christmas cake - update

One Marizpaned and Iced Christmas cake - Marzipaning is easy, icing may need some more practice (and short nails)


75 cm of Holly and lots of individual Holly and Ivy leaves


I have also made a christmas tree but I am not sure what I am going to do with it.

I need to ice my cake board and put some ribbon on and stick the leaves on it and do the piping - Hmmm that seems like alot

Saturday

So this Saturday was catch up it with friends day. Both Wayne and I seem to be very busy doing 'stuff' so we figured that Saturday would be a good day to catch up with some friends, Luckily they were all in the same town :). The plan was to see some old college friends of Wayne's then pop in and see Ella and James then Stuart and Viv.

Unfortunately Wayne's Friend had a similar idea and where drive south as we where heading north! so to Ella's where James had been showing Leona pictures of us so that she would be able to say our names , I think that Wayne's hair put her off a little though.

But she was very enthusiastic that I open one of my birthday - it is a retractable pen - called Man - it is very cool.



Joanne was also very cute and is enthusiastic trying to imitate her big sister. Ella and James are doing really well and we all had a jolly time catching up.

We then went to See Stuart and Viv, and they are well and busy...they live next to my old house and it is always fun to see how the street has changed and to get all the gossip. We then went back to Nottingham and after a quick change met up with some old uni Friends for a nice meal. Next year will be 10 years since we started uni and it great to catch up with everyone and see how well they have/ haven't changed.




I hope to see everyone again very soon and if not before Christmas, I hope they have super Christmas and a great new year.

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World champions

A few weeks ago we went to see Leiciester tigers play South Africa.
Wayne and I didn't hold out much hope for a win as the South African team are the current world champions

We had a nice surprise




We won...we are world champions ... technically

cookies

Wayne's work are having a bake sale for children in need and as Wayne 'doesn't do baking'
I was asked to make some cookies. Since I never pass up an opportunity to support a event (and to practice my icing) and since there is not much I can do on my cake this week as I am waiting on the marzipan drying
I made some biscuits and some brightly coloured icing for decorated a lot of cookies.

The faces are my favorite... I hope Wayne remembers to take them to work!

Hmmmm coffee.......

Artist assistants stand next to 3,604 cups of coffee which have been made into a giant Mona Lisa in Sydney , Australia . The 3,604 cups of coffee were each filled with different amounts of milk to create the different shades!!


Now this is what I call art!

Party Season

last night we has a girlie night out to catch up and to kick off party season.

It was great to meet up with everyone, giggle about old time and made plans for next year we are having a come dine with me competition and a maybe a 10 year reunion. We his a few bars in Quorn, which was different and ended up in Choas in Lboro...I don't think echos Friday night music is my kind of music...cheesy music is a must :)

Next Friday I am at a RSC party, the week after we are nottingham. Then Birthday drinks and 2 work parties - at least we have some time off at Christmas.

Change of plan

We had another one of THOSE meeting at work today and after confirming that the high level business model has not changed they preceded to tell 'some work has been moved in to next year' and some other business has emerged. As a result there is a reduction in the number of people being made redundant.

the up shot is that they are keeping 4 of the 5 data analysts - yeah and the 5th Data analysts has taken violently so it is looking very good! Also I have a interview for another position in the company so things are looking up.

watch this space but I think the worse is over