Self Taught Decorators Club

Comment by Joann Gottermeyer on July 25, 2013 at 1:21pm

its awful Katie! thank goodness my husband bought me a kindle a while back. at the time, I thought he was crazy because I never had time to read, although I really enjoy it. lets say that I am now making up for lost time!!

Comment by June Kowalczyk on July 25, 2013 at 1:40pm

Well Joann
I believe the good Lord sometimes uses a situation like this so we can be "still". Amazing what a few months of quiet reflection can produce. I went through something similar for many months. Thought I would go crazy cause I am a go go go type of person. But I survived, got well & went back to work. I did learn some valuable lessons tho. Don't know if I would have in my busyness. Take care & will pray you have complete recovery.

Comment by Melanie on July 25, 2013 at 5:27pm

Well, my cookies made top 4, I find out at 7:00 tonight what place I actually got. This cake lady still can't seem to win in the cake division!! Lol! It looked really yummy too :/
Happy to be winning something though. You're right Katy, I love the competition of it! It's what keeps me inspired!

Comment by Joann Gottermeyer on July 25, 2013 at 5:39pm

thanks june - you're absolutely right......I do need to learn how to appreciate being still....but it's so hard!! good luck Melanie!

Comment by June Kowalczyk on July 25, 2013 at 8:02pm

Good luck Melanie.
Yes Joann... I am still learning. Now retired, 1st 2 yrs were great. But I was so use to busy....I am still adjusting. Feel guilty if I don't "accomplish" something every day. I am re-learning to sit , relax & enjoy. Hard... I am going to re-join my local library cause I love to read & now I have time. Have to give myself permission to do as I want & please. :o)

Comment by Melanie on July 25, 2013 at 11:21pm

My cookies got 4th! Not disappointed, the cookie division had the most entries. Just happy to have won something :)

Comment by Lydia Beier on July 26, 2013 at 1:47am

I'm about to carve my first purse tomorrow.  It is actually a trial run for a cake I will be donating for auction at a fundraiser for our youth group.  I want the real one to be perfect so figure it is best to practice first.  There are a lot of techniques I will be using that I haven't done before so am excited and a little nervous!  Also, other than a volcano, I haven't been doing much carving or decorating lately.  Any tips?

Comment by Lydia Beier on July 26, 2013 at 1:49am

Congratulations, Melanie.  :-)

Comment by Mandy Nel on July 26, 2013 at 2:27am

Ahhhh June - congrats on the grand baby - best Christmas gift ever :-)

Comment by Mandy Nel on July 26, 2013 at 2:37am

@ Joann - wishing you a complete recovery and by the time you get back to caking you should have so many new ideas - wishing you well xxx

@ Melanie - well done you!  Now don't think that cookies are lesser beings in the scheme of sweet things - I reckon they are the mainstay of happy families throughout the world so if you can do a beautiful tasty cookie, you can put an instant smile on many a dial :-)

Happy weekend all - I have a wedding cake and an eeyore cake to do for tomorrow and a Jake and the pirates cake for Sunday, so will be pulling all the creative juices out to make them as beautiful as I can.  Just to get the periwinkle blue colour right for eeyore cause my first attempt has turned to denim ........ arggggggghhhhhh :-)

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