{Review & Giveaway: Cake from Baker Days}

You all know how much I love cake...well, I was offered a personalised letterbox cake from Baker Days from their Mother's Day range to review and I certainly couldn't pass up the offer of free cake!! I've sent cake a few times in the post before to friends, a victoria sponge and chocolate brownies, but the perfect thing about these little cakes is that they fit through a standard letterbox! Ingenious!!

"Petite, personalised and postable"

There are so many designs on offer too - I picked 'The Best Mothers Day Cake' - however there are get well cakes, birthday cakes, new job cakes, thank you cakes... you name it and there will be a cake for you!

The adorable tin my cake arrived in! "Just for You"

The Best Mothers Day Cake "Best Mum... Love from your wee rascals"

Each cake can also be personalised, some even with photographs, and once you've chosen your design you can choose the type of cake - plain sponge, carrot cake, fruit cake, chocolate cake and there is even a gluten free cake. Plus, if you order before 2pm you can choose to have guaranteed next day delivery (in the UK). What's not to love!

My cake arrived the other day, however as I do not have a standard sized letterbox (trust me to be difficult!), my cake ended up at the depot! I quickly rescued it and can confirm that it was just delicious and was very quickly devoured by myself and the two little ones! Yum, yum, yum!! What a perfect treat!!

Yummy cake from @bakerdays vine.co/v/bX7rmXqggeK
— Sarah (@Glasgow_Mummy) February 27, 2013

Here are some of the other cakes on offer...

*** Baker Days are so amazing, that they've also offered me a personalised Mother's Day letterbox cake for one of my lovely readers as a giveaway with the special request that the winner posts photographs on Twitter and their Facebook page please ***

Just follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter below... 

*crosses fingers* This is the first time I've used one of these!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

{Free Christmas Printable Poster}

Don't you just love Christmas? For a while I didn't - it was all a bit upsetting with my mum not being there - but now I adore the festive season... even more so now I have my own children.

I've got our house decorated, and sadly enough I theme my rooms (I know, I just can't help myself!). So my hallway is 'winter wonderland' and it's full of silver, glitter, snowflakes and snowmen.

Here are some photos of my hallway...

This year I decided to create a couple of posters to replace my usual prints that are in the hallway and I thought I would share them with you. They are 8" x 10" files that you can print... They're in blue (to match my 'winter wonderland' theme you see!)...

You can download the files here and here.

Let me know how you get on.

{Fabulous Finds: Blogging Resources}

I thought I would share with you some of the fabulous websites I've found for blogging resources. I love Photoshop, Illustrator (still a beginner) and all things digital design. I'm hoping to spend a bit more time styling my blog posts as it's one of the things I really enjoy about having my own blog - making it all look pretty and nice.

First up is Shabby Blogs. This is where I found the banner that I use for my blog - all I had to do was add my own photos. Shabby Blogs also have cute buttons, backgrounds and other free blogging resources and have some tutorials also on how to use them. (The notepad above is from 'post pretties' over at Shabby Blogs - I added some text using Photoshop).

I've been signed up for Pugly Pixel emails for a while now and there is always great inspiration and freebies. I like these free PSD blog photo templates and plan to start using them for my posts.

Free blog photo templates from Pugly Pixel

Another site I've come across is hot biggity blog. I'm very pleased with the free pink flocked background that I found here... they have loads to choose from! I'm not great with html but I somehow managed to get it to work! It doesn't look great on my mobile though so I'll need to see if I can tweak it a bit.

vol. 25 has some amazing bits and pieces. I've bought one of their card templates for my Christmas cards this year and I personally think it looks fantastic. Again, there are a few freebies. Non-blog related are the Christmas gift tags below. Love brown wrapping paper!

Styling ideas for using free holiday tags by Volume Twenty Five 

Makin' cute Blogs also have some great tutorials and freebies. The Background Fairy has some fab free stuff for your blog too.

Blog Header from The Background Fairy

Pixels & IceCream have some fab freebies too, like these brushes for PS. There are also tonnes of patterns, papers, overlays etc.

Free Photoshop brushes from Pixels & IceCream 

My first stop for free fonts has always been dafont and they have a massive selection of all sorts of fonts... fancy, script, techno.... I have a few favourites... sweetie pie is one of them! How cute!!

I'm also liking 'home & hearth' by Heather T.

I could play about all day with clip art and fonts if I had the time!

I just want to add at this point for those of you that are, like me, new to blogging, I'd recommend the free e-courses provided by @littlemummy_com and @scottish_mum. Both provide tips & tricks and info on blogging basics via e-mail.

As always, please let me know what you think :-)