I'm ready for my cape!
Yesterday, I was superwoman! Okay, not really. I just got a lot done. I made my wordcount goal (barely, but that counts!), cleaned three bathrooms, did thee loads of laundry, and baked sugar cookies from scratch. With my very first royal icing. See!
(Sorry the picture is sideways. It won't cooperate.)
Since this was my first try at the royal icing, I'm considering these a practice run. I'm still working on getting the "flood" icing to the right consistency and my hands aren't incredibly steady, so my piping is kind of...shaky. But not bad for the first time, right?
I haven't finished decorating them yet, but in the pic above, you can see some "flooded" (filled in with the thinner consistency icing) and others only outlined. No detailing yet, except for the edible pearls.
The nice thing about royal icing is that it dries hard, like a candy shell, so the cookies can be stacked without messing up the frosting. But I have a long way to go before I'll be giving any of these away.
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Unfortunately, today hasn't been quite so productive. Errands this morning and several things on the business side of publishing this afternoon have kind of gotten in the way. So I'll be offline most of the rest of today to write, and after that for the holiday. But I'll also be working on something kind of fun (assuming I can pull it together) for when I get back next week.
Here's my progress on the new adult novel so far:
62,113 / 100,000
(62.11%)
And here's where I stand on my November goal:
45,703 / 65,000
(70.31%) Don't forget to check out my CP Rinda Elliott's progress on her November writing goal by clicking the image below!
(Sorry the picture is sideways. It won't cooperate.)
Since this was my first try at the royal icing, I'm considering these a practice run. I'm still working on getting the "flood" icing to the right consistency and my hands aren't incredibly steady, so my piping is kind of...shaky. But not bad for the first time, right?
I haven't finished decorating them yet, but in the pic above, you can see some "flooded" (filled in with the thinner consistency icing) and others only outlined. No detailing yet, except for the edible pearls.
The nice thing about royal icing is that it dries hard, like a candy shell, so the cookies can be stacked without messing up the frosting. But I have a long way to go before I'll be giving any of these away.
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Unfortunately, today hasn't been quite so productive. Errands this morning and several things on the business side of publishing this afternoon have kind of gotten in the way. So I'll be offline most of the rest of today to write, and after that for the holiday. But I'll also be working on something kind of fun (assuming I can pull it together) for when I get back next week.
Here's my progress on the new adult novel so far:
62,113 / 100,000
(62.11%)
And here's where I stand on my November goal:
45,703 / 65,000
(70.31%) Don't forget to check out my CP Rinda Elliott's progress on her November writing goal by clicking the image below!
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Merry Christmas!