My Guide To Home Made: 2020

Monday, 27 July 2020

Icecream Parlour 10th Birthday

Another birthday...another theme

Love the colours of these paper lanterns - we had these for our wedding 5 years ago and they look exactly like icecream flavours.

Icecream cake with icelollies 🍦

Used the little kids' icecream shop toy to fit in nicely on the display

Icecream cone biscuits for this theme - I do have a lot of cutters so any theme can have a biscuit to match 🍪

Brought the popcorn maker out

Found these marshmallow cones in Home Bargains - that shop always has a random thing to suit a theme

Toppings for the icecreams

Gave Eliza a slushie / snow cone maker for her birthday - this has been lots of fun

Tophats

Rex London also always has a good sale just before Eliza's birthday and I get a lot from there to display at the birthday parties - ice cream themed erasers which doubled up as party bag favours when her friends were leaving

Top view of her cake

Mint choc chip icecream biscuits

Strawberry icecream biscuits

Chocolate icecream biscuits

and vanilla icecream biscuits

Handy little icecream cone stand

Flakes for a 99

Icecream cone sweets

Cherry sweets

Slushie / snow cone flavours

The menu 🍧🍨🍿🍦

I didn't do any party food for this one other than the sweet foods - we just got chips in ands it was so easy! Definitely the way forward for parties. Who needs pizza, sandwiches and hotdogs anyway? 🍕🌭🥪

As always it is Grant's birthday the next day so he gets a token cake and it is usually golf themed - even though he never gets any time to actually golf anymore because we have had so much work to do in the garden.

We are almost there with the garden and can hopefully share more photos soon. The patio got completed in time for the birthday bbq and it is looking great

The turf is growing in nicely and the trampoline that lived here is now going to the bottom of the garden that we have been levelling up (for months!!!) Fingers crosssed this happens soon because we have been working really hard to get it done. Keep your eyes peeled 👀

Fathers Day Afternoon Tea

For my birthday my sister got me an afternoon tea delivery, which was amazing - especially because we were living through Covid-19 lockdown so our usual cuppies out and about had been halted. When it came to Fathers Day a few weeks later though we thought we could manage it between ourselves for our Dad, our husbands and our father-in laws.

Between us we made...

Meringues (of course!)

Scones

Various fillings in rolls and wraps

Banana nutella mini loaves, rolo rocky road and chocolate truffles

Mini quiches and (bought) sausage rolls

Mini lemon cheesecakes

Mini victoria sponges

We delivered our selection out to the father in laws and had a socially distanced picnic with the husbands and our own Dad. It was really lovely. The amount of food was amazing and all very tasty even if we do say so ourselves 🤣

We did have a little practice run a few weeks before with just me and my sister and the kids and it went very well. There is no wonder I am suffering from a lockdown gut but I have enjoyed the process 🐖🐷🐽

What is not to love about an afternoon tea? Loads of food with tons of flavour and you get to keep eating until it is finished. Need another excuse for an afternoon tea soon!

4th Birthday Lockdown Heroes

We celebrated Sturrock's 4th birthday during Covid-19 lockdown. By this time he basically only wore superhero outfits and had ditched real clothes so of course it had to be a hero party for him. I have already done a superhero party for Finlay's 9th party so I did have a few things left over from that like the little emblems on the window and a game of hero beanbag toss.