Pearl Ears

Have you noticed that decorative cat ears are now a thing?

Taylor even wears some in her 22 video.

I got the inspiration to make my own from a tutorial on Cut out and Keep.

It's pretty simple really; bead some wire into ears, thread on beads, attach to a hair band by wrapping around ribbon.

It took me ages to find both beads and ribbon that matched and were the right size.

My ear turned out a little wonky but I don't mind.

It adds character.

Cupcake for One

Last week my sister spent a long time helping me with my CV and things so to say thank you I made her this cupcake!

You know that bit in Bridesmaids where Kristen Wiig makes and decorates a single cupcake.

Well I wanted to do that, so I googled single cupcake recipes and came across a recipe for a single funfetti cupcake on Chocolate Covered Katie

There's loads of single serving cupcakes and other desserts on there. Well worth checking out.

Everything is measured in tablespoons and the key is using oil instead of egg, because it doesn't make sense to just use a bit of any egg.

When I was mixing the ingredients it was looking a bit doughy so I added more milk so get a better batter consistency. 

Then I tried making it again, following the recipe exactly and I think the cupcakes came out pretty much the same. This just meant that I could have one as well as my sister.

Putting sprinkles in a cupcake is awesome.

The taste is different to a regular cupcake, but still delicious.

I'm excited to try out some of the other recipes on the website.

This Week I...

...made some cupcakes! And had fun with different kinds of icing/decorations.

The pinks ones are strawberry flavour!

I went to a quiz with my family and we came joint 2nd.

We were pretty happy with that since my sister said we weren't even trying, cos we spent a lot of time working on this doodle masterpiece.

And on Saturday we watched the Eurovision Song Contest!

Me and my sister liked Malta's entry; the singing doctor with a song about Jeremy from I.T.
He just looks so happy!

How was your week?

New painting, not a self-portrait

This is my latest painting.

It's from a photo I took whilst camping in 2008 when Rebecca, the girl in the picture, was five.

What I like about the photo is how much she looks like me when I was that age.

In fact my sister thought I was painting myself.

Here's the original photo, and below is the closest example I could find of me looking similar, in 1993.

Yup, they call me 'two biscuits Lisa'.

(No one has ever called me that)

Beads

I bought these two beads back in 2008 from a bead shop in New Zealand, which I talked about here.

I've only just got round to doing something with them. Well, one of them.

The little black beads I used for this necklace came from a bead shop in New York.

So well travelled.

I made it so that the three strands are different lengths, but now I'm not sure if I'd prefer them all the same length.

Oh well, too late now, the ends are all glued together.

The necklace also doubles up as a pretty cool bracelet when wrapped around my wrist.