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| Looks more becoming on than just hanging.... |
The Sewing Lesson
Sewing lessons am I good at this? No, not really I was too impatient for the skirt to be finished. Watching my daughter doing all that gathering sent my head into a spin....Here is her effort, the Simplicity pattern we used is one I have used before and you can find it here.
Easy Minecraft Birthday Cake
This birthday cake was made by the boy's mother, it really was a work in progress...I helped and made the cardboard pig, Creeper and some other blocks. But because I'm not Minecraft savvy, my pig didn't have any legs, he was just an oblong (I did wonder what the other pink blocks were for). Not to worry his mother figured it all out and she made sure the Minecraft piggy had legs...
Resources needed:
*Small figurines: I purchased Steve, Enderman, with blocks from Mighty Ape
*This Chocolate Cake recipe was doubled for a big cake...
*A 23cm square metal tin was used to bake the cake in
*Cardboard Pig, Creeper, Blocks sourced from printouts from Google Images
*Icing for the cake: Replace the Cocoa with green food colouring
*Icing Set with a nozzle that makes the green icing look like grass
*Gold wiggly candles
*Giant Licorice Allsorts from supermarket bulk bins...
* Covered base board for cake, this one is silver...
Note:
The sides of the cake were not iced, though this could be done with a dark Chocolate Icing. With much debate and my input his mother squared the side of the cake up using a serrated knife. She left the sides of the cake uniced, it's a very dark cake. The reason for this was there really was enough icing on the cake. Too much sugar, plus food colouring is not too good for children, well for this boy anyway....
Resources needed:
*Small figurines: I purchased Steve, Enderman, with blocks from Mighty Ape
*This Chocolate Cake recipe was doubled for a big cake...
*A 23cm square metal tin was used to bake the cake in
*Cardboard Pig, Creeper, Blocks sourced from printouts from Google Images
*Icing for the cake: Replace the Cocoa with green food colouring
*Icing Set with a nozzle that makes the green icing look like grass
*Gold wiggly candles
*Giant Licorice Allsorts from supermarket bulk bins...
* Covered base board for cake, this one is silver...
Note:
The sides of the cake were not iced, though this could be done with a dark Chocolate Icing. With much debate and my input his mother squared the side of the cake up using a serrated knife. She left the sides of the cake uniced, it's a very dark cake. The reason for this was there really was enough icing on the cake. Too much sugar, plus food colouring is not too good for children, well for this boy anyway....
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| Happiness is a Minecraft Cake made by Mum... |
Beach Bag Happiness
I've been making use of the school holidays by not sewing, (I think I'm on holiday too, but I'm not really)....However I'm feeling very pleased with myself, I am making use of my sewing. Though it looks rather crumpled sitting there in the sand.
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