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Recipe Chocolate Chip Truffle Cake

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So I thought I would add a little description. The cake is made from the Betty Crocker Gluten Free Chocolate Cake mix. The icing is a modified chocolate ganache from “Sharing Sweet Secrets” by Pamela Moriarty, I adjusted how much 60% guiardelli chocolate drops by color and i upped the amount of cream and addeda Tbls of caster sugar to the outside cream to make it a tad sweet and both the inbetween and outside icing has a Tbls of amaretto liqour in the mix. Oh so tasty… i have never made my own truffles, but this cake tasted just like the organic truffles from heb central market.

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Evening Dress Pictures

I have been very busy recently as I have just started a new job, which is awesome, but tiring.

 

Here are the pictures of the Evening dress.  I have a few critiques to start with I have already received a couple yards of black lace that I will be adding at the waist and down the back where the dress is hook and eye latched together to hide the stitching.  I really want to add something to break up the waist on the dress.

The Evening Dress.

I am in love with the square neck on the dress, I love the sarees and how they made the dress just pop.  It was worth all of the time!  The little train in the back was fantastic and I actually really enjoyed taking the trim off of the saree and then replacing it where it needed to go.

The wonderful colors of the Evening Dress.

Here are a couple silly pictures from the evening…

Titanic Zombie! I even made her drop her glove…

After a long night… I was still hungry! (I am secretly a BRAIN SUCKER!)

 

 

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Blackwork Jacket

So E has challenged me to make myself a blackworked coat, similar to the beautiful blackwork in Anonymous (beautiful blackwork, horrible storyline).

So I have found a coat pattern:

http://www.trulyvictorian.net/tvxcart/product.php?productid=80&page=2

I will be doing the pattern that is slightly longer then the knee, but not so long as to be floor length.  I think this will allow me to wear the coat even when I don’t have a bustle on.

The fabric:

http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/p/12408/Light-Camel-Cashmere

The lining:

http://www.belraffabrics.com/fabrics/fashion/silk/1840-black-silk-charmeuse.html

The silk for the blackwork:

http://www.mjtrim.com/thread-1094yds-spl.html

 

Here is the blackwork I have designed:

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It is 3.5″ wide and 4.5″ long repeating pattern. 

I will be doing the pattern in long lines down the coat, with probably 2.5″ between the longitudinal striped blackwork.

Since the jacket will not always be closed I am going to do a simple thin pattern on the turn back:

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This pattern is approx 1/2″ wide and will run the length of the inside and up the turn of the coat.

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Shirt Finished!

So I was nudged because I finished the shirt 2 days ago and hadn’t posted anything about it…

I ended up making 3 collars and 2 cuff sets to go with the 1 shirt.

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The cuff sets, collars, accessories and shirt.

I decided on linen for E’s shirt because it is what I had.  You will see a distinct lack of buttons due to the fact that this is kind of a tuxedo style shirt as it is all attached with collar studs, shirt studs, cuff studs and cuff links.  You can see a sampling of the mentioned when looking at the collars and cuffs.

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The wing tip tall standup collar, the tall spread fold over collar and the tall simple stand up collar.

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One set has a swoop in it and one is a more standard straight edge.