Carrot cake

I had never tried Carrot cake before, to me carrots were meant to be with meat and potatoes, not in a cake. But after a very good friend of mine brought one round and force feed it to me. WOW I have been missing out all this time, Carrot cake is now a new found fave for me now.

Made this earlier today, Carrot sponge with orange filling and topping, the carrots are sugar crafted.
I will be enjoying a slice of this tomorrow, if not before then lol.

S'omething new from me

Last Christmas I decided that I would make my own Christmas cake and make them as gifts for family members too. I've never made a Christmas cake before, and I certainly have never decorated a cake other than pouring on some icing or melted chocolate with some butter cream filling. So a little risky to say the least.

However, I found a new talent, and something I greatly enjoyed doing, and since then Ive taken off with making cakes and decorating them using various different techniques.

I started doing this just for family and friends and have since had a few orders for cakes too, so who knows where this may lead. I would love to make this a business, but that's just a pipe dream at the moment, but never say never.

I wont add lots of pictures at once, I will just add the first one I made for now, and gradually show you others.

Not bad for a first attempt hey?
Traditional Christmas cake, covered in marzipan then royal icing.
I made this for my parents for Christmas.

Ok so one more for you to see.
I think I had improved greatly by the time I did this one, everything and I mean everything on this cake is edible.

I very much enjoyed doing these, just as much as I enjoy making every other cake I have done since.
I will show you more soon of the other cakes, and I am sure you will agree that they are way better as they go along, Not that I am singing my own trumpet lol.

scrap a day - day 3

scrap a day - day 2

A scrap a day! - Day 1

Well I am going to attempt to do a digital scrapbook page a day, not sure I will manage every day, but will be nice to try anyway. Each day will be an image from that day (were possible, technology permitting).

So here is the first one.

Digital scrapbooking,

Well its been a little longer than I said till I started posting again. Been busy with decorating recently, slowly working through the whole house. Each room has had the base done at least. Just the final touches to do now. My son's room is my current project, I have to say its looking great, and its had the thumbs up approval from my son, so cant be too bad!

Heres some of my digital scrapbooking that I have done over the last year or so. Miss doing propper crafting scrapbooking but oh well its better than nothing, for now.

I will post again soon with some more of what I have been up to recently. Hopefully soon I will be as active on here as I was before, but this time with a much wider selection for crafts/hobbies that I currently do. Including some photos of my new deco in my house.