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scruloose and I finished season 1 of Pluribus, which got even weirder than we expected, and in ways we wouldn't have guessed. Really, really good. (Also Yona watched the season finale with us, very intently tracking everything that happened onscreen. No idea why she was suddenly so fascinated.)
Apparently watercolors date back as far as the cave paintings of Paleolithic Europe. (Thanks Wikipedia!) It was done on things like stone, leather, papyrus, and now ...
(By AK Cake Design)
You guessed it! Cake!
Heck, maybe it was always done on cake, but everyone ate the evidence back in those days.
(By Nevie-Pie Cakes)
I mean, given the choice between a slice of beautifully watercolored cake such as this one, or a hunk of buffalo carcass, I'd go for the cake.
I probably wouldn't have survived very long back then.
But enough talk of carcasses. (Carcassi?) Back to the pretty cakes!
(By Hey There, Cupcake!, Photography by Siegel Thurston Photography)
And this pretty cake is particularly stunning. Look at all those bright beautiful colors!
I love the transparency here, almost like the cake was wrapped in tissue paper:
(By A's Exquisite Cakes & Chocolates; Photo by Jessica Schmitt Photography)
(Dear wreckorators: PLEASE do not go and actually wrap a cake in tissue paper. Please. No, really. Put. The paper. DOWN.)
Did your art teacher in school ever show you that trick of sprinkling salt over your watercolors? It gives it this super-nifty texture, kind of like... this!
(By neli)
It's like an ocean wave of the night sky, with pretty flowers for stars. Love it.
Of course, my watercolors all tended to be a drippy mess - but thanks to this next one, I know drips can be deeeeeLIGHTful:
(By The Art of Cake; Photo by Erik Hornung Photography)
Like rain down a window, or tears down a cheek, or something equally poetical and artsy.
Or how about a modern Jackson Pollack approach, with random splatters and splashes?
(By I Dream of Cake)
Bonsai!!
Edible paints are sweet, of course, but good ol' buttercream can also give you that soft watercolory look:
(By Miso Bakes)
It's like springtime on a plate! I love those dreamy pastel roses.
And how's this for a painting come to life?
(By CakeCentral member Panel7124)
Once again I'm not sure I could bear to let anyone actually CUT this cake. I just want to put it on a shelf and stare at it forever and always.
And finally, check out this frothy, watercolory wonderfulness:
(By Lucia Simeone Cake Design)
I dub thee... rhapsody in blue!
Happy Sunday, everyone!
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P.S. If you've ever wanted to dabble in the arts, this is for you:
GenCrafts Portable Watercolor Kit
Comes with a pad of watercolor paper, 2 re-fillable brush pens, and a handy travel case.
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
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Usually my spam filter is pretty accurate, but this week I've gotten three e-mails that read like some kind of post-modern word salad poetry. I'm assuming they're spam, but then again, maybe they're really some hip new literary project by postmodern word salad poets. Eh?
So in the spirit of artistic discovery, I've decided to illustrate these literary feats with the most appropriate cakes I could find. ENJOY.
Subject line: hey! :) My name is Margarito!
Artillery fray,
I must articulate smoothly, it is a terrible wise of many enemy,
this godson of tormenting children,
...and children cheerful.
èḥῥộ_ ḣûῂ?ṕẹvќћ (??)
[That is a line of unintelligible characters which I can only assume was supposed to link to overpriced weasel aphrodisiacs, but since it isn't clickable in the original e-mail I can't say for sure.]
And painting it I soothe said to exception:
"it is the riverside of the disadvantage
and He has sent it to flit my shipboard crustacean."
::flit flit flit::
Alternatively, here's a shoe board crustacean:
[bowing] Ah thank you, thankyouverramuch.
Subject line: Good day, my name is Nathanial :)
One notwithstanding
he did with more sincerity bluff so strange in Moscow,
a life of astounding but salutation,
(C'mon, what are the odds I'd find a cake of a butt salutation?)
(Oh, sorry was that just one "t"? My bad.)
Piping and plating, he was degenerating.
(You know what they say about small pens, right?)
(Smaller pocket protectors.)
Subject line: hey!! My name is Broderick!
The amass had feigned,
but coldly was some embody thereon.
Cuttlefish assureed merrily as jersey began talking,
amiably bashful,
with drowsy one sponge emerge at her foresight to unify its broth on her.
Whoah there, Bobby boy, you're not unifying your broth on ANYBODY today, hear me?
Thanks to Steve B., Shannon P., Candi F., Alexis I., Heitha B., Rachael E., Anony M., Kylie S., & Audra B. for the wreckiest cakes in all the 'verse.
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P.S. I see you appreciate poetry. Might I recommend...?
I Could Pee On This, And Other Poems By Cats
This hardcover gift book costs less than $10 and will have your friends feline fine.
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
So do bakers still get points if you can at least tell what their cakes were *supposed* to say?
Or...not.
The period is how you know that new hairstyle is really working for you, Raquel. Honest.
Excellent advice for those pesky potty-training years.
Is this like an "I am legion" thing? 'Cuz if so, I'd rather you roar over there, if it's all the same to all of you.
And for bonus points, let's see if you can tell what these last two words were supposed to say:
Not sure? Then here's a hint: it's the same thing the last word on THIS cake was supposed to say:
But hey, who's counting?
Thanks to Shimon M., Raquel, Rebecca D., Jennifer B., Tom M., & Shane A. for the close falls.
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P.S. Here's a (hilarious) reminder that English is almost as confusing as these cakes:
P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
If Cake Wrecks has taught us anything, it's that you have to be really careful what you say to a baker:
Houston, we have a problem.
Insert snarky comment here: ...........
This one I'm actually Ok with - but only because the baker included some this time.
Ah, the perils of buying a cake and picking it up later:
(Do you think the baker write5 all hi5/her Ss like thi5?)
"So, whaddaya want?"
"Hang on, where?"
Wow. That is SO...well, you know.
I guess we should be glad these mistakes are on cake, though, which is easily disposed of. I hear tanker trucks are way more difficult:
Well, maybe not if you have a match, but still.
And what does it say when this pops up in front of your kids' school?
I get the feeling this "shold read" something else.
So the next time you see a literal LOL iced on a cake, just remember:
Somewhere there are people with this frame on their mantels.
(Although I bet they got it for cheap!)
Thanks to Kelsey C., Bami, Kim L., Kathy R., Tam, Anony M., John O., Jen G., & Robyn S. for literally being my most recent wreckporters.
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
