When I was a kid all the girls wanted a “doll cake” for their birthdays…this was a cake shaped like a skirt with a doll (or half of a doll) stuck in the center of it and the skirt and bodice decorated.
Sort of like this – when they were decorated we thought they were oh, so glamorous!
The baker in this video takes cake dresses to a whole different level.
from My Modern Met
This amazing dog fountain is in Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Here are some other closeups of the fountain. Don’t miss the golden dog bone and the two little blue birds of happiness at the top.
You can get this chair – and many more cat chairs – at the QVC clearance sale – Hurry!
I know it is not Monday, but I got busy – here are 2 loaves of asiago cheese bread, and
A plum torte – NYT’s most popular recipe of all time!
October is National Popcorn Month – so celebrate!
Here are some Popcorn facts from here:
October is National Popcorn Poppin’ Month. For more than 30 years, October has been celebrated as National Popcorn Poppin’ Month; however, it became “official” in 1999, when then Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman proclaimed October as National Popcorn Poppin’ Month. Here are some fun facts about popcorn.
The average American eats about 60 quarts of popcorn annually.
Ideally, popcorn should be heated to a temperature of 400 to 460 degrees Fahrenheit to properly pop.
There are about 1,600 popcorn kernels in one cup of unpopped popcorn.
The world’s largest popcorn ball weighed in at 2,000 pounds.
In 1946, popcorn became the first deliberately microwaved food.
The oldest ears of popcorn ever discovered were found in a cave in central New Mexico. They were determined to be about 5,600 years old.
Popcorn is the world’s number one selling snack food and is also the world’s most profitable snack food.
Most of the world’s popcorn is grown in the U.S. Top corn producing states include Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, and Ohio.
To grow popcorn, it takes about 28,000 seeds planted per acre.
One cup of air-popped popcorn contains just 31 calories, one gram of protein, six grams of carbohydrate, one gram of fiber, and a trace of fat.
This little mechanical prehistoric fish, part of exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, depicts Dunkleosteus terrelli, a giant armored fish that roamed the shallow sea that one covered much of the state of Ohio. That is my sister-in-laws hand making it move.
The museum is currently undergoing a vast renovation with tantalizing new exhibits being unveiled bit by bit.
Dunkleosteus is the state fossil fish of Ohio – not to be confused with the state fossil of Ohio, which is the trilobite, Osotelus maximus, which could grow to be about 20 inches long.
It is thought that Dunkleosteus terrelli, on the other hand, could grow to be between 11 and 28 feet in length.
Firearms, fibers, any news or behaviors that make me say, "hmm, let me take another look at this."
I still miss my man, but my aim is getting better.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 