By Robyn Munro, on August 24th, 2010%
whoa -oooa-ooa-oooooooa. Neverending Caaaake, whoa -oooa-ooa-oooooooa, Turn around, look at what you eaaaaaattttt.
Ok, enough singing, time for cakeage:
 Neverending Story birthday cake book The Neverending Story birthday cake book was made for a friend completing her thesis in children’s literature and is one of her favourite books. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to read the book, not just watch the movie, you’ll know that it was originally published in two colours of ink – red and green – to represent Bastian’s reality and Fantastica. Delicious ginger cake with lemon frosting and a gingerbread base/cover was used to create the open book cake. Ready to roll fondant was used for the decorations and AURYN.
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By Robyn Munro, on August 22nd, 2010%
It’s Book Week here in Australia this week, I can’t wait until My Little Buttercup is old enough to get all dressed up for Book Week Parades! But, we’re a fair way off from that. At the moment, books for her are just another challenge to see if she can get it into her gob before . . . → Read More: Books so delicious you could eat them
By Robyn Munro, on March 27th, 2010%
It’s been brought to my attention that I haven’t written anything for a while on here. Well, we found out that we’re pregnant and expecting in July, which I realise is pretty much a direct correlation to when I stopped blogging on here. Frankly, there’s been so much going on that I haven’t really had much . . . → Read More: Bumping along
By Robyn Munro, on September 26th, 2009%
I went along this week to the Sydney Chapter volunteers meeting of Room to Read. There I met a passionate group of people from a wide range of backgrounds who are all bringing their own special skills to an organisation that aims to bring literacy to 5 million children in developing countries.
There are a few . . . → Read More: Room to Read – putting my money where my mouth is
By Robyn Munro, on September 9th, 2009%
This is amazing, how have I not seen this before?
Jealous of how much creativity and talent some people have. The artist is 24 year old Kseniya Simonova performing on the Ukraine’s ‘You’ve got Talent’. Here she is telling the Ukraine peoples experience during WWII, there’s so much of her performance I don’t fully understand. Unfortunately I . . . → Read More: Sand animation
By Robyn Munro, on September 8th, 2009%
I’ve been thinking a lot about how comforting a favourite book can be when there are tough times around. Curling up in a corner with a cup of tea, an iced vovo and a comfort food book can make a horrible week just a little bit better.
This is by no means a comprehensive list, just my . . . → Read More: My 5 favourite comfort food books
By Robyn Munro, on August 29th, 2009%
Last night was the first Sydney Cupcake Camp and it was done as a fundraiser for the RSPCA.
I had a ball. I mean cupcakes, helping puppies, what’s not to love?
So in the spirit of keeping things social and connected (I think there were maybe 10 people there who hadn’t found out about the event over twitter), . . . → Read More: All cupcakes great and small
By Robyn Munro, on August 13th, 2009%
Imagine how long it must have taken to co-ordinate this? Japanese band Sour get it. See, a little bit of time and effort has a whole lot of effect, I can’t imagine this would have cost them that much at all to create. Not to mention it’s a great song.
All the people in the video are . . . → Read More: Sweet and Sour – web cam fans
By Robyn Munro, on August 11th, 2009%
So they say the problem with marketing is that you never know which half is working. Well Penguin peeps I want to let you know that your sassy Popular Penguin classics printed with the old school covers have totally won me over, and are definitely working on me (but I’m sure your sales figures are showing . . . → Read More: Pop Penguins
By Robyn Munro, on August 1st, 2009%
So easy it's fun
AMC have done a really good job with this campaign – MadmenYourself.
I’ve seen so many avatars change the last week, be it on Facebook or Twitter. It really is one of the most effective campaigns I’ve seen like this.
I think it works because:
they let you customise – we are . . . → Read More: Sharing is fun – Madmen floozies
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