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! 

Autumn 1st Birthday

A very quick year!

Autumn is my favourite time of year and even more so now I have our little baby girl's birthday to celebrate.

These were a bargain Amazon buy and although they took weeks to arrive they were here just in time - there were tons in the packet for mega cheap and they are great quality thin fabric.   I attached them to invisible thread and they looked so good floating down from a branch.

I have always wanted a white pumpkin and this year is the first time we have gone pumpkin picking.  I cut out the letters using the Cricut and some glitter jotter cover paper I found in Tesco.  Also a bargain!  What happened to using wallpaper to cover a jotter?!  I also cut out the letters for my backdrop from this glitter paper and a roll of pink.

Great advice!

Pinks and golds for my baby's 1st birthday 😭

We had so much fun collecting conkers and acorns in the run up to the party

Pumpkin empire biscuits - dairy free.  Ivy has cows milk protein allergy and I feed her so have been dairy-free for 9 months.  Like Sturrock's third birthday party if I am baking it I am eating it so have been doing lots of dairy-free baking the past few months!

I think I have a pumpkin obsession - the big bronze one and small gold are from  TK Maxx, the pink fabric ones are from Shop Willy Nilly as well as the other fabric ones dotted about the table.  The silver, gold and bronze light up pumpkins are from Lights 4 Fun - these are so cute lit up at night.  I love decorating for Christmas so this will take me through to my tree going up 😜

Dairy free chocolate brownies and raspberry ruffle brownies (with egg)

Autumn first birthday cake - also dairy free but containing egg

I saw this pasta in TK Maxx and thought it would go great with the party theme - pumpkin shaped Autumnal colours

Stovies is a great crowd pleaser at this time of year

The spreads

Charcuterie board - mostly dairy free

Tango fruit twist - I love how this drinks dispenser fits lots of themes - it looks pretty pumpkin shaped for this party but beehive shaped at the farm party.

It is incredible that we are celebrating her 1st birthday already - she still seems so new to me!

 I loved this party theme - so pretty and easy to put together.  I was also able to re-use lots of it a couple of weeks later for Halloween.

                 Happy birthday beautiful girl!

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