tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54349611315361609182024-02-19T17:10:15.476+00:00Sue's Cakes and Other NonsenseSue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-83568635859910329932013-06-02T11:09:00.002+01:002013-06-02T11:20:23.594+01:00We had a weekend awayHi its me again, i don't post for a while and then I seem to have lot to say and share. Last bank holiday was the first weekend without Kaara so as you can imagine it was very quiet in our home. I made an off hand suggestion that maybe we should get away not really expecting Kevin to go along with this, but he said yes what a good idea. As it was lateish on the Friday when I mentioned it we frantically started looking for somewhere to go, as you can imagine most places were booked, but I managed to find a place in Abersoch called the Riverside that had one room let. We booked it not really knowing what it would be like, but the place is really pretty. Kevin thinks it is a mini Newquay, I must say I have to agree. We have never been to that area before but I think we will be going back. The two nights away did us good even though my bed got wet from the room upstairs when they used the shower. It is a hotel that needs a bit of TLC but it is very clean and the owners are very welcoming. I think they tend to look after the younger market as they have a disco in their pub every night and only do bed and breakfast, but I think they could do more as they have a really nice restaurant that is not being fully utilised. The village however has a number of pubs and restaurants and we had an Indian Meal on the Saturday night and a pub meal on the Sunday night. I think we will give the pub a try when we go back next time as they also do bed and breakfast.
Abersoch as a lovely harbour and the hotel sits alongside a small river, hence its name. We had wonderful weather and I think the time away helped. We are going to try and do this more often when savings allow. I think this is all my news for now so will leave you with a few photos of our weekend away.
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Despite different treatment the lump seemed not to be responding although it wasn't getting any bigger. Then she started to have collapsing episodes, they though it may be her heart but the monitor did not show up anything although they could hear an irregular beat. We started a two week course of treatment but she seemed to really be struggling with this one and the collapsing episodes were getting worse especially when she had the chemo tablets which we were now giving her at home. A week ago this Friday gone, Kaara collapsed and could not get up, we called our local vet as that was the nearest and they told us to bring her in as soon as the opened. Suffice to say she walked in quite happily wagging her tail and greeting everyone. The nurses call her "The Famous Kaara" as her file is so thick and all the reports are copied back to them from Liverpool Uni so they know whats going on. Her file is also like a book there to.
The vet we saw was the one that had diagnosed her last year and whilst everyone was amazed at how well she had done, they felt the time had come. Sadly we had to let Kaara go and this was the worst thing we have had to do, we had come a long way but deep down in our hearts we new it could not go on forever. Now Kaara is remembered with love although it is hard at the moment to come home and she is not there to great us, but we are getting there.
Apologies for the sad tail, but I felt I needed to talk about it to strangers as it is difficult to talk to each other just now as it is still upsetting. Here are some photo's of Kaara taken at various times in our life with her.
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Good morning all, well noise of the birds this morning I lay in bed until 5.00 am and thought, I am wide awake now so why not get up and have a cuppa and post my latest news. I was asked by a colleague at work could I make a cake for his daughters birthday on asking for a few details I found out that she would be sixteen and had just got a placement as an apprentice hairdresser, so there in lies the idea. I searched for a few ideas and came up with one I thought would work, he had also gone away and came back with some of his own. Well I like a challenge and and I am self taught somethings can seem a bit daunting. However, I rose to his challenge am made this cake, it had a pair of straighteners and a hair dryer. Whilst not perfect n my eyes and I think I had used too much icing powder hen working the fondant I don't think I did too bad. I will say though that I do NOT like working with black fondant. He collected the cake on Tuesday and says his daughter was more than happy with my effort an had posted pictures on her Facebook page. Another happy customer I hope !!!. Now on to my next one which is a surprise for someone who is 50 on Friday and he is so not expecting what us girlies at work have planned for him. Here area couple of picture of my hairdresser cake.
