Top five for week 27

Ok so this week i thought i would choose five cupcake pics that i love.
i love the classic, simple cupcake look. i really wanna try and make my little uns look like some of these ones. so beautiful, so simple.
Number 5 is:

so perfect and inviting
number 4:

This is so absolutely decadent!
number 3:

my cupcakes normally look like this:)
number 2:

Absolutely perfect
And number 1:

Absolute bliss:) Red velvet love:)

Hope u enjoyed this weeks top five,
love ya

Catching up time

Ok so im trying to finally do some catching up on my blog.
I have just had so much stuff going on in my  life recently that I really havent had a good chance to blog.

one of the most exciting things i did recently was go to Knysna to Ile de pain to do a bread making course.
shees it was hectic! the first day (sunday) we did theory the whole day. I know right.
Theory for a whole day? it was pretty intense, some of it went right over my head but I think i did pretty well with it. Its quite hectic to make "artisan" breads. I found out that temperature is super important.
they keep taking the temperature of the air, the flour and the dough. Who knew???
I certainly did not.
At the end of the first day we got to start making out own bread. We mixed everything in and had to fold it all a correct way by hand. it was quite fun but pretty messy.

on the monday all the hard work started. so much folding and kneeding and temperature taking. it was super fun though! i absolutely loved it! i really enjoyed physically making all the breads by hand.
here are some pics to make u all jealous.

getting down and dirty

Flouring away

into the fire

yum yum

Hope u like my little foray into bread making:)
love ya

VDJ LOVE!!!!!!

Ok first off i have to say OH my god my sister won the Vodacom Durban July ypung designers competition!!!!! How seriously kewl is that???
Its so so incredably awesome am i am so seriously proud of her!
Her name is Tamara Cherie Dyson and she's going places!
Here is her winning design

Freaking awesome!!!!!

How gorgeous is this back?

a close up

My mummsy and I:)

My super stylish parentals:)

Ok so now that i have totally gushed about my fabulously talented sis, i'll tell u about the rest of the Durban July.
I had an awesome time! Other than being absolutely thrilled for my sis, we were in the Sharks tent which was pretty amazing! Lets just say free food and free cocktails:) I totally lost count of how many rose petal martinis i had( they were too delicious for words)
Also did some "celeb" spotting:) I say "celeb" because I dont really believe that this country has any real celebrities. I saw some Sharks, obviously in our tent, Marius Roberts - that mnet guy. I also stood next to Jeannie D from top Billing and who know who else I missed.
After the one race i was walking along the side of the track when this black woman walked next to me and i thought oh u look quite fancy, when all of a sudden two HUGE guys (whom i came to realise afterwards were her bodyguards) pushed me completely out of the way and pushed her past me. I was just about to start shouting a few expletives when i realised that they looked kinda fierce so i better not. But anywhoo the point of my story is that it turns out she was the newest "mrs jacob zuma" how random??? I was still super not impressed with her bodyguards and even more so as im not exactly zumas biggest fan - of his or his, how many wives is it now? 5? 8? 10? Have no idea, but all i know is that they are just adding to the crumbling of our society.

Ok enough about politics! Onto the horses! My mom and I each placed some bets. Now both of us dont have a clue about horses or betting so we just chose the names we liked best. We got everyone to bet on number 13 for the last race coz she was called Queen Tamara. Sadly she did not place but we still all had fun. I did win on one of my horses though:) I bet R50 and I won R125. Was super stoked about my winnings as i kept calling it:)
I also won another prize during the day, a night or maybe two im not sure at some hotel in durban.

ok so i think that is enough from me for now.
Ciao