Skywatching / Astronomy

As the weather here as been so awful for what seems like forever, there has not been a clear sky for such a long time. Not even nice enough to go and look in between all the clouds as it has been windy and rainy nearly every night. I'm hoping that the weather will improve soon, even just stop raining would be an improvement on how it has been! Makes me wonder is that nice weather we had a couple of weeks ago our Summer, wouldn't be surprised as in the past when the weather has been nice during April it has usually been followed by an awful Summer. Oooh I sound like the voice of doom and gloom.
The shuttle that was delayed from about a fortnight ago is due to take off tomorrow not sure what time our time, but one of my Astronomer friends from Twitter is a font of knowledge so hopefully he'll tweet some information either later or tomorrow. Apparently we should be able to see the shuttle around about 15 minutes after take off not long after the main fuel tank blasts away from it, so may see two bits! How exciting would that be??

Decorating Skills

Sorry still not uploaded any photos for ages, but will in a minute. But first I want to tell you about the fabulous cupcake decorating course I attended last Sunday via AngelsCupcakes over in Wirral. What a great day I had and cannot believe just how much I learned in such a short time and can't believe how quickly six hours flew by.

Kim was a fantastic teacher and with the patience of a saint I must add. The lunch was lovely and her lovely Mum deserves a mentioned as she worked just as hard keeping us all supplied with refreshments all day.

I have my very first commission which is to be a 30th anniversary cupcake tower with a cake topper. I've been practising making the flowers for the top and also for the cupcakes. I'm feeling quite confident at the moment, I have another couple of weeks to practice so hopefully, (fingers crossed) should be okay. I'm finding this whole thing very expensive at the moment as all I seem to be doing is buying more equipment etc, but hopefully I won't have to buy much more. I suppose it's like every hobby it can prove to be very expensive, I suppose I could use cheaper ingredients, but I like to think I make them to the best of my ability with the best ingredients as that is what I like to eat.

Some of the photographs I'm going to upload in this blog were decorated by my own fair hand using my new skills including making the flowers etc using Floristry Paste. I'm not very artistic but I even impressed myself!!

I'm going to be baking and decorating a chocolate birthday cake for my eldest daughter's birthday cake which is this week and I'm really looking forward to making it. Although I really must try and not eat any. :( I've also volunteered to make some cakes for somebody in work, so will make cupcakes in a few different flavours. Will post pictures of those as I'm going to be using my newly acquired cupcake tower stand.

Not sure what's happening to this post as not sure the photos are sitting correctly within the blog, but hope you all find it okay to read. Back soon with more cakes and pics. A couple of cake pop pics also which shows a trayful of these delightful little treats waiting to have some gorgeous chocolate coating on them.