Slow, unsteady, but successful!

this has been a month of being ill - first aarav, then me, then aarav and now me again. thankfully, we packed off all our bottles of cough syrups and painkillers and aspirins way before this month's big cake was due.

my colleague's son (a brilliant, handsome 8th grade musical talent) was playing the lead in his high school's recreation of the fiddler on the roof ..... she sought me out to do the cake for the cast & crew and my brain cells immediately stopped all publishing work. yes - that's how distracted i get when i have a new assignment on hand. i researched photographs, jewish toys, nativity pictures and various other things to finally be able to create my own vision for this challenging task.

the cake was a basic chocolate, with whipped cream and fresh strawberry filling.

the toppers were all clay (except the cottage sitting atop the cake - that was more cake, :) )

the day of baking, was pure pleasure. of course my palms still hurt from rolling out and softening all that clay, but i'm in sculpting heaven :)

thanks Karen.....it was an absolute pleasure being able to get into this "fiddler" headspace for the month. i owe you one!

...till you turn it to gold!

isn't that what life is all about - opportunities and options that you can turn back to look at with pride? another such chance is ready to make my March brilliantly creative. a new cake order has been booked for the end of this month and this time, there is less baking and more clay modeling involved. i am palpitating already - scared to put myself out there another time.

i trust myself, that is not the issue. the issue is nerves. i have to steady myself and make a plan. the sketch is ready - ambitious but aptly so. i already have ideas for the characters that i need to build on and the clay is waiting, waiting for me to turn it into gold.

:)