A good catch

Sometimes you just never know what you may hook when out fishing!! This groom got lucky i think, found himself a bride!!! Just as well she didn't have her boxing gloves on tho, or there may have been trouble getting her ashore.....

another day for clay

Jenny from Invergarry Lodge is a creative soul and quite fancied having a go at pottery. Genius idea i thought!! Matt searched out Penny at Loch-an-Eilein Pottery in Aviemore and last week Jenny, Shell and i spent a messy but very enjoyable afternoon learning a few basics on the wheel, and we got extra technical by adding spouts and handles onto our wee jugs! It remains to be seen just how well they pour, and in my case, if the handle will stay on.....!!

Much more practice is needed for sure, but already we could tell just how satisfying pottery can be. Penny was a charming teacher and host and her work on display in her gallery was much admired- all the more so after we had given it a go ourselves!!

I think we are all keen for more, and i'm sure ebay has had a recent peak on searches for bargain potter's wheels.......

AND HERE ARE THE FINISHED GLAZED POTS!!! TA DAAAAA!!!

completely clay....

Hello hello! Long time no type, i have no excuses... over at Invergarry Lodge they have been blogging like mad, about time i caught up.... unfortunatley i have no tall tales of kayaks, mountain bike movies or devilish eggs, and i'm not even considered 95 % brilliant.......

However what i do have is some nice photos of a snowboarding ewok. Oh yes!! Thanks to Kay who is a photographer for the RAF, she spotted the wee ewok i made as a Christmas pressie for a lovely fella (who bears more than a slight resemblance to one, some would say....) and took him along to her studio for his photo oppertunity....the ewok not the fella....

How lovely to have some professional shiny glossy snaps hey hey!! Makes a change from my attempts with point and shoot, wobbly lamp and tea towel background... but hey, i shouldn't let out my trade secrets eh??

Wee ewok fella was made completely from clay, and that's not something i do all too often. Takes alot of time.... i do a few commissions a year for LVCC in clay and every now and again i might be persuaded to do something in clay for a customer if clay happens to be the best way to achieve thier request. On this note i've just finished a cake top for a couple who wanted to be depicted wearing thier desert army camoflage gear. This sounded like a good challenge to me and i thought it would work well, so i was happy to give it a go.... Groom is in the Royal Signals so he has an ariel sticking out of his backpack, while the bride is a doctor and has her red cross armband on.

Still time to make your orders for a cake top should you be thinking of one... i am off on a wee break from 24th May to around the 10th June, but if you get in touch now i can still cover those dates!!

May the force be with you...

Hey there!! It's spring!! Or so they say, still a bit on the wintery side I think. There is so much snow here in the Highlands, well, you just wouldn't believe it!! Check out Matt & Jenny's flickr page for snowy shots of Highland mountains and ice and such like. Hey that's all just in the back garden you know!

Oh but caketop making is good for keeping the fingers warm and nimble!! The feet do get a bit cold right enough, but then that's what slippers are for... This time last year I do believe I was knee deep in pheasants and labradors, a wee run of country pursuit themed caketops there was. Well this is 2010 they tell me and I've seen plenty pheasant (easy to spot against the snow) but none in the house this year. Instead I have been surrounded and under house arrest by men and women of the law. Honest as the day is long I am, so no worries... still best to stay on their good side I say...

Let it snow

It must still be winter?! It feels like winter has been a year long at least... still that's not so bad, not when you are a big fan of the white stuff.

This winter I have been doing some important and essential caketop making research and have thrown snowballs (been hit at close range by snowballs too thanks to some scallywags I encountered in the big smoke) and I have had a go at snowboarding. Oh yes, I can prove it! The size of my bruises was unexpected, oh and ice, oh and keep me well away from that poma tow gadget... but still all good...

Maybe my next essential caketop research should be for one where folks get married on a desert island, cocktail glass in hand, birds singing, palm trees swaying... oh comission me someone!!!

Happy New Year!

Happy 2010!! Hope you all had a good one! Here it has been a very good break, much fun, friends and laughing. A fair bit of snow too would you believe? It was a deeply white christmas and so far 2110 is proving ever deeper...

Holidays are fun of course, but it is nice to ease back into cake tops again. Like clockwork email enquiries are popping into the inbox - I shall do my best to keep on top of emails! If you are looking to order a cake top for 2110 do get in touch for a quote or to go through ideas, get that diary slot booked early!

Ooops!!! Yes, well, just seeing if you were paying attention... in fact still a bit early for those 2110 orders, now taking orders for 2010!! That's twenty ten!!

Caketops Christmas shop!

I'm feeling festive, and have been pottering away this week feeling very merry indeed. The webmaster and I , when recently taking our vintage inspired photographs, came up with the name 'Felicity & Belle' which has stuck fast, and has inspired a new wee foray into Etsyland. Etsy, if you haven't visited, is quite a cool place with lots of wonderful handmade and vintage things on there. The webmaster is already a loyal punter. She always has nice necklaces in particular which when I admire and enquire as to where she got them, she sheepishly admits she's been perusing the gems on etsy again... So I warn you, it's a fabulous and glittery place and you have to be very careful not to get too addicted.
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Well, I've given you fair warning and now happily direct you Etsy-ward. Have a look at Felicity & Belle first, let us know what you think, and then why not have a wander where you will?!
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If you happen to fancy any of Felicity & Belle's handmade holiday wares that I have on there, you can purchase via Etsy, it's all in US dollars tho which confused me slightly I admit.... . However, probably preferable if you are reading this blog right now; email me direct, mention this word - TIMOROUS - within your email, and I shall make you a special individual price offer for whatever you may be interested in purchasing. The more inventive your email, the better for you my offer shall be! hey hey! If you make me laugh out loud I shall tell you so in numerical fashion!
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