I have two pieces of exciting news this week.
First, despite the mocking tone I took in an
earlier post, I finally pulled the trigger on the banana holder from Daiso. As it turns out my husband and I take bananas on the road with us fairly often. And I've ended up with banana mush in my purse one too many times. This purchase was long overdue.
Banana snack, now properly protected.
Okay that's not really my first piece of exciting news. The real reason I was at Daiso was to pick up supplies for my first cake decorating workshop!
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| 3 pastry cutters |
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| 3 bench scrapers |
I'm offering my workshop through a neat Web site,
Skillshare.com, where, as its name suggests, anyone can sign up to teach, or learn, a new skill, in person, with other like-minded people.
This week, I spent hours shopping, organizing my game plan, preparing all my equipment, baking ten 6-inch cakes, and making 5 batches of Swiss meringue buttercream frosting (phew) for my students to use on their very own ruffle or rosette-covered cake.
Check out the workshop description here.
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| Shabby chic? |
With only three hours to share everything I know, and walk three students through the process from start to finish, I set about to do a timed dry run at home. But my designated "test student" bailed. So in an effort to recreate the pressure of being watched, I conducted my demos in front of a rolling camera!
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| Quick cameo in my cake leveling and torting demo |
And that's the second piece of exciting news. My new goal this month is to brush up on my editing skills (I already took one refresher course last night - offered on Skillshare, of course) so I can start posting video tutorials on line. YouTube is one of the first places I go when I want to learn something new. Maybe someone out there will be excited to learn something from me, in person or online.
