Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome! 🙂
Pressed for time again this week what with the wrap-up of school and all – Monday I drove back from Deniliquin (6 hr drive), Wednesday I had debating until 9:30pm, Thursday was parent-teacher interviews until 8:30pm, and Friday was DIE THE DEATH OF THE LAST DAY OF TEEEEEERM day. Woo.*
All of which is to say that pretty much all I’ve done this week that could tenuously be called creative and isn’t either a) making resources for school, b) writing (or more accurately editing these days) or c) website admin is a continuation of last week. I Got My Planning On today and finished planning out the baby’s (slowly) impending birthday party, including a menu (soup and bread, plus birthday cake and hot chocolate), a guest list (family, which still equals nearly 25 >.<), a shopping list (extensive) and an equipment list (not quite so extensive). It *sounds* like an impressive degree of organisation, but really, it was maybe an hour tops, including finding the soup recipes and compiling a comprehensive shopping list, and given that the end of next term involves report writing and semester grades and all sorts of time- and brain-consuming things like that, the hour of organisation now will save me a lot of stress later.
Plus if I can make decorations during this holiday break (the three jellyfish (which hopefully I will have to show you in two weeks’ time) and the cotton-wool snowflake string) then all I have to do is make food. And honestly, I could probably even make soup ahead of time and freeze. Organisation, y’all: it really works.
ANYWAY, as part of all this I sketched out the cake in a little more detail so I could figure out what I’d need to add to the shopping list. I still haven’t decided on a flavour of cake; I have both white and dark chocolate mud cake recipes that are *mine* and are *glorious* and my standard go-tos that I’ve made for heaps of parties and weddings, but…. I’ve made them a lot? Last year I did a coconut mud cake with raspberry buttercream filling for the baby, and it was REALLY TASTY, and I enjoyed the excuse to make something different. So! If you have suggestions for slightly a-typical cake flavour pairings, I AM ALL EARS. Suggest to me, peoples! Suggest!
But yes, this is the cake plan. Narwhal (BECAUSE NARWHAL) that will have a shiny silver horn, a teal-y coloured base icing, darker teal ganache dripped over the back, and decorations in white, silver and dark teal over the back–silver cachous, white almond confetti, and royal icing flowers mainly, I think. We Shall See.
So yeah, that’s pretty much it this week. Don’t forget to suggest cake flavours for me – I could really use some inspiration!! 🙂
* But seriously: Holidays. WOO!
What have you made this week? (It doesn’t have to be fancy!!) Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