The new cake!!

Made a banana cheese cake from the humming bird cake book. Have no idea what it tasted like as I hate bananas!!




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Cake was well recieved only......

The birthday girl is allergic to nuts, something I did indeed know but hadforgotten when I added the 500gms of walnuts!!

Arse!!




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Adults birthday cake!

It's a friend's birthday get together tonight so decided to make her a cake rather than buy her some *tat* from our local high street!

Thought she would rather not have candles or her age etc. so made her a carrot cake with little carrots for the top!

Will post a picture when it's done.

Bit of a productive couple of days. I've also started my son's scarf, the wool for which he chose just before Christmas. He should be very happy! I've also got to try and make a dinosaur cake and a road map cake!

First go at card making!

I've never really been into the idea of making cards, sticky little stickers onto a card!

But it was my friend's little girls birthday, I couldn't find a nice card and I'd made her some little hair clips (basic crochet flowers) so I thought I'd go the whole hog. It didn't work in the 2 ply, so I had to use some 4ply but it was in yoda green! So I added a little ribbon for good measure.

Not sure what I think but........

Snow Snow Snow!!

It's been a little chaotic here at Neurotic Towers! Teacher training on Monday so I spent the day baking with the boys.

These are our cheese and bacon muffins! Were scrummy, especially warm.

Tuesday was thankfully back to school, everybody especially me, was really looking forward to the return only for the school to shut 2 hours into the day thanks to the snow! The boys were pleased to be home in the warm and were happy to watch movies, drink hot chocolate and let me make this! I saw this because I'm not happy with how it turned out so I'm changing the pattern slightly for the next one - using a smaller hook for starters as these are very holey and were big enough to fit my hand in!!

It's my friend's little one's birthday on Friday, we don't tend to do gifts but I've made these - they're to go on hair clips. Took me a couple of hours to make three of them - discarded the first one! I see a theme for little girls birthdays LOL!! Pattern is from this wonderful blog but I used a 2.7mm hook.



And my final project - to be started when I get the appropriate wool is for my husband's oldest friend. I am a MASSIVE star wars fan (only the originals though!) and find the idea of these wonderful. Bought the pattern from Etsy.




And finally some snow pictures!!

Testing testing 123

Am shattered and finishing off a scarf for my friends mum. But thought I'd try out my new app.

Wonder if the photos work too...?


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The last of the turkey....

has been eaten and walked off - in that order!

On christmas day I popped lovely big chunks of turkey, roasties, veg, stuffing and gravy into a deep dish and popped it in the freezer.
Today we entertained the inlaws and I cooked the left overs with a puff pastry topping. There was some left over so I made some shapes to go on top!

My eldest loves dinosaurs and my youngest letters and numbers.


Then we went off for a walk, we've recently had a go at geocaching, it's treasure hunting using GPS or Satnav technology. Some 'caches' have swaps for the kids, others are simply a log of people who have visited. It's amazinly good fun - we've had a blast going for short walks and 'caching' in as we went.

Today we went for a walk in our local woods and hid our first one! We filled it with lots of goodies from Hawkins Bazaar and hid it in the bottom of this tree trunk (you can just see it peaking out).

And check out my lovely new boots!! Got in the sale yesterday!