointments, doctor appointments, loads of laundry, and the elbow-high stacks of paper in my office. But in addition to the mockingbirds on the time-suck front, I'm only halfway through Kate's Team of Rivals (having snuck in, I'm ashamed to admit, Angels and Demons and The Jane Austen Book Club), and am suddenly ENTIRELY addicted to Scrabble, which on the iPhone includes a teacher tool to show you better moves. (I blame YOU, Sara, for this last problem. Now start a new game already.)
I did recently get a tiny respite from the day-to-day, spent with great friends in beautiful surroundings.
(I got a new camera - a Canon PowerShot SX10IS, and I heart it very much.)
On the cake front, I know I've told you how much I like a cake design to reflect the couple that it's celebrating. This couple had a challenging request - come up with a pretty design that incorporated ALL of their favorite activities: horseback riding, bicycling, mountain climbing, hiking, and wine tasting. HM. To do this tastefully, I reduced each activity to a symbol, and had each symbol confined to one tier, so it wasn't overwhelmingly busy or chaotic.
The largest tier was embossed with horseshoes with tiny pearl nails. The next tier had old-fashioned bicycle wheel illustrations. The third tier was wrapped with the silhouette of a mountain range, and the top tier had a winding trail of sugarpaste which led to a tiny picnic table with an even tinier bottle of wine and hunk of cheese, all handmade.
Update, per reader request - here's a shot of the tiny topper:
