A Cupcake...

I have to admit, I do better with paper than I do with the edible versions!! LOL

This is for son and heir, indirectly, that is.  He is off to a friends wedding tomorrow and he decided that as the couple have been together since University days and have already bought their home that it was going to be difficult to get them a gift that don't already have and opted for a gift card.  I thought I would make a faux cupcake to hold the said gift card to make it look a little more like an actual gift!!

There is enough bling on this thing to sink the proverbial battleship... pearls, glitter, stick pins, and little diamonds laden the 'icing'... just hope it doesn't clash with her wedding colours because, of course, dear son had no clue as to what they might be!!

Now I need to make a card to go with it... that should prove interesting!! ;)

WOYWW 26th December 2012

This is my work desk this morning... and it really hasn't changed much for quite a while!  On the desk are a couple of Christmas presents that require tweaking... yep, I know it was yesterday but I ran of steam!!

On the floor next to my desk is this... and it drives me insane but I can't find a spot to put any of it so it sits there... making me feel bad!!

and I had to add this one... I have my 25 year old son home... which is lovely as we haven't had a Christmas together since 2007!! This is his zone... remotes, chocolates, biscuits... yep, he is happy!!

Chris and I spent our first Christmas apart this year, he is in Brisbane enjoying 28 degree C and I am here at home in Scotland.  As soon as I have tidied Christmas away for this year I will begin packing for Australia.  Just the thought of it gives me heeby jeebies... but pack I will!!

It was such a lovely morning yesterday that Christopher and I went out for a drive with camera in hand, we took the little back roads at the back of the village we live in and reaquainted ourselves with the beautiful countryside.

I love the fields with the tractor tracks...

The bare trees along the edge of the roads..

Little ponds with lush grass...

and the little ruined barns...

and the white horse on Mormond Hill, the only carved white horse in Scotland.  It always makes me smile as I am originally from the south of England and there are white chalk carvings all over the southern counties and I move up here and on my doorstep is.... yep, a white horse.  This one is not chalk but local white quartz and has been here since the mid 1800s.

Don't forget to go over to Julia's for the complete list of desk displayers!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and wishing you all a fabulous New Year!

Christmas is nearly here...

I think I am ready... I actually like it when it gets this close because anything I haven't done, isn't going to get done!!  The pressure is off and I can sit back a little and just enjoy it!!

Yesterday I baked gingerbread cookies!!  I have a teensy confession, I have never baked Christmas cookies before.  I know, it is a shock, I am obviously such a domestic goddess that it is incomprehensible to think that I haven't done so before but at the ripe old age of fifty mumble mumble 6 I decided it was time to do so!
I must have missed the memo that this was a bonding exercise with your kids, mixing and weighing and baking and decorating... but it's not too late and I have Christopher here for Christmas for the first time in 5 years, so bake I did!

So when I saw this cookie cutter online I had to have it... I mean, this cookie cutter was made with me in mind!! This is the photo supplied with the cutter....

and this is my version.... ok, ok, it doesn't look exactly like it should but Christopher ate it and said it was 'cool'!!

So I got carried away with my success and proceeded to bake a tray of discombobulated gingerbread men... they are cute cookie cutters with bites taken out of them...

Well, why would I want to make little Christmas trees and stars when I could have fun like this!!

So the stockings are hung and the table is laid...

the tree is up and the presents are wrapped...

and Tom-Tom wore his reindeer ears for at least 30 seconds whilst wrapped in my pink blanket...

and Pandy was having none of it so I had to improvise...

So all is left to do is to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2013