Did I say Tuesday? Well it's Wednesday - is that ok? I don't know what happened to Tuesday. I missed it. I've been busy! Can you see?......
I just had to finally finish this superb book by Mark Cocker. For me a superb book is not about 'unputdownable'. This one I had to keep putting down. I've been reading it since before Christmas but there was so much to savour on every page I just couldn't read it in big chunks. Every page made me want to stop, think and ponder. So, if you want to learn to see in a new way. To notice the beauty in your own back garden - when you thought you had seen it all and couldn't notice anything new.... this is the book. Highly recommended! So you see, I was very busy! And the boy has been busy too...
he finally finished his puppy quilt block so that I could make up a cushion for his favourite rocking chair....(I do wish a little that he hadn't chosen those old curtains for the backing but it's his cushion so I had to let him!)
and then I did a bit of photography for you. Am I the only numpty who can't do these mirror shots? I was trying to work out the angle of the camera to show you my lovely new necklace....close up I kept getting the top of my head or the belt of my jeans, this is the best I did....
So I gave up on the '-in situ' shot and took this one instead which really does show my beautiful new necklace to perfection. I am in love with my 'loved' necklace! And Lisa who makes these and many others has offered a giveaway for you my lovely readers, so I'm going to be doing that with you in February....
and then I heard from Kate who runs a fair trade site and she has offered one of these jolly lovely juice bag shoppers. I love these - they always make me smile they are so overtly recycled! So that will be a giveaway for you in March. Good heavens isn't this fun!
But for January it's my month! And because we missed my birthday (did you spy my deliciously lovely new mummy mug?!) I thought that the most appropriate thing to give you would be cake! Well actually the winner can select from lots of different brooches. We'll talk about that so to be sure you get the flavour you love! Speaking of which - how to enter?
Well, I think I'd like to hear your favourite cake eating memory. Yes - that's it. When was your happiest cake?
For me it would have to be a cake my parents made when I was six - Every year my birthday party was tagged onto my big brothers- he was sensibly born in mid-summer when outdoor parties were far more practical. And every year for the Big Party my parents would build the most amazing cakes for us - always a number each (just like I do for the beautiful boy) and then another one, a veritable work of art - aeroplanes with swiss roll fuselage, galleons with licorice allsort gun holes....
and one year, a castle and fairground - I can remember the late night panic with the toffee walls which kept collapsing and going to bed thinking it was all going to be the most awful disaster. We awoke to lots of sheets of floppy toffee many thrown out into the garden to perplex the birds, and a castle with cream cracker walls! And then there was the fairground. A little girl's heaven! Green coconut grass, sponge cake stalls topped with Tom Thumb pip fruits surrounded by little crinoline ladies. OH how I loved that cake! I recently found this photograph. Of course it's never quite the same as you remember, but the magic is there...
Can you see it?
So, what's your happy cake memory? Was it a birthday, or a wedding or maybe tea out with someone special or maybe it wasn't the cake that was special so much as the location or the occasion. No rules, just happy memories! I'll let you think about it until next Wednesday just so you can savour all those happy yummy moments! t.xx
I just had to finally finish this superb book by Mark Cocker. For me a superb book is not about 'unputdownable'. This one I had to keep putting down. I've been reading it since before Christmas but there was so much to savour on every page I just couldn't read it in big chunks. Every page made me want to stop, think and ponder. So, if you want to learn to see in a new way. To notice the beauty in your own back garden - when you thought you had seen it all and couldn't notice anything new.... this is the book. Highly recommended! So you see, I was very busy! And the boy has been busy too...
he finally finished his puppy quilt block so that I could make up a cushion for his favourite rocking chair....(I do wish a little that he hadn't chosen those old curtains for the backing but it's his cushion so I had to let him!)
and then I did a bit of photography for you. Am I the only numpty who can't do these mirror shots? I was trying to work out the angle of the camera to show you my lovely new necklace....close up I kept getting the top of my head or the belt of my jeans, this is the best I did....
So I gave up on the '-in situ' shot and took this one instead which really does show my beautiful new necklace to perfection. I am in love with my 'loved' necklace! And Lisa who makes these and many others has offered a giveaway for you my lovely readers, so I'm going to be doing that with you in February....
and then I heard from Kate who runs a fair trade site and she has offered one of these jolly lovely juice bag shoppers. I love these - they always make me smile they are so overtly recycled! So that will be a giveaway for you in March. Good heavens isn't this fun!
But for January it's my month! And because we missed my birthday (did you spy my deliciously lovely new mummy mug?!) I thought that the most appropriate thing to give you would be cake! Well actually the winner can select from lots of different brooches. We'll talk about that so to be sure you get the flavour you love! Speaking of which - how to enter?
Well, I think I'd like to hear your favourite cake eating memory. Yes - that's it. When was your happiest cake?