By for now and see you all soon. x
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-46007041028933402412013-04-13T11:57:00.000+01:002013-04-13T11:57:17.924+01:00Last few<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPOfHRNADP8lQPxCNs32r-uBsdThRJw2CFPVukz7Ltq3dTm8ZDd7im6JaLI2xHpca2-LrNXFH7aLB9VzMY9SzkfoS8shiaZ5a-6leoxk1Nacf3Fpr9uDiUDv3FW8Pln4B2yevRrBJmwT-/s1600/HHandbag+Cake.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPOfHRNADP8lQPxCNs32r-uBsdThRJw2CFPVukz7Ltq3dTm8ZDd7im6JaLI2xHpca2-LrNXFH7aLB9VzMY9SzkfoS8shiaZ5a-6leoxk1Nacf3Fpr9uDiUDv3FW8Pln4B2yevRrBJmwT-/s320/HHandbag+Cake.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGM1B4XUjKUISOiwmGsDoiTeTrzE_rTB3r360zuq3f9lDeOWyPummvEJXQ4lOlYuAlwD0YFAYCSva2F_6-csucJ6EJ6odd0YyhpUKULwsp4hLlrNoQ5l4rm56tFufuBhFCTzxpLymyPiQ/s1600/Wedding+Cakes.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGM1B4XUjKUISOiwmGsDoiTeTrzE_rTB3r360zuq3f9lDeOWyPummvEJXQ4lOlYuAlwD0YFAYCSva2F_6-csucJ6EJ6odd0YyhpUKULwsp4hLlrNoQ5l4rm56tFufuBhFCTzxpLymyPiQ/s320/Wedding+Cakes.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBO5tQvjjiFXnrjXgQcn6tQRHkALwnyDtpnMSOt6k3zz0A6vd4phadf-kzRU489431W58lDSfA3nLQbTQIuY1fLKdgcHnPQnwEXquyvOjeYRKWvacEBNlchVb-byHM9Ydhi67CCWLhtuTa/s1600/Wedding+cakes3.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBO5tQvjjiFXnrjXgQcn6tQRHkALwnyDtpnMSOt6k3zz0A6vd4phadf-kzRU489431W58lDSfA3nLQbTQIuY1fLKdgcHnPQnwEXquyvOjeYRKWvacEBNlchVb-byHM9Ydhi67CCWLhtuTa/s320/Wedding+cakes3.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2PTi4W3mMIxyR9NMod8FB3NTq-be77KVhA32oP9BO8hDm8u49qj46efQWbxqGA_MPooZBOTDCkCUBSBsMWpVwVRwLWgFkR3JalgIuzO78iqUSztxWZYj4xlooL1djgpPCkbKdkhPjhHc/s1600/Wedding+cakes4.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2PTi4W3mMIxyR9NMod8FB3NTq-be77KVhA32oP9BO8hDm8u49qj46efQWbxqGA_MPooZBOTDCkCUBSBsMWpVwVRwLWgFkR3JalgIuzO78iqUSztxWZYj4xlooL1djgpPCkbKdkhPjhHc/s320/Wedding+cakes4.jpg" /></a>Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-65192928365055638772013-04-13T11:56:00.000+01:002013-04-13T11:56:07.236+01:00Some more photo's from the Cake ShowJust a few more, I would just like to say again we had a wonderful day out, even hubby enjoyed himself, I thinks he understands a little more about my love of cooking and baking, he was impressed with the time and work that had gone into some of these creations.
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I was luck enough to have been given tickets to the Cake and Bake Show that was held at the Gmex Center last weekend. One of my Site Managers knows I am mad on cooking and baking and as a surprise organised for me to have tickets. I encouraged hubby to go with me mainly because, I didn't want to drive to Manchester but we decided to go on the train. I don't do trains so wasn't looking forward to this but as there is a train station very close to where I live and the stop we need to get off at was Deansgate, it made sense and saved a lot of money and stress of battling the city traffic. We strolled down to the train station and boarded the train, considering I haven't been on a train since I was little it was quite enjoyable. We chatted and watched the scenery as we passed through each station. We arrived at Deensgate and walked through the station over the tram lines and we were there, it was so easy. We waited in line for a few minuted then we went in and I collected our tickets from the booking office. We had a stroll round looking at the various stalls, there was quite a bit to see, but I wanted t catch some of the demonstrations. Lost hubby along the way but didn't worry too much as i knew I would find him later. I took in a demo by Mitch Turner, they handed out a recipe card of one of her cakes, she showed us how to do the frosting on it. It was a raspberry frosting but she had colored four portions of it with raspberry coolie and it gradually got lighter and lighter as the piping got to the top of the cake. I thinks it is one I will have a try at, the effect was really good.
Eric Lanlard was also there giving demos, I couldn't get close enough to see his but enjoyed listening to him he has such a lovely french accent and I have enjoyed his series which has bee on television "Baking Mad".
Paul Hollywood had also been there but as I went on the Saturday I missed him as he had done his demonstrations on the Friday, never mind I will just have to watch him on the telly.
It was good to see families with young children arriving as well, and they children looked really interested in what what going on.
