My Birthday.

Today I turned 31.
Where do those years go?
I woke up to breakfast in bed (made by the kids) and some very special treats from my family.
My husband knows that I am very particular about how I wrap my presents, and so he got my Birthday gifts professionally wrapped at John Lewis.
I love you David.
This may seem like a really insignificant thing, but to me it showed how much he cares.

 

 

Happy Birthday to me xx

The Icing Sugar Incident !!!

Well. It was bound to happen at some point.

You would have thought we would have learned something after The Paint Incident.

This is the result of leaving 20 month old Twins for literally 60 seconds (to go pee) with a 3Kg bag of icing sugar in their vicinity.

 Oh Dear!!

 

 

 

And so the clean up begins.

Kids, who'd have 'em?

Spring Blossom Dessert Table

Hello.
All of you in the UK know that it is currently School summer holidays.
Here in my house it is hectic. As you can imagine trying to entertain Six kids of different ages can be some what trying at times.
We have had a few days out and due to the rainy weather a few days in.
As I have been super busy with the kids I am falling behind on my blogging.
So today I am showing off a party I created a few months back for a lovely little girl Called Lily.
The party was for her First Holy Communion.
The theme was Spring Blossom and the Colours Chocolate and Pink.
I was very happy with the outcome and the little girl adored it.

 

Hope you liked it x

Leavers Prom.

Oh how time flies by so very quickly.
It seems like only yesterday that I was holding my eldest daughter in my arms, staring down at her lovingly the way a mother does with her first born.
Hard to believe that it has been almost 12 years since that moment occurred.

Anyway this post is all about her leaving prom.  Each year the Year 6 children get to have a special party to mark their graduation.
This year, Jasmine roped me into helping with the Prom ( I would not have had it any other way).
I have been bursting to do a CANDY LAND theme for a while and thought this would be the perfect opportunity. I had grand ideas, there was going to be an actual Candy Cane forest, Giant Lollipops and a life sized Gingerbread tree complet with sweet plums.
A handful of dedicated parents got together to make all the arrangements. However there was just not enough funds for my grand scale props and stations and so we had to scale back on a lot of things.

I had a dear friend of mine work all week on producing some large character paintings to decorate the walls with, Thank you Sharon Brown, oh and also my mum, who has obviously been hiding her mad art skills from me so she does not get asked to produce work all the time. Thanks Mum x

We had the following stations for the kids to enjoy.

Lollipop Woods       -   A table full of Lollipops and licorice twists.

Gumdrop Mountain  -   A table full of sweets, candy, cookies and gingerbread men.

Frostine                    -  A table with the drinks and a cooler box filled with Lolly ices.

Molasses Swamp      - A chocolate fountain with lots of goodies to be covered in warm chocolate-yummy.

Candy Cane Forest   - A table full of Cupcakes topped with candy and a Cake and Candy Castle.

I had not realised how hard it would be to decorate such a vast space. We asked the children to get involved and they made some giant candies, lollipops and candy canes in class.
With all the help from the kids I thought it looked pretty good on the night and made the room feel a little like Candy Land, not to the Grand Scheme I had been planning, but all in all it was nice.

Here are the photos I managed to snap. I did not have much time as I was setting up in quite a hurry.
hope you like them.

 

 

 

Prom Night 2011

Football FAN-tastic Table.

About a month ago, I was asked to create a Football themed party for a little boy who loved Chocolate.
I was asked to keep the colour simple and not too fussy.
I decided to go with a Green, Cream, Black and Chocolate scheme, which I thought worked well together as these represented the footballs and the grass.
To start the party off, the boys had a penalty shoot out in the garden.
They all wore bibs with numbers on the back, and I used this in the theme so the boys could tell which favours were for them to take home.
This was followed by hot dogs, burgers and lashings of limeade.
After the boys had had their fill of savoury food, they moves onto the dessert table.

I made a simple banner as the decorations and followed this theme through the whole table, using it around the cake and on the favour bags.
We had Candies, snowballs, doughnuts, popcorn and cookie treats and the boys loved the Double Chocolate Oreo Mud Cake and Oreo Cookie pops too.

The day was a marvellous success and they all went away happy.

Hope you liked the Football Fan-tastic Table x