One week left...

School has gone by SO fast.  I cannot believe it is almost over!  We have been working on our chocolate, pastillage, and sugar show pieces this last week, as well as planning our buffet.  We will work on all those the rest of the week and the buffet is on Monday, followed by our last test on Tuesday, and a luncheon at the restaurant with the current T3 culinary class on Wednesday, and that is it!  

My chocolate pieces... well, my first one didn't set up right, so I redid it with another design.  I was worried about it not setting up right still, so I actually did two more designs this weekend.  They set up okay, but the kitchens were warm, so some of the top design came off as I peeled off the pattern, but I should be able to repair it today.  I will take pictures of them and put them up with the rest of the pictures I have saved after I get back from school tonight.  

I cut out all my pieces for my pastillage project yesterday, so hopefully they will dry okay.  I am trying to make a lighthouse, and they should hopefully be dry by tomorrow or Wednesday so I can glue the pieces together with royal icing then.  

Today I am hoping to start on my sugar pieces, which I am not positive just what I am going to make.  We do have requirements for that one, we need at least 1 flower, 3 leaves, 1 cast pieces, and 1 blown pieces.  I have a few ideas, but still have to see how working with the sugar is for me.  Hopefully I will have a concreted decision made by tonight about it.  

I am hoping to have most of my sugar done by Wednesday so I can focus on my buffet pieces the rest of the week.  I am once again stuck on ideas for "pastry" items, as I seem to come with the same ideas as everyone else.  What to do, what to do...