Happy Thanksgiving!

In preparation for Thanksgiving I thought a geometric bauble print would be a stylish start to the festive season to get everyone in the christmas spirit.  

Sunny Saturday!

A fun and fresh pretty drinks print for a sunny Saturday, for what will probably be the last summery weekend before Autumn sets in.

Cute Koala!

I was at Edinburgh zoo at the weekend and although I saw some amazing animals there was one little koala that I fell in love with, he was fast asleep and curled round a tree, soooo cute!!  So I thought I would use him as my illustration inspiration today.

Fancy Feathers

Pretty painted feathers I drew to add a little colour to the hallway! 

Happy Thursday!

It's nearly the weekend yipee, my illustration inspiration for today is my i-pod I really need to update it with new songs and thought this would be a pretty reminder.

Back to School!

More illustration inspiration for back to school, a pretty ABC print.

Sunny Sunday!

My illustration inspiration for 5 fruit a day on this lovely sunny Sunday.

Mini chocolate cakes!

Here is the recipe, I used a chocolate cake recipe from BBC Good Food http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easy_chocolate_cake_31070 and made mini ones from it as I have used it before and it is yummy!!

Ingredients:  

          

chocolate cake:                           

225g plain flour                                                                    

350g caster sugar                            

85g cocoa powder                          

1 1/2 tsp baking powder                 

1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

2 free range eggs

250ml milk

125ml vegetable oil

2 tsp vanilla extract

250ml boiling water


blue butter icing:

140g butter, softened
280g icing sugar 
1-2 tbsp milk 
a few drops of blue food colouring   

 

 

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and grease and line two cake tins

The cake is so easy to make, just simply put all the ingredients into a mixing bowl except from the water and beat until smooth

The water should be added a little at a time and then pour the mixture equally into the two cake tins

Put the cakes in the oven for 30-35 minutes and then leave to cool

Once completely cool the cakes can be made into mini cakes by using a cake cutter so all the cakes will be the same size (it also means there are leftover cuttings to taste test!! Always a bonus) The cakes can be doubled up with pretty blue icing in the middles

For the blue icing simply mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl and use a piping bag to decorate however you wish, this is my favourite part!  I also sprinkled blue crystals on mine to give them a little shimmer but you can be as creative as you like.

I used a Tesco piping bag kit which comes with different shaped nozzles and plenty of piping bags so you can do various colours

Enjoy!!

Happy Tuesday!

I created some little cats today, I think 'Grumpy' in the middle just wants it to be Friday!

Monday rush hour!

My illustration inspiration for today is my slow journey home!!

Weekend

Back to Scotland for a family gathering! Just a couple of pics from up in the air to decorating for the party!

Pretty tissue paper flowers, a really easy way to brighten up a room

Illustration inspiration, some beautiful poppies from my mum's garden

 

Morning!

Just a little butterfly print for a sunny morning

Monday!

I always start the week with the best intentions to make sure I get my 5 a day, I have already had some lovely irish stew so I think I am a couple down already!!

Rain Rain Rain

As its been raining all day long I thought I would do some cheerful raindrops!

Back to School Project

My illustration inspiration for a back to school project - pretty painted pencils

I started with some plain pencils and painted them white

 

I decided to create a dip dye effect by taking a bit of sponge and using three tones of each colour then starting with the strongest shade I worked my way down the pencil and finally blending it into the white!  

I think the yellow ones are my favourite!

Welcome to my blog and for my very first post I thought I would let you know a tiny bit more about me!