Cupcake Charm! And Etsy Treasury..

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all having a great start to the week. As you know I set myself up an Etsy shop, called 'Priscillas Cottage' Lisa's Creations for my Fimo Charms and Pendants.

I am having a fun old time figuring out listing items and learning about SEO! I have added a new item that I loved making.... a Cupcake Charm! I made one for a lady who asked for a cupcake with a rose on top and this was the result. It reminds me of the shabby chic decorations!
There are so many great shops on Etsy I wonder how anybody sells anything! Its fun though and a good way to promote my work. No sales through Etsy yet but I remain optimistic.


I am also on Facebook where the lady that asked for this charm found me.

Here is my latest creation...I think I will make one for myself too! I am making more charms with various themes. I am working on Easter charms at the moment...

I have also been featured in a Treasury. My cake pendant at the bottom left!

Howl At The Moon

If you would like to see my shop visit me here 'Priscillas Cottage'


I hope you have enjoyed viewing my creations, Let me know what you think


Bye for now xx Priscilla

Keep Calm and Carry on decor...

Hi Everyone,

I think everyone has seen these 'Keep calm' posters by now, Keep calm and Bake, Keep calm and eat a cupcake........ Well I found this original 'Keep Calm and Carry On' canvas in a local shop! I love it. I thought I would share where it now lives. In my living room above the fireplace. I have to admit in the time I have lived in this house I have never had a picture above the fireplace, I didn't really miss one not been there, I thought about it, but nothing ever said it needed to live there....but this new picture does,I think it looks perfectly at home,what do you think?

Can you see the other picture frame? This is a project I have had in mind for a while. As you know I love cakes, anything cake related, well I found some beautiful cake wrapping paper it is yellow with cakes on it, with sparkle glitter on the frosting, It is hard to see in the photos but it really sparkles in the light. I decided to frame the paper..... very simple and affective. I am quite happy with my little decorating project...... lol
My house is quite cottage in design, but I wanted to add a little retro colour into the mix, to brighten things up a bit... I am also working on some colourful cushions for the chair in this room, I will share those in another post. Hope you enjoyed the mini tour of my living room...

See you again soon

Priscilla x

Fimo Cake Charms...Feeling Creative.

Hi Everyone,

I cant believe we are nearly at the end of January,where does the time go! Thank you for your great comments on the 2010 reads, I love hearing what you are all reading!

Between reading I have been doing a bit of crafting, I always feel more creative at the beginning of a new year, it feels like the year holds opportunity to create a whole new world! Anything is possible.... So I tend to begin more crafts!

I wanted to share a pendant I made for lady who ordered a charm from me. She loves cakes and asked if I could make her a two tier cake with pink roses. This is what I came up with, I sent it off to America and I am happy to say she is very happy with the charm. ;)

I am in the process of making a few more charms, I will share them another time. My grandma is still wearing the Chocolate log I made her for Christmas, so I promised I would make her a spring themed one!

I went to the library this week and came home with a few more books! Here is the book I am reading at the moment ...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/604518.Fit_to_Die

I have only just started reading, but its very funny so far, a lot of talk about diet and resisting food..................... and there had been a murder...ooooh. lol. Hope its a good read. I'll let you know ...

Bye for now

Priscilla x

Book Reads of 2010! Add yours...

Priscilla's 2010-reads book montage

Hello Everyone and happy New Year 2011!!

My first post for the new year is book themed one.....I wanted to share all the books I read in 2010, some I loved and others not so much. I rate and review the books I read on a great site called http://www.goodreads.com/. I always enjoy starting the year with a new book or lists I plan on reading.

At the moment I am reading http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6734456-murder-takes-the-stage

As you can see by my list I enjoy cozy books but also historical fiction and some YA books too! I hope you enjoy viewing the list. Are there any on the list you have read, what did you think of them? If you make your own 2010 list I would love to see it. Let everyone know by leaving a message and a link to your blog if you are also going to post your reads!


Priscilla's favorite books » My favourite read of 2010 was

Happy reading in 2011 everyone!

Priscilla x

Winter Wonderland Cake

Happy Christmas everyone!

December has seen me decorating quite a few cakes. This cake was for auction at a black tie Christmas party event in aid of a local children's charity. The event was on the 14th Dec.What a great night, lots of music and comedy acts and items been donated to raffle and auction including my cake. The event was held at Blackpool Pleasure Beach!

I thought I would share a few photos of the Winter Wonderland Cake..

The reindeer is made by hand from sugarpaste and hand painted. This cake was a joy to make! I themed the decorations on old vintage Christmas cards. The sleigh was made piece by piece and painted too. Everything is edible and hand made. It took many weeks to make the decorations but I had fun and it went to a fantastic cause!

The snowflakes are made from royal icing.... the cake is a sponge cake with jam and butter cream and on the night 'Donnas Dream House ' charity went home with the cake! So I was very happy it went to the cause I was auctioning it for.

This cake let me go wild with advancing and trying new cake decorating skills. I painted this edible Santa plaque using food colours. His beard sparkled in the light as I used sparkle dust!!

A letter to Santa.....

The letter to Santa address reads:

Santa Claus

Candy Cane Lane

North Pole.....

A wonderful night was had by all and we raised 3,000 !!! I hope you have enjoyed viewing the photos of the cake.

Wishing you all a magical Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011!!

Priscilla x

Another Year Older! Feeling Festive..

Hi Everyone,

It was my Birthday yesterday! 32 where did the time go??? lol. I had a lovely day and celebrated a few days before with a Christmas meal with the drama group. A good time was had by all... I am the one in the festive red top! I am also wearing one of the Christmas pudding pendants from the previous post!

On the 27 th November we had the Christmas church fayre. I always make a cake to raise funds for the church and all the drama group helps out. this year we raised £26, so we were happy! Joan and I sat taking the guesses for the 'Guess The Weight Of The Cake' at the fayre.

I put the decorations up early this year. Usually they go up the 8th so they are up for my birthday on the 10th,but this year I felt extra festive and put the tree up on the 1st!!

Hope you are all ready for Christmas See you again soon

xx Priscilla

Christmas Pudding Pendant

Hi Everyone. Well here I am again, I have been busy creating more charms from Fimo clay. I love working with Fimo and since Christmas is on its way I made myself this....I have also added The Christmas Pudding to my Etsy shop! I hope you like it...

I have also just completed my first orders for these Pendants and Charms!!!

A Bakewell tart

Christmas Pudding

A Carrot Cake Cupcake

http://www.etsy.com/people/PriscillasCottage

Please feel free to check out my Etsy Shop !!

So thats what I have been up too as well as decorating a cake for the Christmas fayre this year, for 'guess the weight of the cake' I am going with a Gingerbread theme this year! I will Post photos soon....

Have a good week everyone xx Priscilla