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May. 9th, 2010 11:46 pmI just do not understand where all this time is going. I was just grumbling to myself about how no one posts very often anymore and then I realized that it's been like two weeks since I've had anything to say. Mostly I have been at home feeling somewhat ill, but still. Couldn't I have come up with SOMETHING to say?
Today was Evie's birthday party and I so wish I could show you a picture of her cake but we forgot our camera at home. We took plenty of pictures with my mom's camera, but they're not here so I can't. Evie had her heart set on a princess castle cake. Pink, please. We baked the two cakes that I needed for it last night, after working myself silly at our first yard sale of the season, and they BOTH fell apart. It wasn't just me and my terrible baking skillz, either--I didn't make the first one. The second cake was crumbly beyond edibility, but the first ended up being used. I had to bake a third cake this morning, though, and then cut and decorate and layer and all that. It took a good long while and did not look quite like a professional cake or anything, but it was inordinately cute and I was really happy with it, and my family was impressed. The best part, though, was how excited the munchkin was about it.
And, we aren't going to talk about how the damned thing started melting and the icing started sliding off, and then ultimately falling apart, after an hour or two. Instead, let's just say that it's a good thing after all that I didn't make it last night. It lasted exactly as long as I needed it to. Considering what I had to work with, I say it turned out pretty well.
The yard sale went well except it was a little bit miserable. It was windy. I had seen that there was a wind advisory in the forecast and stupidly, I thought... oh, even with that it will be a nice day! Except, not so much. The temperate (low 60s) was fine for a sale.. cool without being cold, but the wind was BITING and HARD and felt like it was being blown off of ice somewhere. It was crazy, especially since the day before it had been 84 degrees at 9:00 at night. M had only packed shorts and sandals, and he ended up the day wearing my grandfather's old-man pants and my dad's shoes with his new teenager-style Aeropostale shirt. He was SO HOT. I wasn't cold much in the areas where I was covered, but it was sure cold on my hands and face. I think I actually got windburned. We brought in approximately one summer plane ticket to Sweden. :) My niece was also there, and selling stuff that had been donated to her by her family and some friends, and she made a couple of hundred, too. Her mom has said that she will pay for the plane ticket and passport if W supplies spending money, and I think she already has saved more than she really needs so she should be fine. I mean, not that she's rolling in the dough or anything but it's definitely more than one teenager needs to spend in two weeks. *laugh* It was a good sale despite the weather, We'll probably have one more sale before we go.. maybe in four weeks. I think that people stayed out of the wind some, and also the recent flooding in town kept people away. Still a good return on investment. ;)
Anyway, that's about all I have time for. Nightie night!
Today was Evie's birthday party and I so wish I could show you a picture of her cake but we forgot our camera at home. We took plenty of pictures with my mom's camera, but they're not here so I can't. Evie had her heart set on a princess castle cake. Pink, please. We baked the two cakes that I needed for it last night, after working myself silly at our first yard sale of the season, and they BOTH fell apart. It wasn't just me and my terrible baking skillz, either--I didn't make the first one. The second cake was crumbly beyond edibility, but the first ended up being used. I had to bake a third cake this morning, though, and then cut and decorate and layer and all that. It took a good long while and did not look quite like a professional cake or anything, but it was inordinately cute and I was really happy with it, and my family was impressed. The best part, though, was how excited the munchkin was about it.
And, we aren't going to talk about how the damned thing started melting and the icing started sliding off, and then ultimately falling apart, after an hour or two. Instead, let's just say that it's a good thing after all that I didn't make it last night. It lasted exactly as long as I needed it to. Considering what I had to work with, I say it turned out pretty well.
The yard sale went well except it was a little bit miserable. It was windy. I had seen that there was a wind advisory in the forecast and stupidly, I thought... oh, even with that it will be a nice day! Except, not so much. The temperate (low 60s) was fine for a sale.. cool without being cold, but the wind was BITING and HARD and felt like it was being blown off of ice somewhere. It was crazy, especially since the day before it had been 84 degrees at 9:00 at night. M had only packed shorts and sandals, and he ended up the day wearing my grandfather's old-man pants and my dad's shoes with his new teenager-style Aeropostale shirt. He was SO HOT. I wasn't cold much in the areas where I was covered, but it was sure cold on my hands and face. I think I actually got windburned. We brought in approximately one summer plane ticket to Sweden. :) My niece was also there, and selling stuff that had been donated to her by her family and some friends, and she made a couple of hundred, too. Her mom has said that she will pay for the plane ticket and passport if W supplies spending money, and I think she already has saved more than she really needs so she should be fine. I mean, not that she's rolling in the dough or anything but it's definitely more than one teenager needs to spend in two weeks. *laugh* It was a good sale despite the weather, We'll probably have one more sale before we go.. maybe in four weeks. I think that people stayed out of the wind some, and also the recent flooding in town kept people away. Still a good return on investment. ;)
Anyway, that's about all I have time for. Nightie night!
