Bad Blog Day !

I don't know if I'm overstretching myself in the multi-tasking department, trying to cook a gourmet meal whilst uploading photos, but I just couldn't get the CAKE post to work (see below). I apologise. Hopefully I'll be able to get the missing photos on this one, and although I'm a bit of a Francophile, I can hardly justify the enormous accent !!

Let them eat cake !

I've had a bit of fun - a lot of fun, really - making the decorations to go on the top of cakes. We did a BIG wedding cake late last year, where the brief was to have lots of flowers, and to have them cascading down the sides. The cake was in front of a mirror, so the back was on view too.

Last week I did another one for a chocolate mud cake, also for a wedding. The theme colours for the event were red and chocolate brown. Her bouquet (which we also made) was a posy of red roses, and for the cake, I thought some semi-ripe blackberries would be a perfect colour link, as well as providing some textural contrast.

Yesterday was Lauren's engagement party, and she was going to have 60 chocolate cupcakes on a 3 tier glass cake stand. She wanted very bright flowers to put onthe top tier. Très gai, non !

A Second Summer Holiday

This year we decided to rent a larger-than-we need house on Phillip Island for a week, and to invite friends to come and stay for as long or as short a time as they wished . The house had 2 decks, the one at the back of the house was great in the mornings, and the front deck had a fantastic view over Westernport Bay.

On Friday night we had 7 people staying and had a great barbecued meal together. Contrary to what one might think, entry was not on the condition of wearing a Hawaiian shirt !

We had great weather...not too hot...not too cold...and did holdayish things like jigsaws, and swimming, and having a glass of wine with lunch, and I even got to go out for two minutes in the canoe, but the water was a bit choppy.

Apparently, with Global Economic Crisis, and especially in Europe, many people have been forced to stay at home for their holidays, causing the term 'staycation' to come into being. I invented the term 'fakation' for a holiday at home, because it's not really a holiday, it's more just like 'not working' - equally valid, but not nearly as good as vacating one's usual environment.

So after not one, but two holidays this year, I'm truly hooked !