Im sorry

Ok... So I've been M.I.A for a few, due apologies.

So here's the update of my life since I last blogged.

1) We celebrated lil' miss divas 2nd birthday, we had a Teddy bears tea party theme for her party with a few friends and family. As we don't have a back garden anymore we transformed her bedroom into a makeshift garden along with a homemade playhouse and balloon's and all the kids soft toys sitting in clusters on the floor with toy picnics. We used a red paper party table cloth as the picnic blanket for the kids to have their lunch on which consisted of teddy bear shaped sandwiches and teddy bear shaped shortbread biscuits, homemade by me the night before, pom bear crisps and gummy bear Harry Bow sweets. So basically everything was teddy bear shaped/ related. And of course a teddy bears picnic cake all made by me.

Kiddies started full time nursery.

The nursery had a new children welcoming party, which the kids enjoyed. However when it can to settling the kids in a few weeks before they where due to start miss diva didn't take to it very well. Mr man settled in without a hitch as always and miss diva had to have 8 settling in days with me in the room with her, which was very stressful for us both. I felt like such a bad mother as she cried every time I moved more than 2 feet away from her, I felt sooooo bad like i was hurting her.

Now she completely fine and doesn't want to go home sometime. lol.


First day at nursery



Welcome to nursery party

Other stuff that's happened...

I'm back at university the first few weeks were great as I was back in the company of other adults and not surrounded by everything child related, but my oh my it is such had work looking after 2 small children and going to uni. My day consist of getting myself and kids dressed rushing kids to nursery then rushing off to uni, rushing back to uni to pick kids up, back home feed kids bathe kids put kids to bed, eat if i remember, do some uni work then pass out and do it all over again the next day.

Its all for the greater good I keep telling myself!!!!!!!

And that's about it really. x

Bake a cake bake a cake bake me a birthday cake

So it miss diva's birthday in a few weeks, which means that I need cake ideas as to what cake I'm going to make for her special day.

Ok a bit of background.

Over the last few years I have taken a liking to baking and have made the last two birthday cakes for the kids birthday parties. I am getting quite good at it, or at least better each time.

This was my first attempt at baking a birthday cake this is the princess cake I made for miss diva's 1st birthday party and i was sooooooo proud of it that I didn't even want it to be cut so much so that I was nearly in tears, (no lie, I was close to tears!)

The cake had 3 different layers with a butter cream and jam filling, covered in a pink coloured fondant which I also made from scratch for the 1st time as well. It tasted as good as it looked. (a cake is for life not just for birthdays. lmao)

The second birthday cake I attempted was for lil' mans 3rd birthday. 

It was a Mickey mouse clubhouse cake, which took me a week to prep making all the different coloured fondants and creating all the bits that were not made out of cake.

The base of the cake was a vanilla drench cake and the clubhouse (the red bit) was a red velvet cake. yummm!

The head was made out of 2 semicircle paper mache molds, I paper mached the inside of a stainless steel bowl then stuck them together and covered the whole thing in paper machie. I then crumb coated it then covered it with the black fondant.

The boot was made out of a finished roll of sellotape folded in half then stuffed with news paper to create the roundness and a finished loo roll to make the leg all covered in paper mache then fondant.

To do the ears I just moulded cooking foil into circles and covered them in fondant and stuck a few tooth picks in them so they would stay on the head.

 

All the trees and paving stones were made out of fondant, these needed a few days to dry out and become hard.

 

 

This one didnt turn out as well as I would have liked although it turned out really good and everyone was impressed, I still think it could have been a bit better, simply for the fact that the fondat had cracked a bit, which I couldnt do much about as our flat is very warm and dried out the fondant to much.

 

After doing this cake I can now see why cake makers charge so much for special cakes as it is a lot of hard work and time consuming but all soooooo worth it to see the end result of all your hard work and everyones impressed faces.

 

Soooo now it miss diva's 2nd birthday and I need a new idea for her cake...

 

Any suggestions for party ideas or cake ideas would be great.