I took some photos of some of the exhibits they were fab especially the one designed as a dress it was so intricate, unfortunately I didn't get a photo of the back as there were too many people around, but it certainly gives you the encouragement to have a go.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-83172763718650344132013-03-31T09:22:00.001+01:002013-03-31T09:23:08.005+01:00Lost my way a little!Hello all in blog land, I seem to have lost my way a little and have not kept my blog up to date very well nor ave I visited many of you. I think I just needed a little time away and not do anything in particular. Things with family and pets have not been brilliant, certainly not in 2012 and we thought 2013 would be better but it has not improved so far, but, you just have to pick yourself up and get back on track and keep smiling.
I have lots planned craft wise, perhaps that's the problem, I am planning too much, although the main thing I am still going to concentrate on is my cake decorating. I had a blast at Christmas and had 22 orders which I completed and delivered and I have repeat orders for Christmas 2013, I am going to start preparing for these in August. At lease I can get the fruit cakes done and stored away and I am going to sort out my pricing (honest!).
My range oven is now completely fixed thanks to a very good engineer that came recently. It would appear there was a design fault with the timer which meant contacts were not being made with the controls and this sent one of my ovens into continual auto which meant you could not use it no matter what you did. It took 4 timer's to be replaced before this was sorted. Then the grill stopped working and the second oven also stopped working, right in the middle of Sunday dinner I might add, thankfully I still have my combination microwave oven and a Tefal dry fryer which meant I could still do roasties and roast the joint. I have a steamer so the veggies were sorted to.
I didn't do so well with Valentines Cake orders this time, but then I did not really make it know I was doing them, I really need to get some sort of poster together and get that put up on then notice boards at work, this is where the majority of my orders come from and I have even received orders from friends and relatives of my work colleagues so that is good.
I also did a birthday cake for a five year old with a request for a picture of one of his favorite characters,i used my printer which has been set up for transferring pictures on to edible icing sheets and then place on top of the dampened surface of the decorated cake. I managed to get this on this time without any rinkles or bubbles, there is certainly a knack to this.
No I am off to put some washing out it is a wonderfully sunny morning even though a little cold but there is still a chance to get the washing out, I am so pleased I am getting fed up with washing drying in the house and having piles of it to wash because you can't do it all at once as there isn't the room.
Here are some pictures of the cakes I mentioned earlier.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-37363468181337039342012-12-29T15:26:00.001+00:002012-12-29T15:26:31.976+00:00Christmas Cakes 2012 Contd.../The sizes range from big enough for a single person up to family size depending on how much you want to eat, I made smaller ones for my father and mother in law as an extra for their Christmas box, they say they don't need anything but they do such a lot for us that I thought it would be nice to do something that is homemade, it is the second year I have done this and they look forward to it, its something different. I will be adding an extra one next year for my sister in law as she has been eyeing up the one I made for my mother in law, so that will be a surprise for her.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-44385083296085714642012-12-29T15:17:00.001+00:002012-12-30T10:58:32.121+00:00Christmas Cakes 2012Those of you who know me know that I also make Christmas Cakes, I have done these for about three years now maybe a bit longer, each year I have had repeat orders and this year i received some extra ones from others and an increase in orders from my regulars. I am hoping that in 2013 I will have orders for other celebration cakes. That is my aim so we shall see what 2013 brings.
The majority of the cakes were fruit cakes and two were sponge. The theme this year was mainly silver and gold, I try and make them different each year it is hard but I think I managed it.
I am feeling the urge to do some of my other crafts but am not sure which to do, whether it is crochet, knitting, cross stitch or dressmaking, I have just made some curtains for my husbands study at his request while I am off so I am thinking something along maybe patch working, I have a lot of fabric in my various cupboards that would be of use.
I am off now to have a look!
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-28264592349468396142012-12-29T15:06:00.000+00:002012-12-29T15:06:05.965+00:00Cakes for a Double ChristeningMy sister in law asked me to make a christening cake for her new grandson, at it turned out the order was for two as there was an elder sister of the grandson who has not been christened so they had decided to have a double christening. As the little girl was a little older she is two I think I thought it more appropriate to make two ad that is what I did. I wasn't able to go to the christening but the feedback i had was that they were very happy with what I had made as I had bot been given any idea of the design I was told to come up with my own. So, blue for a boy and pink for a girl, you can't go much wrong with that I thoughts. I had some ribbons in my stash and the rest you can see in the photo's. The cakes were my usual vanilla Victoria sponges decorated in fondant.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-27687342038421907982012-12-29T14:50:00.001+00:002012-12-29T14:50:13.044+00:00Greetings to you allI hope you are all enjoying your Christmas Break and are looking to bringing in the New Year. I for one cannot wait for the New Year to start and i hope that for the Bridges Family and other family members it will be a much happier and prosperous one.
