A gingerbread tale......

 

christmas and coconut ice....Nice!

Well I sure hope that you all had a lovely christmas. I had a very relaxing time with my family. Christmas day was spent at home with Harrison's grandparents, uncle and of course mummy and daddy.
He's too young to understand about santa, but he had fun playing with family and all of his new toys.
We ate a lot, drank not too much and enjoyed a relaxing time together, and that's what it's all about.
Normally we are all running around trying to guess what gifts everyone would like and it becomes so stressful, but this year we decided to just buy for the little fella.
This christmas he discovered trifle...seems he couldn't get enough of it, that along with the odd pringle and his advent chocolate!! Well it is christmas....if you can't be naughty then, when can you?!!

I made some more coconut ice, this time in the shape of hearts.............

I used a heart cutter to stamp out shapes before placing them in cello bags as christmas gifts.

It's late now, but I will blog about finding our new home and my gingerbread house tomorrow.
Early start tomorrow as we are signing paperwork for moving in the new year!!
See you soon. x

Christmas wishes.....

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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas...Relax and enjoy.

xxx

PrettyLittleHeads...

    So apart from stressing over christmas, baking, being mum to Harrison and trying to find a new home I have been working on my new designs for PrettyLittleHeads.
I thought I would share them with you.....

Lilibeth hair comb

Lucia hair comb

I have been working with really beautiful swarovski pearls and crystals because they have such a high lustre and make the pieces very luxurious. On your special day you want something extra special so I decided that I wanted to use only the best.

Little iced trees....

Having leftover frosting from my mince pies I thought I would put it to good use.I can't bare throwing it away. The trouble is I can never juddge how much to put on each cake/pie. I either have loads left over or some cakes are frostingless :(
 As I am not very skilled with the ol piping bag I discovered by accident on my last lot of cakes that if I use the star nozzle and just push down and not around the icing looked liked little christmas trees, so today I thought-why not make little cupcakes topped with frosted christmas trees.
So here they are.......

I used sugarpaste to make the hearts ....

The butterflies and baubles are from the dr oetkers range....

I added a little sparkle with some pearl lastre dust....

They were fun to make and eat!

Wednesday tomorrow.....only 4 more days and nights and then santa will be here!!

Merry mince pies...

Mince pies with a twist! After reading a post by Nicki from Homebird about some very scrumptious mince pies that she had baked ( after seeing them herself on cherry Menloves blog ) I couldn't resist the temptation to make some myself,  especially as they are made with shop bought ingredients....sometimes a little cheating doesn't hurt! there is homemade frosting though ( I had to add a little milk to the frosting)....Go on have a go......

Don't you just love christmas, not the shopping or the stress...just all the nosh!

wow one week to go now, I hope your all organised...... not like me!

Folksy Fab Finds......

I have been spending a lot of time on folksy lately. For two reasons 1. because I am hoping to sell on there sometime soon and 2. because there are some really great things on there. So I thought that I would share my fab finds...

 This week is 'Lola's Room'...
                                               Cassia Beck is the photographer who lives in Brighton and takes really beautiful images, the kind you wish you had taken yourself!........

this is her link  http://www.folksy.com/users/LolasRoom

Jack Skellington......

My cousin asked for a 25th birthday cake....Jack from the nightmare before christmas was her choice of character.Well that's a lie...he was her second choice, I couldn't do the first 'the little mermaid'...too hard!
Well this is it, it took a while but she was pleased with the outcome....

Jack has spindly arms and legs, it's not my skill...honestly.

I get very stressed making cakes for people, but I get excited when it all starts coming together.

I hope your having a great weekend.I have been busy writing christmas cards, only a few more to do.

PrettyLittleHeads

So here we are ....
                          My own little company 'PrettyLittleHeads', where I have been designing and making jewelled hair pieces. I am aiming to make enough styles to open a Folksy shop in the hope that some lovely ladies will fall in love with my designs and want them for their special day! I recently designed some bespoke pieces for a friends wedding in Australia and now I am working on my own collection.....soon to be posted about.....


The photograph is of my great grandmother, one of my inspirations for designing......I have a studio set up in our flat where I work (away from little grabbing fingers who like to grab beads and try to eat them!!)

This would be my dream job. I really love designing jewelry with all the beautiful swarovski crystals and pearls and find it very relaxing making them.

To think that I could be doing this for a job and staying  at home to look after my little ray of sunshine would just be amazing to say the least!
I hope you like my pieces and if anyone needs a special handmade piece made....please email as I am only too happy to make you something to fall in love with!

There's a chill in the air.......

Where does the time go? I last posted at the begining of November. I am officially a poor blogger..any such award out there?....if so it's mine :)

I moan when it's too hot, I moan when it's too cold. But I am happy with cold and sunny.
Time to envelope ourselves in warm snuggly clothes, sipping hot drinks and curling up on the sofa with the cold dark nights creeping behind the curtains......
  what more to do than bake in a kitchen heated by a warm glowing oven with sweet aromas filling the room.......

I purchased some little rubber letter stamps that are quite easy to use on fondant. I then sprinkled the imprinted letters with icing sugar....

This week was Harrison's christmas party at his playgroup.

I made cupcakes for the mum's...

and ickle cakes for the kiddies.....

I used a star nozzle to make my icing look like little christmas trees.....

and I used a ready to use chocolate icing powder from silver spoon for the little cakes....a little sweet for my liking, but I am sure it was ok with the little ones!

Harrison ready for his party food and cake.

 He doesn't look too amused being photographed!

I have been very busy with another project which is why I haven't been blogging much over the last few months.I have been making and designing special occasion head pieces which I will blog about soon.

I hope you are all wrapped up warm and cosy and getting organised for christmas...I am trying! But at a very slow pace!

will blog sooner, rather than later next time..........