Roses for a Wedding Cake

I don't know why, but everyone I  know wants to get Married in a Heat Wave!
Why can't they all be sensible and wait until the weather is so much better for Cake decorating - WINTER would be nice!!!!

So, once again I am trying to make Sugar paste Flowers in the Humidity and Heat.

And what is more - I seem to have forgotten how to make Roses!

(These Ones are Real, 

and it would be nice if I can come close to what they look like).

I have been able to manage to get some Buds working - so IF that is all I can manage - then a bouquet of Buds and filler flowers will still "Fill the Brief".
Oh - and The Client's Brief -

"Make my Cake....
and I want 75 Cupcakes too!"

I suppose that gives me Artistic licence......

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I wrote the above post 2 days ago and didn't get around to pressing "Publish".



Today, it was 39c and I came home
from helping a Friend pack up her Parents Home.

To find THIS!

Now THAT is not supposed to happen!

Heart-breaking.

Two Weeks' worth of work in a melted heap - compliments of our Evaporative Air Conditioning and a very Hot, Humid Day.

I can't fix them - they are only JUST holding together.


With only 3 weeks to the Wedding and more Humid Weather forecast, I can't afford to have this happen again.
Maybe it is time to look into Cold Porcelain instead?

Time to call it a WOMBAT

Yes Friends - this is certainly a momentous occasion.
My first ever WOMBAT.

I have UFOs, but they are all,
in one way or another - Redeemable.

After the Week that I have had, (see last post). 

I have decided Life is far too Precious

 to persevere with a Quilt that I am not enjoying making. 

Not everyone who embarks on a Mystery Quilt is thrilled with the reveal and for those who have stuck with this one and finished it-  I salute you,
    but I will not be joining you.

There are still way too many components to make.
And that is before I can even begin to put the required 50 Blocks together!

I am not going to be discarding the work that I have done so far - MAYBE one day,
I will sit down with EQ7 and design something that I actually DO like with the blocks I have already made.


But for now - it is time to call it Quits - Bag it up - Change "Hats" and Move on.

I have a Wedding Cake to Make!

WHY oh WHY ?

We throw a stone into a Lake and we can no longer see it

It is gone yet the consequences of our action can be felt far and wide.

Yes, even to Distant Shores.

Yesterday was one of those days.

Yesterday I held my Daughter as she sobbed in Grief and Disbelief 

Yesterday She lost a Treasured Friend and Colleague.

Yesterday She had so many Questions that may never have answers - 

He worked beside her

He danced at her Wedding

He survived his PhD

He adopted a Stray Kitten

He had Friends and Family that Loved Him

He had so much to live for.

Now He is Gone

Someone had to Find Him

Someone had to Tell his Parents

Who had to Tell his Family

And Inform his Work 

Someone then took the Task of telling each Friend and Colleague.

And Someone held those people as They Cried.....

WHY?

There is Nothing that is so Insurmountable that you had to do THIS.

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This is not the First time we have been touched by the Ripples of Suicide.

Tragically we have seen it too often.

The dedication in Our Daughters Thesis is to a Beloved Uncle who encouraged her to follow her dream and then never saw it completed.

The actions of a Person so desperate that they take their life - 

It does not end there with them.  

It starts a Ripple of Grief that touches each and every one who have taken that person into their Lives and Homes and Hearts.  Hearts that are now broken.

If THAT person could be YOU - PLEASE seek help

There are people who love you

There are People Who care

Who will live on with the heartache of

"If Only ...."

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The Links below are to Websites dedicated to help you.

AUSTRALIA

BEYOND BLUE  - AUSTRALIA

SUICIDE-LINE - Victoria 

LIFELINE - AUSTRALIA

USA

LIFELINE - USA

EUROPE

International Association for Suicide Prevention