2013...

So I really do need to apologise for letting a few hiccups halt my blogging progress! I'm not normally one for resolutions at New Years but I really do want to keep this on track and my 101 to do list as well :)

This is going to be a big year for me and will push my limits a bit I think. I have an amazing feeling about what's ahead and I'm sure I will meet some amazing people along the way! This is my year of love. To show all the people I love that I really care for them and to hopefully touch on the lives of people I don't even know. They say that feelings are contagious and so rather than spreading more hatred and sadness in the world... I will be spreading love and a sense of purpose and peace (and hopefully some awesome recipes!!)!

xx

September...

September is nearly over and I still am not doing very well this blogging process! I have been super busy doing lots of nothing sorts of things and working 2 jobs! The good thing about being busy is that when I do get spare time I've been trying to cook up at storm! 

I'm planning on making my mars bar and snicker slice again tonight for the girls at work on Friday and Saturday :-) also, on my list of things to cook over the weekend, I am thinking of adding lemon meringue pie! It is one of my all time favourite desserts as I love lemon curd and I adore meringue!

The next few months will bring with them lots of birthdays and celebrations (as well as warm weather!) so I'll give you a run down on what I have planned so far...

I have a friend's birthday on the 3rd of October and I'm planning to surprise him with a giant cookie in his letterbox! I sent him his care package while he was at sea a few months ago and he seemed quite delighted with my cookies... Considering he is away on training over the next few weeks and only returning sporadically I figured I could make this giant cookies and slip it into his mail box when I am near his place. It sounds rather impersonal but at the moment he isn't really speaking to me. Well let's be honest - he's not speaking to me at all. But that my friends is a completely different story about how men are from mars and women are from venus!

The second birthday to crop up in October will be my daddy's birthday! I am yet to decide what to get him but I am pretty sure it will be food related :-)

Now the exciting thing is that my beautiful sister is going to give birth to her third child at the end of October / early November so I am ready to prepare a cake with some beautiful little love birds on them to represent everyone in her gorgeous little family! Considering my new found busy-ness I am going to make a white chocolate mudcake in advance and just freeze it for the next few weeks so I can whip it out and produce the cake in a much more timely manner! They're expecting a girl but who knows these days so i thought it best not to get too much done!

Finally it will be my nephew's birthday on the 16th November. He is a big fan of trains and so I just bought this tin to bake a beautiful cake in when I return from my holiday to Cairns on the 18th! I am a bit of a slack aunt being away for his birthday but I am also so excited to go and watch the total Solar Eclipse up there on the morning of the 14th November!

I hope you all enjoy your day and I'll get back to you soon.

Peace x.

Long time no post...

So I have been absolutely flat out! Scarily so!! I've started a second job in addition to my regular work, have been busily organising cupcake day for the RSPCA, doing cake decorating workshops and have just got back from the snow!! I think I'm going to have to do a new post for each of these things (except work... Keeping the boring bits to a minimum is always good)...

Anniversaries...

So my little sister and her boyfriend had their anniversary a few weeks ago and as part of his gift the bf wanted to make her some cupcakes. He calls her panda because she has a tendency to leave her eye makeup on and wake up looking like a panda with big black circles round her eyes! In turn she calls him Kermit (as in the frog) because he's got long lanky arms and legs just like the muppet does

So I hope you enjoy my rather comical cupcakes... They were done on very short notice!!

Peace x.

Bethany's Birthday...

So I have a beautiful niece (and an equally handsome nephew)! I am such a proud little Aunty haha! Anyway it was Bethie's 2nd Birthday at the end of April and so I made her the cutest (and quickest) cake ever before driving the hour to my sister's place to celebrate with them :-)

I thought I would do a little bragging and show you the marbled pink cake I made for her! I've really been getting into the marbling thing recently! I love it... So easy but looks so good :-) ill do some rainbow cakes soon and (hopefully) remember to take some cute pictures!

Hope you enjoy!
Peace x.

Mothers' day...

So for Mothers' Day we had a big family lunch with the grannies and one of my aunts :-) it was so much fun and I even made a cake for the occasion! It was a pink Rosewater marbled cake with those pogo stick biscuits, marshmallows and white chocolate over the top! It was so so yummy if I may say so myself!!

I hope it's inspirational to somebody! Maybe I'll get around to blogging the inspiration for it one day... No promises though as I seem to struggle keeping them recently!!

Peace x.

Times flying...

So things have been pretty hectic lately! I've had the flu. I've had laryngitis. I've also been cold (and probably very lazy) so haven't been posting on here! It's been more than a month since my last post! I should get on top of this all one day :-)

Unfortunately I'm not able to cross off my surprise because Superman ended up getting sick so the weekend never went through :-( but I'm sure I'll be able to plan some amazing surprises over the next 12 months!

I have just signed up to Cupcake Day for the RSPCA 2012 so am super excited thinking about food, invitations, food, location... did I mention food? I promise I will add lots of bits and pieces on here about my planning and prep! I'll hopefully have lots of things to tick off my list in the process :-)

Hmmm... what else has been happening? I'm having trouble recounting the last month it has been so busy! I've bought a huge bunch of materials to make a few aprons for friends and family (as well as myself) and even managed to make a pattern to follow from newspaper - Nanny style! My Nanny (grandmother) is an absolutely gun when it comes to sewing... she doesn't even need something to copy when she makes a pattern - just pulls the idea from her head and starts snipping away at newspapers with pins and tape measures going everywhere!!

I have come to a bit of a stop on the apron front due to having to pull my sewing machine out of the clutter we have in our laundry... but that shouldn't take too long to do and I'll turn into Queen of Aprons! I'm thinking it will be an amazing production line of cute materials, scissors and pins!

I'll post a few more pictures today from my phone so you can see what else I've been up to (baking wise)!

Otherwise I wish you all a truly amazing and magical Winter Solstice (Yule)!

Peace x.