Showing posts with label christmas cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas cake. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

WOYWW - OMG is it Wednesday? Really?

Hello there Peeps

I cannot believe that it is Wednesday already.  This time last week I, as well as alot of you no doubt, were running around trying to get everything ready in time for Christmas and now it is all over and all the Christmas decorations are at half price at the Garden Centre!!

What does Wednesday mean? Well it means that a bunch of crazy crafters all show pictures of their craft desks on their blogs and link up with the wonderful Desk Jockey - Julia.  And this Wednesday is the last one of 2011!!  Yikes! 

I am not showing you my desk this week!  My head is hanging in shame because of the state of it, but all for a good cause.  1 , I was working until late Christmas Eve finishing pressies off and, 2, it is in bits as Hubby is working on installing a new set of drawers for me.

However, you may recall last week when I showed you my lovely Shrek hands which I had whilst attempting to decorate our Christmas Cake.  Well, here is the finished cake which alot of you lovely peeps asked me to show you......

I am pretty chuffed with the results and there was not too much swearing heard whilst putting it together except when I got a bit of wire down inside my thumb nail.  It still smarts a little today and I had to leave the cake for an hour as it bled like mad and I didn't want red icing!

My normal style of cake decorating is to roll out icing (ready made) and either put a large bow on the cake (think Christmas present) or I "plonk" Christmas Trees on it artistically.  I have never tried to cut out shapes and then wire and shape a design.  To say I was smug when I finished it is an understatement.  I think I will try and look for a sugarcraft class in my area in the New Year!

Some Christmas pics of my home for you to see, as some people did ask.......

(That cheeky Santa left his washing behind too!  That was because he went for a round on the Golf course with the Easter Bunny!!)


(Please excuse the firelighters stacked on the left hand side!)

I just want to wish you All a Happy, Healthy and Crafty New Year!  Thanks for reading this and a huge Thank You to all my Followers - you make blogging all the more worth it.  Bless you all!

Don't forget to drop by our lovely leader Julia's desk so you may see some of the other crafters' desks.

Hugs

Hettie

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

WOYWW 133 - It's Beginning to Look a Bit Like Christmas

Hello Peeps

I can hardly believe that this is the last WOYWW before Christmas and that we are only a few days from Christmas Day, the biggest event we Crafters tend to work for!!  And before you ask me YES I do still have some pressies on my desk needing completion!! Eeeeek!

My workdesk this week has been temporarily been moved downstairs between the kitchen worktop and the lounge.  Take a peek at what I am working on......



and........


The top pic are my hands yesterday evening after I had been playing with Sugarflair colouring in a bid to decorate our Christmas cake a little more than I usually do. My normal decorating is to roll out icing and then places something on the top with a large ribbon and bow round the side.  Hubby said it may be food colouring but I am not happy unless my fingers are coloured with something!!  LOL!!  They had hair dye on them a short while later!!

This year I have the idea of a Holly and Ivy theme.  Oops!!!  I will show you next week if it is good enough to share!!

Today I am working on my Christmas decorating which is a little later than usual but hey-ho.  I now have a lovely Dining Room to eat Christmas Dinner in this year - complete with curtains (the whole reason why I NEEDED the dining room decorated)!!!  As Bing Crosby is saying in White Christmas, which is playing (second time today!) - gotta have an angle!!

Right! Gotta do some more decorating including the dining room so I will be pouring myself a glass of something while I finish then I will pop over to see you later!

Don't forget to call by at the Desk Jockey Julia's blog to see the other desks of bloggers who reveal their desks on a Wednesday. 

I would like to wish you all a Very Happy Christmas and a huge Thank You to all my Followers and People who pop by to see me now and again.  I always appreciate your comments.  Thank you all for encouraging me with my blog in it's first year!!

See ya all around in 2012!!

MWAH!!

Hettie