Monday Monday

Sorry I didn't get back with the photo of my dad's present. We had a lot of wind over the last couple of days (some snow too) and the internet wasn't particularly reliable. However, I do have some pics for you. First, the cake. This is the cake before I did anything to it:

And this is how it turned out afterwards:

(It's a Tardis from the show Dr Who, just in case you don't recognise it.)

I didn't want to go out too much with my sick kids last week, so I had to use the usual liquid food colouring and this is the darkest I could get the colour. A bit annoying but it was Dad's favourite cake (sorry Annelise, I thought your Jenolan Caves cake was awesome!) so as long as he was happy, that's all that matters really.

Ok, and then there's his present.

I think this turned out really well and given that I haven't watched Dr who for a really long time (about 20 years), I think it's pretty good. My Dad is so hard to give presents to because he has everything and buys anything else that he wants, plus, I don't really have spare money, so I had to make something and this was the best thing I could think of. I guess there's no risk of someone else giving him the same thing.

What do you think?

It was going to be a "Mug Rug", but it's really more like a mini quilt. I don't think he'll use it as a mug rug. I might put a little sleeve on the back so that he can hang it up, but that's up to him. What would you do with a mini quilt like this? I think I would have to hang it somewhere otherwise it would be damaged, my kids would probably take it as a dolly quilt or something, in which case it could possibly be dragged through dirt and other things.

Anyway, I can pop up the details of how I made it if anyone's interested (just leave me a comment), otherwise I'll see you soon with more things I've done, hopefully. I have such a long list of projects to complete, both for me and for other people's orders and presents. I love how blogging can make you more accountable...

See you soon!