Frockalishious!!

I've been collecting vintage sewing patterns from the 60's and 70's for quite a few years now 

and I'm slowly getting round to making them up.

Here's a couple of summer frocks i whipped up a couple of months ago.

There's plenty more where that came from i'll get them photographed and put up soon.....

Later's Gators

xxx

Robot In Diguise (as a cake)!

Don't you just love it when you come across something you completely forgot about?

Just last night i was going through some old photos and found a cake that my mum and I baked a couple of years ago for my nephew.

I think this may have been the start of my obsession with making novelty cakes for everyones birthday regardless if they actually want one or not haha.

Laters Gators

xxx

A Reason To Play With Your Food

Hi guys so last weekend i was helping out at an open day at Badger Press.

Trying to entice people to come down and take a look at the courses

they offer:

 http://badgerpress.org/blog/courses/

And to help lure people down I baked some extra special cupcakes

Everyone seemed to enjoy getting tashtastic!

Inside they had a secret blob of extra nutty chocolate spread.

Im not sure if anyone signed up for a course but all the cupcakes 

got eaten so I was happy

Laters Gators

xxx

buff monster

Hi guys so i bought myself a new screen print by artist Buff Monster

 courtesy of the amazing Dark City Gallery

Check it out!

I cant wait too get this puppy framed and up on my wall!!

Laters Gators

xxx

Stop That!!

Lately I seem to be going into a sewing frenzy 

so to feed my habit this weekend i made my brother, 

(Who is a massive fan of the skate make Toy Machine)

  This Ed Templeton inspired transistor sect monster plush toy/door stop.

Happily stuffed full of sand and fluff.

Now that's one happy camper!!

Im not sure how much time he will spend on the floor holding the door open though

Laters Gators

xxx 

Prints AHOY!

Lately it has come to my attention that i've developed a slight addiction with 

mexican day of the dead skulls. 

Ive been working on some designs of my own and finally got round to screen printing one.

First attempt with a 3 colour print registration is not my friend

Sticking with one colour just seemed too easy so i tried rainbowing my paints

 and remembering to keep my squeegee the right way to avoid a marbling mess.

WOO HOO 

finished result not to blow my own trumpet but i'm pretty pleased with the result.

Later gators

xxx

Your baking me crazy!

Hello there chaps over the past few months i've been baking up a storm .

There have been so many birthdays I can't keep up.

                        

Check out some of these beauties!!

Aliya's princess castle 

Robin's chocolate cream giant cupcake

Annabelle's chocolate over load!

Jessica's fairy mushroom cottage

Mum's Audrey II

Lex's comic book heros

Sarah's magical marshmallow rainbow

Harvey's trip too the moon

Roll on August 

5 birthday's in one month I can't wait

laters gators

xx 

Were gonna party like it's 1980!

My cousin had her 30th birthday the other week and threw an 80's themed fancy dress party. 

As usual me and my family spent way too long making our costumes.

Being a big TRON fan i decided to go as Yori

Here's how i made mine.

I made the basic leotard with spandex which is horrible to sew with.

I tried to re-enact the scene with the memory disk

 by using the cats food bowl.  

Hand painted on the design

Then decided to add some glow in the dark paint to make it extra special

Making the hat from cardboard and lots of PVA

Fancy boot covers made with wadding 

and a lot of machine stitching.

tissue paper and even more PVA

hurray finally finished i wont say how long it took let's just say too long

I might look like a gimp but it was worth it!

Super star wars plushies

Welcome to my blog I hope you like what you see.

This weekend we attended the sci fi south collectors fair and in preparation i set my geek factor to warp speed and made some plush pillows, and they went down a treat.

                            

First completed plushie pillow, Greedo

Original Storm trooper

And last but by no means least (peoples choice) Boba fett.

I even got to meet the lovely Paul Blake who played Greedo in Star Wars episode V - A New Hope and i gave him my last plushie and he was ecstatic and requested an Admiral Ackbar which was great.

 Oh yes and Chris Barrie was there

Always great to meet a fan

The stall looking a bit sparse after quite a few sales!

I only came home with one lonely storm trooper but also came away 

with requests for loads of other characters

Can't wait to sign up for the december show.

laters gators xx