How to make lemon cakes with a little help.

After making all the lemons it was about time to make some cakes. The cat decided that he would be helpful in several ways - first by sitting on the table, then sitting on my lap, finally deciding that maybe he would sit in the chair!

One swish of a tail and my morning's work could be gone! 

He is trying to help...

Excuse the mess in the background, sometimes it is tidy.

When he finally moved to go back to sleep I could start again. I've also made some orange slices so I'm definitely going for the citrus fruit vibe.

Orange and lemon slices

TLS (Translucent liquid sculpey) mixed with oil paint for icing and pastel dust at the back for painting on a baked effect.

Left: Cane of feather icing.          Right:Completed cakes

Cake production line! 

The next post has the results of my day baking.

New year resolutions

Happy New Year! I don't tend to make new year resolutions but instead exist on a never ending to do list. I'm good at the planning stage - blank piece of paper and a cup of tea and I can quite happily make a long list of things I want to achieve and make. I like crossing things off as I do them and that sense of achievement when everything is complete.

How long it takes is cat dependant. If Nutmeg is in a ' I really must do something but I'll have a little nap first' mode I can get quite a lot done. And as he tends to sleep twenty hours a day I'm ok most of the time.

It's not a bad life as a cat is it ..