It's my birthday!

It is my birthday today and I have been so spoilt! My mixer blew up on Sunday while I was baking cupcakes to take to work, so today I received an AWESOME mixmaster from John & Talia! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!!!!! I couldn't resist today by baking some more cupcakes with my new mixer! I baked some peach & vanilla cupcakes today with cream frosting and I coloured the coconut for the topping.

We had morning tea at work yesterday and I baked some mudcake muffins and cappacino cupcakes with a meringue topping. I used my cupcake stand and I forgot to take a photo, it looked awesome! But managed to take a pic of 2 cupcakes before John demolised them!

Here are some of the pressies I have recieved, some boots from my sis, cupcake stand from my mother-in-law(pic above), mixer from John & Talia.

I also had a wonderful card made from Talia at daycare yesterday. It's the first hand & footprints that we have of her. Thank Nicole & Jess! I did try once when she was really little, but ended up with paint everywhere and no prints....
I have had the most enjoyable day today. Here are some things that happened on my b'day!
Morning tea with Nikki at McCafe, I hopped out of the shower this morning and turned around and there was Angel sitting in the wet shower!, also some pics of mummy & Talia. The most memorable thing today was having a dance with Talia to playschool...... our own little moment....






















As my parents are RVing around USA, I told mum I'd keep her updated on Talia on my blog. Here she is crawling around on the weekend. She is now standing up and desperately grabbing onto anything she can pull herself up on!

Love Lee

Cameron's 1st Birthday!

At my work a few of us girls were all pregnant at the same time, so the first bub has turned 1! I can't believe how fast the last year has gone!!!
Here is a Winnie The Poo cake for Cameron's first birthday, which was on Tuesday. I hear you had a wonderful party Cameron!I have a few sewing projects on at the moment for friends, school dance costumes, maternity dress, b'day cakes..... It is great to know that people are thinking of me for the creations!

Apologies for the slackness in posting, I have a sick husband and I think Talia & myself have a touch of it..... so I don't want to get any material out until our house is germ free!!!

Everyone rug up during the start of the winter weather.

Cheers Lee

Birthday, Birthday, Birthday!!

It is my 32nd birthday today and Happy Birthday to Me! I have not really enjoyed my birthday's since turning 30, but this year I decided that I would have a great day!!! After having the flu since last Thursday, it wasn't looking good.... But on Sunday I decided to make myself a huge big cake and lots of slices to take to work for morning tea.

So here is my yummy birthday cake! I even made a mini version cake for John & I to share tonight.

It is a marble maderia cake mix with vanilla, pink & chocolate and the swirls turned out awesome! I had to quickly take a pic of the swirls before the last of it was demolished at work.

Here was also an updated pregnant pic at 22 weeks.

Cheers

Lee

Meg's & Ben Wedding Cake

We went to Megan & Ben's beautiful wedding over the long weekend, it was in Pinjarra. The location backed onto the river and every little detail matched perfectly!
Here is a copy of the cake that I made for them. The bottom & top were fruit cake and the middle mud cake.
I didn't make the tulips & hat on the top...... wish I knew how to though.....

We had a great time and here are the people that went from my work.Congrats to Ben & Meg's!!!! We hope you have a wonderufl honeymoon in NZ!

Lee-Anne

Easter Egg Mascarpone Cheescake

I searched on the internet for an "Easter Egg Cheesecake" recipe and couldn't find one, so Donna from my work gave me a copy of a "Chocolate Mascarpone Cheesecake" that I converted for Easter deserts! Sorry, photo's doesn't do it justice (my dad hates cheesecake and he had seconds!)

Base:

250g chocolate creame biscuits, broken

1 cup walnuts

125g melter butter

Filling:

250g Easter Eggs or dark cooking chocolate, chopped

300ml thickened cream (however if your using easter eggs, add the cream gradually

500g mascarpone

1 tsp vanilla/peppermint or orange essence

1. Line your 22cm sping form tin with baking paper

2. Pulse biscuits in food processor until crumbs, add Walnut & butter, process again. Place 1/2 or 2/3 or mixture in your tin as the base. Refrigerate

3. Place chocolate & cream in pan. Stir over low heat until chocolate is melted & smooth. If using easter eggs, gradually add the cream as you might not need it all. Regrigerate for approx 30mins (stir occassionally)

4. Mix mascarpone & essence in a bowl and hand mix softly until smooth.

5. Place dollops of mascarpone into the chilled biscuit mixture and dollops of the chocolate between. Make swirls with the back of a fork and add more mixture until you use it all. Spoon over the remaining of the base. Refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Presto, done!

Easiest cheesecake I have made! Enjoy!

Lee-Anne

Welcome and some Cakes

It is very exciting starting up a Blog webpage. Please be patient while I set up my page.

I will be using this webpage to post sewing projects I complete and use to start up a part-time craft/sewing/hobby home-business that I have wanted to start up for a while. Thanks to everyone who has encouraged me to do something with my sewing and set up a part-time hobby. I wasn't going to set up a blog until I have started but thought it might be good to track my progress.

Here are some photo's for you to look at (some cakes I have made) while I get thing setup

John and I's Wedding cake

Here is Stacey & Richie's (my sis) Wedding cake

Here is my Aunty Jean's 60th b'day cake

Here is a Baby Shower cake for my cousin Carolyn

Here are some Christmas cakes

Here is a copy of a 30th b'day cake for Megan (from work) partner Ben

These are his personalized number plates from his first car

I hope you enjoy some looking at some of the cakes I have made!

Please visit my site again and hopefully I will have some more journalling done.

Thank you

Lee-Anne