Anything Less Than The Best Is a Felony

Over planned a smidgen. Just a little bit. Had planned (in previous photo) to make 40 cupcakes! Sleeping Babies and Hamburgers. Ended up just making the Sleeping Babies. Which were a H.I.T. I made them the night before to save a bit of time.

 

Small Cakes - 22/10

The recipe I had used to make the cupcakes fell short. Instead of the 24 it said it made I only ended up with 18. Probably a good idea anyway. 

Baby stuff - 23/10

Ms Television had a fantastic time at her Baby Shower and got to take home some of my spare children. Fairly simple looking cupcakes. I saw the recipe over at JustJenn's blog. I read her blog regularly and she make fantastic food. It was the first place I went to went thinking of Baby Shower baked goods. Really happy with how they turned out. The small dummies were a find, from a party shop in Marrickville. The skin was difficult. I squirt red and a dribble of yellow - sorry can't be more specific.

 Sleepy Baby 

At my bedroom window at the house I grew up in there was a Bottle Brush tree. Awesome. Bees love them! I am allergic to bees. I remember being nervous about this tree when I was younger because of the apparently devious nature of bees. I thought they would infiltrate my bedroom and attack me which would surely end in my death. A little dramatic??

When I was 12 I was first stung, my foot blew up to mammoth proportions. Instead of the Doc saying "You are allergic, be aware of them, carry this" etc. He pretty much told me that if I were to be stung around the neck my throat would expand which would close my airway and I would suffocate.... he may of said this while standing above me with a fog machine in the background. All in all I was shit scared of anything pollen related. No frolicking in fields for me as a young lass.

Pink Bottle Brush - 24/10

Then my Sis and I changed bedrooms so I got the room which had bees at the window a few months of the year. I was a nervous child. That was the first and only time I have been stung. That bee was not even alive! It was in the throes of death when I stepped on it. I could not of been that allergic. I never got one of those pens. I would get sting meds form the chemist... Sounds as pathetic as my car accident at 3kms where I sprained my toe. 

So, after living so close to my nemisis' home base and watching them formulate their devious plans, I figured that I knew the Bottle Brush well. No! They also come in pink now. I still had a raised heart rate as I was taking these photos in the tree.

- A