Ah, sweet

Aww. These are the first cupcakes I made! I wasn't really into baking, I preferred cooking - things like chili and Rachel-Ray-style comfort food. Then my best friend gave me these cute-as cupcake papers and the tiered display and I never looked back! I love love love cupcakes!

(they were delicious, by the way - mocha swirl with buttercream icing)

Femmes Fatale

I love film noir. I love the characters, I love the settings, I love the dialogue... But my favourite part of any film noir is the femme fatale. There is such a strength about all of them, whether they are intentionally deceptive or not, and the way they lead men into danger by beating them at their own game? Go chicks!

By the way, I uploaded the extra gigantic version of the second picture, so click on it and save to use as a desktop wallpaper.

Pin-ups

Two ATCs made for a pin-up girls swap.

Home Sweet Home

I knew I had to use this magazine clipping in something as soon as I found it. It was too big for an ATC but perfect for the focal point of a postcard. I textured the background with inked bubble wrap and corks. The chick slightly creeps me out... but in a good way!

Icing goodness

Mmmmm... creamy vanilla buttercream icing.... Deliciously bad for me!

Twinchies Galore!

Twinchies are so much fun to make, and are very quick... I can make five or six at once, very satisfying for my short attention span!

Sprinkles

My cute-as cupcakes topped with rainbow sprinkles!

And a pretty soft-focus photoshopped one...

Hansel & Gretel

Two ATCs

 for a vintage kids ATC swap!

I'll eat you up i love you so!

I LOVE these cupcake papers!! Cupcakes were delicious too, vanilla bean with mixed berry icing.

Yum!

Raggedy-style fabric flower brooch.

Notorious Betty Page

Postcard of Betty Page.

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Ooh I love Humphrey Bogart!

Photo still from Casablanca turned into a postcard.

Button rings

Made some cute rings with pastel buttons.

Next step is this great necklace tutorial I found here with matching buttons.

Pretty pretty

I've been experimenting with photoshop lately. I dug out some  photos from my trip to Melbourne last year and voila - pretty carousel picture!

And one of the flowers outside my window...

Vintage-style postcard to send to my pen-pal!

I'm painting over this canvas tonight... so I thought I would immortalise it on my blog in case I miss it!

Yay for being able to upload photos again...

Decided to have an explore of my garden and took some lovely photos.

Yum!

These were delicious - double chocolate cupcakes with faintly caramel-tinged icing.

Anatomy twinchie. I love the look of old book pages or newspaper as a background.