Have suitcase, will travel!

Rucksacks and suitcases and bags and boxes!! These can appear on a caketop for lots of reasons... Perhaps the happy couple are being married abroad, or maybe they just generally love to travel. Maybe their romance bloomed after they bumped into each other while exploring the starry steppe of outer Mongolia! (The webmaster and I are still intrigued by the Google analytic stat of a 'hit' on the website from Ulan Bator).

Whatever the reason, luggage has appeared on caketops all year round and in lots of colours. I quite enjoy making rucksacks and those wheelly suitcases with handles, and I like putting labels on but so far no one seems to want to have their air-ticket in their hand. Is that because we all use e-tickets these days?!

My near neighbours Matt and Jenny are no strangers to luggage, they run Invergarry Lodge, a lovely hostel popular with tourists and those folks who like to climb mountains. Matt and Jenny climb mountains themselves and have some super photographs on thier website and blog of many the local peaks, and some further afield. Matt is a bit of a creative type too, so check out his website Invergarry Gallery which has just gone LIVE! And wish them good luck, as they're getting hitched in March and shall be packing for an adventurous (and slightly chilly) honeymoon!

Surf and snow!

It's been pretty chilly here, a bit of sleet and snow, so a couple of snowboarding and skiing caketops to do this week just fitted the bill nicely!

But then a surfing cake top request happens along and I am left imagining endless sandy beaches, sunshine and the perfect wave!! My kayack surfer friends explained the science of surfing to me during a visit last autumn, and while I am still not entirely sure if 'gnarly' is good or bad, I do appreciate the wonder of pipe... Not that I would be spotted surfing myself you understand, I'm not the best swimmer, maybe I'd just watch from the beach and award points... anyway, back to caketops. Its all been great fun and very sporty this week...

Croc's away!!!

Today I sent off a cake top to a lovely bride who is getting married very soon and emigrating to Australia. Her h2b is a dentist, so naturally the cake top had to have a crocodile with the toothache on there! He's a friendly croc tho, so here's hoping he brings them good luck in the Land of Oz!

Also yet another enquiry about a caketop with a country living sporting gentlemen on! As yet there are no photos in my website gallery with cake tops like this. The Webmaster hasn't updated the current website gallery for a wee while as she will be putting all her efforts into into the brand new gallery for the revamped caketops website. Do you know there's 700 odd photos in the current gallery?! So it will be a big job for us to edit those down, and then add the new cake top photos that I have been collecting in recent months!! Well, I say 'us', but really the Webmaster is in charge of ' Quality Control' and will pick my best taken photos and balance them all out so we have a bit of everything in the new gallery. She's very clever that way, y'know!!

Anyway, in the meantime, here are a couple of pics of 'country living' type cake tops for all you country livers!! Oh!! Spot the pheasant!!

I'll be with you phesantly...

I have been experiencing a strange spate of requests for caketops with pheasants on them! I wonder why?! It's one of those things, you don't see one for ages then a few come along at once!! So this afternoon I have been making pheasants. They take a bit of time to

do - like tabby cats-due to the
painting, but worth it I think...

Also, Lisa the Webmaster and I are making progress on the new caketops website. The inspiration for the redesign is coming from a bit of old fabric that once belonged to my Granny! I have scanned it in, now the webmaster just has to work out what to do with it next....

Happy New Year

2009 has reached us! Hooray!

After a lovely festive break caketops is all ready to go again in 2009! I look forward to lots of lovely requests... already I am getting the January email deluge. Everyone is so organised in January- it must be a New Year resolution for all of us! So far I have had requests for a cake top with a dalmation and a pheasant and possibly one with a crocodile! Maybe 2009 is a year for animal challenges...

Here in Laggan it has been permanant permafrost for what seems like weeks - but is in actual fact only 10 days or so. Lisa the Webmaster and I had to battle the elements in order for her to get back down the hill to home.....



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