As of yesterday our garden broke even on the amount of money spent on plants, soil and pots, ok so it is a slight cheat as we bought alot of stuff with us and have been given a lot of things and that does not include Mary's apple tree but still I am very happy with this. Especially as everything is in pots and containers!
Above are some of our crops 🙂 At the weekend I bought a lovely rosemary plant for 50 p too 🙂
So Jean wanted to celebrate the Queen's Day so we have been 🙂 We have been to lots of fantastic events and I've even done a poetry reading at the Stroud Water Festival which was lovely. But before I write all that lot up here are the cakes Jean baked and I decorated 🙂
This was my first attempt at these sort of cupcakes 🙂 Technique learnt from The Baking Bird and Lakeland Youtube videos. It was also my first attempt at using cooky cutters for making the decorations something inspired by my friends at Centre Arts in Cheltenham. The big cake is a rich fruit cake with brandy soaked fruit.
As an aside The Baking Bird is doing deliveries throughout the UK and she is giving a chunk of her profits in June to Shelter Box. If they do a big bake again next year I may take part 🙂
Write up on cake making will appear on Salaric Cooking shortly. Also just click the photos if you want to see a bigger image 🙂
This is our first batch of cake pops - made as a family for a delayed May Day celebration.
I had wanted to get this machine at christmas but with house moving and stuff I couldn't.
We all had fun making the cake pops 🙂
I think they looked good as the table centre piece 🙂
Here are Jean's cake pops
Here are Alaric's Goth Pops 🙂
Out of mine there were only two good designs - black icing with purple edible glitter which I could not get a good photograph of and my topary cake pop.
I wasn't sure about the thickness of icing etc... so we had made up different thicknesses to try and we decorated some then and there and others we left to dry and decorated with icing pens and things later on!
Alaric and Jean had fun making cake pop pals for me which I filmed and will be making wiggly pet e-comic type things with the still photos 🙂
There will be more cake pops and cake pop pals 🙂 My big project is a cake pop bucky ball 🙂
So I have had my eye on a cake pop machine since before christmas and have bought one for basically £20 from lakeland as the amount of ideas I am having for them means I can't sleep and Jeany wants a darleck cake for her birthday so I would have to get one then!
But I have also been thinking on science and science communication and things right so two creative things that aren't cooking have come out of this already.
One is a bizar video of the cake pop characters that Jean and Alaric made called The Gape Mouthed One and is obviously part of a series not to mention the stills I tool will be finding their way onto the Wiggly Pets blog.
Then there is a poem. It is about the way I think basically and came out of Alaric's impression of me talking just after we got the cake pop machine. I have recorded as it was only written last night and I haven't had a chance to sort out the spelling issues yet 🙂
It is called ADHD The Polymath Dream.
On top of that I have found myself looking at Science Communication courses which is probably nuts but it occured to me that I now live in walking distance of a train station that can get me at least to either London or Bristol.
I'm going for easy challenges this Month due to a) having killed my wrist with the Nanowrimo and my 72, 000 words b) having that whole Christmas thingy! and c) now being very pregnant!
So I am taking the easy options of doing a blog post every day and an hour of art/craft a day.
I am putting up links to past and present christmas crafts and cooking on Rachel Cotterill as part of her fun Craft Christmas Count Down! I'm aiming for a link a day 🙂
Domestic, Gardening, Recipies | sarah | 
Wed 20th Jun 2012 5:51 pm | 
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