Birthday Celebrations - Daily Style
Sorry ladies but there’s no picture of what I’m wearing today because after last night’s shenanigans I look like a trash bag. And for some reason I’m wearing brown knee high socks and my pirate pants and no one wants to see that. Anyways this is what I wore last night for Mr Smaggle’s magic birthday. We went out for dinner with his family and then met some friends for drinks. After too many martinis and cognacs we didn’t end up in bed until around 2am… on a work night. I feel like balls.
* Skirt from Chin Chin
* Top from Sportsgirl
* Top thrifted (not shown)
* Shoes from Nine West (My best friend Emily bought these for me for my 18th birthday. Best present ever)
* Jacket from costume warehouse sale
Here is the cake that I made for Mr Smaggle’s birthday. I called it The Ridiculously Out of Proportion Jungle Cake because the gorillas are as big as the giraffe. And the giraffe is taller than the trees. It’s also slightly tainted with my selfish and juvenile delinquent-ism. When purchasing the jungle creatures from a generic Asian discount store I noticed that each pack of ‘Jungle Fun Animal’ only contained one gorilla. Primates are a favourite of Mr Smaggle and a lack of monkeys makes a very sad cake indeed. I’m ashamed to admit that I very stealthily stole two extra monkeys from the other packs of ‘Jungle Fun Animal’. But I swapped them for antelope. I just hope there is a kid out there who happens to like antelope more than monkeys. And that the other kids don’t beat him up because of it…
And it’s entirely gluten free. Even the chocolate biscuit fence is gluten free! This evening I’m making a peanut butter slice for a peanut butter addicted friend and then I’m going to sleep really, really early.
Love Lady Smaggle
xxx
may I just mention that my birthday is coming up soon….
just in case you forgot, or something….
(love that smokin jacket by the way!!)
You look a kazillion bucks, Lady Smaggle!
LOL@ feeling like balls.
And that would have to be one of the COOLEST friggin’ cakes I’ve ever seen. Seriously, it’s awesomeness is astounding.
That cake is amazing! I love the chocolate biscuit around it!! & the zebra! The skirt is so pretty & unique! Especially the bottom of the dress!
This is one of my favourites - you look like a beautiful and wild gipsy chick :). Great!
“It’s also slightly tainted with my selfish and juvenile delinquent-ism”
hehe cute line, though I think that that ,in fact, makes it better.
I am impressed at the cake, the other day at work we had this cake baking book which I flipped through and they were soo amazing. Like these ones where they had chopped off barbie’s bottom half (poor barbie) and shoved her into a skirt of cake. Looked so awesome, but I doubt there was much to go round, which seems more important.
I doubt you looked like a trashbag! That pose is fierce!
hahaha i love how you swaped the monkeys! yesterday my mom and i went to a kitchen sale and got a cooker but someone had stole the knobs off it so i took some from the cooker next to it, i feel bad still!
I want more photos of the cake! that has totally cemented your super crafty hero status in my eyes now…what’s the green stuff made out of? what flavour is it?
oh yeah and you look very lady seductress in that coat & Happy Bday Mr Smaggle.
That cake looks so deluxe!!! The kids at my school always look at the Women’s Weekly Cake Book, and it is just like one of those cakes! I am very impressed : ) i want to eat it all mmmm - and you look very pretty as always my friend xxx
That cake is hysterical. Save me from the giant gorillas! I’m scared!
That cake is pure delight! Truly, what a wonderful little creation. And I like your glam, long coat.
I think the ridiculous out-of-proportion-ness of the animals adds to the glory of the cake.
(I also sense a children’s stop-motion animation show in the making - the adventures of tiny plastic animals in Cakeland).
Mrs Munk - I didn’t forget! I have it written in my diary and everything.
Ivy - Thanks love. I look a lot less like a trashbag today. And feeling a lot less like balls.
Qin - Thanks! I love this skirt it was $60 reduced to $10 and I was actually willing to pay $60 for it so it was a real bargain.
Nadine - Oh how lovely of you, thank you.
Lucy-Jane - I had one of those cakes! They called the Dolly Varden. Mama Smaggle was a crazy cake baker in the 80’s.
Selina - We are both masters of consumer crime. We should start a themed mafia!
Cookie - Oh am I a craft-hero? That’s so exciting! The green stuff is coloured coconut. And it’s a vanilla cake with vienna icing and double chocolate biscuits.
Elisha - That’s where the cake is from! it’s all about the Women’s Weekly Kids Birthday Cake book. Did you know that they are still printing it? Mental.
Wendy B - It was even funnier in real life. There was a massive elephant in the pack that was just comical but I left him off because he took up half the cake.
The Clothes Horse - Oh thank you! It was so much fun making it.
Andrea Mitchell - Cool, like Gumby?
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I realise that this comment is waaaaay too late, but I love the cake!! And please tell me how you did the grass???
Emily - It’s so easy! You just get shredded coconut and chuck it in a bowl. Then wear some surgical gloves, wet them cold water and shake off the excess. Then put a few a drops of green food colouring in and rub it through with your fingers. It’s best to take it slow with adding the food colouring because you can always add more. Then you just sprinkle on the icing of the cake and it sticks!
I switch stuff sometimes with those multiple earring packs and with toys and I am ashamed. But I still do it.
PS, what’s up with no gluten? Is it a diet/health thing?
JB - It’s Mr Smaggle, not me. He is allergic to wheat and it’s really difficult for him to find yummy treats. So I just make them for him!
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is that cake from that OLD women’s weekly birthday cake book that EVERY mother had in the 90’s?
I have only recently discovered your blog and it’s so exciting to read about stuff that I actually recognise! Big W and not Topshop - hoorah!