Recently some friends and family had cake days (ie birthdays) so I made them some cake.
The first one was a Blueberry Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting - the photo doesn't do it justice, but the inside was a great blue colour with the berries making balls of dark blue thru out. Its a very large cake - I made it in one 28cm tin and cut it in half rather than the 2 smaller tins as suggested.
The next cake was designed to use Rhubarb and Lemons as I have lots of these in the garden. I'd seen a recipe for a Rhubarb Meringue Cake but didn't really want to use 8 eggs (I don't have lots of these in my garden :P ) So I made this Lemon Yoghurt Cake and then filled and iced it using the Rhubarb Cream from the Rhubarb Meringue Cake recipe. It was a great combo!
I've had plans for aaaaaaaaaaaages to add some colour to the decor of our lounge. We have a very neutral lounge from furniture and wall colour so I wanted to brighten things up a bit. As a wedding gift we received a stunning photograph on canvas, which has pride of place over our couch so I decided to take a colour from the photo to add to the room.
I have a habit of getting bored with things, so decided I'd just add some coloured cushion covers at this stage and see how they go - its much easier to get new cushion covers if I want a new colour than other things!
So today I finally set aside some time to sew for me (Sweet Designs sewing takes priority most of the time!) and I whipped up a couple of cushion covers. I love the lift they've given the room.
