The Ultimate Incentive to have an amazing 2010.

Birdie85

Ooooh, I don't know about that... looks a bit unfamiliar! I know where I stand with cupcakes and I don't like to waste my calories on things that might not taste good enough to warrant the extra lbs they cause!

Cinny91

I made some once - they're pretty scrummy but don't hold a candle to cupcakes! But that's just me

poddle911

Cinny91 wrote: »

I made some once - they're pretty scrummy but don't hold a candle to cupcakes! But that's just me

I don't reckon they compare to cupcakes either! Again I haven't tried them, but my understanding is that they're like biscuits with stuff between them or mini whole cakes?! Happy to be corrected if wrong!

Birdie, there's no harm in trying! You can always revert to other rich sources of calories if they're not your thing

Dinah93

I've had them once and I hated them. You know that foam stuff you use in DIY that expands when you spray it? Felt like it was doing that in my mouth, I wanted to be sick - not good!

Love, love love the cupcake bar idea though!

Have spent around 7 hours today working on my dress - and I haven't even finished the bodice yet - I hate lining! That said I spent well over an hour hand slipstiching the whole of the collar bit but I am so chuffed with the results. And then I managed to melt the fabric on the front a bit - me and irons dont mix. I think I'm going to go back to the sewing machine and spend the next hour or two trying to get the bodice part finished. I've pinned it all in place, so its just some very fiddly stitching left to do. Tomorrow I'm either going to tackle the skirt part, or the new product business plan, and do the other one of the two on Sunday.

dirtyepic

Evening all!

Thanks for the lovely welcome messages from you all.

I have had a really productive day today but don't seem to have achieved much.

I wrote a very small list (4 things) and managed to achieve 2 of them!

But I haven't stopped all day so I know I have a few things out of the way.

Our computer downstairs (a lovely old reliable emac!) is getting a bit slow and that's where I do my 'new business' and any graphic design stuff and haven't yet had the time to check what I can throw away but I know it has to be done!!!

So typically that's what I have been using today at a snails pace compared to my laptop, which is used for ebay stuff, banking and procrastinating.

Here we go, for the next half an hour or so I will be checking what's been safely backed up and what can be chucked!

I have to package six items to post tomorrow morning. Don't you just love the Saturday morning queues in the Post Office?!

You are all so enthusiastic about baking! I am so rubbish in the kitchen I just can't get interested in it and I have a lovely husband who loves cooking and trying new stuff so I am really spoilt! It's good to read about all of your trials with your cupcakes as my friends are getting married in August and are having the cupcakes instead of the wedding cake and the bride's mam is a fantastic cook and has been trialling two different flavours a week for the past two months or so. I don't know how the bride will manage to keep her figure for the wedding dress!!!

I have loved reading all about the wedding plans and the DOTD from a little way back. Reading about the progression of all of your plans has been fascinating cos it doesn't seem that long ago (5 years in July) that I was preparing and creating tons of stuff for our wedding.

More exciting stuff, my pal is getting made redundant in June which is usually a nasty time in anyone's life, it happened to me December 2008 and I am still picking up the pieces with regards finance and career progression! But she is determined and working so hard to get a new business off the ground and she is involving me quite a lot which I am so excited about. She is starting her own millinery business and has so many ideas - I am a little bit envious! But she is asking me to help out and advise on so many levels. We are all planning a Ladies Day to Newcastle Races in July so all of the girls can wear posh frocks, very high shoes and her exciting creations on our heads! Which should be a scream as I am the most casual dresser in the world - jeans, trainers (or flip flops in the summer) and top is what you will usually find me in!!! So the heels and posh frock as well as a fascinator or hat will be a bit of a sight! Oh, yeah - that's what I was going to say - I have done some design work for her tonight which isn't really work for me cos I love tinkering about in photoshop and freehand and playing with fonts! Yep, that wasn't on my list but it just had to be done!

See I am so easily distracted to just chat and not get on with the 'list'!!!

Anyway I hope everyone has a great weekend and the sun keeps shining wherever you are.

I am off to crack on with this boring old backing up and spring cleaning of my mac!

Flower08

dirtyepic wrote: »

You are all so enthusiastic about baking! I am so rubbish in the kitchen I just can't get interested in it

Dont worry your not the odd one out! I'm useless in the kitchen, can even mess up the simplest of meals :oluckily OH is a chef.
Everyone else on the thread talks about baking, then posts pictures which i just drool over :rotfl:

dippykitty

I'm another one who can't get to grips with baking. I can make very simple things but anything complicated and I'm gone!

Dinah93

Yey - I can now cross another thing off my 30 before I'm 30 list -

27. Sew a dress I can and want to wear.

Finished my hem and zip this morning. I chose this pattern because I found the blue material and loved it, but thought it would be a bit much en masse, so I thought I could make some nice workwear with a small ammount of it.

Enjoy the piccies!











I'm really, really pleased with the dress, there are a few small niggles where some hems frayed a little bit but overall I'd be more than happy to wear it out. I altered the pattern a bit, made the skirt longer and put a slit up the back, as I don't like wearing things above knee height, and suprisingly these alterations worked quite well.

slowlyfading

Dinah, that's amazing!

Dinah93

Dinah93 wrote: »

So the to do list for this week is:

• Write to surveyors company
• [STRIKE]Write to ombudsman[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Do mood board for sewing class[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Do health and safety book for sewing class[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Write up cupcakes on blog[/STRIKE]
• Write up dress and mood board on blog Will do this this week if I get my mood board back
• [STRIKE]List 70 things on ebay [/STRIKE]Did all I'm doing!
• [STRIKE]Order bridesmaids dresses [/STRIKE]
• Do first matched bet NIM borrowed my float!
• [STRIKE]Finish Burning Bright[/STRIKE]
• Do 4 vine reviews Did 3
• [STRIKE]Write a draft business plan for new product[/STRIKE]

A very doable list I feel - but we'll see how the week goes!

Didn't do badly I don't think.

So, this week I aim to

• Write to surveyors company
• Rewrite business plan with alterations
• List 2 bits of software on NIMs Amazon account to build him a feedback rating
• List the few bulk bits and my Tesco points greenhouses on ebay
• Try to arrange to talk to contact about new product business plan
• Cut out jersey maxi dress to take to sewing class
• Write up cake disaster on blog
• Write up mood board and other dress on blog if the mood board comes back
• Write up travelling info/contacts for hire cars etc on Irish tab, local hotels, the menu, the giftlist stuff, and email to nice invite lady
• Write up invite list for hen/stag do with contact details to send to maid of honor.
• Make 20 cards.
• Finish 'Addition'
• Start and finish 'Perfect Meringues'
• Do 2 Vine reviews
• Do first matched bet
• Investigate Addition offer/emails/letter

I'm actually really busy this week, have the optician tomorrow, a MS meal on Tuesday night, sewing Wednesday, a colleagues wedding on Thursday and physio, back to the wedding venue on Friday to try to finalise the menu. This is a lot for me atm!