Surprise skills

I started my cake decorating a couple of months ago. I had 2 b-day cakes and I was determined to show my family what I can do. I have been taking classes and although I learned alot, I'm really really loving the novelty-custom style, instead of the flowers and borders type of cake.

So I worked my booty off and I even impressed myself. I am so proud of myself. I made 2 pretty cool cakes and I know that if I keep practicing, I will only get better. :happy:

ALL of my family was impressed. They gave me so much encouragment and compliments. For my dad's cake, he didn't even want to cut it because it was too cool.

I do a ton of canning and I cook almost everything from scratch.....pasta, pies, bread, etc.... Alot of that is a lost art and kind of old fashioned but I love it

I started my cake decorating a couple of months ago. I had 2 b-day cakes and I was determined to show my family what I can do. I have been taking classes and although I learned alot, I'm really really loving the novelty-custom style, instead of the flowers and borders type of cake.

So I worked my booty off and I even impressed myself. I am so proud of myself. I made 2 pretty cool cakes and I know that if I keep practicing, I will only get better. :happy:

ALL of my family was impressed. They gave me so much encouragment and compliments. For my dad's cake, he didn't even want to cut it because it was too cool.

Yay for you! I have a friend with zero cooking and baking skills who has been learning on her own to decorate cakes over the last couple of years. She only does it for friends & family birthdays but she puts a lot of thought into the perfect theme for the recipient and executing it. Her nieces & nephews get more excited about the special cake she will make with each event.

I learned how to do fondant figures for my SIL's baby shower this spring to make sure they were gluten-free. They turned out super cute but man what a lot of work.

My surprise skill is that I get smarter and better looking the more that you drink.

:laugh:

Epic skill!

I started my cake decorating a couple of months ago. I had 2 b-day cakes and I was determined to show my family what I can do. I have been taking classes and although I learned alot, I'm really really loving the novelty-custom style, instead of the flowers and borders type of cake.

So I worked my booty off and I even impressed myself. I am so proud of myself. I made 2 pretty cool cakes and I know that if I keep practicing, I will only get better. :happy:

ALL of my family was impressed. They gave me so much encouragment and compliments. For my dad's cake, he didn't even want to cut it because it was too cool.

Id love to see some pics, i used to be really into cake making!!

I started my cake decorating a couple of months ago. I had 2 b-day cakes and I was determined to show my family what I can do. I have been taking classes and although I learned alot, I'm really really loving the novelty-custom style, instead of the flowers and borders type of cake.

So I worked my booty off and I even impressed myself. I am so proud of myself. I made 2 pretty cool cakes and I know that if I keep practicing, I will only get better. :happy:

ALL of my family was impressed. They gave me so much encouragment and compliments. For my dad's cake, he didn't even want to cut it because it was too cool.

Id love to see some pics, i used to be really into cake making!!

Well if you insist.

This 1 was buzz light year for a 1st b-day. I didn't get a pic of the cake all set up. The top layer is the "moon" but didn't come out as round as I wanted it. :ohwell: I worked on this damn cake for over 30 hours total!!!! Bottom layer was 14 inch double layer. I was sleep deprived and towards the end I got super lazy and pissy hence the messy border around the bottom.




This 1 was for my dad. He hated hated hated the movie Battle LA even though he loves alien movies. He always teases me for taking him to go see and says it was crap because it was "too much bullets". (he has an accent and doesn't say too many bullets). LOVED making this one! All the army men are plastic but I made Mr. Alien with fondant and tylose.

I can throw a football really far, and not just for a girl!

I am a pretty damn good card player, especially at hold 'em and spades.

I salvage furniture and other items from thrift shops and tag sales and repurpose and refinish them and sell them. I pulled a desk out of someones dump pile, stripped and stained it, bought new hardware for it and sold it for 350.00!!

Learning new skills is something that gives me a lot of pleasure. Next one, out of necessity, will be plastering.

Just off the top of my head, I can drive a horse and carriage, do basic electrical work and plumbing, fix pretty much anything on a car (old ones anyway) except gearboxes, rock climb, juggle, ride / drive pretty much everything from a deuce and a half to a motorbike to a steam engine to a half track, make a redneck blush, speak three languages fairly well and another two extremely badly, design and maintain gardens including pruning striking cuttings and grafting, haggle prices down, fix bridges, proofread books, make pretty much any type of apparel from any period including corsetry but not including shoes, silversmithing, bricklaying, knitting, the ability to make myself understood in a country where I don't speak a single word of the language, and I can launder clothes in such a way that they don't need ironing.

The last one is the one I'm REALLY proud of.

i can blow bubbles off my tongue...and tie a cherry stem with it....I'm fairly good at using my tongue

you said PG, I'm out.... kidding. I can do (at least) 100 regular push-ups (in 5 sets of 20 reps, that is) and at least 500 (20 sets of 25 reps) crunches. Did both last night, in fact. :bigsmile:

You are my hero. I'm currently doing the 100 pushup challenge and the 200 situp (crunches) challenge..on week 4 of both. I can NOT wait to complete them and have a gun show!