Toadpink.com

Everyone who knows me knows I’m a sucker for food sweet or savory but this site really does take the biscuit! No really it takes the biscuit and makes it 100x better if you love food you have to see this.

I am totally having a go at making the giant jammy dodger as soon as I can! I have made whole hand sized ones before but this will be awesome!!

See more here: http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/405/

There is everything from your favourite chocolate bar to your best biscuit and more it really is treat heaven.

Pimp That Snack!

Tags: awesome, cake, chocolate, food, fun, pimp, pimpthatsnack.com

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Hi OMG! its been awhile sorry about that but my 2010 really did suck.

Anyway on to 2011 so far it has contained a lot of cake and i shall be posting shortly all about how i have been working with a lovely lady called MollyMole and her fantastic cake decorating skills!

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Tags: blogging, cakes, earrings, Jewellery, make & do

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Hey we all like a bit of kink yes? Well i do but it has to be pretty!
One thing i would love to try out right now is this pretty coloured bondage rope used in a practice called Kinbaku. It comes in a wide veriety of colours & materials and looks so pretty and sexy when your tied up in it!

Here is a bit of information about the practice of Japanese bondage for those who would like some. (taken from wikipedia)

“Japanese Bondage (kinbaku) is said to differ from Western bondage in that the bottom is almost always immobilized or restrained to gain pleasure from being under the pressure and strain of the ropes, often squeezing the breasts or genitals, while the Western practice may also be applied strictly for decorative purposes.

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Tags: art, bdsm, beautiful, bondage, hemp, japanese, kinbaku, nylon, rope, sex, shibari, silk

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I have had a real music day listening to all the songs I love old and new. Now of course this list is subject to change as I age but these are the songs I love right now.

In no particular order order here they come
(I apologize now if some are not very cool!! lol)

Rise Against – Swing Life Away

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Tags: A Perfect Circle, beth hart, Breaking Benjamin, depeche mode, devo, Distillers, Flyleaf, Guano Apes, Imogen Heap, Katy Perry, kings of leon, kosheen, marilyn manson, Music, newton faulkner, NIN, nine inch nails, paramore, Rise Against, rob zombie, slipknot, Soil, tricky, velvet revolver

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Knitting has always had a stigma of old ladies and tea cozies – well I’m here to say NO!

Knitting has never been cooler and the same for crocheting!!

No really… take a look at some of the best movie, game & geek-type stuff that everyone has been making!

It’s awesome and an ace skill to have I am quite a new knitter I have only been knitting for about three years and I’m still learning I just hope I can turn out some of the great stuff that these guys have!

For more awesome knitted and crochet’d stuff, check out Ravelry – my username there is Toadpink, obviously.

On a side-note, make sure to remember that it’s World Knit In Public Day on 13th & 14th as well as the 20th & 21st of June!

Tags: chomp, companion, cube, geek, gloves, knit, Knitting, mario, monster, pacman, portal, public, spaghetti, totoro

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Twilight… where to start? Well i went to see the movie when it was released and I really enjoyed it – this got me interested in reading the books.

Happily we found the first book in a charity shop purely by chance, and when I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down. James could see me getting sucked into the story more and more, so he bought the next two books on Amazon – the fourth isn’t in paperback yet. I got so involved with the story that I read the first book within 4 days… and I’m not usually a fast reader. All the books took me under a week to read, except the last book Breaking Dawn (which we also picked up in the same charity shop, but in hardback), which is my least favourite of the series.

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Tags: Books, Breaking Dawn, Eclipse, Kristen Stewart, love, movie, movies, New Moon, robert pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, story, Twilight, vampires

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To be honest I think this may be my favorite cupcake …Ever!!

These and the chocolate cupcakes go down well no matter the occasion – I have done them for kid’s parties and a wedding and they all disappeared very quickly!

Tags: bakewell, baking, cake, cupcakes, party, recipe, recipies, smoo, wedding

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Ok so I love cupcakes and will share recipes I have tried and tested as well as ones I want to try if – you have any please share.

So cupcake number 1 is …….THE CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE!! Well I had to start with what I find is the most popular!!

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Tags: baking, bourneville, buttercream, chocolate, cupcakes, recipe, recipies, smoo

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I thought I’d share some braclets I have made – these I indend to sell eventually, be it on a stall or web store, but I thought I’d post them here to gauge the popular opinion.

They are made with glass beads and Tibetan silver spacers – let me know if you like them…  some people do I have already sold 5!!!
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Tags: bracelets, jewellry, Silver, Tibetan

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I found this ace pattern for hackey sacks and thought i would share i have tried a few but this is by far the easiest and quickest to pick up. So have a go and let me know what you think.
The pattern is from shazzaspatterns.blogspot.com she is a lady from Tasmania and she knits and sells so take a look!

Quick and easy to make and so much fun to play with!
And once you get the hang of it you can mix it up with different stripes or patterns.

And in the true fashion of Blue Peter… here’s some I made earlier:

My beautiful children holding the hackey sacs I've made

Tags: craft, fun, hackey sacs, Knitting, pattern, pretty

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