Baking havoc

Steering away from renovations slightly, I thought I'd share my weekend of baking havoc. I designed the flyers for the local Hither Green Week and thought I'd quite like to have a stall in the local food, arts and craft fair which opened the week of festivities. I decided to undertake... with lots of help from my sister, D, selling things like cupcakes, brownies, lamingtons, injure-bread men (injured gingerbread men - proceeds went to GOSH) and pupcakes - puppy-friendly cupcakes! (proceeds to South East London RSPCA)

We both booked a Friday off work and spent 10 hours sifting, stirring, baking and icing a LOT of baked goods! And also, for fun, hyping up the lamingtons (an Aussie specialty) on Twitter which a few local residents were a little bit excited about!

Here are a few pics of the day, the flyer and also a link to my cooking blog "Surfing the Silver Spoon" which goes into a little more detail of the carrot cake we baked.

L-R: A few ingredients; icing the famous lamingtons; a lot of washing up; sparkly cupcakes; D taking biscuits out of the oven; lamingtons; injure-bread men; our stall; looking out at the fair; our resident bunny; and a satisfied customer!

 

 

Hither Green week flyer - had lots of fun designing it!

Dining room havoc - update

Just a little update - got a few bits of new furniture (gorgeous Eames-style chairs) which I think make the room look so much bigger. Also got a fab pendant light from M&S - they have the best range of homewares this season!

Now we just need to hang some pictures!

All set for Sunday lunch

Bedroom havoc

Came home from an amazing holiday visiting my gorgeous sister, her hubby and my brand new nephew, to find our bedroom looking all brand spanking new! Carpet had been installed whilst I was away and what a difference it makes! No more wearing shoes around the house and dodging the old carpet spikes (attractively covered over with cardboard and tape!)

But it was a long time coming... check the pics to see our progress.

Before the old cupboard was re-plastered

Hole to be patched up where our builder came through from the bathroom - oops!

Do I like the colour?

Nicely plastered... now let's wait a week for it to dry!

Colour going on... and some decoration along the way

L - the roller master

What we found when we ripped the carpet up - lovely

And after... with our gorgeous carpet installed

Pic to be hung - we can't bear to put holes in our freshly painted walls just yet

Tea chests for my bedside table

My side - Princess Sparkle the My Little Pony, and L's side - Han Solo 1977 original

So that's the latest... more to come shortly, as the hallway and lounge room are both almost done - just waiting on lighting and a few bits of furniture before I show it off to the world!