Another one of those weekends

Yesterday, I was in some sort of wine induced coma. I barely moved out of bed all day and then finally gave in and went food shopping. I was only in the supermarket an hour but it felt like I was there all night. As usual, I had no list, just an idea of what I want to eat for the next couple of weeks. So a lot of veg and fruit was thrown in. I would like to shift more pounds before July. So these can only help.
And now I have a fridge, stuff can stay edible for longer. Even when I had the food though, I didn't feel like eating it last night. Except when I cut some strawberries and banana up and covered it in melted white chocolate. Yeah, felt a bit more with it then.

Today though, I was back in the land of the living So chunky roasted vegetables and pesto stuffed chicken it was.

Nom nom nom

One of the girls at work is leaving on Friday as she's having twin girls and already has baby boy so she's probably not going to be coming back for a while. We're having a fuddle to say goodbye and the theme is 'pink'. So this afternoon I did a trial run of cupcakes. Especially after last weeks disaster with the non rising ones, I wanted to get these right.
Played around with different icing options. Might also practice a pink buttercream one too. Tips very much appreciated on how to get a baby pink colour.


But now, I can't find the sketchbook I wanted to add somethings to. I really don't know what I've done with it. Need to be patient and hope it turns up. I hate it so much when I can't find stuff like this.

Sunday Girl.

I decided late yesterday afternoon, to make sure that my Sunday was productive. It's about time I did something creative and not sit around being 'bored'. A few ideas knocked about in my head; polymer crafting, cards, painting, writing, reading. Here's what actually happened.

I woke up a bit before 10. Early mornings don't do anything for me. After opening the laptop for a couple of hours catching up on the various sites, I began to feel a bit hungry. Brunch, consisted of, bacon,sausage, egg and mushrooms in a browned in a pan and then topped with waffles to warm them through. Chuck that on a plate and hello a sort of 'casserole' breakfast :) Certainly filled me up.

What next? Salt dough! Was browsing through bookmarked blog posts and came across this one from Katy Elliott. This felt a little complicated so I googled for a bit and found a Guiding site that has one for airdrying saltdough. Haven't really made anything like this in years so got quite excited at the thought of trying it out. Here's what I came up with.

That's a TARDIS by the way. It will look better once it's painted. I promise.

A bit more chilling out and it's time for round two. Cupcakes! Let's get the kitchen messy. Everything was going just fine, I'd spooned out the mixture into the trays. Suddenly, it's sat there looking at me. The bicarb of soda. Damn, they won't rise. I tried to mix some into each case with my fingers but it looked crappy. Woops.
In the oven and a while later they came out like this


So time to let them cool and make another meal. This time, grilled chicken with tomato salad and sauteed onions and mushrooms. Yummy. No pic sorry.

Icing time. I couldn't get the piping to work last time but after some help talking to bloggers and cake decorators I'd been given some great tips. I sincerely believe there's no greater feeling on this earth than neat piping icing coming out of the bag, sad?
Finished!

Now all that's left is for me to do a bit of writing for Laura Jane as it's my turn. Whilst making my way through these lovely things.

Feeling much better now.

Nothing.

I really can't draw to save my life. I seem to think I can, then put pencil to paper and it looks like something a primary school child did. One who's going to grow up and become better than I am at my age.

I also lack the ability to keep a blog updated it seems. Whoops. Must do better.

Have found that ebay is the way to keep my wardrobe for summer fresh. Especially now I've dropped a dress size since the beginning of February. Over the past week, I've bought about 5 items that have either been Topshop/Red Herring/ fcuk and only spent about £30. Bonus.

Only one item doesn't quite fit and that's the nautical Topshop dress. My hips need a little more work it seems. Or maybe the waist. Here's said dress


















I Keep looking at pictures and wishing I could paint them. Then I just can't. I wish I had talent.