Christmas CupCaking!

A couple of days ago I received from my parents a * very broad hint * in the guise of CUPCAKE MAGIC, little cakes with attitude, a book by Kate Shirazi.

This book is full of inspirational photos and great for beginner cake bakers and the more experienced alike.

I’m especially interested in making the glitter roses – - – and have a couple of ideas of my own for other Christmas themes. I’ll be adding photos of my own cupcakes here soon…..

Cover a cheap diary

Always being frugal and trying to recycle what I can, I bought a cheap pocket diary for next year (2010) and covered it in some beautiful Japanese flower fabric.

All you need to do is lay the fabric out flat with the opened diary on top and cut round all sides leaving a margin of 1.5 cm. Glue down the edges of one side first, remember to snip little cuts top and bottom so the fabric is able to bend and fold over that page – - – and repeat with the other side.

You are then finished with a customised beautiful looking diary…no one need know it cost under £1 plus fabric scrap!

Nope you're not reading mine...

DC Comics for sale

Christmas is nearing and maybe you have a Superman or Batman fan in your family…my fiance is selling his entire collection (almost 1000 DC comics)
http://houseofhorror.wordpress.com/
Some are on ebay auctions, some via his blog (click on the link for more info).
Comics are in perfect condition and shipped to most countries from Canada. More comics for sale will be added to his blog, so keep checking back

Not quite a BookWorm…

Cat-in-Books

I found this news article too adorable not to post!

A Kent library has been visited almost every day for two years by its own “puss in books”, the council has said.

Fidel, an eight-year-old black cat, turns up at Deal library almost every day while his owners are at work.

He spends the day on his favourite blue chair, only leaving the building when he sees his owners arriving home.

Staff say they have never tried to encourage Fidel with food and even used to put him outside when he first began to visit them, but he always came back.

‘Art critic’

Heather Hilton, district manager for Deal Library, said: “Fidel certainly seems to like coming here and he’s very popular with our customers.

“I think he’s a bit of an art critic too because we sometimes see him examining the pictures on the gallery wall,” she added.

A spokeswoman for Kent County Council which runs the library said Fidel was such a “dedicated customer” that he sometimes arrived before staff and could be found waiting at the front door.

Fidel is a rescue cat, whose owners chose him from a local sanctuary after he was found abandoned in a flat in Deal.

by the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8021407.stm