The Princess’s bridal shower was a success.
I had been planning some autumnal goodies for it (Partygirl was doing the meatitude and I was in charge of the sweetitude) but then she told me that she was planning a “pink and girlie” theme.
You can see from these pictures that it was indeed very pink. Partygirl’s husband is a competitive rose grower, and he provided lots of roses for the decor. Lots of roses pretty well covers the decor when you are going with pink and girlie for a theme.
Serendipitously enough, that very day I got in the mail a frugalreader book with an extra tucked in — a Lando’Lakes butter cookbook with a special section of cookies and tea cakes for bridal showers. Pink and girlie all the way.
#2 daughter returned to her midwestern fastness and I got in some knitting time with Pipes.
This weekend was very fun, but that girl didn’t get a single home-cooked meal while she was here, and I will be skipping the gym this morning to shovel out the house.
I am reading The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios, a book which uses comic book phenomena to explain basic tenets of physics. If you have ever felt that you didn’t completely grasp Newton’s second law or anything like that, I strongly recommend this book. He had noticed that his students complained that the examples about the behavior of balls and feathers had no relation to their daily lives. When he uses comic books, they do not make this complaint. “Apparently,” he says, “they all have plans, post-graduation, that involve Spandex and protecting the City from all threats.”
Absolutely beautiful setting for the shower, absolutely beautiful food …. well done.
It’s just as likely that they have plans involving Spandex and protecting the City as it is that they have plans involving rolling balls around and dropping feathers off buildings.
OK, third prize is still a prize, but how would you like to create a calf-length coat from scratch with Celtic knotwork, and get third place behind someone who followed a pattern and made a (coarse) lace shawl that was about 16 by maybe 60 inches?
I have nothing against lace, and being able to follow a pattern is nice, but it’s not in the same class.
I once won first prize in a school art contest with an inferior piece of art that my teacher submitted. It was an interesting exercise, and I learned a lot from it, but it was not ART, and there was much better work in the contest done by others. There was better art in the contest that had been done by ME. I tried to give the ribbon back.
There’s fair and not. This was not. I should have taken a photo of it so you could see.
This was like finishing Erin (which is very nice work) and getting beaten in a knitting contest by something that looked like it was knit by a kindergardner.
Everything looks beautiful…and tasty! I’m hungry now! 🙂