Birthdays, Baking, and Broken Bones

Yesterday was up bright and early to bake.  Influenced by my addiction to the Great British Baking show, cooked from scratch a white birthday cake for daughter-in-law Candy. While that was in the oven made a batch of wild huckleberry jam. There were several tiny stems in with the berries so halfway through tossed the whole steaming batch into the blender. Great idea as it pulverized the stems and berries and turned out a nice batch of jam.

Once the cake cooled, I sliced it into four layers. Two layers with huckleberry jam and two with chocolate frosting followed by the whole thing being covered with chocolate frosting. Even melted some chocolate and added swirls to the outside. It's not perfect but looks edible!  Happy birthday Candy!

Just finishing up cake when Marie stopped by and dropped off her dog Lilly for me to babysit overnight. Such an easy dog - quiet, gets along with Stubbs.

Yesterday afternoon stopped off at the Oddities Dark Market bazaar where Jordan and Candy were selling their wares. Lots of interesting booths with a variety of crystals, jewelry, art, skull-themed items and the like.

Sam stopped by yesterday and filled me in on my "third son" Jimmy. Jimmy and his girlfriend had a car wreck Friday night. Jimmy got a fractured neck and vertebrae and his girlfriend had to be life flighted to OHSU. Thankfully both will be okay and Jimmy was released yesterday. Big sigh of relief. Felt better after talking to him on the phone.

This morning finished working on my 48 cent work party dress then sewed together sections of two sweaters to come up with a faux fur type of wrap. Will definitely be red carpet.

After whipping that up, I made an infinity purple sequin scarf for my secret pal at work. This is the final week of secret pal for this year and we are supposed to reveal our identities on Wednesday to each other.  Will be giving her the scarf along with some purple huckleberry jam.

Finally hauled out the Christmas tree and put it up along with my large porch snowman. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! !

Jordan and Candy stopped by tonight so we could cut into the cake. Turned out yummy!!

Here's to having a busy week. Work Monday and Tuesday, training in Tacoma at 8am on Wednesday  (ugh), company party in Tacoma on Friday, then family holiday party in the Gorge on Saturday! Will be a whirlwind!!