RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) Day :: summary

So here's a quick summary of what I got up to yesterday for RAK day...

I bought 2 bunches of daffodils and gave one to my boss and one to our Porse lady...

Husband took some chocolate bars to work to hand out and I took lollies in for workmates....

I made blueberry muffins and paper-plated some up for the Porse lady and her kids (minus lollies) and for my office (with lollies) plus husband took a big tub of them in to his work...

And don't forget the notelets/chocolate giveaway on the blog - I'll probably leave it open until Sunday so feel free to leave a comment on the post to be in with a chance of winning :-)

And the RAKs don't stop here - I am going to make more of an effort to do things like this regularly.

And with all the RAK day excitement I didn't mention how happy I am that SPRING IS HERE! I was very pleased to see a mama duck and her teeny tiny ducklings on my drive to work yesterday plus the daffs in my front garden are flowering too :-)

Mummy Adventures has moved!

Just a quick note to let you know that Mummy Adventures has moved to it's own website: www.mummy-adventures.com.
You should get redirected if you type in the old www.mummy-adventures.blogspot.com address but you'll probably need to update your readers if you follow the blog that way :-)

And if you're interested in getting your own website address I found these instructions very helpful!

And if you've not seen it - I'm giving away a set of notelets as a random act of kindness!

RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) Day Giveaway

Happy RAK day everyone :-)

I've made a set of 3 cute little birdie notelets to giveaway here on the blog as a random act of kindness (they come with faux-stitched decorated envelopes and address tags in matching colours). I'll also pop some chocolate in as well.

If you'd like a chance to win please leave a comment on this post. If you like you can let me know what RAK you have done/will be doing today. Otherwise just a hi is fine!

I'll draw the winner sometime over the weekend.
And look out for a post later with an update on what else I've done for RAK day :-)

Scrapbooking: Snow Day

I went to a layout class at my local scrapbook store last night. It was nice to get out the house for a couple of hours and concentrate on something crafty :-)
We used a snowman and snowflake stamp which we stamped and embossed straight onto the page. This made a change as I don't usually stamp directly onto a layout let alone emboss!
We stamped another snowman and cut him out to make a 3D effect and also re-embossed some parts of the decorative snowflake stamp to highlight some parts in silver.
Here's the close-up...

And here's the full page...

I added the title and journalling tag when I got home but the rest was done at the class :-)
It's great to get the snow pictures in my album too.

Sharing on Sunday - 28th August

Wow, I can't believe we are at Sunday again already. The weeks are flying at the moment. I've not had much time to pin things this week but I still have a couple of cute things to share with you :-)

First up is a genius idea! Remember the friendship bracelets I was making a while back? I never thought to use a clip board to keep them in place! Such an awesome idea. I might make up some clipboard and friendship bracelet making kits up for Christmas presents for my nieces.

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These kind cards could be an awesome thing for RAK day. I've printed some out to cut up and keep in my purse. They'd also make great sentiments on cards I think.

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And next is this lovely printable which could be great for teachers and parents alike. I especially love the rainbow colours. 

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Wishing you all a wonderful week :-)

You can see all my sharing on Sunday posts here.

RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) Day is coming up...

Did you know that New Zealand has a National RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) Day?

It's coming up in a few days time on the 1st September (which is Thursday).

You can learn more about it at the website here.

I thought it would be good to let lots of people know about it - I've posted about it on Facebook and Twitter and I'm mentioning it here on the blog too.

I'm thinking of a few ideas for how I can do some of my own RAKing on Thursday and would love it if I can convince some other people to join in too :-)

Here's what I have planned so far...

• I have made up a set of cute notelets to giveaway to a blog reader on Thursday and might arrange a couple more items too
• I'm also going to do some baking for my husband and my workmates
• I might take my boss some flowers
• I'm thinking about leaving some lollies or biscuits in the neighbours mailboxes

So does anyone else fancy playing along? Either on their blog or 'in real life'?

Leave me a comment if you'd like to join in and maybe I could set up a linky on Thursday for people that have RAK'd if there's enough interest.

Also - there are little cards you can print off and hand out with your RAKs encouraging others to pass it on.

I figure that there's always a lot of sad and horrible things happening in the world to lots of different people so this is a way to make a few extra people smile and hopefully feel a little better :-)

My Creative Space: Lion birthday cake

I thought I'd share a picture of baby's birthday cake that I made a couple of weeks ago for his 1st birthday. 

He seems to like lions and 'rawr' noises so I did a bit of a hunt around online for some lion cake inspiration. 

I found this and this which I thought were pretty cute. And then I finally settled on my own attempt at this version.

Here's how my one came out...

I used a basic sponge recipe and made one sponge (rather than 2 for a Victoria Sponge type cake). I thought a 'shorter' cake would be best for baby to eat!

It's decorated with butter icing coloured with yellow colouring and chocolate butter icing. I then used some fudge writing icing for the mouth. The ears are a shortbread biscuit cut in half and covered in buttercream icing.

It's not exactly a professional looking cake but I wasn't aiming for that. I was aiming for something fun plus it seemed to go down rather well...

Linking up with Our Creative Spaces.