Feelings & Frosting
A blog about all things caking, motherhood & mental health, and that embraces all aspects of life - the highs and the lows, the sweet and the bitter, the frosting on the surface and the fillings deep inside.
As we head into the New Year, I suppose it’s only fitting that today’s post be a reflection on the year that’s been, along with my hopes and dreams for the year ahead. So, 2024…what can I say? Well, it has simultaneously been the best AND the worst year of my life.
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Most of us have grown up in an era where there is a stigma on body image and consuming carbohydrates, fats, and calories. It’s led to the impression that sugar, and therefore treats/desserts are “bad” or something that needs to be earned (e.g. once you finish all your veggies, or if you’ve had a bad...
Trigger warnings: death, loss of a loved one, grief, infant loss, depression
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After a long absence, I'm back with what will be a raw and vulnerable piece on the last few months and the changes that have happened from and since then. If you weren't already aware, the reason for my abse...
Motherhood is hard. I’m now a mum of 3 and despite having been a mum for 5 years, I can assure you it doesn’t really get much easier; it just changes.
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I think one of the most difficult things about motherhood is the isolation.
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We are all driven by this urge to be the best mums that we can ...
I know we’ve seen a plethora of Mother’s Day content and yesterday was full of posts celebrating mums. I was going to do a celebratory blog post today, but the more I thought about what to write, the more I realised that my thoughts kept circling back to one thing. So….I’m going to possibly cause a ...
Well, it’s been a while! I didn’t intend to stay away from “The Sprinkles on the Cupcake” for so long but given everything that happened last year with my pregnancy and birth, I felt like I had to write something about it but for many reasons, I struggled to do so. And before I knew it, 4 months had...
In a (somewhat) recent Instagram Live Q&A that I did, some of the questions asked were about baking with kids. I had such positive responses from my answers so I thought I’d do a little blog post about it in the hopes that it will help encourage more parents to start baking with their kids!
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***Trigger Warnings: unexpected pregnancy, pregnancy complications, potential loss of child, birth/labour complications, mental health illness
I’m back on the blog-osphere! Although you might say I was barely here!
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My poor blog that I had all these plans for was unfortunately launched around th...
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