Just a little update, the garden is going great and there have been zero, yes zero fatalities. *so proud*
The cladding and insulation go on the house soon, just in time for the end of winter. We chose this over doing it ourselves, because every figure I worked out was still way high and we really have no idea about putting it on the house. This should save us heating and cooling dollars, and ultimately a little carbon too.
Whilst we have left the outside to the professionals, we are getting our hands dirty with the inside. The icky red floor is now gone from our bathroom, and so is the flaky ceiling and the water stained walls. The insurance covered the ceiling and some of the walls, we used laminex sheeting to line the bath area and got a great deal on our tap ware from AngelTouchBathrooms All the taps for the bathroom, kitchen and laundry for under $300. The tiles were laid by hubby, his first ever solo tiling effort *kudos* Good job dear! Oh and the tiles were leftovers and freebies from the folks home. The munchkins in the bath are showing off their Sailor Mouth Soaps a nice set of denture shaped soaps lol.
And so as the year flies by and the seasons move on, we find it comes to our Archie's 2nd birthday on Tuesday, so these are the experimental cakes we made. Henry has requested that he have a bug cake and Archie wants a dinosaur, yes he can say DINOSAUR. Some contemplation and a lot of googling for ideas later and this is the result.
So we rolled out the white icing(available from the supermarket) then stuck the dino shape on with water. then he was dried overnight and we painted him with food colouring just like water paints. TIP. do not over work the paint it breaks down the icing.
We are all pretty impressed by our handy work here!
So the same sort of thing here and painted with food colouring. I am going to put some egg white on the plates and put some sprinkles around.
Due to his intense blue eyes his face can not be shown X;oP
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