Bowie paper dolls

More Bowie paper dolls here! what a fantastical collection! I love this post for all its enthusiasm!

And just a picture of fantastic Mr Bowie with a fantastic Mr cake Source here

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10 for today

A German Danse Macabre from the 18th century. Everyone is taking part in the 'Danse Macabre' (dance of death) from the lowliest peasant to the royal family. No one escapes the dance of death.

A clock from the German town of Augsburg, 1640. The figure is wearing a funerary wreath, and is holding an arrow, the tip of which displays the time.

News from Nowhere. William Morris is pretty kickass

Mihoko Ogaki site here brilliant sculptures releasing starlight from corporeal forms, so beautiful

Michal Trpak sculptures. Truly brilliant! More here at his wonderful website

BRILLIANT!!! See here! Edible delicious Momento Mori's! What more could you want in cake?

In Finnish, Northern lights are called “Lights of the Fox”. It comes from the old beliefs, that says the lights come from the fox tail hitting the snow.

Artist: Linda Piekäinen, Link on artist's page: https://www.facebook.com/artbypiekainen

Read more about the brilliant Beltane here we need more festivals and feast days, they should be brought back! Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler and writer of some of my favourite books, champions the treasuring of old world customs and festivals. If I lived in the UK, I would never stop obscure festival-ing.

The strange tale of the green children of Woolpit, folklore? real? Decide for yourself here

And the dancing plague of 1518! What a brilliant piece of history this is! More here. History that seems to border on the edge of myth and myth that seems to have genuinely been a part of history, is one of my favourite spheres to exist in mentally!

What about you? :)

All pics from Tumblr unless linked to site

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Harry Potter cake

Above is the cake Hagrid gave Harry, below are the cakes my lovely friends baked me this year! Continuing on from last years theme, accidentally, of getting 2 of the same pop culture referencing cakes ( see here for previous double cake glory)

We put Harry on it to make it fun, didn't manage to catch a snap of it intact, but here's the second:

I even made a Platform 9 and 3/4 for the entryway:

Platform 9 and 3/4 awaits....

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Laughs lately

All from Tumblr, top one makes me laugh soooo much!

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Heston Blumenthal exploding chocolate gateau

Brilliant cake recipe this!

Oh I love you Heston! Modern day Willy Wonka food genius!

CAKE!

Pic from sbs.com

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Pedobear cake

So I didn't get one Pedobear cake this year....

I GOT TWO!

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Birthday soon...

Wouldn't mind some Pablo Neruda

Or the brilliantly ridiculous knock offs of the diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw available on eBay

Hermione's bag

Flowers.....

Pink Floyd's The Wall poster...

Steve Buscemi to MC my bday do...

but so long as I get a Pedobear cake I will be over the moon....

Materialistic 21st century jerks!

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Pics from all over the interwebz, email me with general abuse...

Ten for today

1) Christy Turlington 90's. No idea which show, but look at that hair

2) Movie poster art love

3) Christina Ricci 1998 clutching her pet chainsaw, as you do.

4) Alexander McQueen butterfly dress

5) One of the best Tumblrs, see Other-Wordly right here

6) Katy Perry's light up dress at the Met Costume Institute Gala in 2010

7) If you don't smile at a wolf playing with ducklings, please return all Horcruxes back to whence they came and try to piece a soul back together

8) Cake obsession continues, and it's Hogwarts! It's too pretty to eat!

9) I think this is a Mary Blair illustration but not sure

10) Moon and stars in any form are always beautiful 

All pictures saved willy-nilly from Tumblr like a thief, let me know if you want a credit/ take down/ to be friends because we both have the best taste ever

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Laduree

When i was in Paris i didn't get enough time to stop at Laduree. My inner fat person died of shame, so now food porn shall have to do the trick.

At least there are books? Surely i will be able to bake up a Fat Friday dream? Just look at them here

I love people who scan recipes and upload them online so thank you muchly Ara Jane

Even their tea is poncily and most spectacularly packaged, but i suppose that's part of the idea?

Every blog with a post about Laduree mentions the fact that  in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Laduree made the pastries. So, obligatory information complete.

Only small individual versions of the Marie Antoinette cake are available for purchase if i have internet stalked correctly. It would still be completely worth it! i love you food porn

Well high on my bucket list is a return trip to Europe, and Fat Friday shall hopefully become a fulfilled dream. For now, i shall have to see if i can get to the Sydney store instead, I'm pretty sure somewhere a French person fainted for me suggesting such a thing. 

(all pics from Tumblr, Ara Jane loves and Wikipedia)

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