my aunt sandy just wrote to me – “Has my official job changed to doing an interpretive dance wearing a diaphanous matronly gown or belting out an off-pitch love song from the 1890’s?”
who knows what she’ll be doing.
yesterday i made (and froze) the first wedding cake layer, the bottom 14″ layer and it turned out perfect. i was surprised and delighted. i’d actually read a little of one of the many books i kept checking out of the library about wedding things, and there was this thing about things called magic strips – they’re these long fabric kind of strips that you get wet and then wrap around the outside of the pan so that it bakes more slowly around the outside since big cakes tend to bake unevenly. there was also another thing called a cone something that you put in the middle of the pan and fill with frosting. this makes it so that the middle of the cake isn’t still raw when the rest is done.
i bought both of these things and i have to say that they worked like a charm and i’m excited about the rest of the cake-baking.
other than that – i talked to christine this morning and she said she thinks “little miss sunshine” is FABULOUS only i know that’s not the exact word she used, maybe brilliant? anyway, i agreed that it was really really good and perhaps i didn’t make that clear enough in the last posting although i do recall saying “two thumbs up.” maybe i should have added “WAY up.”
she’s buying her bridesmaid dress this weekend, one that she gets to pick out herself. i’m just happy that i don’t have to be with her when she goes shopping, because this can be a somewhat painful process because she usually gets sick of the whole thing after approximately four minutes in any given store. good luck to whoever she might take with her.
i’m sure she’ll find something lovely.
i guess that’s all for now because there are hundreds of things i should be doing, especiallly vacuuming.
ok ok ok,
grace.