Crochet Doll's Dresses...

...or rather, dresses for two little soft, fuzzy friends that mean a lot to my daughters - especially my oldest one, who has an army of animal friends. The synthetic, batting-stuffed kind. She'd love to have a real menagerie in our house, but she'll have to settle for Pusi and Brum and all the other toy animals until she's old enough to become the wildlife protector or animal shelter manager it seems she might turn out to be. One of the advantages of the non-real fuzzy friends - responsibilities, smells, costs and other issues of keeping real animals aside - is that you can dress them up :3 (Yes, I know you can dress up dogs, for example, but I think that's pretty silly...)

Meet Pusi, a bit worn and not as white as she used to be, but what does it matter when she's dressed in a pink dress with glittery, blue border, sequins and butterfly buttons?

Brum in a darker pink, with wine red border and purple sequins, and a couple of see through, light pink buttons left over from a shirt or something.

Hair band with elastic threaded through, and a flower on of course.

One for Brum too :)

Here they are before they were put on. Yeees, I should flip the picture in Picasa, but it's Sunday morning and we're soon getting ready to go out, so you'll just have to cock your head a little ;)

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Aren't they cute?

Enjoy your Sunday :)

Spray Painter Cake 

Certain things do not look edible, even if they are. Like a metallic cake sprayed with army-green and a man standing on top in a white-suit and protection gear ready to spray paint... But I'm pretty sure this cake was not only edible, but pretty tasty too - no reason to judge a book by its cover... This was ordered from a friend whose father is in the spray painter business and had a round-number birthday coming up. I had great fun experimenting with this theme; it's a good feeling to be able to rise to any cake challenge :3

A two tier chocolate and cream cake with lots of raspberries and blueberries, covered in marzipan coloured grey and then sprayed with edible silver spray and green wilton gel colour.

A fondant man with blue gloves, mask, belt boots and spray painting gear - the hose is a liquorice strand :)

A sign with "hooray!" (in Norwegian) written on it to make it a bit more birthday-ish, the silver sprayed on through a stencil I made with the font stencil from Word. I also cleaned a screw and pushed it into the corners to make it look bolted to the cake.

Does it say "eat me!"..?

A sunny and enjoyable June to you all :D