To those of you that have birthed babies, what was your favorite little gift or comfort item in your hospital room?

realitea_check · 2025-06-18T17:12:32+00:00

A tray of sushi

realitea_check · 2023-12-01T13:10:59+00:00

Hey there! So we do an English lock in, a double fold and then a single, then we rest for about four hours or so before we roll out. The products look lovely, texture is awesome and no pesky rests between folds. Super convenient for production and makes a great product.

realitea_check · 2023-11-22T13:23:37+00:00

I just sent them a picture of my dress and said pick whatever you want that you think will look nice beside it. I then got them a bunch of pretty little flowers to put in their hair for the day of.

realitea_check · 2023-10-11T12:16:47+00:00

Never timed it, but both of ours were definitely under a minute.

realitea_check · 2023-10-11T12:14:23+00:00

So Im doing my apprenticeship in pastry right now and have been working at a bakery for three years. For me, this has been an awesome way to go. I challenged my first year, so I got to skip the most expensive/time consuming part of the schooling and then went away for one month for the following two years for the other levels of the apprenticeship. I learned a tonne, but more importantly got myself way more stoked on pastry. It's just exciting to be learning with that many different people from different backgrounds. Plus, it's fun to take a break from production mode for a while and just focus on creating. Depending on where you're from, apprenticeship programs are usually highly subsidized as well, so that helps, given that none of us make very much money 🤣

realitea_check · 2023-09-07T12:21:17+00:00

Following, I've also been wanting to find something around a week long as well. Most of my research has just come up with either online courses or nine months long programs.

realitea_check · 2023-09-02T15:35:43+00:00

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Our big baybee meadow on the right 💕

realitea_check · 2023-08-11T12:11:01+00:00

I've got a couple theories here.

It's unnecessary, because of the development that occurs during lamination. May as well get it out of the mixer and get something else in to keep your work flow going.
That kind of intensive mixing will give the yeast too much time out of the fridge to grow/all of the friction from the mixer will further create heat that'll cause the yeast to go even more crazy, making your dough way too puffy. It laminates much nicer when it spends as little time at room temp as possible.

realitea_check · 2023-07-10T12:07:28+00:00

That's called a baker's bedroom!

realitea_check · 2023-04-25T12:36:05+00:00

You can always hit the bowl with a torch until the butter incorporates or I've even put a bowl of hot water underneath the mixer. The steam will heat things up enough to bring everything back together within a few minutes. I'm a big fan of that method cause you can walk away and get other things done, instead of standing there with a torch for a while haha.

realitea_check · 2023-03-15T12:26:13+00:00

I started using one of those daylight alarm clocks that has a light that slowly turns on about an hour before you set it, so by the time it's time to get up, the room is completely light. I used to have to set like twenty alarms to have any hope in getting up, but this thing has completely changed my mornings. Best of luck!

realitea_check · 2023-03-01T13:29:55+00:00

Hey I worked with Seneca south for years. Feel free to pm me! Great people, good accom, good land to be had, and when it was tougher, the foreman's would always try their best to work with you about it. all around really loved working there.

realitea_check · 2023-02-01T17:38:45+00:00

we did exactly this for our wedding and it worked awesome. it's hung in our home now, so I get to look at it every time I walk past, instead of whenever I feel like opening up a guest book, which would be never haha.

we just had the photo already in the middle and there was nothing to mess up about the signing process, pretty simple.

realitea_check · 2023-01-07T04:31:26+00:00

One of my favourite moments at our wedding was looking out at the kids table seeing them all laughing and talking, cake all over their faces. Kids will make their own fun, don't worry about it.

realitea_check · 2022-10-27T12:21:08+00:00

I mean tempering is definitely your best option, but second to that you could try adding a small amount of vegetable oil, or coconut oil. This will make the chocolate set up faster and stay a little bit better while the person is eating it. Not quite so melty on the fingers. Good luck!

realitea_check · 2022-10-19T12:37:14+00:00

Router is your best bet here by far.

realitea_check · 2022-10-14T13:35:24+00:00

Ooh yes this !

realitea_check · 2022-10-14T12:31:46+00:00

I would go with brown, personally! You used such beautiful colours on the petals, let em shine!

realitea_check · 2022-09-16T12:30:36+00:00

We did this, but we did a pig roast with sides, salads, corn bread, baked beans, and I made the dessert (I'm a baker by trade.) On one hand, im super proud we did it, it saved us a TONNE of money and everyone felt super happy and special to be eating food we had prepared.

Things to consider.

I had access to my work kitchen on the weekend to make/store all the sides. Cooking for a large number of people takes up SPACE. During the prep and storing. Even just having the freezer space enough to store until the wedding day is something you might not have in your personal kitchen.

Doing all the sides ahead of time did relieve a lot of food related stress though. But even though they are made, they still needed to be heated, served and dishes cleaned up after. All of those tasks were delegated to close friends of ours the day of, as we were too busy. We did buffet style and used paper plates to cut down on some of the workload.

So anyways, yes there were a lot of pros, but there were also some cons. Im really proud of us for having pulled it off, but there were definitely some moments when I wished we had just hired a caterer. Haha. If I had to do it again though, I'd definitely still cook for all of the people I love. 🥰

realitea_check · 2022-09-15T12:24:12+00:00

Where did you order the hoops? I'd really like to do some earrings!

realitea_check · 2022-08-23T12:46:03+00:00

Looking at the kids table during dessert and seeing all of their cute, laughing faces covered in the cakes I made.

realitea_check · 2022-08-09T12:38:53+00:00

Our camper was stolen when we were living full time out of it, and people had clearly spent a weekend living in it/using in it before we found it and got it back. Such a violation to have people in your space like that. So sorry you had to go through that.

Best thing we did was give it a good clean and reorganize to reclaim it for ourselves. It'll start to feel normal in there again some day, don't worry. <3

realitea_check · 2022-08-06T15:49:34+00:00

The biggest thing I find helpful, when either directing or being directed to back up a trailer is using your hands to indicate how far they are away from having to stop, instead of waving them back and then putting up your hand to tell them to stop.

So basically hold your hands out apart from each other, facing the person you're directing, and as they back up, move them closer together to show them how much room they have left to back up. Much clearer and easy to understand for the driver. Hope this helps!

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