Heart Dress

I've been busy today making a new dress.

I have been planning this one for a while. I have seen a few of these heart cut out dresses about and love them and wanted to make myself one.

It wasn't as complicated as I first thought it might be and it turned out well.No major problems.

I faced all of the back where the heart is and the front as well and made the skirt quite full (I used almost all of the 2 metres of fabric that I bought).

Quite happy with the outcome tho and looking fwd to wearing it.

My bread

My bread baking in the oven, didn't taste bad either.

Cake verdict

Verdict is.... drum roll plz- yes the toffee cake is very good, especially with a bit of ice cream!!

Also made some bread, rose well and didn't taste too bad either.

Cakes

I like to do a bit of weekend baking and am always trying out new recipes and going back to some of my favs.

I have a few mishaps, but then it wouldn't be quite as fun if you didn't would it?!

I made a toffee cake (yet to be tasted- I will let you know the verdict)

And a chocolate spread teacake, which I have made before (and so already kno it is yummy) :)

Dress

I wanted to make another new dress, so I found some fabric- a bargain at less than £2 a metre and got to work. I altered a pattern that I had used before, I added buttons at the front and made the skirt fuller.

I think I might even wear it with a belt. I think i'll try it on a few different ways and see...

Baby Cardi

What should you do with your time off? Knit of course!! I have spent a good few days just knitting and sitting in the sun, my idea of fun and was nice and chilled.

And at the end of it I had made a nice little knitted baby cardi for my friend who is soon to have another baby boy! :)

Brownies

I love brownies, so obviously I keep making them, these came out well and I could cut them up into little square without them all falling apart- always a plus!!

Easter Biscuits

Ok, so I thought I'd try my hand at icing biscuits, not something I've really done much of before. Thought it would be fun for Easter.

I'll tell you it was hard work and not exactly the perfect and pretty biscuits I was hoping for, but here's a pic of what I made

Cake stand

I gave in and got a domed cake stand, how gorgeous is it?!!

And I had to make a yummy cake to go inside (of course). I made a moist chocolate orange cake.

Yum, yum and yum!!!!

How I make a necklace

This post is about how I make my necklaces.

I love to make everything from scratch as much as possible and this shows just how it's done.

I start out with silver thread and wire and end up with a necklace with a clasp.

Click on image to enlarge and see the details.

New shirt

This is the 2nd shirt I have made and after the first one came out Ok, I thought- y not make another. Saw this fabric and thought- perfect.

I also found this skirt and just had to take it up so that it was the right length, then I had my new work outfit sorted!

Flower Pendant

Pretty flower pendant that I recently made.

I saw pierced the flower from aluminium, then cut another flower from recycled plastic and layered them with a pretty stone at the centre.

Mother's day pressie

This year for mother's day I made my Mum a pressie-I made her this apron.

I found some great fabric online, that I thought would be perfect, went to the little knitting shop up the road from me (which seems to have just about everything you could need) to get the cord and after some work on my sewing machine, I had made her pressie.

New from old

I have just made this pendant.

I created it from a piece of old broken tile that I thought was pretty and a lot of soldering later.... here is my creation.

New pendant

I have just finished this new pendant, what do you think?

First Milkshake of the year

Ok, so it's hot, the sun's out and I had some new straw spoons to test out. So of course- I made milkshake, yummy!

Cakes

So by now u probably can I tell I love baking, among a many other things. So I have been making again, I made rock cakes and sunshine bars (Don't ya just love the name!) and heres some pics.

New outfit

Ok, so I bought this new dress a while back and thought it was really cute, but it seemed a little short, so I have worn it with jeans, but it's not quite the same. But yesterday I discovered a new way to wear it. I used a black skirt as a layer underneath and now I am happy with it.

DIY Cake stand

Ok, so I really, and I mean really, wanted to get a cake stand, so I have been spending time (maybe too much time if I'm honest) looking at cake stands online and as yet I have not bought one. Altho I may still do. Once I started looking I found nicer and nicer ones and even tho I don't really need one, I may be getting a cake stand with a dome! We'll see, so watch this space!!

But in the mean time I saw that a few people had DIYed it and made their own out of various plates and vases etc, so I thought- y not give it a go and went on a rummage in the kitchen, and heres what I came up with. Not bad I don't think. Tho I would like it to be higher, but u can't have everything!

I used a white dish and an upturned little bowl, doesn't look too bad even if I do say so myself!

Yummy Cake

How does choc spread cake sound?

A rhetorical question I think, who wouldn't like the sound of that.

And it was yummy, I will be making it again!