2 cupcakes.. and coffee..monday morning

Home alone.. shool bus took away my children .. DH gone too.. and I have to get ready to go to work.. but not before you have a morning coffee.. and some cakes..

The rectangular one is my creation..I have never seen any in that shape.. when I finished it.. I understood why nobody makes them.. it is not as sympathetic as the classical muffin shape..

but I am quite pleased with the one with a strawberry .. my daughter described it.. chocolate cake..vanilla cream and strawberry on top .. I didn't have a pattern to make the tho make the strawberry .. tried to figure aout how..so ..I made 3 triangular pale pink/dark pink mixed wool triangles and sew them together.. and refilled it to give the shape.. then a small green stalk.. it came out nice.. even DH said.. ''this is .. a strawberry'' when I showed him..normally he can never tell what it is.. and makes me nervous..

these aren't particularly suitable for me.. they are gifts.. I plan something more vintage ( colour and style ) one for myself.. I like to use sewing needles books to store my needles.. and maybe I can make one with an embelished as a cover .. like an altered book but soft and stuffed with fibre.. so that I can use it as a pincushion.. I hesitate .. if it will be comfortable to use or not.. any ideas..