Ratatouille

We had a family dinner in honor of my grandfather and were asked to bring a dish that reminded us of grandpa. I made Ratatouille, as it comes from France where my grandfather is from. I also made it because I'm a huge fan of the film and thought it would be fun to make. The preparation took what felt like forever. My hand was so sore from chopping vegetables into VERY thin slices. But all in all it was fun to make!

The dish consists of layered zucchini, onion, tomato and eggplant. The sauce is tomato based with some great herbs, it simmers on very low heat for some time until the water has evaporated. The dish itself cooks for 2 and a half hours :O On very low heat, this allow the vegetables to keep their shape.

Mask All Finished!

The mask is pretty much finished, I added a few things to it last night. Gotta stop adding!! God, it could go on forever.
But overall I think it turned out pretty well.

Mardi Gras Mask

I'm SO thrilled that this year's Christmas party will be Mardi Gras themed. Every year they choose a new theme, last year's was the Academy Awards and it completely surpassed my expectations.

I've started working on my mask. It was an old mask that my sister had sparkled black and lime green.
First I bronzed the entire mask in bronzy orange sparkles. Then I hot glued the sequins on, added the ribbon and added the paper mache music notes. Everything so far has come together WAY better than expected, I'm so pleased. It's not done yet, I still have feathers and other bling to add.

Lucy

Here she is.....with her crooked nose. I attempted to fix the nose by recutting the piece and sticking it together with a pin, I don't think the end result was all that successful. Oh well, lesson learnt! The patterns are from pumpkinglow.com, a great site. I was thrilled to carve lucy's portrait, I've been a fan since I was 14 years old.

ps. trying to upload pictures tonight has been one problem after another. So the images look all off centered and weird. I'll try and fix that later!

Happy Halloween!!!

A couple more pics!

So last night I started pumpkin carving. I took my time and carved what I thought would be a great pumpkin. Unfortunately my moment of being completely satisfied with my work was VERY short lived when I illuminated my pumpkin. I had accidently cut off a very important part of Lucille Ball's nose :O So I've recut part of the nose and stuck it in with a pin. It ain't pretty, kids. If I have the courage to post pictures I will. My sister said she looks like Gilda Radner,ahaha

Little Vanilla Vanilla Dreams.....

Here they are.....yummy :D

Billy's Vanilla Vanilla Cupcakes

I'm SO exhausted, my legs actually ache. And it's not like I was exercising, I was making cupcakes!! Let me tell you, it was no easy feat, two and a half hours later........pretty little white cakes with a beautiful creamy vanilla icing sat before me. They really are cute. I'm too tired to take pictures right now but I will tomorrow. And I may be tired by I really did mean to write vanilla twice,ahaha