BBQ and the cake adventure!

Today is the BBQ... I tried a new icing that I found on the Wilton site last night... and wish I hadn't used it. I'm sure it will taste great... but it was a NIGHTMARE to decorate with... "great for piping!" YEAH RIGHT! It says it's like marshmallow... they failed to say that it's pretty much MARSHMALLOW CREME... If you've ever had marshmallow creme... it's very sticky... and difficult to spread... and this was that way in decorating...! I was able to get it to work out, though.... and the cake turned out pretty darn good. I replicated the baby bedding design on the top of the cake....

Here's an example:


It's a cute set... I had really thought about how I wanted to put this on the cake...

So, I tackled the job and I think I was pretty victorious... given the icing dilemma!



Here are some pictures of my cake:

You can see how the edging fell flat... this icing just DOESN'T hold any shape at all!


When I decorated the top of the cake, I started out by piping the outline of the bird... I quickly decided I didn't want to use 8 piping bags and clean 8 piping attachments to do all the design... so for the inside of the bird I spread the color with a spatula.... all of the rest, I used a TOOTHPICK to outline and then to spread on the inside of the outlines I had drawn with the toothpick...! I was surprised that it turned out as good as it did...! lol I'm NEVER using this icing again!

Grammar is a dying artform...

Disclaimer: This will probably have a TON of errors... In this blog I'm referring specifically to a few different words that are commonly misused... read on if you're interested... comment if you have something to say about it.

I know I can't boast to be perfect... I don't think anyone truly can. But I strive to have near-perfect grammar. At least when I'm writing... being around my friend's 3 year old a lot, my conversational grammar is more lax... but I do my fair share of redirecting him to the correct way of speaking... although hearing him say "close yours eyes" can melt my heart and I rarely correct him on that one! lol

I've noticed, in general... and sad as it is...even people whose business is print (such as newspapers and news media sites) have lots of grammatical errors! What are the big things that people screw up???? Two/To/Too (and yes, I have made typos on this... in fact I made one yesterday commenting on Kate's blog... but I just didn't feel like going back in to delete and re-write)...Your/You're... and Their/There/They're... this is a HUGE pet peeve of mine... It irks me so much when someone says something to the effect of, "Their going out tonight," or "Your so funny." Say it the long way!!!! "YOU ARE SO FUNNY= You're so funny." It makes me wonder if a lot of people have just had terrible teachers... or if they just don't care to be intelligent people.

Then comes my annoying role in the situation... which is probably far less welcomed than I'd like to hope for. I feel a strong need to correct people when they don't correctly use these words... maybe it's the teacher in me... but I feel like they need to realize the difference between them all... and I'm probably just viewed as an arrogant bitch that needs to find something better to do. Seriously, if I EVER teach at the MS level, I NEED to teach English so I can be able to edit papers and grade written papers and use that as my outlet to correct people on such things and hopefully help people be able to come away from the dark side before it's *too* late. :-)