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Kuih Jala (or net cake)
We went to Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo for our summer holiday this year, and while we were there we visited the Mari Mari Cultural village. It was really good - interesting and fun for both...
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Microwave popcorn for the post-school ravenous hunger
Since Justin started school last week he has had a never-ending appetite from the moment I pick him up until he falls asleep exhausted at bedtime.It is a tricky balance to find snacks that I am happy...
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Making a boob of it!!
I have a friend who works as a breastfeeding counsellor at the local hospital and they recently had an open morning to advertise their department internally within the hospital.She asked if I could...
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Elf-tastic - it's December again ...
For the third year in a row, we have been lucky enough to have Sally Snow and Colin Flake visit us. For those of you new to my blog, these are Magic Christmas elves who arrive some time in December to...
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Christmas gifts: gingerbread cookies with "stained glass" centres
For the past few years I have made some little gifts for Sophie to give to her school friends (see last year's marshmallow snowmen and 2011's reindeer noses).This year, time has been limited so I...
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Christmas craft fair - decorations for the tree
Last year one of the school mums and I discovered that we both like crafting. Melinda has an amazing stash of crafting goodies and we decided that once Justin was at school full time we would try to...
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Magic Elf Update No. 2
The Elves have been with us for 18 days now and they are keeping up the mischief. Here are their latest exploits ...- they rolled two tiny friends down the stairs in the middle of toilet rolls. We are...
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Christmas cake 2013
My oven is old and generally doesn't bake things well at long, low temperatures so I haven't yet been brave enough to have a go at making my own Christmas cake yet (perhaps next year!). So, as in...
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Magic Elf Update No. 3
We had a fantastic time with Sally and Colin and miss them lots now they have gone back to the North Pole with Father Christmas.Here is the final instalment of their antics before they left ...- they...
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Christmas craft fair - more Christmas decorations
I haven't had a chance to write a blog post for a little while and although Christmas seems such a long time ago, I wanted to share the last of the Christmas related crafts we made for our school Craft...
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Explore, rescue, protect! An Octonauts party ...
Justin was five a few weeks ago and he wanted an Octonauts party.I managed to get the invitations out before Christmas: I found a cute picture of the front of an Octonauts book and fiddled a little to...
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Explore, rescue, protect! It's the GUP A ...
Justin had an Octonauts themed birthday party this year. I searched the web for inspiration for his cake and fell in love with a few ideas, especially having a cake with the GUP A on it (you have to...
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Roll on the summer ...
It might still be the middle of winter and the weather we have been having recently is so far from anything summer-like it's hard to remember what summer is like. But a crafting session making...
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It's all about the chocolate ...
We decided on a chocolate theme for Sophie's 8th birthday party this year. Originally I was thinking that the party guests could make lots of chocolate goodies (such as chocolate pizza and chocolate...
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Chocolate party - Alpine village cake
Sophie's 8th birthday party was all about chocolate (see my previous post here). The obvious choice for a cake was an all out choco-tastic creation but no cakes I found online inspired me. I have...
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Afternoon tea anyone?
It was my niece's 20th birthday this month and I got to make her cake. She wanted a proper tea service for her present and an afternoon tea party celebration, so the cake of course had to follow the...
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I've finally gone and set up my own cake business ...
After years of people telling me that I should set up a cake business, the time is finally right and I have taken the plunge - woo hoo!We live in a relatively long road which has a fantastic Facebook...
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Feeling a little peachy ...
I've been busy creating lots of different cakes recently. One of these was a lady's bottom which was great fun to make.I baked three 9" round sponges and then carved them into a peachy bottom shape. I...
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Let's get Minecrafting (cake) ...
I have had great fun making a couple of Minecraft cakes recently. Minecraft is a global phenomenon blocky freeform building game on the computer, Xbox and handheld devices.The first cake was a Creeper...
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A day or two at the beach ...
Over the summer I had orders for two beach themed cakes. The first was for a lady's 50th birthday and the brief was a beach theme with beach huts and lots of pink. The second was for a man's 40th...
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Gluten free pumpkin cupcakes with pumpkin frosting
It's that time of year again when we buy our pumpkins from the local store, spend an hour or so scraping away the inside and carving a face on it only to have to throw it all away a day later. How...
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It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas ...
It's that time of year again when we get little visitors to our house ... Sally and Colin, the Magic Elves, joined us again for what is turning out to be another fun and mischievous December. I cannot...
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Twinkle, twinkle little star - Christmas gifts for BFFs
Each year I organise for Sophie to give some of her friends little Christmas gifts.Last year we made "stained glass window" gingerbread biscuits ...... the year before it was marshmallow snowmen gifts...
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Magic Elves 2014
So it's January had been and gone and I have only just managed to find the time to post the update about our Christmas visitors.Sally and Colin came with us to visit Father Christmas. He was very...
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A family of robins on our Christmas cake
I know I am very late posting about Christmas still but I wanted to share our Christmas cake for last year.This year I decided I would do something a little different with our Christmas cake and make...
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