cows and flowers

well i haven't posted in sooo long. i've been a bad girl. i have been uber busy with school. i had multiple tests in every class before spring break because the teachers were all wrapping up chapters and what-not before the end of the marking period. that means that i only have one more quarter before my senior year is over!!!!


we have eight new additions to the family. they are sooooo cute.

CALVES!!!!

isn't he cute!!!

there's another one.

they are mostly grey, there are a couple white, one cream, and one that looks like an oreo mcflurry. they are in the curious stage and aren't afraid of me yet. they have been getting pretty close to me. soon they won't do that anymore :(.

so last friday was the first day of spring break!!! and it didn't come soon enough let me tell you. it has been wonderful to actually have time to do stuff including knitting and spinning. after work on saturday, i went down south but i was so preoccupied with loading everything in the truck, getting the dogs ready, and going to feed to cows that i forgot all my knitting and spinning stuff! bad bad bad!!! but fortunately that meant that my mom and i went and bought more!! one can never have too much stash, and i'm starting to develop one for myself.

we went to a place called penelopes that closed down but we found out that she opened the shop in her house. i got a bag of various wool in lots of different colors. it's turning out very nicely. i wish i knew what some of the wools were because they are heavenly to spin with.

i spun two bobbins and now i just need to ply them. the outside colors look boring compared to the pile of wool, but the other colors in the center of the bobbin are more fun.

also i got some sock yarn. it is made with aloe and is supposed to be great for your hands when you are knitting. so far i think it is one of the most enjoyable yarns that i have ever knit with. i am loving it.

the second half of my spring break i have been working on the decorations for my friend's wedding cake that i am baking for her. i took on the job thinking that it was just going to be a small backyard wedding but it has turned into over 100 people. i think i'm just going to make an extra sheet cake for actual eating instead of making the cake gigantic. the cake itself will probably be somewhat larger though as well. but for the last three days i have been making fondant roses for the cake.

first i took the fondant, i made a marshmallow fondant, and flattened tiny balls into a petal shape unto plastic wrap. then i took a complementing color in watered-down food coloring and painted it on the petals for dimension.

then i popped the sheet into the freezer to make them easier to work with. next i took the petals starting with the smallest ones and wrapped them around shorts skewers that were about twice the size of a tooth pick.

here's a couple of the colors. i made a variety of pinks, oranges, and yellows. overall i made around 150 of these roses. hopefully they will look really nice of the cake. she wants a marble cake. i think i'll make regular butter cream for the outside and chocolate butter cream for the layers.

i'm going back to my socks now!!! tootles.