My life has been so busy of late an it is only now I am coming up for air, I haven't had much time for my blog or visiting friends. But I have been busy ion my kitchen on the run up to Christmas, well no change there then you must all be saying. Here is an update. Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-25588260566660376072012-11-05T06:50:00.001+00:002012-11-06T06:35:35.479+00:00UpdateA good few weeks ago now I completed my first ever order for a wedding cake. The photo I posted of it was one of my own and I am no photographer. I asked my customer who is also a work colleague if possible could I have a photo from the actual wedding and finally I have one. I think it looks great even though I say so myself, they have dressed the table wonderfully and even though i did not know what shade of pink they were using I thing I matched the cake up very well.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-32612043485569671692012-10-28T13:51:00.000+00:002012-10-28T13:51:22.744+00:00A Wedding Anniversary and a Birthday Hope you are all enjoying yourselves in bloggerland. I am so busy at the moment my days are running into each other. I am currently preparing fir my Christmas Cake orders and I have my list of request already. As well as preparing for that I have had my granddaughter or a couple of days whilst my son and his partner went to Alton Towers. Luna is walking now so I was on the go all the time, I had forgotten what it us like to have an active toddler in the house.
I received two orders this month from the same person. He had asked me to make a cake for his parents Golden Wedding Anniversary and he wanted their wedding photo on it, which i was able to do as I have a printer which is set up for food use. It is really fun doing these and I hope to use this for some of my Christmas Cakes. Here is the finished result, it was one of my fruit cakes decorated in white with piped icing around the edge of the photo with painted gold lettering. I came across this paint in Hobby craft and it is edible so it is quite safe to use. There are other colours which I will buy at a later date.
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The same person also at the last minute asked for a birthday cake for two of their relatives one was celebrating their 70th and the other her 40th hence him asking for me to combine their ages. He was taking this away on holiday with them as they were having a family gathering. I hope both parties go well.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-75871538618755621282012-10-07T12:49:00.000+01:002012-10-07T12:49:25.755+01:00Silver WeddingOne of our Site Managers celebrated his Silver Wedding Anniversary last week and he asked if I would make them a cake, it is a fruit cake with white fondant icing, roses, and lettering. The ribbon was white silk with a silver heart pattern along it. I hope he liked it, they came to collect and stayed for a chat and a cup of tea.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-64433869259030909792012-10-07T10:46:00.000+01:002012-10-07T10:46:04.551+01:00A Donation for a Coffee MorningHello to you all, I have been rather busy of late with baking working and genrally running the house but then aren't we all. I am now getting ready for Christmas (as in making Christmas Cakes) I have 17 orders already for my cakes and that does not include all of my previous customers. I am hoping I will have more. In between all that I have been receiving orders for other celebrations. I was asked by one of the managers at work if I would donate a cake for a Macmillan Coffee morning they were having one one of our developments, the choice was mine on what I made.
I decided I would go for a chocolate hit and made my Chocolate Victoria sponge cake filled will strawberry jam and chocolate butter cream. I then covered it in chocolate fondant, this was something I had not used before and is quite difficult to work with. I think the chocolate content makes it easier to melt if worked too much, but I managed to cover the cake. I made some flowers with ivory coloured fondant and put a cream ribbon around it to finish it off. I think it looks the business and the coffee morning went down well raising around £500.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-35604171077381201292012-09-09T10:46:00.001+01:002012-09-09T10:46:36.253+01:00And finally "The Wedding Cake"Yes, I did it I have made my fist ever official Wedding Cake and delivered it to the venue, sadly I did not get more photo's but I a hoping to get some from the actual bride and groom on their return from honeymoon. The cake had originally been ordered as a three tier but they wanted and extra one at the last minute. The big day was on the 1st September, so we came back from out two week break early so I could finish decorating it and also make the sponges for the other three tiers. I took the cake in four boxes and assembled it there, my hands were shaking when I put the finishing touches to it. But I was pleased with it and I hope they were too!
The four tiers consisted of:
Top - Chocolate sponge 6"
Second - Lemon Sponge 8"
Third - Vamilla Sponge 10"
Fourth - Fruit Cake 12"
All decorated (obviously) in the required colours and dowelled on the lower layers to give it strength when stacked.
I hope this is finally the start of my little "empire". I am now thinking of the Christmas Cakes I will be making, I already have orders for these, so am getting planning now. In the meantime for next month I have a Silver Wedding Anniversary Cake and an Golden Wedding Anniversary Cake to make. These are both fruit cakes so these can be made now and stored away until I am ready to decorate them.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-75815870392722036062012-09-09T10:28:00.001+01:002012-09-09T10:35:36.190+01:00Holiday in CornwallWe finally made it, we we had out holiday in Cornwall. This was a much needed holiday to re-charge our batteries. The year we have had so far has not been pleasant. Firstly there had been issues with our Son and his new family, but now this is sorted and they are busy settling into their new home. The next thing that hit us was hubby's dad was diagnosed with prostrate cancer, we received this news on the jubilee bank holiday weekend, things did not go very well especially what we were being told and we seemed to be working our way around the north west visiting him in the various hospitals that he was taken to.
