A littlebit of stuff: 2010

Monday, 28 June 2010

Pucci Handbag .... Cake

My eldest daughter - Róisín is 17 today. Last year she was away for the weekend of her birthday, and we had a family wedding the day before, so it was a very low key affair.

Today she and I are heading off into temple bar for a bit of shopping and then we are meeting up with Des, Seán and Líadán for a meal out.

So I made a pucci inspired handbag cake, its chocolate orange cake on the inside ... so sod the diet and I shall be having some of this later (yum!!)

Thursday, 3 June 2010

Well its not really a snake pie of course! It is a chocolate cake, baked in a ring, covered with nutella spread, chocolate flavoured sugarpaste, and some jelly snakes in the middle.

And - TaDa - you now have a snake pie cake.

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Mosaic - better image?

Hopefully this is a clearer image of the mosaic. Hopefully !! I wish my photography skills were better - was thinking this morning (as I had a lovely walk in the park) that come September and the evening classes are re-starting I may just join a photography class or club even.

Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Mosaic Work - redoing the splashback.

I havent completly fallen off the radar - just been facebooking really. Mainly I have been cutting up bits of glass and stickin em onto bits of wood!

You may remember i did a splashback for the kitchen in Cavan last year ...see http://littlebit-alittlebitofstuff.blogspot.com/2009/07/kitchen-mosaic-and-why-it-needs-to-be.html and you may remember that I was not overly happy with it. Actually I was not a bit happy ..

So I have been redoing it - bigger and (I think) better :

This is it ... two out of the three panels ...

I like that its a bit busier than before ..

I am paying more attention to detail this time around too ... and have gone with small small pieces for the black background whereas I tried to do large the last time.

I love the little fairy at the corner of the 'garden'

Saturday, 8 May 2010

Pirate Ship Cake ...

Chocolate cake - covered in chocolate butter icing and then finished using roll out icing. Buttercream for the sea ... please note there be sharks in them ther waters !!

Monday, 19 April 2010

Cupcakes

Everyone loves cupcakes. I love making them as they are so so easy and versitile. So i made some recently and decided to go one little step further...

And made some fancy paper cases for them !!

These were a littlebit eastery as i made them the easter weekend ...!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ingvar Visits ....

Ingvar Kampard - who founded IKEA - visited the store last week ... boy was there excitement !! Not to mention the amount of hard work and preparation invovled in having someone as important as that visiting us. You could well be forgiven in thinking that it was the second coming !!

Some photos from the day ...

I managed to actually get a shot of 'Our Mary' - one of the hardest workers I have ever met. She hardly ever stops still ... will often forget that she is due a break and is like a little whorlwind in the department. Needless to say we all love her!!

This is Gary - going to be a pilot when he 'grows up'!!

Charlotte - originally from Sweeden herself - I think she is coming around to the Irish sense of humour and feeling more comfortable around us!! God help Her !!

Ann - working - on a day off !!

Manager Clare - we is afraid of her (not really ......................)

The Man himself - chatted away - bad mike - we couldn't quite make out what he was saying :-( ... so when he asked if there were any questions !! I think people were afraid to ask in case he had just told us the answer ....!!

Getting the group photo set up .... Ingvar is 83 now and he just popped down on the floor ready to go !! Hope I am able to do that at that age ...

It took a fair while to try and get everyone organised for a group shot ....

Its now official - EVERYONE in Ikea loves 'our Mary !!)

I had a chance for a little hug with a mulit-billionare myself !! So I took it.

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Day out at Trim ...

We headed out to trim for the hot air balloon festival. It was cold and windy on the day we picked to go .... so we got lots of grey dark photos!!

Liadan & Liam ... looking a bit on the cold side

Tara & Philllip ... look at that Lens !! Tara got lovely new glasses recently.

We did get to see one balloon being inflated - it was deflated pretty much immediately due to the wind :-(

Did I say it was a grey and cold day !??

Still at least there was candy floss - seemed to make most of us feel better!!

We went back to Lesley's place ... had a lovely curry and chat!

Liam raised a smile or two (nothing unusual there!!)

And he got his cousin Sean to help make a big line of dinos up the hall way ... Reminded us so much of when Sean was small - he loved to make lines of his toys across the floor...!!