Painted this with oil 2002

I have just been reminded of some things I have in common with a particularly lovely niece who visited with us back in 1995. She had decided she wanted to visit us and in order to do so she had to raise quite a large amount of money and then travel over 7000 miles unaccompanied. Her birthday was in December sometime during the visit and she and I decided we would bake and decorate her birthday cake to take to Sizzler, where quite a number of my relatives all met up and helped her celebrate this birthday.
The cake was sensational....mainly due to the fact that the frosting was every wild color of mauve....pink....purple....you name it....
We completely destroyed the kitchen, but the result was a masterpiece. We both enjoy cooking...and painting so it seems.
There is an over the top decorated cup cake craze at present..... prices for ONE cupcake...$3.50...can you believe it !
I feel my neice and I were 12 years too early!
I think she knew I enjoyed some crafts and also painting. I painted the above in 2002 ....I was pleased with it....gave it away the following year. Took up watercolouring a little later which I enjoyed also.
I get the urge to paint every now and then....but curb it as I feel I would start and not finish something due to the fact that I seem to be developing an addiction to my latest sport. I am also a voracious reader, also love watching good T.V. on our Plasma screen....however the shows I enjoy are not very numerous. Haven't rented any DVD's in quite awhile....should be some decent stuff on the shelves again....so I think I may check out the local store sometime over the weekend.
Shopping....that's another fave. Put some Maui Jim sunnies on layaway today....resisted some nifty looking tops.....but.....couldn't resist a couple of necklaces. One for Pam....a cross with fake diamonds on a silver chain....for me Coco Chanel initials ....fake diamonds again, on a silver chain. I also finally got Sherrene's sun glasses repaired. She bought them up here almost two years ago and when I saw her last January they had broken. She asked me if I would take them back to the store where she bought them and ask them to repair them free of charge......you can guess how that went. I took them to the local optometrist and she repaired them on the spot...no charge.