For Beth..........

the past 6 months or so

Cake 

redneck waterslides 

Bushwalks

14

Family time

8

funny four year olds  

Sisters and cousins 

The Gift of Cake

I dont think after this year of non scrapping I can call myself a scrapper anymore, I dabbled in it, like I dabbled in my other crafts, sewing, knitting, crochet etc 

But there has been one thing I keep coming back to 

Cake. 

This keeps me happy and I get a sense of accomplishment from Cake, as it has to be finished I cant just leave a cake unfinished lying around the house. 

And my favourite part

Cake makes other people happy.

Since Lara's dog birthday cake, Ive been a lil busy.

This pineapple for my brother in laws hawaiian party  (just cause they could!!)

 This was a bugger of a cake to figure out, but once I worked out how I wanted to do the skin away we went.

4 tropical white mud cakes with a tropical ganache YUM!!

And just cause im proud of the fact I figured it out 

a mini tutorial on the skin!

This finished photo is missing some of the taller fronds from the top 

( nephews and sons I suspect!)

Labrious, 

a pinch of ganache applied individually in a sort of pyriamid shape to get the bumps

after covering with the yellow fondant, a large star tip indented to the top of each bump 

and then scratched around each shapes in rough multiple lines. 

And finally brushing of green and brown petal dust. 

with the taller leaves before the sand and hibiscus.

( scotch fingers and brown sugar)

ONE?!?!!!!

I have no idea how it happened all so quickly, but its here and tomorrow I will have a one year old baby girl . Thats crazy to me. 

Hello, Is it me you're looking for??

Oops I did it again.

Sorry am in random singing mode today.

I didn't scrap, I barely baked, no real crafting and I didn't read or blog.

I Dropped off the end of the world.

Something had to give so I could get my self together again.

I did what was needed

I grew my baby girl big ( one in three weeks!!!!) I grew my boys even bigger.

I nurtured my self through winter and the long repetitive months of frustrated baby and having no life.

Despite this, I managed to get published once or twice ( layouts from the last time I scrapped and blogged). 

And this month, I got a huge surprise. 

The cover. Thats my baby!

( no sir, I dont mean maybe)

I had no idea. 

I love him, He makes me smile. 

So im glad he has the chance to make others smile.

Ps sorry about any songs I may have unintentionally put in your head.

PPS if you didn't get any songs in your head

"This is the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend....."

PPPS I had the full house theme song in my head the other day. I was going to put up a random facebook post about it, but then I realized a good chunk of the people on there are too young for Full house. And that makes me sad. 

PPPPs I borrowed a sooty dvd from the library for the school holidays was going to put a fb post about that. Same problem. I guess that just makes me old. 

PPPPPs we wont talk about my first grey hair I just found. Husband is not sympathetic — he has been grey since early 20's. Salt and pepper looks great on men - George anyone!!!

 Not the same on me. I dont have the class or classic beauty of Helen Mirren

bunkered down

The last week or so for us has been about bunkering down and holding on. It included an er run with our sweet Tyler ( how is it I had never visited an emergency room for a child until I had him?!?) and dramas with the refinancing ( which we are still waiting on settlement - it would blow your mind if you knew how long we had been dealing with it. Bunkering down required softer crafts - crochet to be exact.

And for the first time I have had a lil girl to crochet for ( the boys are not so much fans.....),

And little girls require two things - granny ripple rugs and silly hats.

And the silly hats must only be photographed by the iphone while you are pulling silly faces for the smile and therefore paying no attention to the actual photo you are taking. but as you have your mummy goggles on it looks really cute anyway!!

Ps teething sucks!!

Take My Hand-Shane Latham

I dont normally share songs etc on here. But this one is personal to me.

This is written by Shane Latham (my brother in law) when he found out he had a terminal brain tumour. He wrote this for his amazing wife - Meagan.

He is almost at the one year mark, something we were told repeatedly that he would not make and his last scan showed the tumour was stable. Something uncommon in his type of brain tumour.

We pray each day it stays that way and he is the minority.