It fits!!!

This week I tried to sew a pair of pants for myself. I've made some baby pants about 3 years ago and it was a disaster lol but back then I had no sewing machine so sewing was tedious and slow. I had some lovely Heather Bailey fabric lying around and whipped up a pair of Capri's. Wasn't that difficult really, although I anticipated stress on putting the pieces together. As long as you follow instructions and label your pieces it should be no issue. We are going to Cairns for a lovely holiday in September, so am motivated to make a couple of colourful, tropical Capri's and shorts for me to wear.

Anya's 9th birthday

So last but not least it was my eldest daughter Anya's 9th birthday, so once again lots of baking. She wanted a plain madeira cake with butter icing in orange and pink. Theme was flowers and butterflies.

Mum's 60th

Then it was my mum's 60th birthday where we spent a few days at Docklands in a swish 3 bedroom apartment just relaxing and celebrating with close family. Ofcourse mum had to have a lovely cake, so after weeks of preperation I baked a small chocolate mudcake iced in vanilla buttercream and covered in pink fondant, the roses were also pink fondant (my very first flower fondant creations). The cupcakes were inspired by Kylie Lambert from Le Cupcakes, chocolate mudcake and vanilla sponge topped with embossed fondant on some and vanilla or cherry butter cream icing on others, topped with fondant pearls, hearts or flowers. The cupcake stand was made from scratch using cakeboards, foam dummy cakes and Heather Bailey "Painted mum" fabric.

The same fabric was used to wrap all my mum's gifts.

A very busy July

Phew, July is finished and boy has it been a busy month for me. Firstly it was my youngest daughter Liandra's 1st birthday and we had a lovely farm party on the 4th July. It was luckily a sunny day and all the children had fun patting the farm animals and riding ponies. For her birthday I made my very first farm animal cake, I had never made fondant figures before so it was my 1st attempt at making animals. The cake was a two tier chocolate mud and caramel mudcake (top tier choc, bottom tier caramel) and iced in green vanilla & buttercream icing. I made all the animals, flowers and fencing out of fondant two weeks in advance, so on the day I just had to ice and decorate the cake.

I also made 36 matching cupcakes, half of them were chocolate and the other half vanilla sponge. Each one was decorated with fondant farm toppers that I made two weeks ahead of time.