The Week in Cakes: Part 1

The last quarter of the semester started on Monday, and with it the Advanced Cake Decorating class. I'm finding the class a lot more bearable than Basic Cake Decorating. Part of this may be because we're being given set themes in advance - very far in advance, even! - and can therefore plan out what we want to do with them. Part of this may be because we are encouraged to be creative with our designs. Part of this may be because I've been finishing my icing jobs with enough time for cleanup - or at least before many of my other classmates.

Part of this is definitely because I no longer have to bake a cake every other day to bring in, and then either give away or bring home to eat. I got very sick of cake in Basic Cake Decorating, let me tell you.

The cakes featured below, while on themes given by the teacher, are all of my own design and done freehand.

( Day One: Fall Garden Party (with Marzipan) )

( Day Two: What's Really Out There? )

( Day Three: Under The Sea )

( Day Four: Behind The Bars At The Zoo )

And that's all for this week. First theme for next week is "Iowa: More Than Just Corn And Beans." I have half a mind to make a decoration celebrating the future birthplace of James T. Kirk. I'll probably go with the school logo, though.

Cake Schedule:

For planning/brainstorming purposes.

Week 1:
* Fall Garden Party
* What's Really Out There?
* Under the Sea
* Behind the Bars at the Zoo
COMPLETE

Week 2:
* Iowa is More Than Just Corn and Beans (Possibly "future birthplace of James T. Kirk"? Ooo, or the local library!)
* Welcome to an Elegant Affair
* Creepy, Crawly Things Can Be Fun (Reserved: Smudge the fire-spider wishes my mom happy birthday)
* Thanksgiving Family Get-Together (Reserved: Probably a cornucopia; sending it with Mom & Dad on their Thanksgiving trip)

Week 3:
* Cupcakes, Cupcakes, and More Cupcakes
* Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (I know, I'll just leave the cake totally white!)
* Let's REALLY Do Some Moving (She was encouraging "movement" in Under The Sea, so maybe something like that but more extreme)
* Board Game Fun

??? Miniature cakes Lesson 16, p.224

Week 4:
* Sing A Song - Let's Make Music (Possibly a music staff)
* Oh Baby, You Are So Cute (I'm guessing baby-themed 9_9)
* Let's Celebrate Christmas (Can I maybe celebrate something else instead?)
* Final (it's gonna be a surprise :C )

Yet More Charity Stuff

Because apparently nothing can stop my quest to raise money for disaster relief.

In addition to rare-patterned Vivillon, infectable with the Pokerus, and my flying pig amigurumi pattern, with unlockable goals, I am now offering a signed paperback copy of jimhines's book Libriomancer. Right now all it's got is his signature, but if someone "buys" it in the next forty-eight hours-ish, I can get it more specifically inscribed.