blood puddle pillows! hooray!

Really though, it is a delightful shade of red. even if it is vaguely disgusting…

Instructables.com has details on how to make your very own erupting volcano cake. Clearly, this is a very good idea and nothing could possibly go wrong.

/Variations
Jurassic Boiling Tar Pit Cake: I bet I could use the volcano cake as a template to make a boiling tar pit of icing with dinosaur-cakes helplessly drowning in it. The biggest challenging could be finding the black food-dye for the tar.

Or maybe an Evolution Cake with edible fish-with-feet emerging from a bubbling primordial ooze-icing as the first land creatures.

Other ideas?

…to purchase a life-size wax-model of myself, or maybe a wax model of a woolly mammoth, since we didn’t raise enough money to purchase the skeleton a while back…

Apparently, this service is available for only £150000.00 through iwantoneofthose.com. A small price to pay, I’m sure, for immortality. *

A team of 20 experts, from Madame Tussaud’s, will be “lavishing you and your sculpture with attention for four whole months…this is how long it takes to get the perfect detail, to reflect your exact measurements, to capture your expression and to match your hair and eye colour to achieve the ‘Version II’ of you”.

It does not, however, guarantee that your model will be displayed in the museum, which, for me at least, is probably the only deal-breaker.

*unless your model is exposed to high heat.