He is now safely home and although is still an invalid he is getting back to his old self, we had been lead to believe that he was going to die from the cancer and also that he had a very serious heart attack all of which was not true when hubby and his sister went to visit dad's doctor to find out exactly what had been going on, it was such a big relief to find that yes he had got prostrate cancer but it had been successfully treated and no he had not had a heart attack but an infection which had caused him problems with breathing. Dad is 83 and still has a lot of time left in him, like everyone we will all pass away eventually but his time is definitely not yet. He is home and doing well, there are carers that come in four times a day to help out and the physio was due to be started last week and the aim of this is to get him walking about on his own and ultimately to go upstairs to use the bathroom and sleep in his proper bed. At the moment he is sleeping in a hospital bed which is in the living room. A stair lift has already been installed for his use, so there should be no problem in him going upstairs when he wants to. Kevin's sister does most of the running around it is lucky that she doesn't work and lives quite close but it has been an immense help that she there.
On top of everything else our dog Kaara was also diagnosed with cancer, unfortunately it is T-cell Lymphoma which cannot be cured but she is receiving chemo therapy at the Liverpool Small Animal Hospital this will last for 25 weeks and believe it or not she is in remission lets hope this lasts, although we are under no illusion that eventually this will get the better of her but at least she is receiving the best treatment.
I know I had a bit of a rant there but had to get this of my chest.
We travelled down to Cornwall and started out holiday at a cottage on a farm at a place called Goonhaven, this is about two miles or so from Penzance. Here are a couple of photo's for now, I will post some more in my next update I took quite a few and we are planning to go back next year.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-38804363804784536592012-09-09T10:11:00.001+01:002012-09-09T10:11:39.253+01:00A quick Birthday CakeBefore we went away my son rang me to ask me to make his partner a birthday cake, Donna's birthday is a few days after mine so it is easy for me to remember. I hadn't got much time to plan anything, but carried on with a theme that I had done for the Handbag Birthday Cake I had made previously, this cake was only a small one so I made some easy roses to go around the bottom and a smaller version of the purse I had made previously.
He came and collected it and Donna was pleases with the surprise. I enjoyed making it to as I do all my cakes it is very good therapy doing these especially after completing a stressful day at work.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-31766776090228224432012-09-09T10:04:00.001+01:002012-09-09T10:04:54.390+01:00Return from a welcome breakHaving now been back for a week and also back at work it seems a long time since our two week break. Before we started we spent a day out with our granddaughter and took her to the park which was a 10 minute walk away from our son's home. She is growing up fast now and is almost walking, here are a few pictures, we stopped at MacDonalds on the way for some lunch and at one point she looked as though she was having quite a serious conversation with her Granddad who was chatting away to her. She also had her very first go on the swings which I think she was a bit unsure of but by the time she finished she was really enjoying it. She also had a go on the slide with her dad but I did not manage to get a photo of that although her mum did. I will have to see if I can get that one. I think going to the park with your children gives grown ups especially dads the opportunity to be silly.
We had a lovely afternoon out and Kaara joined us to.
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-54009527862460244302012-08-13T20:56:00.000+01:002012-08-13T20:56:47.137+01:00Handbag Style Birthday CakeWell here we are another week and this week I am looking forward to the weekend as we start our two week break. Can't wait. In the meantime, I have a busy time ahead what with getting things ready for our hols, to trying to tidy up the house and also complete some orders for cakes. Here is the one I have just finished this evening for collection tomorrow. This was for a handbag style, not done one of these before so tried to keep it quite simple till I know what I am doing. Again I used my ever faithful Victoria sponge cake and shaped it a little, the purse is made completely out of fondant just to give it a bit of extra decoration. See you all soon I am off to do the washing up now.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sue Bridgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152070357219550427noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434961131536160918.post-91506487664631125002012-08-07T19:01:00.002+01:002012-08-07T19:19:16.935+01:00Our GranddaughterAnd my last post for this evening, I just had to share some photos of our granddaughter trying out her baby walker. We bought this after her last visit together with a high chair and after this last weekend we bought a buggy for when she comes again. Us oldies are not used to the new prams they have now and we had a nightmare taking hers apart. So when we took Luna back home we told our son no way were we using theirs again!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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