Cooking Up a Storm!!

I may have mentioned in passing once before, that it is my birthday tomorrow {wink!}. And y'all know I'm having a Halloween Party (check the date, yep Jan 31! Unconventionalism is my middle name, or is Danger my middle name? I forget. Anywho....) I decided to make my birthday cake after being inspired by a cake in Martha Stewart Living mag back in October. Thankfully I was able to sell one of my kidneys to pay for the $15.00 price of the magazine from Borders. Damn imported mags!! So tonight I went straight to Woolies after work to buy food for the party and made it home at 7:30. I took stock of myself and the kitchen and at 7:50 began cooking. In just over 2 hours I made 2 Mississippi Mud Cakes (Yvette's delicious recipe {hugs!}), brownies and Almond Roca (a request from my work friends). Needless to say now I am Pooped!! Totally! I think so much butter soaked into my skin that I will just slip and slide into bed tonight!! In total there were 4 pats of butter used in the recipes, whoa!!

I made 2 Mud cakes so that I could trim one about an inch in, layer it on top of the other mud cake and make a "mountain" on which to set up the Cemetary which adorns the top of the cake (buscuits dipped in chocolate for the tombstones and a chocolate stick fence!) Here is the adulterated cake cos I "had to check if it would trim well" (what I really mean is "I wanted to eat some while it was hot!" {delicious!})

Wow, so tired. But it's only 37mins til my birthday, I'm going to stay up damn it!!

The other fun news I have is that these little beauties arrived in the mail on Wednesday...

Hurrah Hurrah!! I have been wanting to get them ever since I saw them back in about September last year they are way way way way cool! Yvette alerted me to them being on a local scrap site (not to be exxposed) for $49 for the small sets and $59 for the big one. I couldn't believe it! I had paid $22 for my first sets!! I bought my first sets off the KISS stall at the Darling Harbour Quilt Fair and Lana the lovely owner had given me a flyer with her email and told me I could email if I ever wanted to buy more Nestabilites. Well, I emailed her and she quoted me the bargain price of $33 each for the small ones and $37 for the big one. WHAT!! Can you believe the difference!! WHOA!! {Happy Dancing Iriquois Indian style}. I had to get them all (and an embossing mat to use with them for $3. Hehe!) I am just so pleased with the price, I mean its a $54 saving!! I recommend everyone buy off her, what a bargain! Her email is here.

So I am a happy girl! Most of the cooking is done for my party and I got New Nestabilites and it's my birthday in under half an hour!

Quick my last wise words as a 26yo: Never play Leapfrog with a Unicorn.

:) C