Pop!

My mum just bought a book on cake pops, and as me and my friends were stuck with what to get another friend for her birthday, I decided to have a go at making my own.

I LOVE how they turned out! Yes they're sickly sweet as the cake mix has buttercream in it and they've covered in melted chocolate, but they look amazing so I don't think it even matters how they taste!

 

The coating is melted Candy Melts which I got from Hobbycraft (I got the pink, white and red ones, but I burnt the white ones...oops!)

 

The lolly sticks are also from Hobbycraft

The candy roses, pink and white pearls and red glimmer sugar are all from Asda.

My mum came up with the genius idea of using a colander to hold the cake pops while they set.

Feeling Lucky?

Well apparently I didn't blog about the previous lucky dip posters I designed for Action for Family Carers, but oh well. I've redesigned them anyway for the next fundraising event they have in December, hence the Christmas theme.

As well as the twelve week Christmas countdown I've started on my photography blog, 27 Kodak Moments, I'm feeling particularly festive right now...and there's still 12 weeks to go! I'm also determined to make my own decorations this year. I did a few last year and I've bought the materials for a few ideas I have, so watch this space for posts about that! I don't want to start too early though and be fed up of christmas before we even get to December!

Anyway, what do you think of the posters? It was a bit of a struggle to get the logo to fit in!

Dear Photograph.

"Take a picture from the past in the present"

I love this so much!

I literally have tears in my eyes reading through all the mini stories and looking at the accompanying photographs.

Our childhood photographs were all in Edinburgh where i grew up so sadly I can't make one of these myself :(

(There's a lot of pictures because I love so many of them!)

Dear Photograph on Tumblr