Competition Winning Cake Pops.

I know it's been a long, long time since I blogged properly but there's been some changes in my life and some exciting things coming up so I will be getting back to it. More on that later though....

I currently work in a large office and we hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning last Friday morning. We were asked to bake some cakes, then had a mini competition with the following categories:

- Most Inventive Cake
- Best Decorated Cake
- Best Tasting Cake

Guess which one I won..? Most Inventive Cake! I made cappuccino cake pops, which completely sold out by the end of the afternoon :) I was actually disappointed with them because I thought they looked messy (I'm a bit of a perfectionist) but everyone persuaded me otherwise and at least they were appreciated for the design of them!

 

Brighton.

Charity Posters.

It's been a while since I was asked to do some work for Action for Family Carers, a local charity that I volunteer for. However, they have asked me to design some posters for a club night, and here are the three initial ideas I sent over to them:

They're nothing too out there, it's only a small charity so simple works best. The wording was all provided so unfortunately I can't cut it down because it seems like quite a lot for a poster.

I've enjoyed doing design work again, I've kind of lost the drive to keep designing in my spare time. I'm constantly looking for jobs in design but I'm also lacking confidence in my ability and they don't make a good combination! I still have faith that I'll find the right role for me though, and that's what's important.

Latest Flickr Upload.

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Wedding Cake Pops.

My brother is getting married in September and his fiance has asked me to make cake pops for their wedding reception. She doesn't really know what she wants so I've been trying out some ideas.

Some of them definitely work better than others. I'm going to retry with the ones I like best so I can see what they look like with lots of the same design. We're hoping to get some long rectangular white plates so we can line them all up.

I took these into work and they were very popular!