Cake Decor: Flower Practice

The leftover Swiss Meringue buttercream frosting was used in my flower practice @_@.

A Gaia Tea Party #2

*Jeannie made that! not me!*
Yay! I was invited to Gaia Office Tea Party again. I was busy that day, so I ended up just making Chocolate House Cakelets and some Chicken Salad Sandwiches. I wanted to frost the cakes and make a swiss meringue buttercream flower forest. I ended up making the frosting, but didn't have time to decorate, so I shoved the frosting in the refrigerator T_T.

I think this tea party is better than the last one. Rosie brought table cloth too XD. She also made scones that were really good, and she even made fake clotted cream which I must say tasted pretty close to the real thing but it's more dense. Wen brought a really tasty peach tea, and I think there were more food than last time. It was also Jeannie's last day at Gaia, so it was also a mini Jeannie going away party. The artists made her a little book filled with their drawings of her. It was so sweet. After group hugs/cries, we started to attack the food. Jeannie made a rainbow cake to represent her 6 years at Gaia. It was a beautiful cake. I took pictures! :3

Pixar @ OMCA SF

Pixar Exhibit at Oakland Museum of California is summed up to one word, "wow". I remember when I first saw Finding Nemo in the theater, I almost cried because the colors of the film was so beautiful. Not only that it was beautiful to look at, it also had such a wonderful story. Nemo, Up, Monsters Inc., Toy Story all made me teary T_T. Even their shorts are amazing! Okay I'm sounding like a crazy fangirl now.

Anyways, I love the color scripts, the character sketches, and the maquettes were soooo cool. They also have the Pixar Zeotrope which was just as brilliant as the Studio Ghibli's Zoetropein Japan. My favorite thing though, is probably the little Edna sketches on the wall below the Edna displays lol. They look like doodles from a character sheet.

They didn't allow photos in the Pixar exhibit, but they did allow you to take pics inside the rest of the museum. I've never been to this museum before, but I really enjoyed it. There were a lot of things to see. I wish I took my dad with me when he was here. The history section of the museum was very fun.