Mother's day cards made for Cards for Australian Troops

I made these cards to donate to cards for troops, on the inside of each card it says to a wonderful Mum

Individual Ice cream Christmas puddings

This yummy Ice cream pudding is served with white chocolate

Christmas cookies

these are the last of my cookies.. they are decorated with milk and white choc, some have coloured pearls some have silver and some have candy canes...

Linzer biscuits

I made these biscuits with Raspberry Jam... they are one of my Mum's favourites..

Reindeer cookies

I made these cookies using shortbread. gingerbread man cookies cutter, jaffas, white M&M's and milk chocolate

Chocolate candy cane cookies

these were the last cookies I made today,,, some of the cookies I made today will be given away as gifts,, I will be making more cookies tomorrow

Christmas shortbread...

I had fun making and decorating these cookies

Vanilla star cookies..

I made this yummy Vanilla star cookies today too

Chocolate Brownie Gingerbread men and Christmas trees

Well I have been doing lot's of baking and decorating so far this weekend..
the first thing I made were these Chocolate Brownie Gingerbread men and Christmas trees

Pineapple Chutney

I made this to have with our Roast pork on Christmas

Choc-rum surprise truffles

the surprise is that inside the choc-rum coating is a Ferrero roche , I made this also for Christmas

Almond Brittle

I made this Almond brittle for Christmas

Apricot Slice

 I made this yesterday to have in my lunch box

Homemade cordial

today I made 2 lot's of homemade cordial 1 is raspberry and lemon and the other it lemon and passionfruit barley water

Champagne Cocktails..

Today we did a test run of the drink we are going to have for Christmas... It has pomegranate juice, topped up with champagne and frozen strawberries....

2016 Victoria Plum calendar

Here are the final 6 pages of my calendar. On the green pages I used watercolour pencils, on the blue pages I used twinkling H2O's and on the maroon pages I used watercolour crayons.

Baked Lemon and Berry cheesecake.

I made this yummy cheesecake for dessert last night.. It has a shortbread biscuit base...

Christmas shortbread cookies

I made these Shortbread cookies today, they are my first attempt at making shortbread and my first attempt at using fondant to decorate cookies. After having a play today I have a list of things to buy so when I decorate some more for Christmas I can make them better. They sure taste yummy, I will take some to work tomorrow to test out on my co-workers.. they love my cookies..

2016 Victoria Plum calendar 2

Here are the next 4 pages of my calendar. On the first 2 I used glitter gel pens to colour in the background, On the second 2 pages I used Tim Holtz distress inks smooshed onto a sheet then used a paintbrush to paint them on the page.

Gift basket and paper.

I made this basket and matching paper for our Christmas gift exchange at our Christmas party for ACTSA ( ACT stamp artists). I made the basket out of light coloured card which I used Tim Holtz distress ink on and stamped a pattern in black ink. When I finished the basket I decided to make some matching paper to wrap my gift in.