He bought some silicon heart shaped bun cases yesterday, and had to try them out today.... and really well they worked too!
The cakes are still sitting on the cake stand, but only because Harry has been threatened with a fate worse than death if he hogs the lot :)
with a lovely cake baked by Kevin, and decorated by Hannah. Kev looks miserable as the only way I could get the photo was to open the french doors and it wasn't too warm today!
where I would never have bought the papers as th
ey just didn't seem to appeal to me, but I love the final LO.
ff on a weekend retreat to Shropshire with other ladies from the Nuneaton crop, a cottage has been hired and off we go on Friday for a weekend of scrapping, silliness and lots of chat!! You never know, I might get some pages made... just hope the impending snow doesn't start until we get there! I have a feeling we might be in for a cold winter, I can't remember having snow forecast so early in the year before.
.. well i'm ashamed to admit that Kev and I were joint winners (i did want the kids to win!), but Hannah won for best starter, my was the best main course, and Kevs was the best pudding. I think Katie did amazingly well (especially her pudding, a baked cheesecake with almost no help at all) and although Harry did get lots of help, he was so keen to get involved in the cooking it was a joy to behold!
rror of going to Unitys blog link, and as a final splurge before being poor bought myself a couple of half price stamp sets in the sale. I have had my eye on the eco chic ones for a while, with Hannah interest in all things environmental i am sure i can put them to good use.
... and summer's back!! The warm weather has returned, so Hannah and i went into town today to visit an Italian market in the city centre. Some lovely food (if a little pricey.. shame the Euro exchange rate is so bad) and some very cheeky Italians!! I bought Hannah an ice-cream from one of the vendors, and the guy selling said to Hannah 'What would your sister like?'....I just burst out laughing... as if!!!!
Here is a page i made at our mini crop here on Thursday night. A very quick page using yet more of my Cosmo Cricket papers, and the chipboard alphabet that came with them. The busy design of the papers seems to go really well with the busy cake!
Another crop tomorrow in Nuneaton. I haven't decided what to take yet, but I
have one sketch i want to get done. Am off into town now (yes at 9pm at night) with my camera and tripod. There is a fantastic new fountain near the theatre that has just been opened, and i want to try and get some shots of it. Low light levels might mean i get some really interesting photos.
Well we did manage to get out for a meal last night, the Take That concert was very loud, you could hear the whole stadium singing at the end! My sister(who lives about 2 1/2 miles from the Ricoh could also hear it in her garden! When we got back home we had birthday cake, which was lovely, and as it was so enormous, Kev took the rest in to give to his class at school.
a short project in Isambard Kingdom Brunel, this is who he dressed up as. I helped Harry make a cigar, and a pocket watch, painted his face, and sorted out a cravat. Kev made the towering top hat from an old cereal box, and a large cardboard box that had been lurking around the garage for at least a year!!
No work for me until tomorrow, the house is an absolute tip, so i think i need to do some tidying :(
It's funny to think that my lovely OH was only just 24 when we started going out... in 1987. He had a few grey hairs then, but within a month of us meeting we both knew that this was 'it'!! Well he's 46 today, and as Hannah was not in school this afternoon (she had her last AS exam this morning) she spent this afternoon making Kev this AMAZING cake!!! I had got him the tin after seeing it in Lakeland a few weeks ago... and he was so pleased with it. He is the master baker in our house! Just hope he gets home before Hannah eats it all herself!
ke That are on in concert at the Ricoh arena, which is less that a mile from our house... if we can negotiate the traffic (heading in the opposite direction!) then i won't have to cook! Much as i like Take that, I'm not looking forward to the next 3 nights of gridlock outside the house, as over 110,000 people try to get to the stadium.
Very excited to post that my Autumn LO of Harry picking and baking apples has won this months LO on the Creativity Life blog.
Really happy that my journalling caught the judges eye, as writing about the photos is so important to me!
