Definitely the best thing I learned at the ICES convention this year was modeling chocolate (aka chocolate clay, chocolate plastic, chocolate leather, candy clay)! Many people are afraid of (or at least intimidated by) chocolate because it has to be tempered properly in order to use it. Interestingly, chocolate’s melting temperature is below human body …
A few people in my life have recently been recognized for their superior effort at work so I thought I’d give them a quick shout out here too! **Adam’s company, Affiliated Engineers, was ranked 4th on the Building Design & Construction’s 2009 Giants – Top 50 Engineering Firms Survey. All that engineering gobbeldy gook is …
Congrats to Shirley for winning the book Cancer Vixen! I’m home from the ICES Convention and it was AWESOME! I was so busy running from demonstration to volunteering post to demonstration to the vendor room (I just HAD to spend some money on the latest cake decorating tools) that I rarely had time to eat. …