maandag 10 november 2008

My first award!!

Browsing through all the different blogs I found something interesting: there are people within the blog-community that make awards and give them to bloggers that they find inspirational. I thought this was so kind and such a great idea!

There are a lot of different awards out there and although I wished to receive one, I never expected it to happen so soon!! After all I only started blogging towards the end of July this year...

I met Shelby of The Life and Loves of Grumpy's Honeybunch through Tuesdays with Dorie. She always find interesting ingredients to cook up different dishes and participates in a lot of blo-events. Shelby was sweet enough to honour me with the Excellent Award. Thank you so much!!

However with every award come responsibilities: there are rules attached to them..... For the Excellent Award they are: Please find 5 blogs, of any kind that you love to read. Write a post about the blogs you picked, linking back to them. Make sure you let them know you gave them an award.

Since I read a lot of blogs on a regular basis, I had trouble narrowing my choice to only five... But I managed to do so eventually:

Kim of Scrumptious Photography: I know Kim through Tuesdays with Dorie. Kims blog does her name justice: beautiful photographs of scrumptious food.

Esther and Hannah of Del Sisters Kitchen: they are so creative with all of their creations.

Clara of I heart food 4 thoughts: I met Clare through Tuesday with Dorie and she introduced me to Craving Ellie in My Belly. She writes with such humour that I always get a smile on my face when I read her posts.

Liz of Cake or Death: Liz I also know through Tuesdays with Dorie, besides TWD she makes lots of other sweet treats that always look amazing and are very inspiring!

Jen of Cake Wrecks: I don't know Jen personally, I just stumbled upon Cake Wrecks one day and found it hilarous: now I visit every day. Jen posts every day, most days it's about one or several cake wrecks and on Sunday she posts about the most beautiful, amazing cakes one could ever imagine.

zondag 9 november 2008

More new toys!!

So this weekend I went out and spoiled myself to congratulate myself on landing my first assignment. (a girl has to figure out something if she doesn't have a boyfriend/husband to spoil her.....) I must say I'm pretty pleased with myself: in total I only spent € 17,96 ($21,47)! Here's what I bought:

A caketester topped with a cupcake, isn't it adorable?? It costed only € 0,69!! I simply had to buy it!
A muffin-box to take a muffin with me to work: this way it won't be squashed between books and notebooks! Only € 0,79.

Silicone muffin/cupcake shapes: heartshape and stareshape. € 1,99 per six, so a total of € 3,98.

A picture of a cup of coffee to hang on one of the kitchen walls: now I just have to phone my dad to make sure it gets on the wall! € 3,99
My biggest expense was this cookie press & icing set for € 12,50: I thought it would be so practical!! Now I can decorate cakes to be a bit more professional-looking! :)

vrijdag 7 november 2008

Great news - not food related though....

This morning I had an interview with a bidder and I have obtained my first assignment!!!
I start Tuesday and will work 4 days a week in Arnhem, which is about 1 hour by car from Zwolle. This assignment will be for 3 months. I'm sooooo happy!!