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Archive for March, 2010

Attention All Film Buffs!!

This is a bit of a deviation from my usual blog content – but my son, who is currently at University doing Film Studies and Film Production has been asked to write an evaluative essay from one of his short films and needs to get feedback on it from as many people as possible to [...]

Memoirs of a Geisha’s Mother

No rest for the wicked so they say…  I just can’t seem to remember what I have done wrong!! No sooner had the stress of getting the cakes finished and delivered on time died down than my daughter’s request for help in sorting out movie inspired fancy dress costumes for herself and her partner was [...]

A Cat and Mouse Game.

And finally…  this is my third cake for the ‘longest weekend’!  My grandson – whose birthday it is today – had asked me to make a cake like the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry.  Now, I always have an issue with making cakes that look like something that every body knows..because everybody can then say, [...]

Just For the Record…

..and what did you do for Mothers Day???? Some women get a lie in…some get treated like a queen…some get wined and dined…  I get to make a DJ Deck 21st birthday cake! Thankfully I had planned it all out before hand and had made most of the bits and pieces to create the deck [...]

One Down – Two to Go!

Here’s the first cake of my marathon cake making weekend! I am really pleased with the way it has turned out.  It looks lovely and bright and fresh and as requested, I have given it just the slightest dusting of edible ‘pearl dust’, just to give it a bit of a subtle sparkle. I made [...]

Er…Something’s Missing…

The last few days have been very taxing on the old grey matter.  I have been trying to work out how to create the 21st birthday cake I have been asked to make.  I’ve done loads of research so that I know what it is I have to make and I have been making the [...]

Tangle Tingle…

After a bit of a rest from all the frenzy of Thing-a-Day I have been having another look this week at Zentangles.  I have been doing lots of research and looking at other peoples tangles and slowly working out how to do the basic designs.  There are some step-by-step instructions on the newsletters at the [...]

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