I know so many people say, in terms of Wedding Photographers, you get what you pay for etc etc. And don't get friends to do your photos, but my best mate Tanya, has the most amazing person as her brother, Steffin - who takes wicked beautiful photos too, so I think we'll be blessed to have him shoot us. Rich has set up an engagement shoot with him for this weekend, so we can test each other out. It was meant to be as a surprise for me, but then I started stressing about a photographer, and that I had a whole bunch of names and that we need to look at their portfolios soon and make a decision, so he had to do some damage control!! Check out his link, and I shall let you know how it goes!
Steffin Greyling Photography
Monday, 11 July 2011
For the Love of Cake...
So if there is anyone reading our musings, I'm sure you've realised I love baking. So much so that I do it professionally. Rich and I both work at a Superspar in Kloof, Durban, he is the store manager (I love saying that I'm sleeping with the boss... Well as a joke to friends really only as we do actually have a boss, who's the store owner, and is married with kids, so I don't go around saying that, but you know what I mean!) whilst I am a departmental manager, the bakery being one of the departments I run, however I started there beginning and building a gourmet bakery. It is my dream to have my own bakery one day (Annabelle's - Bakery & Cake Shop most likely) but it is a terribly expensive start-up business, so right now......
Here are some pics of things I do on a regular basis, I have 3 ladies who bake with me now, and we struggle to keep up with demand. Before working in a large retail store, I was more used to smaller scale bakeries, and the volumes one pushes out there are nowhere compared to a store like ours. I sell thousands of muffins each week. Am really proud and yes, secretive about my recipes as most of them I have made up myself, I think once I have a successful bakery in my name I will be more open to sharing recipes! So below, tower of cookies: double chocolate chunk and white chocolate & macadamia nut; friands (an Australian cake based on the French Financier - made with mostly ground almonds, very little flour, melted butter, egg whites & icing sugar) I do a white choc, coconut, peach & pineapple, an orange poppyseed & a blueberry lemon. They are so so good! The muffins (I do about 18 different flavours) below are banana, pecan & caramel; blueberry with white chocolate; spiced apple and spinach, onion & feta. Then there are my frangipane tartlets, one's with apple, the other with mixed berries. And Millionaires Shortbread. Hope they get your mouth watering!
Here are some pics of things I do on a regular basis, I have 3 ladies who bake with me now, and we struggle to keep up with demand. Before working in a large retail store, I was more used to smaller scale bakeries, and the volumes one pushes out there are nowhere compared to a store like ours. I sell thousands of muffins each week. Am really proud and yes, secretive about my recipes as most of them I have made up myself, I think once I have a successful bakery in my name I will be more open to sharing recipes! So below, tower of cookies: double chocolate chunk and white chocolate & macadamia nut; friands (an Australian cake based on the French Financier - made with mostly ground almonds, very little flour, melted butter, egg whites & icing sugar) I do a white choc, coconut, peach & pineapple, an orange poppyseed & a blueberry lemon. They are so so good! The muffins (I do about 18 different flavours) below are banana, pecan & caramel; blueberry with white chocolate; spiced apple and spinach, onion & feta. Then there are my frangipane tartlets, one's with apple, the other with mixed berries. And Millionaires Shortbread. Hope they get your mouth watering!
Spelling
As i thought, Anni not very happy about my spelling and grammer... it will be re typed no doubt
Love you babes!
Love you babes!
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Another weekend bites the dust
So, overall it has been a good (productive) weekend. We both worked on Sat morning but where home by 1pm, so not too bad. We had plans to just chill at home and go out in the evening for a bite and movie. Our good mates Tanya and Leigh called us and invited us to there new home in windermere, and to meet the latest edition to their family, Molly ( the most gorgeous pug puppy!). We had some wine and chattered for a couple of hours then left to the gateway for our evening of togetherness. Had some really cool pizza at a place we had been to camps bay (cape Town) but i cant remember the name of it sorry ( sure anni will come and edit my spelling and grammer - so anni please put it in)
We watched the latest X-men movie, and can i just say what utter rubbish it was! If you are like me and followed the X-Men in your earlier years, dont watch this rubbish! I swear that directors and producers are loosing the plot with regards to movie making, or they are fresh out of school and just want to blow shit up! The only good thing about the movie was Kevin Bacon's russian/polish accent (big up Kev) Saw the trailer for the next Planet of the apes - The rise of the planet of the apes, although you might be going "not another" let me tell you the graphics were done by the Avatar guys and it clearly shows in the life like apes on display.
