Fashion chat- Dressed up or down??? All welcome!!

Alexnikov

Awww how lovely of her!

ETA - tsabo, how pretty are you?!

daisybella

tsabo- stunner!

alex- I know

tara747

tsabo wrote: »

Hi all! I had loads to reply to but I got distracted by Daisy's fantastic cakes and i've forgotten.

Been photographing and sorting out for ebay today. I have nearly 50 items to list! Eeek, wish me luck. Also smashed a mirror today, I wasn't sure my luck could get any worse so i'm hoping it'll cancel it out.

Just making a spare photobucket account and i'm going to upload pictures of todays outfit.

OMG I have about 500 things to list on eBay, so don't fret lol!

Can't open your pic, will try when I get home.

lostinrates

daisybella wrote: »

thanks for the lovely comments girls

lady loved her cakes and bought me some gorgeous flowers and gave me £10 (which I didnt expect, nor want) to say thank you

was suffering a bit with my mood before that but I feel back on track now I know she is happy.

who couldn't be happy?

Its always scary giving/selling stuff you've baked. I do it a bit, with customers my mother used to do it for ...in some cases we're on the third generation of purchasers who don't consider it an occasion with out one particular cake we bake....but even so every time I get butterflies.
Two years ago I was asked to make a dersert type cake that is grown up and yet ridiculous, rich, moist but elegant. That's a tough brief! I ended up making a horrifcally heavy, but deleicious, cake made to a brownie recipe that I'm also quite well known for...and what they usually have, so it was a tripple layer bownie, but quite posh (zabaglione filling between layers, ganash and dressed with gold dragees). I almost needed a wheelbarrow to move it, lol. But it was well received and I was on a high for ages.



right, now, I'm having a slightly wistful moment...I wish this were available in my size (or I was available in its size!) I think its beautiful. *sigh*

http://www.agentprovocateur.com/lingerie/new-in/info/gypsy-bra~champagne

daisybella

oh lost, that creation sounds EPIC. one day you are making a small scale version for me

that bra is stunning, not available in my size either

retro_bluebell

tara747 wrote: »

I know girls who hang jewellery up with an outfit so that it all matches, that's waaaay too organised for me! And anyway, lots of my jewellery goes with more than one outfit.

Thats what I do :o

daisybella

I'm lucky if I remember to put jewellery on!

Alexnikov

Mmm, lir, that sounds amazing.

I panic about my baking because I can't taste test it and then I don't know if it's horrible or not. People are too polite, I never know if they're being truthful or not.

daisybella

Alex, I think that's why I panic too as I can't/er, won't taste test anything so have no idea if it is awful or not, haha. Thankfully it seems I have a knack for cooking. I used to work doing desserts at a restaurant which was the best job ever, I miss it!

lostinrates

Yes, scarier with new recipes. The main thing has been being made my my mother for, ooh...about fifty years...and the other things similarly are tried and true. New recipes require nerves of steel....and lots of practice so that they become trusted and perfected too.

I'm lucky that I have the baking gene, and although baking is like chemistry and recipes should be adhered to, I can wing it with a very high percentage success rate. My sister makes THE best marmalade in the world though.