I went on to make these

These little cupcakes were put into a box to be taken home by all the girls in our Artists Association. I thought they looked so cute!

I'm feeling a little flat....

So I made this....

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Butter Cream Icing.

The reason I'm feeling this way is I have now finished my Commercial Cookery course. No more TAFE, no more homework, no more assignments. What am I going to do with my time??

Maybe I can find the time to more of this.

After I settle down a bit I hope to become a chef in a little cafe somewhere. Hopefully there's a happy little cafe out there just waiting for me to cook in it. Its been a hectic year but I've loved every minute of it. What with selling our home of 22 years, buying a new house, having a fantastic holiday with my girlfriends and still working part-time at my other job my poor art work and blog has been sadly neglected. Thanks everyone for sticking around I promise not to neglect you any longer.

Ahhhhhh... back to the challenges.

This month's challenge over at Inkurable Stampers is "Shabby Chic Christmas". I got to admit I had to google this one! Of course I know what shabby chic is but all I could conjure up in my mind was pink and green. So thats what I did.

My ATC was mounted on pink card stock. The background was from Webster Pages with sponging around the edges. I stamped the christmas tree (from Stampin Up's Lovely as a Tree) in pink pirouette tipped in wild wasabi and added a little sparkle. Not sure where the word JOY came from. Added a little silver charm and some velvet ric rac and a distressed pink star on top. All up I was pleased with the results. Anyone want to do a swap????

I'm a little rusty...What do you think??

It's been a while. The creative juices are seeping drip by drip into my poor parched soul! I love Christmas!!! Squeal!! What better time to get back into it with some gift tags. You have to forgive the photography.

I'm sorry!

Art work in Hoi An

Hoi An pancakes

Us Girls

Where we stayed

I'm so sorry I've been neglectful. Life is just getting in the way. In a good way of course. Even just thinking about what has been happening to me in the last few months is scary. Where to start......Firstly I've moved house, next comes my holiday to Vietnam and to throw into the chaos I'm still going to TAFE and now I have to do some work experience in several restaurants to gain some knowledge from working in the industry. How crazy does that sound! I'd like to share with you, just a few, some photo's from my fantastic holiday with 3 of my girlfriends to Vietnam. It was the best time ever! From the time we got picked up in the Limo (Julie's surprise) to the end. We stayed in a gorgeous place called Hoi An, did a cooking school, ate fantastic food, saw beautiful art and shopped! All in one week.

Just another little treat

Salmon and Prawn Timbale with a Champagne Sabayon

I won't bore you with the whole menu but I'll just show you one of the entrees and that will be it.

Or maybe you'd like chocolate!

This little decadent number is for my gluten free friends. No flour, yes thats right no flour but definately not weight watchers! Oh and it also has a chocolate sour cream icing.