Moon - Bird Seed Mess

Last night’s moon:

I found this project to make bird seed wreaths and thought; I would try making a wreath first hand.  I followed the recipe, mixed the bird seed mixture, greased my bundt cake pan with nonstick cooking spray, spooned the mixture into the bundt cake pan, pressed down each layer of spooned in mixture (to make sure it was firm),  and let it set over night to dry as instructed.  The next day, I was supposed to just turn the bundt pan upside down (carefully), and the wreath was to slide out.  Yeah, right!!!!!  The bird seed wreath came out in 50 million pieces (no picture taken).  What to do….. oh, all I could do was smile

Smile and swear under my breath

and pickup the towel I was using (to prevent a mess), walk to the back door and fling the 50 million pieces of bird seed all over the back yard.  The birds loved it!

My 2^nd attempt in making the bird seed wreaths (used tea cups to see if this concept would work and because I didn’t have enough gelatin to make a large wreath). I went back to the computer and found a different recipe.  The first recipe had just too much flour in the mixture and it dried the wreath out badly.    I found another recipe; this one worked…..YAY!!!!!  Now that I know it works, the next time I go to the grocery store, I can pick up more Knox Gelatin to make wreath with ribbon to hang in the tree for the birds.   

I found the simple recipe (that worked) here:

http://themagiconions.blogspot.com/2010/07/darling-little-birdseed-cakes.html

Pictures of my tea cup experiment:

  

Now I know this recipe works and ribbon holds,

 I can make a beautiful wreath and place ribbon on it.