For me it would have to be a cake my parents made when I was six - Every year my birthday party was tagged onto my big brothers- he was sensibly born in mid-summer when outdoor parties were far more practical. And every year for the Big Party my parents would build the most amazing cakes for us - always a number each (just like I do for the beautiful boy) and then another one, a veritable work of art - aeroplanes with swiss roll fuselage, galleons with licorice allsort gun holes....
and one year, a castle and fairground - I can remember the late night panic with the toffee walls which kept collapsing and going to bed thinking it was all going to be the most awful disaster. We awoke to lots of sheets of floppy toffee many thrown out into the garden to perplex the birds, and a castle with cream cracker walls! And then there was the fairground. A little girl's heaven! Green coconut grass, sponge cake stalls topped with Tom Thumb pip fruits surrounded by little crinoline ladies. OH how I loved that cake! I recently found this photograph. Of course it's never quite the same as you remember, but the magic is there...
Can you see it?
So, what's your happy cake memory? Was it a birthday, or a wedding or maybe tea out with someone special or maybe it wasn't the cake that was special so much as the location or the occasion. No rules, just happy memories! I'll let you think about it until next Wednesday just so you can savour all those happy yummy moments! t.xx
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The one that springs to mind is a fairy castle cake when i was four that was pink with ballerinas all around it.
Last year my thoughtful hubby bought me a vegan cake (as i don't eat eggs now too), that was gorgeous, although i only got to try a little bit as i had a veri dicky tummy!!!
Hope he gets me one this year!!!
It was a two layer white cake, white frosting, piped orange frosting around the top and base, with the BEST little plastic and corn husk Halloween spooky figures on top...
A black cat on a fence, a scarecrow, pumpkins growing ... I remember being amazed that it was for ME!
Ali X
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if you wish.
I love your cupcakes!
I think one of my happiest cake memories was the year I turned 8. Just a couple of days before my birthday our family had moved overseas and we were living temporarily in the hotel. My mom and dad walked down the block to a bakery and bought a slice of cake with a little tiny dolly on top and brought it back to the room for me. I was so surprised just to get cake that year. I still have that little doll... I need to go get her out of my treasure box and take a picture.
I can't remember which birthday it was but probably 6th or 7th and I had a beautiful princess with a Sindy doll stuck in it!!
I still think of it now..in fact must get mum to see if there are any photo's...thanks for the memory jog x
The second is a more distant memory of getting a cake makers telephone no for you.... (Doing it today honest)
Cx
We had planned a massive wedding, big church, hotel the works. But I fell pregnant and our baby was sadly stillborn. It was a really tough year. We cancelled the big wedding and scaled back to a small wedding in a teeny castle in Scotland with just 10 people who had really cared for us that year. T
he cake was made by Mr Thrifty's mother, it was lemon cake topped with chocolate icing. The sweet taste and energy of the day made me cry. Made me cry because people who cared about us had came to see us start our married life together and because I was so happy to be in love. That day was filled with such bittersweet pain and yet remarkable happiness.
The bottom part of the cake is in our freezer and one day we will serve it at the baptism of our baby to be. That will outstrip our wedding day as my happiest cake eating memory.
x
My best cake wa s cake I had when I was child, it was 5 teddies in a bed all the cake was the bed and the teddies were tucked in under the icing blanket....was lovely...xx
For me, it has to be the chocolate grandfather clock which my mum made every year with the time pointing to my new age. Oh, and then there was the chocolate hedgehog cake with chocolate buttons/mint sticks...
Was a chocolate sponge with chocolate butter cream filling and green icing - the top was covered with sweets - milkyway stars, chocolate buttons & dolly mixtures.
i loved it!!
gill
I find it's best to use the mirror to see the lcd bit on the camera, so the lens is facing you and the lcd bit the mirror..does that make sense? not that I take lots of self portraits, mind!!
anyway..CAKE my most favourite of subjects.. our funniest cake memory has to be the hedgehog cake made by my mother in law for my youngest sons' 5th birthday.(he's now 16) The chocolate button covered hedgehog cake was made with a dome of cake that was cut in half and the two halves joined together somehow, when it arrived at the table,it really looked a sorry sight, Granny had put the two halves the wrong way together with the high bit on the outside and there was a large dip in the middle making the hedgehog look like he had had a very bad accident with a car, not a pretty sight. Harry cried because we were all laughing so much at the unfortunate masterpiece but we still say today..remember that run-over-hedgehog cake. That cake is now Legendary. x
I found your blog and stayed quite a while. It makes me so happy!!
All the colours, buttons lovely fabrics and china!
Love your flag inspired pillows!
You are also a good photagrapher!
Keep up!!!
Best regards Gry
A regular visitor from the USA--
monicwalkAThotmailDOTcom
and I love your little cake brooches, so sweet.
I remember a simple sponge cake covered with hundreds and thousands and a plastic elephant on the top. Sounds boring but it was very pretty. My mum also made a cake for my 21st birthday. I didn't have the heart to tell her that her sugar paste roses looked like Henry Moore sculptures. Lol!