Sometimes I bake.

Monday was Steve's birthday, so I made him dinner [obviously] but didn't have time to get the cake done. Bought these two pieces of awesome on my way home from school Tuesday and spent parts of about 4 hours baking a cake and a dozen cupcakes.

But not just any kind of cake. A Tetris cake. Yeah. What up? While it was all in the oven I added some food colouring to the icing to make it more tetris-blocky and less plain icingy. Realized I wasn't going to have a enough, and luckily had a pile of icing sugar and some shortening in the cupboard, and made some more. Once I had used up enough to glue the cake together [cut it in half before forming the blocks so there'd be a layer of icing in the middle] I split it in two and coloured it green and blue for the cupcakes.

Before this I had never done more than a simple boxed cake with icing on top. Easy. Hadn't even done marble before so it was a new experience. And kinda fun. MARBELY!

I didn't realize until it was too late that I probably should have shaved off the top of the cake to make it flat, so the blocks were all messed up and the cake itself isn't very even at all. Cut off the top half, then cut it all into quarters. Arranged them to fit together as best as possible, then icinged the tops and bottoms back together, made them into the T block, and covvvvvered it in icing and sprinkles. Sorta wish I hadn't now, but I used chocolate sprinkles to separate the blocks, didn't like it so I put a bit of the white icing on top of them. Those parts were so coma-inducingly good though!

Anywho, here's how it all looked in the end.

Considering this is the most extravagant baking I've ever done, I'm relatively happy with it. Not so happy with all the dishes on top of what I dirtied up last night making supper. Geh.

Neeeeeeeeeeew things

So reading week started yesterday [or Friday, depending on how you want to look at it] and I am so ridonkulously glad. And Fabricland's having this big "dollar days" sale from yesterday til I'm not sure when, but I went today and loaded up on stuff. Only spent 60 bucks on all this!

Bigass zebra print bag, a tailor's ham, bunch of pins, retractable measuring tape, a roll-up/clutch thing that I might use as my new pencil case [far easier to organize things in], a travel sewing kit, 4 19-spool thread organizers, and 32 zippers! They're on for 4/1$. It's awesome!

Yesterday I cleaned my giant messes and finally got to sorting through and organizing my bobbins by colour. When my grandma passed away I got a lot of her sewing things, and it's a clear display of how she always tended to do things in three. Look at all the duplicate colours! I'm pretty surprised there aren't more but thankfully there aren't because there'd be nowhere to put them! Now I've just gotta go through the insane amount of thread I got from her [definitely more than can fit in 4 boxes of 19].

And check out my toaster! It's making me a cheese bagel right now. Mmmmm. Thanks moooooooom! These bagels dry out horribly in the oven, but not the toaster!