Lots and lots of cake and crafty stuff.

This week has consisted of an awful lot of baking.  K & M's Scout pack had their annual 'Great British Decorate Off' on Thursday, for which the Scouts have to take along the cake that that they have baked and decorate it.  The theme this year was 'toys' and K & M both decided to base their cakes on their favourite cuddly toys, a cat called Tabby Kitten in K's case and a dog called Christopher in M's.  They each wanted to have a practice run, so on Monday they each baked a cake (or three in M's case, as hers was more 3D), on Tuesday they both decorated them, which involved a lot of icing of various types.  Then Wednesday M baked her cakes ready for Scouts and K baked biscuits (they were for her cat's ears), finally on Thursday, K baked her cake and they both made more icing to take with them.  I think they were both happy with their efforts and although M told me that she thought her practice cake was better, she won the competition and came home with a basket full of baking things, both equipment and ingredients, as her prize!

The winning Christopher cake!

K's Tabby Kitten

 K has been continuing with her birthday thank you cards, which she puts a lot of time and effort into and has some some more beautiful quilling.  She is also now starting to design her own cards, as well as following and adapting patterns from books.

K's own feather quill design.

K's own owl design.

M meanwhile is really enjoying doing tapestries at the moment.  She has tried counted cross-stitch, which is much more popular and so much more available at the moment, but definitely prefers the tapestries.

One of M's tapestries.

M's latest finished project.

As for reading, we have been continuing with Douglas Adams and are now half way through Life, the Universe and Everything, the third in the trilogy of five.  We have been doing more of other things lately too, but I've decided to do a seperate post for that.