A happy birthday cake

I love Instagram, I can spend hours on it and always find the most amazing pictures and accounts. While browsing Instagram one day I came across an account for a bakery in Sydney called Unbirthday. Unbirthday uses gorgeous fresh, edible flowers on all her creations and inspired me to do the same. Luckily a birthday opportunity presented itself to me and resulted in a chocolate cake with chocolate and salted caramel icing adorned with edible flowers and blossoms from my garden:) These are some quick snaps I took of the cake.

Phyllis Mouse and No-name Bunny

I stumbled across the Posie Gets Cozy blog by Alicia Paulson via Little Cotton Rabbits and immediately fell in love. She designs the most divine creatures from felt and sells both the patterns as well as kits which come with everything you need to make these guys. It was a tough choice but I eventually chose to buy the mouse pattern over the rabbit, cat, doe and fox mostly because the mouse's name is Phyllis - the same as my mom which I found really funny! After I made Phyllis I adapted the pattern slightly to make a bunny and designed some of my own clothes - a jersey, skirt and little pink moccasin boots.

Here are some pictures of Phyllis and the bunny which is yet to be named. My photography definitely isn't great and is something I should probably work on! I especially love the shoes - they are just the cutest things I've seen!

Little Cotton Rabbits

One of my favourite crafts is knitting and I've been doing it since my mom taught me when I was very young, probably around six or seven. I am really impatient though and get extremely bored knitting big things like jerseys and knitting in plain stocking or garter stitch with no increases or decreases or shaping. For this reason I generally stick to knitting small, fiddly things. My absolute favourite things to knit are the adorable creatures designed by Julie from Little Cotton Rabbits. She sells her knitting patterns for THE cutest bunnies, elephants and foxes and I am always watching her blog and Facebook page anxiously waiting for her to add a new animal pattern. So far I have knitted a whole lot of bunnies and just one elephant (although I will definitely be adding another one soon).

Here are some pictures of the Little Cotton Rabbit clan that I have knitted so far.

The beginning!

So this is my first blog post! I’ve never really considered starting a blog until I was inspired by my friend Julia. Her and her boyfriend Dean are currently teaching English in Korea. Julia’s blog Jeonju Living is so fantastic, I love looking at her pictures and reading her anecdotes about her and Dean’s time abroad. I definitely can’t promise that my blog will be as interesting or as exotic as hers but as I am currently (f)unemployed and have plenty of time to spare I thought I’d give it a go anyway! With my new-found free time I get to do what I really love – knitting, sewing, baking and anything mildly crafty in between! So my blog posts will most likely feature the projects I have completed, half-completed or want to start! I so often leave projects mid-way through for new, more exciting ones (at that time) or forget ideas about future projects that it will be good to have things documented so I can remind myself to come back to them!