meme

i saw on one of my fellow daring baker's blogs, my sweet cupcakes, that she did the coolest looking meme. all pictures.i've never done one, and since no one has passed me one to date i decided to do one on my own.
so here goes:

the rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name
1. Thanks Deb!!!, 2. 14th August 2007 / Day 226, 3. Olde Towne, 4. green spar, 5. CHRISTIAN BALE, 6. Hairy marie the highland cow, 7. I can see you!, 8. Apple Pie, 9. disney floyd, 10. Lost and Found, 11. there's nothing better than summer, 12. andy warhol banana cake

max and ruby

just a taste of some of my animation! even though i've posted mostly about my baking and kids, i figure i should post some of my work that's already aired. this is a clip from max and ruby's hallowe'en.

now to get to work on my demo reel...

happy birthday, gramma!

i know, it looks like some strange alien rock. what is it? it's my mom's birthday cake! my mom loves ice cream so i decided to make her something that i've been dying to try out for years... a watermelon bombe! i first saw it in a martha stewart magasine many years ago, and then on her "living" show. a few months ago i finally got the ice cream attachment for my KA mixer, and now watermelons are finally not too expensive at the grocers. i couldn't find pistachio ice cream anywhere so i added some green gel paste food colouring some plain ole vanilla. one whole 2 litre container will do both the green and white parts of the bombe. the watermelon sorbet is to die for! i added peppermint schnapps instead of the white creme de minthe because that's what i had. i tried to make her vanilla ice cream as well, but it just wasn't good enough for this concoction- dorie's vanilla ice cream is much, much better. i think the only thing that i would definitely change is the vanilla sponge cake (although when i made it it was really hot even at 10pm and made a mistake with the division of the sugar- i didn't divide it so it was a little too sweet- oops!). probably a pound-type cake would be much better. i also wouldn't put plastic wrap in the bowl first, a good run under warm water would have gotten the bombe out of the mould just fine. i think a nice smooth finish would be much better than alien rock! lol

if you're interested in making this, all the instructions and recipes can be found here at martha's site.
happy birthday, gramma!