I can explain

ICING!!- I can explain
Originally uploaded by lpdesigns

Knead tube before using. I totally didn't see that line on the icing tube. It may have saved us from the following story, but it wouldn't have been as funny.

My mom, and dad after he found out, decided to throw an impromptu graduation party for Bro1. They ordered pizza and a cake and got soda and balloons. The grocery store where we got the cake would add a message on the cake for free. My mom wanted 'Congratulations, Bro1's realname'. The lady in the bakery spelled congratulations wrong. She wiped in out and spelled it correctly but it looked bad. Mom and I decided to remedy this ourselves at home.

We bought a tube of icing. Once home we scraped off ugliness and smoothed out the remaining frosting, it's a good thing they use so much. I had done a little bit of cake decorating at the art group I was in a few summers ago. Plus, I know how to spell.

Missing the 'knead tube before using', I jammed a fork in the end. You really were suppose to cut the end off and attach a Betty Crocker decorator tip. We didn't have any of those. The fork hole would be big enough, I thought. It wasn't.

So I cut the tip off. That proved to big. The stuff was thicker that toothpaste.

We squeezed it into a pastry bag we did have a tip for. That was messy but we did it. Still the icing was really thick and hard to squeeze. I got to the first 'a' in congratulations when we decided to microwave it.

I put it in for 20 seconds. Yeah, I don't microwave a lot. I've never
microwaved icing. Twenty seconds was too long. The stuff got super-heated, at least it felt that way, and it ran all over the place. We stuck it in the freezer.

That proved too much for the bag. It got to small holes in it. We only left it in the freezer for a minute, but the icing in the tip got really thick again while the icing in the bag stayed pretty hot. We squeezed in some more from the tube. I scooped on the globs from the tip and tried to work with it, though now it was oozing all over my hands.

Then the bag tore...totally tore. As a last ditch effort we put the torn bag in a plastic bag. We poked a small hole in the plastic bag. No dice. We poked a big hole. One squeeze and that bag tore.

I didn't make this up. Could you make something like up? All through I was laughing. It was just too much.

In the end the cake had no special message. We hope Bro1 isn't damaged for life. We tried. We really did.

Hoy

The title is 'Today' in Spanish. :P

I went to our church picnic. I generally don't like them. Large gatherings of people just aren't my thing. My wedding should be interesting. Not that that's happening for a LONG time, at the moment at least.

How long is it supposed to take wisdom teeth to come in? Mine have been coming in for the last four years. Yeah, not fun. I really hope I don't have to get them pulled.

I'm writing a book. There I said it. I've been struggling with it, just like I've been struggling with everything else, for a while. Suddenly though, I'm writing a ton, not sure how good it is. I'm supposed to me writing now. But I'm blogging...which technically is writing correct?

I've also been making over my bedroom for a while too. See, I stall. And my mom's always like, "That walls fallin' apart we should jackhammer it out." So I think that's the reining opinion until I ask my dad and he's like, "No, just spackle it." My mom is prone to exaggeration.

The sucky thing about the room redo is that I picked out fabric a long time ago. And now I'm not really a huge fan of it. But my mom bought so much. I don't have the heart to tell I don't really like it.

I really want to go to college. I need to go away from my parents. I'm tired of telling people I'm not in college. Plus, then, maybe they'll believe I'm older than Bro1. Maybe.

Okay, I'll go now. I'm sure this sounds really teenagerish. I go back and forth with sounding extremely mature and extremely not. When I figure out why, I'll let you know.

Betwixt

The new continues
Originally uploaded by lpdesigns

This is the first of a new idea. New to me, at least. I'd bought a woodburning pen a while ago. I made a few things with it then crafter's ADD set in and I moved on to other mediums. Now, I'm back to it.

I wasn't that in love with this when I made I finished it last night. Now I think better of it. I realize this happens with just about everything I make. I think it's horrid right when I finish it. But when I look at it again later, even if it's just a few hours, I love it. Odd.

Anyway, I'm not listing it yet. This is my rough draft. But others are in the works.

I did list these. Not magnets, but a PIF. :)

100

Posts on my blog! This wasn't a goal but 100 is a nice number. I've blogged way more than I did last year. Not that that really says much.



I relisted these. You can click the picture if you want. New things are cooking. My supplies needs are growing, changing. My desire to make things, just about anything right now, is really strong and I should run with it. Why do I get so pensive?

Hmm. I finally woodburned a new design that I've been meaning to do forever. It's been on my to-do list all month. I don't know what I'll do with it. But after I made it thought, "Hey, this would look really cool bigger and cut out of wood as a pendant!" Yeah, that's how suddenly ideas come to me. I just wish the ideas I get would be for materials I ALREADY HAVE! *sigh*

Then there's this ebay listing. It's hilarious. She wrote it so well. It's going to end soon.