It’s carnival week in Damiano’s preschool and I volunteered to paint the kids faces’. I volunteered because the notice had been up for almost a week and nobody had signed up. We can say I was a pity volunteer. Anyhoo… In his group there are 17 boys and 4 girls. In the time I painted 3 marvelous butterflies on 3 girls’ faces, another mom did all the boys (pirates, mostly) Only three girls, because the 4th girl wanted to be a policeman, a mean policeman. Anyway, I also did my own kid, and he ended up being the only feline in the group. But isn’t he cute?
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Verdict: I still suck at decorating cakes.
Remind me to take a cake decorating class as soon as my boys go to college. Anyway, two things:
1. 7 minute frosting is very nice, but it’s not 7 minute frosting. It is 20 minute frosting.
2. What’s the use of reading and reading and reading about cake decorating if one’s going to forget to make a fucking crumb coating.
Putting the whole monster on parchment paper was a good idea, that way the cake plate remained pristine.
Also, I eschewed my original idea of a very green frosting, in favor of less chemical shit the kids’ bodies.
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He’s not 9 months old yet and yet he has the cheek to cruise over my leg, all while sticking out his tongue.
If he weren’t so darn cute I’d have to spank him.
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Norah turns 2 on Friday, and I decided to use it as an excuse to make a cake. I love making cakes, and I’m very good at it. What I also love but I suck at is decorating them, see here and here. But practice makes perfect so that’s why I decided my present will be the cake, a present appreciated both by Norah who is a cake monster and by the rest of us, sugar addicts.
I followed Deb from Smitten Kitchen ’s advice so I baked a buttermilk chocolate cake in many layers on Monday, wrapped them twice and froze them. This means that on the day I will only have to think of decorating the cake, and that said cake will be moist and delicious and r e a d y.
I will frost them with 7-minute frosting with green colouring, and today I finished the toppers:
These awesome creatures are made of Fimo so they will not be eaten, hopefully. Next time I’ll try with sugarpaste (fondant). I just ordered the glucose needed to make it myself since they don’t sell that stuff over here.
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Before going to Mexico we decided it would be a good idea to get a back-up bunny. Bunny is Damiano’s comfort and consolation. He doesn’t sleep without bunny, and doesn’t go to preschool without bunny. When we tell him off, he reaches for Bunny and when he gets hurt as well. It is very important for the equilibrium of our whole family.
So I shed the bloody 30 € it cost and it looked like this:
We had a little problem, though. Bunny had a full body transplant last year, in which that stupid terry cloth was substituted by lovely polka dots from IKEA. Well, come in I, the master of the craftulence:
the funny thing is that even if Damiano doesn’t seem to notice the difference, he’s more prone to cuddling and kissing the old bunny than the new one.
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A basket for my crochet stuff.
I’m making granny square blankets. For my boys. So they can take them when they go far away to college and they won’t miss me too much. And it’s good because I’m so slow that it will probably take me 15 years to finish them.
Anyway, I had all the balls of yarn lying around for about three days, and someone who could or could not be Santiago made sure that they were all tangled up. So the other day I made this:
oh, there. Much better. the fabrics are IKEA.
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sorry, I’ve been missing in action…
Damiano got the flu, and I got the blues after such a long vacation, it’s always pretty hard to come back to reality, especially when such reality involves polar temperatures and sick children.
Anyway, February is here, and as my grandfather used to say, the year is gone!
I just wanted to show off part of my new shit that I bought in the US. I bought jeans and more jeans for myself, because Europe’s jeans are made for people no taller than 5 feet. So I bought LONG jeans, that should last a good while. I also bought a ton of reese’s peanut butter cups. It’s a tug of war between the butter cups and the jeans.
Anyway, I spent part of my hard earned money at Michael’s and at Joann fabrics. I really bought a lot of shit and this is just a little part.
The colored pencils are made of just color and no wood. The giant crochet is about the most useless thing I can think of, unless I decide to start crocheting with hemp rope instead of yarn….
The patchwork book is LOVELY, from this awesome lady whose blog I also dig. Then I got a pack of colored tissue paper, and some buttons shaped as trains, tractors and diggers.
Anyway the real find was the rotary cutting mat, which I got with a coupon at Michael’s that said 50% OFF any item, only today. It made me all tingly inside. These things cost a bloody fortune here in Italy.
excitement!!!
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We were crazy enough to travel overseas with a three-year old and an 8 month old baby. That’s what we did. Also, we were crazy enough to let our three-year old be the photographer in charge of the whole experience, hence our lack of photos.
Anyway, here are some:
We arrived to Mexico after a very easy, albeit long journey. And we arrived with a boy and a BABY. See? Here he’s trying to do a push up.
He made friends right away. The basset hound was his first kiss.
This little boy here was a star of patience and good behaviour. Though he NEVER stood still. He enjoyed himself and especially sleeping in the same bed with daddy.
We also went to El Paso. It took us 5 fucking hours to cross the border, because we landed in Juarez and then crossed by car. It was worth it. We had breakfast at a car wash diner. We had Texas style steak. Not at the car wash. We, ehm, I did a lot of shopping. A lot.
We fed the goats. We had a blast. Thank you Robert and Violeta! Thank you Stephanie!
Then we went to Acapulco, where we didn’t do much other than chill out, eat succulent food, and rest. The boys loved it. We, not so much. We prefer to be stressed out and on a diet.
yes, we also prefer to be here in Sterzing, mingling with penguins and polar bears…
…to being by the pool eating pistachios with lime and hot sauce.
My boys, they loved it. We did it for them.
Two weeks into our vacation, my BABY was swapped for this thing with 6 teeth, who CRAWLS rashly and who STANDS UP.
Not fair.
Anyway, I’m waiting for the other parties involved in our mischief to send me better photos of it all, perhaps I’ll post some. Me? that’s all I got.
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2010 Resolutions
- In 2010 I will turn 30. It is something I will really put myself into. This time around I will stick to this resolution no matter what. I promise that you will not be seeing me in March already crawling back into my early twenties. Really, I mean it.
- In 2010 I will not leave blog posts unfinished.
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