Snow business like Snow days

First thing's first, bf and I spent a lovely weekend in Newcastle last weekend to celebrate his sister's birthday and her son's birthday (the same day!). On the Saturday we celebrated Emma's birthday and went to a Chinese buffet which was yummy. On Sunday we had a party for Emma's son who is now 1! Emma is incredible talented and has recently started making cakes. She made her own birthday cake: 

 this is a red velvet cake, made and hand decorated by Emma herself. It was beautiful and DELICIOUS! 

This is the cake Emma made for her son. It's a Ponyo cake! It is absolutely stunning! The chocolate cake was delicious and it looked so amazing. Emma crafted the hill including cliff at the bottom and the bath all the way up. The little house on top and all the trees were delicately hand made as well as the children. They were made with modelling chocolate and hand painted! Such a talented lady. 

Emma and her husband David have a really exciting enterprise going on, if you like fantasy, cosplay and general amazingness pop over to www.esotericon.co.uk

 Snow. I live in the RED zone of the recent weather warnings and was snowed in yesterday and today. Pretty much the whole of South Wales had a snow day yesterday and everyone was panic buying bread on Thursday. It did snow, a lot. And it's very pretty, particularly when you don't have to go anywhere!

The animals were intrigued by the snow but not particularly impressed.

 Reebok was exhausted by his brief exertion in the snow.

I spent some time knitting. The teacher in my placement class is expecting a baby in April and I decided I'd knit her some booties. Bearing in mind I have only recently learnt to purl and struggle to read patterns I think I did quite well!


Today, I am making needle felted things! Having completed my essay for college already I am feeling very proud of myself and rewarding myself with a creative day.