A missive for you from L, cakemaker extraordinaire, and maker of the Bayeaux Cake , in response to hungry_pixel 's questions: I started with a simplified cartoon of the soldiers and horses on paper and then traced them onto greaseproof paper the size of the sides of the cake. I used sterilised glass headed sewing pins to pin the pattern to the iced cake , making sure to put the pins ...
Hallo again! Scanning some pages from my October sketchbook, 14 more pages to go and then it's filled. Wish me luck :") The inks are all automatic drawing sketches. life drawing.. haha, 5 sec poses or more, depending on how fast the Poobah moved stress and state of mind the day before the one directly below the morning after.. haha her claws are not ...
An axe would have been better, but I only could find a pickaxe or a battle axe. I'd forgotten, at the time, that I have a Playmobil chainsaw which would have worked even better.
C.'s mother is an extraordinary cake decorator. For the birthday party we went to this past weekend, in honor of the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, she made a Bayeaux Tapestry Embroidery-themed cake. Behold.
We knew the outdoor faucet on the back of the house wasn't particularly good, but we didn't realize the magnitude of its awkwardness until yesterday. It seemed like a good idea to borrow the neighbor's power washer (he offered) to clean the patio before building the wood shed to house wood for the wood stove. We borrowed it. We had a hose, but it was a hose which could be pushed on top of the ...
The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery is an annual conference which began nearly thirty years ago. Each year, it addresses a different aspect of the topic, as voted on by the symposium three years earlier. The brainstorming of topics is a public free-for-all, and can evolve in unexpected directions. This year, for example, "Filled and Wrapped" emerged the winner for the 2012 theme, over offal,...
I finally planted these in April. They're beautiful. I'm tempted to order more, plant them earlier, and put up trellises to they have a real chance to grow next year.
Waterhouse's sketch in Playmobil. Things I have learned today: I have very few bare-armed Playmobil figures; I chose clothing style over hair color. The women wearing pink were seriously overdressed. Most of them are wearing ballgowns. I have far more Playmobil men than women. I have large jars, like the ones at the front of the table, but not a square white table to keep them placed...
