Oops - flower failure
Good evening ladies
Well today did not go well. I took the petals I had made yesterday to make them into flowers. Oooh no! Complete failure - several broke & the rest would not make a "round" flower - they just seemed to want to go in a straight line. I was at a loss.
This afternoon I was in Mold - so I popped in to a flower shop - Pot-Pourri? - & the lady there let me have a good look at the flowers & was really helpful, - as soon as I said I would like to look at them she knew I was going to be making them in sugar paste. In the end I bought a couple of stems in order to study them. From this study I learnt that the petals were a little more spoon shaped than I had created earlier. So I am now waiting to see what 6 petals left to dry in dessert spoons will look like when dry.
This evening as I sat thinking about the flowers I remembered the lady in the florists saying - "well, if you can make roses - you can make these". So then I had a little idea. So tomorrow I am going to try that idea out. If it doesn't work - then I have 2 choices, given the time left. First - ask someone with experience to make the sprays for me, or use fresh flowers on the day. I have forewarned my friend (the brides mother) that I have this problem.
I hate to be beaten. My mother used to tell me that as a child I always said when I had a problem I needed to get the better of, "I maked up my mind" & got on with doing things. Well ! today "I maked up my mind" - & I am going to have another go. But sadly given the time left - exactly 2 weeks - I may have to give in. It will be a sad sad day - for me anyway.
So once again - watch this space.
At least I still found time to make the 70th birthday card that Bob had asked me to make for an old Navy colleague, & also to put together about 8 cards from some toppers that had been sitting on my desk for a week. So! perhaps not such a bad day after all.
That's me for tonight - have a good sleep. Night night.
Well today did not go well. I took the petals I had made yesterday to make them into flowers. Oooh no! Complete failure - several broke & the rest would not make a "round" flower - they just seemed to want to go in a straight line. I was at a loss.
This afternoon I was in Mold - so I popped in to a flower shop - Pot-Pourri? - & the lady there let me have a good look at the flowers & was really helpful, - as soon as I said I would like to look at them she knew I was going to be making them in sugar paste. In the end I bought a couple of stems in order to study them. From this study I learnt that the petals were a little more spoon shaped than I had created earlier. So I am now waiting to see what 6 petals left to dry in dessert spoons will look like when dry.
This evening as I sat thinking about the flowers I remembered the lady in the florists saying - "well, if you can make roses - you can make these". So then I had a little idea. So tomorrow I am going to try that idea out. If it doesn't work - then I have 2 choices, given the time left. First - ask someone with experience to make the sprays for me, or use fresh flowers on the day. I have forewarned my friend (the brides mother) that I have this problem.
I hate to be beaten. My mother used to tell me that as a child I always said when I had a problem I needed to get the better of, "I maked up my mind" & got on with doing things. Well ! today "I maked up my mind" - & I am going to have another go. But sadly given the time left - exactly 2 weeks - I may have to give in. It will be a sad sad day - for me anyway.
So once again - watch this space.
At least I still found time to make the 70th birthday card that Bob had asked me to make for an old Navy colleague, & also to put together about 8 cards from some toppers that had been sitting on my desk for a week. So! perhaps not such a bad day after all.
That's me for tonight - have a good sleep. Night night.
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