I think i should start up a blog for movie critting, but only negative comments as majority of big budget films these days are dissapointing.
Hope you all have a good week to follow and always remember "life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you going to get, although these days they have pretty well designed boxes with pictures and explanations of every chocolate in the box - soon the lid of the chocolate will be an ipad and will have hd pics or 4d rendering of the chocolates you may want to endulge yourself in" It is true that nothing in life is a surprise anymore, so google something and hit the i'm feeling lucky button!!
Go speak to a chimp, those little bastards will blow your mind!!
or a parrot i am told, they have the potential to learn and understand, not just mimic you (not sure on that spelling)
Out
R
We watched the latest X-men movie, and can i just say what utter rubbish it was! If you are like me and followed the X-Men in your earlier years, dont watch this rubbish! I swear that directors and producers are loosing the plot with regards to movie making, or they are fresh out of school and just want to blow shit up! The only good thing about the movie was Kevin Bacon's russian/polish accent (big up Kev) Saw the trailer for the next Planet of the apes - The rise of the planet of the apes, although you might be going "not another" let me tell you the graphics were done by the Avatar guys and it clearly shows in the life like apes on display.
I think i should start up a blog for movie critting, but only negative comments as majority of big budget films these days are dissapointing.
Hope you all have a good week to follow and always remember "life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you going to get, although these days they have pretty well designed boxes with pictures and explanations of every chocolate in the box - soon the lid of the chocolate will be an ipad and will have hd pics or 4d rendering of the chocolates you may want to endulge yourself in" It is true that nothing in life is a surprise anymore, so google something and hit the i'm feeling lucky button!!
Go speak to a chimp, those little bastards will blow your mind!!
or a parrot i am told, they have the potential to learn and understand, not just mimic you (not sure on that spelling)
Out
R
Sunday, 03 July 2011
Domestic un-bliss
My Mother Aah, to say. She's special. And, she's just moved in with us. It's a temporary situation, we very strongly need an extra boost in The Wedding Kitty, my mom wasn't happy living where she was. So....
Here we are, she's moved into one of our spare rooms, with all her belongings pretty much taking over our other spare room, and encroaching into various parts of our place. Now, I'm rather, let's say particular in how I like my home organised, set up etc etc. First day she'd been here, my kettle, toaster & cutlery stands had been MOVED AROUND!!! And that was just the beginning!
She couldn't even understand why I didn't want her old white and yellow checked dish towel in my kitchen. I tried to explain that if it's not in any shade of red, not pink, but red, then it's not allowed in. I think after that she began to understand my pseudo OCD complex. Coz I don't think it's actual OCD, I'm not that bad. But I'm sure everyone has colour schemes their adhere to in their various rooms, and in the structure of things placed around the home. Otherwise there'd be no order, and who'd want that!!! And, no I am not getting mildly hysterical, although I know that multiple exclamation marks are an indication of such.
Anyway.
Today, she took 2 hours to do the dishes. TWO. HOURS. It's not even something my brain can comprehend, but alas, I work on my breathing techniques. Or does anyone have any other techniques in dealing with their moms?
