My friends Linda and Stephen’s wedding got featured on offbeatbride.com! The article features the wedding cake toppers i made for them as well as lots of pictures of Lindas beautiful outfit and the whole tea party themed reception they had. This is the second set of wedding cake toppers i’ve made, so heres pictures of both sets

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The cake toppers were created from heavily modified dolly kit parts from Japan which were then moulded them and cast in a translucent flesh coloured resin. The were then painted with a variety of paint methods to give depth and colour before being sealed with many layers of matt lacquer. They were fitted with handmade glass dolls eyes, and given poseable necks. The hair and stephens shoes were finished with a protetice full gloss lacquer and lindas corset was given tiny silver uttin details. I finished Lindas figure with a handsewn pink ruffly boa. This is back when i didnt have the best camera, so i wasn’t able to get close ups

I previously featured these cake toppers in my Dec 2009 Week in pictures.

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This is one of Lindas photos from the day, more pics on her Flickr

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These cake toppers were the first set i did, for my friends Pebe and Tori’s wedding in September 2008. Taken from my Wedding cake toppers post.

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Hope you had a lovely Christmas break, mine has been wonderful, the best Christmas since i was a little girl.  I’ve been busy seeing friends, family, doing fun stuff and lots of parties, gorgeous foods and drinkies. Very chilled and very awesome. Here’s a few pictures of what i’ve been up to over the holidays

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Excuse my blurry panoramic picture i was just getting all romanitc and christmassy and loving how cosy and snug that flat was We spent Christmas eve with friends watching the latest Eddie Izzard DVD (the show we saw for my birthday) If you click to see the bigger version i’ve annotated it too.

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So this is what our living room looked like over Christmas, its still looks like this but less presents under the tree I always leave it till the last possible minute to take the decorations down cos i like them so much! The glass in the foreground is egg nog, which I’ve never made before but now I’m fully converted, its lush!

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Among the many tasty treats around, we made a couple of chocolate cakes – the rolly log kind. Mmm rolly log.

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The week before Christmas we had crazy amounts of snow all of a sudden. As soon as there’s any snow in the UK the whole country goes mad, everyone was off work for a week and we had loads of fun playing in the snow before having a big Christmas roast dinner round Jez’s.

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On Christmas eve i was working at my desk and i hear all these mad loud Christmas carols coming from outside, i peeped out and there was Santa! I ran out to take a picture but i was a bit late, and quite disappointed when i actually got out there to see some geezer in a fake white beard getting pulled along by a Ford Escort. ha ha!

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And now its New Years eve! I thought I was all partied out after Christmas but now its rolled around i’m really excited about celebrating! The last year for me has been interesting to say the least, and i’m so happy to be going into 2010 happier, and healthier than i’ve ever been  and with positive relationships with people i love so much.  Thanks so much to everyone who’s supported me and A Little Stranger over the years- I literally couldnt have done it without you, and i’ve got lots of ideas for how the site will grow over the coming year. 

Big Smiles and hugs

Holly xox