Updatish

A few posts back I mentioned that I had been to a chocolate therapy class. Well, I finally had some time to make some chocolates, yay.
So, here are my Chill Chocolates - the raw chocolate recipe with a dash of Cayenne added. I also made some Goji Berry chocolates and some Cacao Nib Chocolate..but they all looked the same on the outside so I didn't bother to take a pic.

 ^ Cayenne Chocolate

^ Chocolate Truffles - recipe at my cooking blog

Recently, I also got around to doing the edging on the Fairy Garden and planting some more flowers.

 And below we have a photo of one of the new visitors. We have 3 ducks that like to hang out around the Fairy Garden (who can blame them?!). They take turns in coming up, one set come up as a pair, and the fellow pictured here likes to come up by its lonesome. So, pretty much, there is at least one duck hanging around at any time. I ended up going and getting chook laying pellets to feed to them. It is the new ritual with the kids to go out and feed the ducks a few times a day.



Fairy Garden Update ... and cake.

So, this is what I did today...planted some plants, arranged some gnomes and wood animals, painted a wall, paved and mulched.

From this

to this

From this

To this

So, all up it came together pretty well.

I just need some more redgum chips and some more time to paint onto the curved wall a 'fairy door' (even though it more of a gnome overload) and some flowers and mushrooms and stuff. Very happy so far, kids love it, yay. But I am totally stuffed. Straight to bed after True Blood and some work for the business association :(
Flowers planted are lavender (french white and regular avon blue), a variety of daisies - heritage, marguerite etc, everlastings, rosemary, parsley, alyssum, lobelia etc. The tree in foreground is a peach, weeping one behind cubby is a weeping mulberry.

And on to cake...
I did the kitkat cake again for my mums birthday. I'll show it in stages. Baked a round chocolate cake - devils cake made with with shaved chocolate. Iced it and then stuck kitkats around edges.

Then I put a ribbon around to support the kitkats, and filled in the top with one bag of mini M&Ms and one bag of regular M&Ms.

I have all the paper soaking ready to do the papier mache pulp. So not looking forward to next stage of the Dragon eggs...

Mums Garden Update Photos

OKay, for the old photos look HEREThe view down back
The Fairy garden that I have slowly been working on is nearly complete. Just need to paint that curved wall behind the gnomes - is going to green with a secret door and mushrooms and stuff.

Ripped out Bouganvilleas and now have a tomatoes and berries along this wall.
Moses in the craddle
Still not too sure what to do here....