now a thirtysomething from Brisbane
This is a layout I did earlier this evening, you know like 15mins ago 🙂 one of the many joys of digital scrapbooking, I don’t have to hike downstairs to the scanner and scan the bugger in.
I have spent a little bit of hard earned dough in the last couple days, but of course when I wanted to take photos today it was all overcast and rainy 🙁 and I also have done some sewing but again can’t take photos because of the weather 🙁
For the last two, perhaps three Christmases, Matthew and I have looked curiously at the various Italian Christmas cakes that appear in the stores where we work early each November. This year instead of talking about getting one, we did on the post Christmas sales of course 🙂 which made the price a lot more attractive. The cake we picked up was a Dolce Bacio Panettone, that is described as
(the) Most famous Italian chocolate is transformed into a panettone (traditional Italian Christmas cake). This is the origin of big Dolce Bacio (Sweet kiss). Soft cake filled with chocolate and hazelnut cream in the shape of a chocolate. This panettone is a nice present to be eaten in company of friends, family or colleagues. A sweet present to be made to everyone who deserves a kiss. Source – ItalianfoodsHQ.
However imagine our response when we had each had a slice of cake each and both didn’t think it tasted that nice. We still had 2/3 of a cake left and we were going to get our monies worth, so we brainstormed and I came up with this idea to make it a lot more palatable.
Step 1 – Line spring form cake pan with baking paper.
Step 2 – Crumble cake and using roughly half form a base.
Step 3 – Press cake down well to create a well formed base.
Step 4 – Spoon thin layers of ice-cream onto cake layer, not worrying if you have thick and thin patches.
Step 5 – Use the other half of the cake and create a another layer in the same method used before.
Step 6 – Spoon another layer of ice-cream on to the cake, trying to get a relatively even layer this time.
Step 7 – Cover pan with some baking paper and place in the freezer for 24hrs or until set.
Step 8 – Serve with fresh fruit and enjoy a cake that tastes a whole lot nicer than it did originally.
Notes: If we had, had any chocolate or chocolate sauce in the house I would have drizzled the sauce or molten chocolate between the layers for extra goodness. The idea would also work quite nicely with any cake even if it tasted nice before hand 🙂
I borrowed this gorgeous book out of the library the other week called Vintage-Style Quilts by Flora Roberts and one of the projects in it was a ribbon pin cushion which was constructed on a similar method to a log-cabin block, inspired by the idea, I grabbed some cotton, lots of ribbon and got started. The block is about 8″ square.
The elephant in the middle is from ribbon that was used to trim the curtains in my bedroom and the others are 3/8″ ribbons that I have collected in the last year or so from scrapbooking.
I have no idea what I will do with this block, Mum has suggested making 12 tiny ones to go round the edge and turn it into a cushion cover or to make it the feature of a bag. I have no idea what I will do other than sit and look at it 🙂 Ideas?
In other news
Readymade Magazine now has a blog.
Check out these awesome lights from brightlights-littlecity.
Uncooked – cards that well make you laugh like others have not before.
Lastly, perhaps you may have noticed that I have my very own favicon for my site – 
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This is one of the crochet items I have been working on in the last day or so, just a super simple bag to make, perfect to do whilst watching TV 🙂 The pattern comes from the book Simple Crochet by Ericka Knight, it uses two balls of plastic string which cost me AU$2.49 each which also means it is super cheap to make 🙂 The variations I did was to add another row of single crochet to the top and slip stitch round the top to give it a nicer finish and to chain 60 for the handles instead of 52. When I make the next one I think I will add a few more rounds to the middle to make it a wee bit longer and also to chain 70 or so for the handles.
Four new layouts from the last day or two and two from before we went away, as always click on the thumbnail to be taken to it’s page with it’s notes and larger image 🙂
Some time after finishing High School in November 2002, I started to become shall we say more girly, in fact a few of the high school girls say that without a doubt I am the most changed since school (I’m cool with that). As I started to realise my girly side, a whole lot more pink started appearing in my life and well yesterday the ultimate piece of pinkness arrived. Can you guess what it is from the picture below? Yep a PINK Motorola V3 Razr, I can still remember when I first saw the post about them over on Shiny Shiny, I was just in utter bliss. I had to get one!! So I started tracking the prices on Ebay (meant I saved about AU$200 on the price) and when the price was right, I hit that little button and bought one 🙂 We are now a little Razr family as Matthew has a Black Razr 🙂
This is actually only a fraction of the pink things I own, some clothes are in the wash, my wallets are in hand bags, my bin is on the floor, sheets in the linen cupboard etc etc. What can I say; it’s all about the pink!