How about a cupcake with free images ?

Good day all ! Here are a few photos for you to use in your art or wherever. Clicking on them will take you a larger version --just right click and 'save as'. If you do use them in your art, then would you be so kind and post a link so I can see the finished product ? I love seeing what people do with images :)

It was my birthday on Saturday woohoo ! My dear husband, son and I decided to head out on a short road trip. The weather was a bit soggy so we only drove up to Duncan B.C. I was looking at the mountains and wondered aloud if we could find a road to drive up one of them. We ended up on a wonderful back road that felt like we'd gone back in time, some of the houses were so old looking and one in particular made me think of the Crooked Man Who Lived in a Crooked House. This house was literally 'tilting' in the front lol ! There were cracks, the paint was peeling, and earlier there was a little dog laying on the front step, wonderful !
Feel free to use this photo in your art. I know I will :)

Here's a shot of Duncan taken from Mt.Prevost. Of course everything looks so much farther away in real life. Free to use.

This shot was taken half way up the mountain. I love it's mystery, how there could be something hiding in there, looking out at us. Feel free to use in your art :)

And finally, I couldn't resist taking a shot of the rich cupcakes one of my dear friends brought over. Her outfit even matched lol ! The frosting was oh so thick and GOOD ! There's one left, on the counter, in my field of view, and I'm being a good girl to not eat it. My dear husband is taking a nap. I could take it and make up some excuse. Oh I won't, I'll just have one of the almond tarts leftover ;P

A Cake and a Collage...

Yesterday I was feelin kinda blue, a rather horrid feeling which haunted me for several hours. All I wanted to do was shed my flabby skin and sink into a really big hot tub with a glass of wine.
Instead, I ended up making my birthday cake.....4 days early. I figured since my husband, son and I are heading up the island for that day ( Saturday ), then why not just bake it now and enjoy it over the next couple of days. LOL ! LOL ! Next couple of days, ya right LOL !

...the cake is gone....consumed...devoured.

Am i going to whine about it, about the calories and all ? Nope ! It's a birthday cake, and you should know that birthday cakes have no fat or calories whatsoever ;)

I didn't put any candles on it, just wanted to bake it, frost it and eat it. Oh, I was going for the Red Velvet look but did not realise that to obtain a really red looking cake, you need to use more than a few drops of red food coloring. DOH ! Of course, makes common sense ---but since I was feelin kinda blue I guess my brain took some time off.
ANYWAY, it's a choc. cake with cream cheese frosting, left white in the center and a rich bubblegum pink on top. Very YUMMYYY !! Did it make me feel less blue, you bet :)

Today I took a break from Charmbly making and decided to play around on the computer. So I made this collage fondly called Sara in Her Cotton Candy World. The background is from a photo I took a few years ago.
There's a farm out here with dozens of cherry blossom trees and wow does their property look gorgeous around May. I'm going to take more photos this year.
Hope you like my collage, I have plans to use it with my Charmblies. Will post the finished results later.