Tea Time

Tea was fun. The real adventure was making my cake.

The first one (the top part) I made the batter, maybe didn't beat the eggs enough, not too terrible. Went to turn on the oven so it could go in and the oven broke. I called a friend to use her oven and she wasn't going to be home, so I couldn't and so I went to the church and used that oven (yay for my dad).

Needless to say that cake was quite a bit denser then the bottom part. I made the second one after our oven got fixed. It was much lighter and fluffier than the first. In the middle was a concoction of pudding and whipped cream with blueberries. Then decorated with whipping cream and blueberries. Looks cool no?
You can also see our fancy table settings. The dark coloured china and the dark blueberries was intentionally planned (:P).















These are the invites I made. I addressed each one as Ms. "_____" simply because it made it sound that much more formal. Note the little fancy edge. That took forever using fancy scissors.

It sounds stupid but engineering the little bow that held it together took major effort. Originally I had intended to have the lace go all the way around the inside of the invite, but I couldn't figure out a simple way. But I refused to give up on the idea of having a bow hold them closed. So I cheated and only had the bow.

And today's definition is only because it's primarily british.
Portmanteau [pawrt-man-toh, pohrt-man-toh] (the emphasis can be on either the second or third syllable)(N)
- a case or bag to carry clothing in while travelling especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens in two halves.
SYN: Suitcase

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EDIT: Dear God this was impossible to line up, the preview button lies!!!

Cakes

Do have any idea how to make a sponge cake?

I don't.

And I am going to attempt one on Saturday. Not just any sponge cake mind you, but cool, sweet totally wicked awesome looking spongecake. That is barring any catastophes or regular problems.

Assuming I manage to successfully create two sponge cakes (that's right two, because one stupid challenge isn't enough for me:P) I will then have to maneuver them on top of each other bonded together, of course, with sweet sugar whipped goodness. Then decorate it all pretty like. And then manage to serve it. This will be fun, worst come to worse? ENGLISH TRIFLE! (This has become my save all dish for when cakes go crash, literally and figuratively.)

Aside from that, I have some excellent ideas for little mini sandwiches. They're even easier because you can simply cut one sandwich into many via little squares or little strips. Yay for fancy finger foods.

If you haven't figured it out. I am hosting tea on Saturday. Not just any tea, but an elite tea with three guests and a dress code of dresses (hats, gloves and accents are optional).

Why am I hosting tea? Because it sounds like horrible fun, and besides, just because we grew up did not mean we grew out of tea parties. All it means is that we grew up into the fancy tea sets and the ability to actually make the fancy foods that go with it.

trifle [trahy-ful] (N)
1. a dessert usually consisting of custard and cake soaked in wine or liqueur, and jam, fruit or the like
2. anything small or trivial
3. an article or thing of little value
4. a matter, affair, or circumstance of trivial value or importance
5. a kind of pewter made of medium hardness
6. a small quantity of anything
7. a literary, musical, or artistic work of light or trivial character having no great or lasting merit; bagatelle
(V)
8. to deal lightly or without due seriousness or respect
9. to play or toy by handling or fingering
10. to act or talk in a frivolous way
11. to pass time idly or frivolously; waste time; idle

Wow, a lot of definitions for one itty bitty word.

bagatelle [bag-uh-tel] (N)
1. something of little value or importance; a trifle
2. a game played on a board having holes at one end into which balls are stuck with a cue
3. a short and light musical composition, typically for a piano.

And that folks is a word with many uses, actually a few uses but a large variety.

Maybe next week I will have pictures of the cake. (Alas, I do not have pictures of the adorable invitations I made unless one of my guests is willing to lend me theirs back.)

Apologies

So Wednesday passed and I never posted anything ^^' I'm slipping. But I've barely started, well to my two readers sorry.

Not too much to rant about right now, no any fancy definitions to pester you with. I need my classes back to give me words I do not understand.

I have no evil professors nor evil classes to rant about, as they all finished for the summer. And my grades, well I deserve the grades I got (mostly) so I can't even rant about that.

My cat's are kittenish and cute as always.

I do greatly dislike gardening though. It is boring and no matter how much dirt you haul to make a new flower bed it is never enough! And then when all the dirt has been hauled one has to plant the flowers and hedges. With all that done, it must be weeded and watered, whilst doing this it has to be edges to look all pretty. Fine so it looks pretty in the end and it all works out, however we are making three new flower beds this year. THREE <excessive !> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</excessive !> why three? The answer is simple so that the yard looks nice and the massive amount of pine trees look nice at the ground instead of a drip line and millions of pine cones and needles.

So I guess I did have a rant in me.

detraction [di-trac-shun] (N)
1. the act of disparaging or belittling the reputation or worth of a person, work

je-jun [ji-joon](ADJ)
1. without interest or significance; dull; insipid
2. juvenile; immature; childish
3. lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed
4. deficient or lacking in nutritive value
5. lacking matter; empty; void of substance
-ly (ADV)
-ness, -nity (N)

Random and interesting always fun.