sixtyfive succulents

It was actually just short of 65 succulents. By that I mean, 30ish.

I had at my disposal several colored frostings, three little vanilla cake rounds from Joyce, and this family of simple syrups:

Managed to suck down kabocha soup with toasted unfilled puffs and KP's stir fried anchovies...

...and toasted rice with the cured salmon remnants and too much not enough furikake...

...all before a nap - the first step of several in the journey to waste my day away doing exactly nothing.

Oh, how did it get to be 5p by the time I was done decorating?

And 8p? By the time I was done cleaning and digging into the freezer dumpling stash for a quick dinner. Just discounting this day as a day. But I do have two seasons of Riverdale trauma drama, Archie's abs, and that scene where Betty disarms and knocks out Chic in my brain to show for it.

By the way, can you tell I don't know when to put the piping bag down?

square succulent garden - vanilla cake + matcha syrup + matcha "dirt" + meringue buttercream

potted succulents - vanilla cake + strawberry and matcha syrup + matcha and cocoa "dirt" + meringue buttercream

pentagon hbd - vanilla cake + strawberry syrup + mascarpone frosting
For Erin (also v belated) and her growing succulent collection and ceramic planters.

Hmmmm, maybe it was better without the white succulent.


Also throwback to my first collection of leftover-vibrantly-colored-frosting succulents.


Attached to a stack of cake halves that looks like an Instagrammable succulent wall from one side and a tombstone from the other.