Fish!

No, seriously, we had baked fish for lunch today! Such is the excitement of my life - NOT!

But I've finished all six major photo mats for the second baby book and I'm reasonably content with the outcome. Of course, one always finds details that could have - and should have - been done better, but that's why we are hand-crafters and not machines, right? Next I'll be making the inner binding, because that's finicky and boring and always a relief when finally done, and then I'll go on to Page #4. *fingers crossed*

The other important thing (important for me, that is) I did today was hunting down the various recipes for Mum's 90th birthday cake. It will be a hybrid, as I don't like the cake base the recipe recommends for the pineapple/vanilla pudding cake, so I'll make a Wiener Boden instead, which is stable enough to bear the two different fillings. The upper cake will be Grandma's unbeatable fat-free sponge, with a bit of cocoa powder, so it won't be too heavy for the lower cake.

Or so I hope. I've never done anything this complicated before. I wrote a shopping list, just for the cake, and was surprised how long it was, especially as a great many of the ingredients I already have in storage. Next week promises to be... err... interesting, baking-wise. *g*

I also managed to write a few meagre paragraphs for Chapter 21 of Enterprise - The Maiden Voyage, my Enterprise/Torchwood, fairly AU fusion, that hasn't been updated for the last 4 years. If I'm very lucky, I might cobble together another chapter by the March picowrimo session.

Might being the key word here. As good as an agitated state of mind is for crafting, it's very, very inconvenient for writing. *sigh*

Fish!

No, seriously, we had baked fish for lunch today! Such is the excitement of my life - NOT!

But I've finished all six major photo mats for the second baby book and I'm reasonably content with the outcome. Of course, one always finds details that could have - and should have - been done better, but that's why we are hand-crafters and not machines, right? Next I'll be making the inner binding, because that's finicky and boring and always a relief when finally done, and then I'll go on to Page #4. *fingers crossed*

The other important thing (important for me, that is) I did today was hunting down the various recipes for Mum's 90th birthday cake. It will be a hybrid, as I don't like the cake base the recipe recommends for the pineapple/vanilla pudding cake, so I'll make a Wiener Boden instead, which is stable enough to bear the two different fillings. The upper cake will be Grandma's unbeatable fat-free sponge, with a bit of cocoa powder, so it won't be too heavy for the lower cake.

Or so I hope. I've never done anything this complicated before. I wrote a shopping list, just for the cake, and was surprised how long it was, especially as a great many of the ingredients I already have in storage. Next week promises to be... err... interesting, baking-wise. *g*

I also managed to write a few meagre paragraphs for Chapter 21 of Enterprise - The Maiden Voyage, my Enterprise/Torchwood, fairly AU fusion, that hasn't been updated for the last 4 years. If I'm very lucky, I might cobble together another chapter by the March picowrimo session.

Might being the key word here. As good as an agitated state of mind is for crafting, it's very, very inconvenient for writing. *sigh*