Let Them Eat Cake. Part Two

So here are yet more yummy cakes (maybe a few sneaky biscuits too)!! Again made by myself, my sisters, or my mum.

 Raspberry Eton Mess Cakes

 Melting Moments

 Strawberry Daquiri Cakes

 Chocolate Fingers and Chocolate Button Cake

Queen's Jubilee Iced Biscuits and Cakes 

Queen's Jubilee Crown Iced Biscuit and Iced Butterfly Biscuit 

Fresh Fruit and Cream Filled Sandwich Sponge 

Cream and Strawberry Jam Filled Chocolate Dirt Track BMX Cake 

Fresh Fruit and Cream Topped Sponge with Chocolate Fingers Birthday Cake

Allotment Chocolate Birthday Cake 

Dairy Free Buttercream Topped Fairy Cakes 

It's a Boy!, Baby Cakes 

Half a Chocolate Finger and Malteasers Birthday Sponge Cake  

 Dairy Free Merengue Topped Fairy Cakes

Hope this has inspired you to get baking and to be more creative with decorating cakes! It is fun to do (and even better to eat them!!).

x x x

Let Them Eat Cake... Part One

Now, I don't know how or when this started but looking through the photos on my phone there are a ridiculous amount of pictures of cakes. I'm not sure if this is normal or if I have a problem. I say I, but I actually mean me, my sisters (Sophie and Olivia) and my mother (Annie-two-pies). We make, I would say, an above average amount of cakes. 

Any occasion calls for a cake, whether it be a birthday, graduation, Easter, Christmas or even it just being Sunday...(Sunday actually calls for two cakes) WE LOVE A CAKE!! Now we started out like everyone else, little fairy cakes with icing on the top but as the years have gone on they have became more and more elaborate. 

I am quite proud of our cakes and thought I would share some of the pictures on my phone (more to come in part two). 

 Blueberry cake with a cream cheese and blueberry topping

Princess cakes for my 21st birthday cake

 Princess and circus themed cakes for my 21st

 Mille feuille with home grown red currents and strawberries

 Chocolate Easter cake with chicks

Periodic table of elements fairy cakes

Starry chocolate cream birthday cake 

 Fisherman catching a giant fish birthday cake

Lulu Guinness handbag cake 

Chemist birthday cake 

Lulu Guinness lips clutch birthday cake

An amazing fruit topped fresh vanilla cheesecake

Now I hope those have got your mouth watering or give you some cake inspiration, but keep your eyes peeled for part two... even more delicious amazing cakes (I know MORE cakes). 

x x x

Something you have to try!!

Making your own dress is probably one of the most satisfying things you can do, (and also one of the most frustrating!!). Once you have picked your fabric and your pattern you then have to decipher the instructions, measured yourself (always tricky) and cut out all the pattern pieces... then it is time to pin and tuck and pleat and iron until you have your perfect dress. 

I would recommend to give it go. Even if your hem is a bit wonky, or buttons aren't perfectly spaced out that's fine because YOU made it!! It always feels amazing when someone asks 'oh where did you get that dress, it is lovely' and you can reply with great pride 'I made it!!'.

So next time you see a pattern you like, give it a go!! Even if it takes agggess, just do it! You won't regret it!

I have included these pictures I took whilst putting together one of my dresses! Hope you like it and feel inspired to create something yourself!

If you have any questions or requests feel free to comment or contact me on here. Or you can check out my Facebook page or my twitter!!

Thanks for reading!!

Lots of Love

x x x 

Christmas Angel - Dec 2012

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Thought I'd just show my Angel for my tree!! I made her from scrap fabric I had lying around and used pale orange wool for the hair. I love her, she also has a halo made from picture wire (not shown). She is stuffed with teddy bear stuffing. Her wings are covered in gold sequins (same sequins I use for the sequin collar shirts). I think she is lovely and looks great on my tree! Next year I will have more handmade Christmas tree decorations on my tree!! 

It is hard building up a selection of Christmas decorations by yourself!! But I quite like mine!! Also reindeers in Liverpool Queen's square! They looked sad but they made me feel happy and Christmasy. Also look at my ugly owl decoration from John Lewis, he is brilliant!! I want to make some like this!

Check out my Facebook and Twitter or message me on here for any requests or questions!!

x x x 

Personalised Presents- Dec 2012

Christmas is coming!! It's so close now! But what do you get the person who has everything?! Well their very own personalised present! It doesn't have to be just for Christmas, it is a perfect idea for pretty much any occasion. It is also good for those who are trying to save the pennies.



Something hand made or hand personalised is so lovely to receive and great to make and completely original! Something that is really simple but really effective is just sewing someone's name onto an item, whether it be a t shirt, a teddy bear, a bookmark or what i've been doing recently make up bags.


So I used a plain black, quite sturdy make up or toiletries bag. It is from Sainsbury's I think (this was for my sister's friend so my sister provided the bag). Really plain, so a great blank canvas. So firstly I drew on lightly the name that I wanted to add (this is obviously for Danielle's birthday!!). I then chain stitched over the outline that I had made. I used a really pale lilac as it stands out well against the black.

Then after that it is completely personal preference. I added flowers and leaves to make it girly, but you can basically add anything. The flowers are just long and short stitches using one colour of thread for the outer petal and another for the centre petals. The stems are vine stitch and the centre of the flowers are french knots.

I have done a few more of these personal presents but can't reveal any names as I don't want to ruin any of the surprises before the big day!! But I'll add some pictures of the decoration on them.

Hope you've got a few ideas, or if you want to get in touch about getting some items personalised by myself check out my Facebook or Twitter or message me on here!!

Merry Christmas!! 

Pink pink to make the flamingos wink - Bestival 2012

With Bestival on the Isle of Wight happening this weekend I thought I'd show you what I created for a friend (and her friend) who are going. Every year there is a fancy dress theme and this year it is wildlife, so that could have been anything from and elephant to a ladybird. What my friend had in mind was flamingos, the campest and over the top animal ever, which is brilliant. So it was all about the pink, feathers, sequins etc. So what we ended up with is a Bjork style swan dress (everyone remembers THAT dress don't they?!) except as a flamingo!! How brilliant.

A H&M bright pink long sleeved body con dress was chosen for the base. I then promptly chopped the sleeves to make the neck and stuffed them and added a beak. The beak is painted and I used a little button for the eye!

And then came the hard part. I cut out HUNDREDS of different fabrics, all shades of pink, into feather shapes. This is what took the most time.....

I then sewed these shapes into strips by hand. I tried to sew them on as random as possible so not to make it look like a pattern or patchy. As you can see I've used netting, bits of the dress, left over fabric from other projects, offcuts, anything I could get my hands on that was pink!!

So I continued to hand sew all the feather shapes all over the front of the dress, with a few on the bum too. I then added loads of actual feathers too, I used a glue gun for this!! This took forever!! But deffo worth the effort!

When I finished them I thought the flamingo faces looked a bit too sad, so I added some fluttery eyelashes, and made feathery hair clips for the girls hair!!  I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out actually!! But by the time I was finished sewing all those feather shapes on I was sick of the sight of them!! They turned out quite cheap as well, as all the fabric was recycled (apart from the H&M dresses which were £9.99). The feathers cost 99p for 20 from eBay. All buttons and sequins were from my own collection (which I've built up for years!!). 

I can't wait to see how the girls will look in these costumes!! Definitely will stand out, no one else will have these one off pieces. Most people will just have them Primark animal onesies won't they!!

If you are interested in any costumes or fancy dress please feel free to contact me on here, on my Facebook Page or my Twitter.