Sunny Sunday ★

so apologies once again for the lack of posts, i've not been too well this week and i guess i just haven't really been up to the whole blogging malarkey!

mainly due to lack of stuff to post about . . .

this is a short but sweet post since there really isn't much going on in my life to talk about at the moment!

anyway today i've been making some little ribbon flowers

i thought it was about time i used some of the gorgeous ribbons i have stashed about all over my room

so i sorted out my old hot glue gun, grabbed my sewing box and got making . . .

i'm hoping to pop into my new fave haberdashery shop 'Just Enough' tomorrow morning to get some pretty buttons to finish these with and then i might stitch them all onto hair clips or brooches, not really sure yet, what would you do with one of these???

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in other news . . .

today i also edited another one of the candy themed characters that i've been working on

sort of . . .

this is 'Sprinkles' the dog, he belongs to the eldest Cupcake Princess (who you've seen before)

i'm still working on the little Princess' pet, not telling you what type of animal it is yet but i will tell you that it's name is 'Swirly'

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nothing else to tell you about really

today's blog title is 'sunny sunday' because it has been gloriously sunny all day here today, unfortunately i've been cooped up inside all day coughing my lungs up + watching endless episodes of 'Fringe' (while making ribbon flowers)

college tomorrow 

+ tomorrow night it's the next 'welcome to the neighbourhood' exhibition from Juan Moore (more about him here in this post - Arty Stuff ) it's a gig/exhibition aptly names the 'gighibition' and i'm hoping to pop down to it with an old college friend (if she's not working and gets her act together) that is providing i don't wake up feeling ill. . . again!

that's all folks . . .

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Little Cupcakes ★

so today after spilling water on my new copy of Elle magazine + running around playing hide and seek, little miss Sienna helped me bake some cupcakes

we cheated by using some cupcake mixes but it was still fun to crack some eggs and stir up the ingredients

it was also the first time we'd both gotten to test out or new funky aprons, here's Sienna modeling her cute little cupcake one

because she doesn't like icing on cakes, Sienna decorated her 12 using chocolate sauce and tiny little chocolate mini eggs

she did a smashing job dripping the sauce everywhere + used up all of the little eggs to create her chocolaty easter cakes

they looked very pretty when they were all done

then of course it was my turn to do some decorating

my cakes were made using a Disney Princess kit (we bought it for Sienna but of course... she doesn't like icing)

Sienna left me to it and practiced playing skittles over the other side of the kitchen...

while i shakily and messily coated the cakes in gloopy icing and the cute little fondant decorations

they're not perfect (far from it in fact...) but it doesn't matter what they look like... 

it's what they taste like that's important!

Sienna ate most of her chocolatey creations and boxed up the rest to take home

she let 'Fumbo' (aka Dumbo) try one first though...

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in other news...

i got a nice message on twitter last night off someone asking if it was ok to do a mini feature of my work on their blog

my answer was... OF COURSE!!!

it's always nice when someone likes your work enough to want to mention it on their blog so i was more than happy to let Danielle post 2 of my pieces on her gorgeous blog 'Dusty Rocket'

her own artwork is amazing so i think i'm going to ask her if she'll let me do a little feature on her work one day as well

check out the original blog post/feature about my work here - Dusty Rocket

and check out Danielle's awesome website here - Danielle Parker Portfolio

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not much else to report, i'm still working on the little kawaii purse i've been sewing since last Thursday

i WILL finish it... eventually!

i'll post pictures when it's done i promise!

ok i'm heading off to play some 'Pikmin' now on my new Gamecube

that's all folks...

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Lazy Sunday afternoon

had a great Sunday! spent the morning watching the amazing Malaysian Grand Prix (what a brilliant race!) then decided to upload a few pages of my children's picture book to my online portfolio. currently listening to Metro Station and Ladyhawke (just bought both albums) but am feeling a tad hungry, should probably go  and get something to eat! L2a x :-D

here is the fifth page of my book. just as a little taster! :-D