So this past week was a bit busy. That's a good thing. I had a wedding to go to on Friday, so I had to come up with a present. I decided that I would make a stained glass pansy. This took all evening on Wednesday as well as part of an early morning on Thursday.

I then took the project to work and showed it to everyone. I meant to take pictures of it when there was enough sunlight streaming through the windows, but completely forgot. So when I gave it away on Friday, it wasn't until I had wrapped it all up and was driving there that I remembered that I hadn't taken a picture. Oh well. It was really pretty. It was a 3-d pansy and was really heavy because it was made with the lead came instead of just the Tiffany copper foil method. I plan on making at least one more, so when I finish that, I will have to take its picture.

On Thursday evening, I went to a Pampered Chef party. It's really hard to call those things parties. Especially when there are only 6-8 people attending one. Anyway, I needed to get a new spatula. I had bought my last one about 8 years ago. I remember that it wasn't supposed to crack or to stain. However, mine finally cracked in a few different places this year. Plus, I got it to stain two weeks ago when I was trying to make some black icing.

I am a bit impressed because it has gone through the dishwasher twice since then and the stains are starting to disappear, so perhaps a few more times in the dishwasher, and there will be no stain.

Nevertheless, I decided that I needed a new one since this one is cracked in a few placed.

The wedding I went to on Friday was nice. It was a sunset wedding on the golf course. The bride was really pretty and her kids were just beautiful. Her oldest daughter gave a small speech/toast to her new stepfather as well as to her mother, and it was really nice. I only knew two other people in the room, and there was probably 100 people there. I really wasn't comfortable, and accidentally choose the table next to the bar. That was an experience.

I did see something that was a cute idea for any occasion. You know those hurricane vases, or something similar to those things? There was candy layered in them. There was probably a half dozen vases with candy. One had Reese's Pieces PB cups, another had mini Hershey bars assortment. There was another that was layered with white chocolate covered peanuts and layers of chocolate covered raisins. One had a layer of the dinner mints and jelly bellies. Another had sugar orange slices, a layer of gumdrops, and then a layer of the nice Ghirardelli chocolates. It was a cute idea.

What I have been up to....

Here is the pumpkin that I made on Tuesday night. This one was fun to make. I really like the color of the glass. This is a piece of glass that I have had for a while and I had bought it off of eBay. I had gone to the glass store again this past Saturday to pick up more glass, and I specifically looked for some orange glass. I didn't have much luck. I found some stuff that was almost orange. So I decided I would just have to have a lone pumpkin, and not a pumpkin patch. :-)

Also, here is a bat that I made. This one was a bit more difficult to make. I used a different method on this one than on the pumpkin, and I ended up cutting myself a couple of times and burning my knuckle on the soldering iron. I really have to remember to be a bit more careful. ;-)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

No more Lint

So I gave away Lint this evening. I posted a message on Freecycle.com to see if someone would want him. I thought I would save the $35 I would have to pay if I took him to the SPCA.

A lady emailed me and asked if they could have him, and so I took him into town with me tonight and dropped him off. I had him in the cat carrier all the way to Bakersfield to his new home. He cried the whole way there. It was kind of sad to hear him meow for a half hour. I also took the cat scratching post that I had. My cats are declawed and so they don't need it, even though they still use it.

It was a good decision to get him a new home. I sooooo do not want to be the cat lady.

Lint

Yesterday morning a couple of people came to my door to find where I stood on one of the Propositions that will be on the November ballot. As I was talking to them, I heard a kitten crying and thought it might have been with them.

Later, about 4:30 I was in the family room and thought I heard the cat crying again, but this time it sounded like it was in my house, and behind my dryer. I went and moved a few things around and pulled my dryer vent apart to see if there was a cat caught in the tube. My dryer is about 8 feet from where it vents out of the house, and the vent is low to the ground, almost in one of my flower beds. I didn't hear anything more and couldn't find the cat, so I thought my ears were hearing things. I knew it wasn't Phil or Sam. Then about a 1/2 hour later, I heard it again, this time I came around the corner fast enough to see my dryer vent move. So it took it off from the dryer as well as from the metal pipe that pipes it out of the house. No cat... it was in the bottom of my dryer. So after about 2 hours, I heard it again. This time I figured I would try to coax it out of the dryer because I had no good ideas on how to get it out of the bottom. It had got out by itself and was covered in lint. It is a black cat and it is such a tiny thing. I think it is a boy, but he is really small. It probably is less than 4 weeks old.

Sam it not happy that there is another cat in the house. Phil isn't sure. Me, on the other hand can't wait until Monday when the SPCA opens up. I will have to take some work off to take it in, but I am not going to turn into a cat lady.

This cat thinks I am a mommy cat. It woke me up at 3:30 by nibbling on my ears, neck, and fingers until I got up and brought it to the food. It did the same thing about 7:00 am as well.

Flowers

Here are some of the daisies that I made last night. They were fun and simple to make. I think I need to make a few more for the Daisy Cake I have in mind for the class "final" next Tuesday.

Here is a carnation that I made as well. However, this one had already fallen on the floor once and all the green petals fell off.

Team Tami

We are all behind you. We love you. Good Luck. Let me know if you need anything.

Fondant

Does Fondant Icing ever taste good? I have had some that wasn't too bad. There is a recipe for fondant made out of marshmellows and powdered sugar. I just haven't had time to experiment with that one yet. There is another type of fondant that my teacher uses, and it isn't too bad.

However, the Wilton fondant is horrible. There is not enough vanilla or almond flavoring that you can add to cover the taste.

However, the people at work are more interested in the cake that is below the fondant. They pick off the fondant and eat the cake.

Yes, the John Williams concert was a date...however, he turned out to be a dud.