Indulgence

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After a bit of a break in the kitchen,

(too busy watching Masterchef to actually cook),

I was forced to action some cupcakes today.

Year 2 Cake Sale Today.

Do you qualify as a bad mummy

if you enjoy baking without your offspring around?

The pinnacle moment for me is licking the spoon.

Is it such a bad, wicked thing to want to do that myself

every once in a while?

Cake sale is starts in 40 minutes,

just enough time to clean evidence off my face

and bundle cakes up.

Happy Weekend

Carmel

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Sat AM: $1000 dollars raised at cake sale - woo hoo!

Party & Cupcakes

THE party was a raging success.

Above is one of the towering cupcakes created.

There was a lot of icing.  A lot of debris.

A lot of laughter, noise and screaming.

There was a lot of F.U.N.

which makes it all worth it.

All The Fun of the Fair

These are the cupcakes I made for the fair.  We still don't have the tally, but I do know the curry stall raised over $2,500, which is phenomenal.  The mother who organised that one deserves a round of applause - it's a huge task.

Meet Vanessa.

Miss O had $20 saved to spend at the fair.  I bought them both the prepaid armbands for the rides, but anything else had to be paid from their own money.

I tried to talk a usually very prudent Miss O out of buying tickets for the toy stall

a) because proceeds did not go to the school but to ride operators

b) because I did not want a 2 foot soft toy in our tiny house

What do you know, we have a new family member.  This is Vanessa keeping a flailing Miss O company on Friday evening after a busy day at athletics carnival and afternoon at the local McDonalds for the after party.

Miss O wondering if she's won a ribbon for that one.

(She didn't win any - but gave it her best shot)

Her outfit is her own interpretation of 'sports wear'.

There is a lot of grey in her wardrobe,

planted by me,

so there is not too much choice there

My Creative Space

Terribly late today.  I've been possessed by migraine for 2 days and have only just surfaced.  As you can imagine not much has been created in that time.  The weekend was totally taken over with our school spring fair, the major fundraiser of the year.  On Saturday I cooked a pot of veggie curry big enough to feed a small village and made cupcakes anyone under the age of 8 could not pass on.

We are still waiting on the final tally, but I think it was all worth the effort.  My two had a super dooper day and fell into bed exhausted, as did I.  My Mr CC came and helped set up the lolly stall, but missed out on all the fun as he flew out to Perth at lunchtime for work.

Today I've just been looking at my vintage sheet collection, which I am slowly building.  A bit of contemplating went on.  I think I need a few more to add to the mix, before I start making a summer quilt for Miss O.  Our local Spotlight now stocks candlewick in the quilting section, so I have this piece ready to go.  I will use this as backing and no filling.  My Miss O is a bit of a nordic creature, and doesn't like heavy bedding.

 I picked up this tablecloth on my trip to Berrima last month, with the intention of cutting it into patches for quilts.  After I washed it and it came up beautiful and sparkly, I decided that it is going to be our outdoor tablecloth this year.  It really would be criminal to cut it up.

Remember to pop in to Kootoyoo to see what the creative world has been up to.