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Showing posts with label Angry Birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angry Birds. Show all posts

Thursday, September 27, 2012

My creative space... on instagram

 
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crochet at the indoor skate ramp...
 
crochet at the playground...
 
crochet on the couch (the mario blanket is back after my backordered wool finally arrived!)...
 
crocheting with Daniel Day Lewis (!!!)...
crocheting with mini m&ms...
 
crocheting with children asleep on the couch after a screaming night terror...
 
and some Angry Bird cake baking for good measure! (This is my second attempt at an Angry Bird cake after a friends grandson saw the first one and wanted one for himself.)
 
 
 

Monday, April 30, 2012

Oscar is 8!

We only booked the pool party for the water slide!

Isaac wasn't quite game enough to give it a whirl!


Inflatable pool fun!



Safety first!
Isaac gets a helping hand during water polo!
Angry Birds tableware (ebay!)
The finished Angry Birds Cake!  That poor tim tam wall struggled to stay upright in the car trip to the pool!

 
The best we could do with the official family photographs!

(Thanks for all the lovely comments on my icing angry birds in the previous post too!  The kids loved them!)

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

My creative space... Angry Birds

It's amazing what one can do with some ready to roll icing, some food dye and an Angry Birds app open on the iphone next to you...



 

 


Some are a little queer and crazy looking but they will serve their purpose once they get onto my cake. 
There will be a wall made out of tim tams. 
How on earth do I make the slingshot though???  Advice???

Creative types lurk over this way on Thursdays.

Friday, April 20, 2012

A glass and a half of... the unexpected!

How often is that people truly surprise you? 
In the preparation and planning for Oscar's Angry Birds party next week I went in search of those candy covered easter eggs that look like baby bird eggs.  Cause you know, those birds are angry cause the piggies stole their eggs and all!  I figured if I was able to find a few bags I could pack them up into clear bags, whack an angry bird picture on the top and my take home party treats would be done!

Source: squidoo.com via Sonia on Pinterest
(I'll be using some of these FREE printables!)
I slowly realised after traipsing into eleventy supermarkets, I had left my easter egg hunt a wee bit late.  All that was left on the shelves where the daggy chocolates that never quite taste like chocolate.  As a last resort I rang the Cadbury factory (which just so happens to be about 10 minutes down the road from me) to see if they could tell me anyone who might still have said candy chocolate eggs in stock.  I had a lovely chat with a gorgeous lady called Angela who I told my Angry Bird Egg tale of woe too and she thus directed me to the onsite Cadbury shop in the hopes that they would have some.  A quick phone call later and yes they did, but I was most certainly not going to be able to purchase them as I was not staff, did not work in the Emergency Services and did not have a not-for-profit Community card that is sometimes handed out to kindergartens and the like for fundraising!  So there!  Cause that was basically her attitude!  Angela had said that if I discovered them in their shop to call her back and see what she could arrange which I promptly did wondering how on earth we were going to get past the scary shop lady. 

This lovely lady, whom I had never met, instead offered to walk down to the shop in her lunchbreak, purchase the eggs and meet me in the carpark for a surreptitious handover!  How sweet is that!  It did feel like an illicit drug handover as she scurried through the security gate and I ventured forth out my my big black van with tinted windows!  I made sure I included a little crafty treat with my money and could not stop telling her that I thought she was an angel with chocolate wings!
Thanks Angela!!!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

Tell me how one fits anything in when one is either working, cleaning up dog poo, parenting children or doing washing?

One is getting a wee bit overwhelmed this week and shall never again take on extra shifts without first gaining a commitment from one's partner to make some attempt at maintaining the washing and the lego!

I checked in with my google reader this morning and there was in excess of 400 blogs for me to read!  I have crafted zilch, crocheted not a single stitch, have not managed to finish reading the Hunger Games and have had the latest edition of Mollie Makes teasing me from the side table!

What does one do with the hours late at night after work when one should be folding laundry?  One goes on Pinterest and starts planning Angry Bird cake ideas for a certain young man's 8th birthday next month, that's what!



Source: squidoo.com via Sonia on Pinterest


How cool would this one be????  It's amazing!