Baking for Caking

Dear Julia and Frida

On the 20th of May it was Farah Fennel's birthday. It was a most interesting day, because she decided that what she wanted to do for her birthday was bake. This turned out to be most fitting, because our mother just happened to find out that the 20th of May 2012 was actually world baking day! Who knew!

After further web searching about this elusive world baking day, we stumbled across quite a fun element to the day, which was called caking!

Basically what you were meant to be doing on the 20th of May this year was to bake something, and then place it in a strange or different location, take a picture of it, and then post it on social networks as "#caking".

This turned out to me quite a lot of fun.

Farah made some DELICIOUS chocolate beetroot cupcakes and then I had a lot of fun walking around putting them in random places and taking photos.

I'm not sure if the world baking day was a once off thing or not, but if not, and if it does happen again next year, I HIGHLY recommend participating. It really is fun to use those creative juices trying to find somewhere interesting to take a picture of your baked goodie(s).


It really was a lot of fun trying to see where it would look strange and interesting to put the cup cakes that Farah had made, and how lucky I was that the new house she and her Boyfriend had bought is so full of possibilities for some very fun photos.

Their house is very nice, with a bit of old meets new going on, it's a super cozy house, and it has a lovely big garden full of funny statues which the previous owner left behind... now THEY came in handy :D hehehehe.

So here are the #caking pictures taken that day... I hope you'll appreciate the fact that I'm even in one of them :D.

Looks like I have a little cup cake hat on my head... (personally I think it actually suits me:)

Sincerely

May Marjoram

May Marjoram - Cake on head

#Cake on Decorative Jar

#David likes cake

#Stig and storm trooper caking

#Cakes like to swing

#Cake on a tap

A knife stand with some voodoo satisfaction

Dear Julia, Frida and Marie


I was taking a walk down the factory shop street the one day, and noticed that there was a new kitchen shop!

I was actually there to look at shoes, but when it comes to home-ware, kitchen appliances and nifty ideas, I have a definite problem and got completely side tracked as I am sure you ladies can understand.

It is a pretty nice place. It has a couple of bits and bobs you won't find in all your kitchen shops, electronic pizza ovens, giant mugs, a lovely marble rolling pin, etc, and then there was THIS GUY!!!! A knife stand in the shape of a person. A lovely voodoo knife stand!

Sort of made me think of some very poor soul who was on the veeeery wrong side of a knife fight!

Mostly though I imagine how satisfying it would be to have a knife stand like this on your bad days.

Envisage that the metallic person is who ever is making you feel less than happy and enjoy returning the knife into the body.

Yes... a little dark, I know, but you must admit that it is better to have little "voodoo" violent thoughts than to actually inflict pain.

Sadly with the satisfaction it could bring, the quality of the stand is rather disappointing. Very plasticy, so most definitely not worth the price it was being sold for.

Perhaps though, one day when I am rich, I can indulge myself and spend money on silly things to make me laugh, but in my current position I am unable to justify buying something like that :(

Sincerely

May Marjoram

Feeling blue

Dear Frida

Blue... it's just a colour right?

Well for some that may be the case, but this colour is often used to describe a feeling, and today this is the feeling I feel. 

I feel blue.

In a way, the feeling is rather apt, because it is Monday after all (Blue Monday). However, I must tell you it is not the day that is making me blue, but general forces in life pushing me into the depths of this deep sad colour.

Of course, the fact that it is a Monday does not help for the mood. Find me one person who likes a Monday and I'll somehow find a way to give them a prize.

I'll admit that if I were to go about describing myself by colours, most days I'm probably more of a yellow, happy sunny yellow, or I'm a purple, royal, think too much, think I'm all wisdom and creativity purple.

But today, I'm blue, and not the blue you google, which says things like calm and distance, bla bla bla, but the blue most of us know, sad, grumpy, depressed, reclusive blue.

I would hope you would understand where I am coming from, knowing colours so very well. Also as a fellow female, feeling a little down is not an uncommon feeling.

How is it that we generally pull ourselves out of this blue? I don't know about you, but it feels like thinking through it is not how it will be fixed. Sometimes when you feel this way, the more you try and think about it to try and figure out what is wrong and how to fix it, the further you sink.

Sometimes it is actually better to act first and think later I think. 

Today I will drink another cup of coffee and force myself to leave the house! If I'm not sitting still, I cannot over think anything, and in such a way, I shall leave my blue behind, add a little red, and get back to purple at least! Ha! Take that blue!

Sincerely

May Marjoram

A friendly disagreement

Dear friends,

Over the next couple of months you MAY notice a couple of small (or enormous) changes happening on this blog layout from time to time.

I'm involved in a small battle of wits with my account. I would like to take one of the pretty dynamic templates and just change 1 or 2 teensy weensy things, but it seems that's not as simple as it sounds. So for now you'll see the progress of a simple banner as I go along & then later when I'm more educated in all things blog there will hopefully be a beautiful template for us to communicate with.

Hold thumbs for me. I do so hope Blogger and I can remain easy going friends into the future...

Source: sugarboodesigns.com via Keyna on Pinterest

Does this count as eating organic?

Dear Frida and Julia

Would you just look at this!!

rustic, rocks,wood,sleek lines,love

I am in love with the concept of bringing the outdoors, indoors! More importantly, I love mixing textures! Wouldn't working in a kitchen like this, or visiting someone sitting at that counter make you feel a little like you are in a cabin in the mountains, or in a farm kitchen?

Bringing raw wood and stones inside for decor seems to create such an earthy natural feel (organic?).

It speaks to a persons inner hippy or hunter gatherer. Brings you back the the idea of being outside and sourcing your own food.

A kitchen like this looks like it needs to be paired with a large herb and vegetable garden which is probably just outside this picture's frame that you can probably see through some large glass doors from the kitchen while you cook, creating even more of an impression of being outside while inside.

Oh my. To have these textures in my kitchen and household one day. I'm almost sure it would make the food taste better!

Sincerely

May Marjoram