Once I caught a fish alive...

During my week off work, which seems like an eternity ago, I finally finished the tote bag I promised Mum for her Birthday present. When I asked her what she would like on her bag, she replied that she wanted a cat. So I showed her some pictures on the internet, and when she saw a cat designed by Cathy, she said "that one!!". So I made her a tote bag totally inspired by this gorgeous blue cat. With Cathy's full permission I can show you some pictures of what I came up with:

Thank you so much for letting me post pictures Cathy!
You should go check out her Etsy shop, its got some really cute things in it!

I am really loving the colours blue and orange together. You can't see properly in these photos, but the inner fabric has tiny little blue fishes on it.

I also made some fishy cupcakes to go with the bag! I have seen fish cupcakes done often now over the blogosphere, but my original inspiration for these cupcakes was from Kitchen Doughdough's blog. We don't have Goldfish shaped crackers here in Australia, so I was pretty happy when I found these ideal fish candies!

I decided on salted caramel for the flavour of the cupcakes, and used a recipe from ever trusty 'How to Eat A Cupcake's' blog. I loved the caramel flavour of this recipe, my only advice is don't over fill the cupcake liners, as these babies rise a great deal!

Now I also promised you some pictures from AVCon, and well to be honest, I was stupid I didn't take my camera out of my bag, so I don't have many to show! Here is a very small sample:

Kelly and I - she made both of these outfits!


This guy was the coolest, and had the best costume in my opinion. He stayed in character the entire weekend, and was ever obliging to pose for photos!


The second best costumes where these girls, the Pac-Man ghosts (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde), the red one played the Pac-Man music!

Kelly did really well with her stall, we pretty much sold everything by the second day! I learnt a lot about anime and cosplay, and look forward to watching a whole bunch and going back next year! Hope you all have had a nice weekend, I am going to go sit in the sunshine and continue reading Middlesex for Indy Grrrls book club! <3