Bake: Chocolate Ganache Cake

I am known in my office for my cakes and it has become a habit for me to bake when there are birthdays, people leaving etc. Last week I baked a lemon drizzle bundt cake which went down incredibly well and as it is one of the guys in my department’s birthdays today (and a big one at that since he is just short of 6 months younger than me) I thought I’d bake something for him!

BBC Food Chocolate Ganache Cake

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Meat Free February – Week 1

At the start of this month I decided to challenge myself to not eat meat for a month. I ignored the mockery from some people and thought that instead I would be strong and see if I could do it. I have less than a week left, so decided to share with you what I’ve been eating. I haven’t got pictures from every single day as I was away in Manchester last week and was out on Friday and Saturday this week and have excuses from other times, but don’t worry I’ve not slipped up once!

Anyway, I thought that I would share with you what I was eating for the first part of the month:

Vegetarian for a month February 2013

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Make: Polaroid Inspired Crafts

Inspired by Kirsty’s ‘Pretty Polaroid Project’ I thought that I’d have a go myself. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut a number of Polaroid shaped frames out and used my paper scraps and embellishments to create these two pieces:

Mini scrapbook pieces cut with silhouette cameo

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Lots of FREE Silhouette Shapes!

As you can see from some of the comments below, this isn’t working anymore 🙁 However, you can still view other ways to get free Silhouette shapes.

I’ve only just found this out, but if you have the Silhouette software, go to the online shop, type in ‘Original 50’ into the search box, and if you look through the results there are lots of free shapes to add to your basket!

 

Free shapes in the Silhouette Cameo online store to download

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