Alexandra

Making a wedding cake next week and I still can't decide on the type of frosting to use. I am making a black forest cake but the whipped frosting i make is not smooth enough to make an almost perfect looking cake.... The bride does not want fondant...what would look smooth and taste good with chocolate and cherries??? Has to be pure white . Thanks!

I purchased a pack of Mckenzie Butterfly Garden Seeds, but none of the varieties were mentionned on the pack... They are now starting to come out and I was hoping maybe someone could help me identify them, I know there are some Cornflowers, Allysum, Hollyhocks, Red scarlet Flax and Cosmos...but for the rest I am clueless... here are some pictures (I also have these tall stems growing somewhere else in my garden would like to know what they are too) http://s127.photobucket.com/user/alexandra_santel/...

thanks for the help :)

I have read that hollyhocks planted from seed won't bloom the first year. I decided to skip the sowing part and purchased some from a nursery. They are about 15 inches tall and have 5-6 big leaves on them... I was wondering if they can bloom the first year since they are already this size? they look about like this picture http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PVsgqPyZ-W8/TGwzTasGdYI/... , I also planted some real early this spring (also from plants) and look like this http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb300/buckette/... ... any chances of getting flowers?

My sister recently adopted a rabbit from a shelter, She would like to know what kind of rabbit this is? He should be almost 1 year old...I wonder if he will get any bigger.

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I'm just wondering what is your favorite dog hair products ( shampoo, conditioner, sprays or perfumes). I'm looking for something that will leave my border collies fur soft , sleek, smooth and smelling great!... I like to make her "show dog" pretty :-D Also If you have any dog grooming tips & tricks I would love to hear them

I'm a happy new owner of a lovely 3 month old border collie pup, When I purchased her I was told she was a blue merle but I found she was alot paler than other blue merles I have seen. Now i'm doing research on the net and found out about slate merles...what describes best a slate merle? her spot are not really black more like a dark grey: here are some videos of her she is a bit paler in real life :D : http://s127.beta.photobucket.com/user/alexandra_sa...

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I recently got (well at least i think it is) a virus on my HP computer, 30 seconds after windows opens it freezes and comouter restarts and screen goes black. I want to restore computer settings but not loose all my pictures and music...but cant copy them onto a usb key since it keeps on freezing before I can do it. I made 2 backup files on an external hardisk... 1 with all music/ picture files, 1 with everything....when I checked they are the same size...and if I try to restore them on a acer computer it says no files to restore (maybe because it isnt the same system (acer vs hp, and win vista vs 7)...is it sure that it copieds all my pictures and stuff.... are they compressed into a file? awwrrrggg If someone could please explain or give some other trick it would be appreciated...or else it I think I will have to erase everything....after drinking a half bottle of wine *sigh*

Hi i'm making a sweater and the pattern instruction says to " Slip 1 st purlwise or knitwise so the edge has a knit sts chain". I'm working in seed stitch, how do I know if its knitwise or purlwise and do I slip the first and last st of every row or only the first one? Thanks!