New Blog Awaits You!

Hey everyone...
My new blog Hello Lemming was released today!

So this will be my last post here. But never fear - all the fun will continue over there! 

So change your RSS feeds now - and I look forward to hearing what you think

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2 sleeps until my new blog!

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That's right! From Monday onwards I'm shifting over to hellolemming - my brand new lifestyle magazine blog :)

Get excited :D

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Felt Toast

For Charlie's birthday I also made him this adorable felt toast mini cushion.

It is small and smily, and it went with the original toastie machie I got him too. Yum.
Who doesn't like an original toastie? Mmm now I'm hungry...

Only 19 days until the new blog is released! I'm very excited - aren't you?

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Around The Table - A Bloggers Conference

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In April there is a very exciting event coming up - a bloggers conference in little old Christchurch.
The conference is on the 12-14th and will involve meet and greet with other NZ bloggers and well as a market, workshops, craft sessions and leisurely lazing about.

I'm pretty excited about meeting other bloggers - as I don't know many. I heard about the conference through my friend and work colleague Rachel. I'm glad I will already know someone there and I think she is too!

Also my new blog should be up and running by then so it will be good to get a chance to show it off a little :)

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So where do we go from here: A new adventure awaits!

Iceberg - Hermitage, Mt Cook.  Via.

Have you ever started something that turned out to be a lot bigger than expected? One things leads to another and you find yourself brimming full of ideas, not knowing where to stop? It has happened to me I'm afraid. And it is extremely exciting. The sceret is that I'm working on a new flashy-blog (at least I hope it will be). It will combine my SewLaTea blog, the beginnings of my HelloLemming opinion blog and a splash of everything else. This is the reason things have been a bit quiet here lately.

Expect more of a magazine style blog - which opinion pieces, handy DIY tips, beautiful photography and hopefully some profiles on amazing people. As always I'm keen for your input. So if you'd like to contribute or suggest a friendly face to grace the blog, please do get in touch. It is just as much about what you'd like to read as what I'd like to post! 

Release date is planned for the 1st of April (And that's no April fools joke!). So don't be a slacker and put it in your virtual dairy now.

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Arsenal Cake

Charlie's favourite football club is Arsenal. So it was only fitting that I make an Arsenal related cake for his birthday.

After some research I decided upon recreating the club's badge in cake form - with a little fondant mascot for the side.

I made his favourite cake - banana, but also made it into a white chocolate mud cake at the same time. Yum.

This is the recipe I used - but per the reviews I only used 2 bananas. I also cooked it a bit longer than the 45 minutes that recipe stated - turning it down to about 150 degrees.



Using a printout as a guide, I coloured and cut out fondant in the right shapes. And painted some pieces with the edible gold.

Gunnersaurus! He is my first ever attempt at making a fondant creature. It's very fiddly work! I didn't quite master the tylo powder ratio - so I shall do some more research for future critter making.

I think he likes you.

I was happy to find little football candles for the cake.

Charlie loved it!

As you can see I cut the cake in half before icing and put a dark chocolate ganche in the middle. 

All in all it was a success - however I had trouble with the fondant cracking a bit. I will have to find some pros to ask me thinks!

Because I'm obsessed with cake decorating at the moment, I have set up a dedicated pinboard and I'm pinning like crazy. It's strange to think people have even more time and patience to make cakes than I. It's probably that they are just much faster I imagine. 

Also I must remember to take photos on my good camera not just my phone. What a bad blogger I am - apologies! 

Fondant Roses

My friend Hannah had a birthday this week - and I know she loves cooking and baking, so I decided to make her some fondant roses that she can put on her cakes!

I hand coloured and painted them using colour gels and edible rainbow dust!

Here are the results - I think she really liked them!