A Special Birthday Cake

It was Mr LD's birthday recently, a very special one.

We had our party in May but how could I let this day go by without a special birthday cake.

He is quite the Japanophile having visited that country on numerous occasions. His love for all things Japanese has been handed down to his offspring, we all love the film MY Neighbour Totoro and I bought him a Totoro film poster (not an original I'm afraid) as one of his presents.

He had requested a Totoro cake last year but I never got round to it so I decided this was the year to try.

This is the most carved cake I have made, his arms, legs and ears were squished rice crispie bars, but I was fairly pleased with the final effect.

The kidlets wanted to join in too, so big kidlet made a figure and the blue Totoro, and little kidlet made the mini Totoro's. The birthday boy was very pleased with it all...oh and of course it was lemon flavour!

(You can see more of our Totoro obsession in this post)

(And if you want to see some really amazing carved cakes have a look here.)

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Pinterest

Do you pin?

I recently started and it has quickly become my new obsession!  I love it, and if I'm ever feeling a bit stressed a quick scroll through some gorgeous pins calms me down!

It has proved very useful for some of the various projects I'm working on as I can keep the image plus the link.

The kidlets have both started their own boards, so any Pokemon pinned are theirs!

We are hosting a very special party next week as my baby turns 5. The theme of ladybirds and owls has been in place since the last party. I thought you may like to see some of the inspiration we found on Pinterest.

1.Martha Stewart  2.Martha Stewart  3.Foodcraft  4. I Do It Myself  5.Craftjuice  6.Sundries and Plunder  7.Attilladesign

You can see the rest of the board here and follow me on Pinterest here.

Happy pinning!

xxx

Nevie-Pie Cakes at Selfridges...

I know I've not posted as much as I normally do in the last month or so, but I've been working hard on a secret project and I can now finally reveal what it is - I'm very excited and pleased to announce that I have been asked to create a Nevie-Pie Cakes Christmas range exclusively for Selfridges. This happened quite out of the blue, and a lot of thanks is due to Miss Cakehead, with a smaller amount of thanks to Snoop Dogg, at least in his biscuit form...

I have created three ranges for them: gingerbread houses, cookies and mini Christmas cakes. You can see sneak peeks of some of them in the pictures on this page... the themes are vintage, woodland and birds. It's a lot of hard work, and I'm very nervous! I'll be hand painting everything myself...

The mini Christmas cakes will be in all three of their their stores (London, Manchester and Birmingham) from mid-October, and the other goodies available (again, in all 3 stores) from mid-November - of course I will let you know when they are on sale. I'm sure I won't be able to resist a trip myself, and take a furtive picture on my phone, just to make sure I'm not really dreaming! There's also a small possibility that I'll be doing an in-store painting demo in the London branch in the run-up to Christmas, so if that happens I'll let you all know...

xxx