In which there is Lego cake

I promised a while back that this wouldn’t turn into a wedding blog now that I am engaged, but there are some things that are just too much fun not to share. It’s also possible that it will ruin the surprise, but I have no idea how I am going to last a year without being all ‘Look at the things!’ I just have to share some of it in order to allow me to keep quiet about the other surprises. So my mum is making our wedding cake and has got really into it. She has got out the cake books, made sketches and done prototypes. I would like to share with you Prototype 1. (Prototype 2 is to be tried in a couple of weeks). I have to apologise for one thing. My family had eaten quite a bit of it before I thought of taking pictures. It was actually based on a 4x2 blue Lego brick. I hope you can imagine the rest.

Engagement Present cake tins.

Note that even the little nodules have cake inside.

I also had a beautiful picnic the other week when Britain was enjoying its 2 weeks on sunshine. We did home-made bagel salmon sandwiches, drank Pimms and played Canasta in the park. I’m not exactly living the wild ‘twenties-something in London’ life, but it’s good. I have also been playing endless amounts of Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. It’s an RPG for the PlayStation 2 and is great fun. These last few weeks I have been playing it nearly every night. I’ve clocked up nearly 90 hours and I’ve unlocked the final area to reach the final boss!

The view from our picnic spot

Picnic lunchbox. Stuffed with food.

For a fashion blog I am afraid I have no new and exciting outfits to wear. I hate to point the blame (but I’m about to) all the photos my boy took of me last time we attempted it were blurry or my face looked weird. Maybe I actually have a weird lopsided expression all the time… Anyhow I now have a tripod! So if the summer sun returns I am going to play around and see if I can work something out. It’s a whole new area for me.  

Along with my tripod my parents also brought down a whole bunch of other stuff which has allowed me to set up the perfect Neil Gaiman collection, complete with ghost figure on top of The Graveyard Book.

All my favourite books in one place!

In which I ramble about prawns, graveyards and photography.

You may remember last week I was feeling so proud of my photography? This week it all seems to have fallen apart. I have tried so hard and yet my camera is refusing to focus properly. It keeps putting the focus on the wrong things. Its so frustrating when I'm trying to put things up on Etsy.

The photography standard is so high there it's intimidating. I spent hours this weekend trying to photograph one necklace!

Finally did it! Sometimes trying to own an Etsy shop feels like too much hard work I have to say. However Christmas soon so hopefully some sales of shiny things.

In other news I went to see a play this week based on The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (oh yes its him again) and it was fantastic! I was so impressed, especially as the theatre was almost built for the performance. It was next to a graveyard and they did a couple of scenes outside and a few in the attic of the theatre. It made me feel all in love with good theatre again. I know I talked about how much I love theatre before as I reviewed my fringe experience. The thing is that with all the student protests there seems to be a backlash against the arts and some people seem to think they are useless. Well. Seeing a brilliant play of a brilliant book where everyone came away impressed made me just want to stick my tongue out at them all, or turn their science and law degree certificates into paper finger puppets.

Also going to have a brief Art Nerd moment. I suddenly feel that Dave McKean's drawings (above) look a lot like John Piper work (below).

This picture is massive and totally irrelevant to my blog post but I just love his work. So there.

I haven't mentioned it much before but I am also massively into cooking. I used to be fairly bad I believe but in the past few years living away from parentals I have got a lot better. I say this today because I made a meal I was so proud of.

Onions, mushrooms and garlic cooked with some basil. Then a little bit of chopped tomatoes thrown in (not the whole can) and stirred round. Wait a bit and then added double cream and red wine.

While all that was cooking I also had some spaghetti on. Poured the spaghetti into a wok full of sauce and stirred that round. The put it on a plate. THEN add a box of pre-cooked king prawns and some spinach leaves to the top of the meal. It was so amazing. For some reason the photo is terrible, (I said Im having a photography fail) and doesn't show how pink the whole meal looked and the shinyness of the prawns. But there was no way I was going to set up a light box and tripod when I could eat it all up. Nom nom nom.

I promise you this is not going to turn into a cookery blog. I just wanted to share this beauty with you. My blog entry is a little all over the place this week, even a little bit of politics in there. However Origami Girl does have to eat and have a bit of fun. Besides it's good to talk about other things than my superpowers occasionally.

Next week though I'm going to update you on the pyromaniac-creating local scientist.