So today Rich and I finally got around to watching The Hangover 2, with Storm, my sister. Tho whilst we were at the cinemas I saw the poster for Bridesmaids, and got me thinking about my bridesmaid's dresses. I always had the inclination to do same styles but different colours, to differentiate maid of honour from bridesmaid etc. But now am thinking of doing all the same colour but different styles. My best friend Tanya is my maid of honour but then my sister Helga who's in London is a maid of honour bridesmaid hybrid. Then my sister Storm is also my bridesmaid. Think it will be best to work with each body type instead of getting one style to suit all 3.....??? I would love to do something wildly horrendous involving peach and meringue style creations just for Storm, coz she's been on my case for years and years that if she ever gets to be my bridesmaid I cannot put her in anything what I've just described. Of course I wouldn't, I'd want them all looking beautiful, but it is a HUGE temptation! Along with that she's been badgering us (Do badgers really "Badger" or do they just have a bad rep? Some other animals can be really annoying to the point that they start to badger but you don't hear people say "He's really been dogging us" Well maybe that's a really bad example... And with some slight sexual connotations. But you get my point) Where was I, oh yes, she's been pestering us on all things related to why we aren't married with lots of sprogs yet. This has been going on for the best part of 11 years, coming up with different and varied responses each time actually causes Rich some amusement. Coz he can have quite a dry dark sense of humour at times.
The pic is of me, my mom in the red, Sue (my stepmom) and Storm. At our engagement party.
Goal for this week, or should I say Wedding Goal for this week: To get a photographer, am stressing about that. April is huge wedding month and we need to get our asses into gear! That and to try deal with my mom better, coz I do love her lots, means so well and has good intentions. And yes, there is a proverbial but there!
Here we are, she's moved into one of our spare rooms, with all her belongings pretty much taking over our other spare room, and encroaching into various parts of our place. Now, I'm rather, let's say particular in how I like my home organised, set up etc etc. First day she'd been here, my kettle, toaster & cutlery stands had been MOVED AROUND!!! And that was just the beginning!
She couldn't even understand why I didn't want her old white and yellow checked dish towel in my kitchen. I tried to explain that if it's not in any shade of red, not pink, but red, then it's not allowed in. I think after that she began to understand my pseudo OCD complex. Coz I don't think it's actual OCD, I'm not that bad. But I'm sure everyone has colour schemes their adhere to in their various rooms, and in the structure of things placed around the home. Otherwise there'd be no order, and who'd want that!!! And, no I am not getting mildly hysterical, although I know that multiple exclamation marks are an indication of such.
Anyway.
Today, she took 2 hours to do the dishes. TWO. HOURS. It's not even something my brain can comprehend, but alas, I work on my breathing techniques. Or does anyone have any other techniques in dealing with their moms?
So today Rich and I finally got around to watching The Hangover 2, with Storm, my sister. Tho whilst we were at the cinemas I saw the poster for Bridesmaids, and got me thinking about my bridesmaid's dresses. I always had the inclination to do same styles but different colours, to differentiate maid of honour from bridesmaid etc. But now am thinking of doing all the same colour but different styles. My best friend Tanya is my maid of honour but then my sister Helga who's in London is a maid of honour bridesmaid hybrid. Then my sister Storm is also my bridesmaid. Think it will be best to work with each body type instead of getting one style to suit all 3.....??? I would love to do something wildly horrendous involving peach and meringue style creations just for Storm, coz she's been on my case for years and years that if she ever gets to be my bridesmaid I cannot put her in anything what I've just described. Of course I wouldn't, I'd want them all looking beautiful, but it is a HUGE temptation! Along with that she's been badgering us (Do badgers really "Badger" or do they just have a bad rep? Some other animals can be really annoying to the point that they start to badger but you don't hear people say "He's really been dogging us" Well maybe that's a really bad example... And with some slight sexual connotations. But you get my point) Where was I, oh yes, she's been pestering us on all things related to why we aren't married with lots of sprogs yet. This has been going on for the best part of 11 years, coming up with different and varied responses each time actually causes Rich some amusement. Coz he can have quite a dry dark sense of humour at times.
The pic is of me, my mom in the red, Sue (my stepmom) and Storm. At our engagement party.
Goal for this week, or should I say Wedding Goal for this week: To get a photographer, am stressing about that. April is huge wedding month and we need to get our asses into gear! That and to try deal with my mom better, coz I do love her lots, means so well and has good intentions. And yes, there is a proverbial but there!
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