All Lit Up

I got a tree from a nearby lot that is being run by two brothers.  A pretty nice noble fir for 30 bucks.
I put new L.E.D. lights on the tree, opting for the energy-efficient less fire danger version.  In the past I have been an all white lights kinda person but I opted for the multi colored lights.  I was pleasantly surprised by their brightness as you can see they ar reflecting in the floor even (giving the illusion that the floor is actually clean.)

Decorations still need to go on the tree, which at this rate will happen Sunday night when I get home from Sacramento.   It is weird to decorate the tree all by myself.  It was always a family affair growing up, so thats what I always want to re-create.  But I figured if I wanted some Christmas spirit I only had myself to conjure it up.

It was nice at 5:30 this morning, sitting in just the light of the tree eating my breakfast.

Chomp Chomp

Here I am eating my own words.

Nearly a year after saying “Just say no to Twitter”  at which many of you agreed with me, including Laura saying she is not a twit either……I am here to say I am now a Twit.  eeerrr,  Twitterer,  Twitterie, Tweeter.

Yep, I caved.  Completely going to blame Katherine .  She was talking about it on Saturday as we cycled through every single store near southcenter.  I had to join to follow her!

Since so many of you are NOT tweeters, I will add a little link here in the side just so my blathering on and on does not go un-noticed.  Go ahead and join, see If I can eat my words and tweet about them, so can you!!!

Birthday Rosettes

I baked the cakes last night, made a whole lot of frosting and frosted it, finishing up at about 2am.
I was really happy with the large rosettes I put on the bottom layer early in the morning hours.  The top layer would have to wait until I delivered and assembled the cake.   I made room for the cakes in the fridge before getting a few hours of sleep.  Once I got them all in there and my fridge all rearranged I realized it was colder outside and I should have just loaded them up in the truck saving myself time on both ends.

I measured the dowels and cut them at home but didn’t put them in the cake until I was on site.  I didn’t intend on putting a border between the bottom square cake and the round cake.  But once I put them in, the dowels held the cake up the middle cake just a little to high and because the bottom and middle cakes were both 12 inch cakes, the round cake kind of hung over the edge.  I hadn’t intended on putting a border around the middle layer, thinking it might be a little busy but because of space I decided to cover it with icing.

Unfortunately I didn’t have enough icing with me to do the rosettes around that layer nor any other tips to maybe have a different pattern.  I put the large rosettes on the top layer to match as I intended and then just filled in the space and cake board on the middle layer.  It was hard to work around the back of the cake but it’s not like anyone was going to walk behind where they had it placed.

Michelle  seemed happy when I left and the shoes up on top were so cute.  I didn’t see the birthday girls reaction but I do know however that it was a tasty cake and had about 6 pounds of cream cheese icing on the cake.

Tacoma FAIL

Picture nabbed from here.... just had to share.