Up to Date

I have really let this blog slide in the last couple of months, but there was a small matter of a tiny baby girl to attend to. Somehow, in the most manic three months of our life we managed to have two birthday parties and do a little bit of cooking for them.Up first was Ben's 5 th Birthday, we had a Dinosaur theme and the cake I basically copied straight from a Donna Hay Kid's issue from a few years back. I say I, but actually, I just told John what to do and he did it for me, I was the creative Director!It all came together really well, we had the party at a Children's Gym and had to provide afternoon tea, I made it up in some cool dinosaur boxes that I found on TradeMe and put the party favors inside too, some dinosaur tatoos and a dinosaur bubble bath



We also hastily made some dinosaur cupcakes


And finally the cake, embellished with some Ice Age 3 toys from McDonald's!


Next up was Jack's Third birthday, which we had a Butterfly Creek, all we had to do there was provide the cake and the party bags, I had decided on a brown and orange theme, a la the Monarch butterfly. The cake was easy peasy, I had a heart shaped tin, bought some ready to roll chocolate fondant and coloured some white fondant with black and orange food colouring and used some petal cut outs to make the shapes, I was really happy with how it all turned out and he had a great day!

I did some potato prints to make the invitations in the colours of the theme



The cake


The party table


The Party Bags


And the best part of all.......eating cake



When I look back now I really do not know how we did it, 2 parties and a new baby girl all within 3 weeks, but we did and it all managed to turn out pretty well.