35 Gifts: Day 10
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jeshyrWow, up to day 10! I'm more than 1/4 of the way through this ...that seems quite odd, the time's gone fast.
Biggest gift today was a monetary gift I gave to the Australian site I Give A Buck. It's a very new site that I learned about because Mum mentioned in a comment on a previous post (thank you!).
I can also reveal the seekrit gift I alluded to a few days ago which was for my brother's engagement party. He's really not the gift-oriented type, and has been living with his girlfriend for several years so they don't need the sort of "setting up home" stuff I believe is traditional at engagement parties so Mum was saying "What do you want for a gift" and he was busy saying "Nothing" a lot. That's no good, we like giving gifts, so Mum persisted eventually he said that he would love a box of Maltesers.
I'm told Maltesers don't exist everywhere in the world but basically they're spheres of not-very-dense honeycomb candy [ETA:dammed_colonial tells me this is called "sponge candy" in the USA] about 1cm across covered in low quality milk chocolate. I hate them, personally, but evidently my brothers have less taste than me.
Mum didn't think a box of Maltesers was a suitable engagement gift so she persisted with a request for something a little more complex and he finally said that he would like a dog made out of Maltesers, not being at all serious of course. I think at this point Mum realised she wasn't going to get a sensible answer out of him and gave up. But Mum mentioned this to me and as you might have realised by now I am both insane and have an excess of creative energy... I tried first with florist's wire and Maltesers and completely failed to make a three dimensional dog that would stand up for more than about 3 seconds. A lot like me, really ... standing up is easy, staying up's the problem!
Anyway, I redirected my efforts and ended up using a base of butter icing (I asked for fondant but my carer bought the wrong thing. Luckily it set OK) and sticking Maltesers in a dog shape into it and created this:
The ears are the corners of a Cherry Ripe because I couldn't make balls pointy enough to look like ears. All the rest is just Maltesers on an icing base. It was presented to him today along with, apparently, enough Maltesers that he's going to be eating them until he has eight kids. I hope he really does like eating them!
Today is hot hot hot and STICKY and I feel gross and hot and ick and I am resting now. The cat has been clinging to me like a limpet because he thinks I'm trying to freeze him to death by putting on the air conditioner so he needs to share body heat. This is not helping but he's nice to hug!
Cheers,
Ricky
Biggest gift today was a monetary gift I gave to the Australian site I Give A Buck. It's a very new site that I learned about because Mum mentioned in a comment on a previous post (thank you!).
I can also reveal the seekrit gift I alluded to a few days ago which was for my brother's engagement party. He's really not the gift-oriented type, and has been living with his girlfriend for several years so they don't need the sort of "setting up home" stuff I believe is traditional at engagement parties so Mum was saying "What do you want for a gift" and he was busy saying "Nothing" a lot. That's no good, we like giving gifts, so Mum persisted eventually he said that he would love a box of Maltesers.
I'm told Maltesers don't exist everywhere in the world but basically they're spheres of not-very-dense honeycomb candy [ETA:
dammed_colonial tells me this is called "sponge candy" in the USA] about 1cm across covered in low quality milk chocolate. I hate them, personally, but evidently my brothers have less taste than me.Mum didn't think a box of Maltesers was a suitable engagement gift so she persisted with a request for something a little more complex and he finally said that he would like a dog made out of Maltesers, not being at all serious of course. I think at this point Mum realised she wasn't going to get a sensible answer out of him and gave up. But Mum mentioned this to me and as you might have realised by now I am both insane and have an excess of creative energy... I tried first with florist's wire and Maltesers and completely failed to make a three dimensional dog that would stand up for more than about 3 seconds. A lot like me, really ... standing up is easy, staying up's the problem!
Anyway, I redirected my efforts and ended up using a base of butter icing (I asked for fondant but my carer bought the wrong thing. Luckily it set OK) and sticking Maltesers in a dog shape into it and created this:
The ears are the corners of a Cherry Ripe because I couldn't make balls pointy enough to look like ears. All the rest is just Maltesers on an icing base. It was presented to him today along with, apparently, enough Maltesers that he's going to be eating them until he has eight kids. I hope he really does like eating them!
Today is hot hot hot and STICKY and I feel gross and hot and ick and I am resting now. The cat has been clinging to me like a limpet because he thinks I'm trying to freeze him to death by putting on the air conditioner so he needs to share body heat. This is not helping but he's nice to hug!
Cheers,
Ricky
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Date: 2010-01-09 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-09 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 09:40 am (UTC)Hugs,
r
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Date: 2010-01-09 11:16 pm (UTC)Audrey
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Date: 2010-01-11 09:39 am (UTC)The things that exist are, apparently, scary.
Nice to hear from you - how are things?
Cheers,
r
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Date: 2010-01-10 12:54 am (UTC)In the U.S., we have a similar "treat" called Whoppers. Your brother can have eight years of my share :(
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Date: 2010-01-11 09:37 am (UTC)Ahhhh, the days of BBSs. Little islands in the wilderness :)
Hugs,
r
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Love your icon!!
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Date: 2010-01-12 05:18 pm (UTC)i think your idea was delightfully clever, and i'm sure it made your brother (and his fiancee) smile!
*hugs*
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Date: 2010-01-14 02:25 pm (UTC)And it's been a while for movie theatres, but I seem to recall the same is true here...
Hugs & Love,
r