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! 

Woodland Baby Boy Shower

What a lovely morning we had celebrating the impending arrival of a new member to our little Tuesday club.  Just a few more weeks until we meet the little man and we cannot wait.

After a shaky start where our pregnant buddy messaged to say she wouldn't make it today we managed to convince her to change her mind and come along or she would have missed her surprise shower!

Anne made the Baby Boy sign and now we all want a shot of the wood burning pen 🖋

 Chocolate log cake (another dairy free cake because Ivy cows milk protein allergy and I'm breastfeeding)  We had a dairy free farm party for Sturrock's 3rd birthday so I could eat everything there too 🥛⛔🐄

 Woodland trail mix

 Scones - made these fresh this morning and they were the best ones I've made so far.  Not dairy free I used them as part of the milk ladder but unfortunately Ivy has reacted to them 😭

 Toadstool raspberries (made these for Eliza's woodland party too)

 Laura made these  - acorn marshmallows

 Red sweets - I love a colour themed sweet for every party theme :)

 Laura made these too - peppermint cremes

 Not all unhealthy 🍇

 Such a lovely party theme for a baby shower

 Ready to pop popcorn

A little hamper of new baby clothes with a woodland theme 

Anne's handy work again - a woodland nappy cake

We only decided the theme a few days before but we went with it and it looked great - as always I love shopping the rest of the house to gather a theme together.  I have done a woodland theme before for Eliza so I had a few props ready to go.  I think I could do almost any theme now though 🤣

Ivy wore a little romper to fit the theme too and it turned out to be almost one year to the day since the girls threw me my baby shower for having Ivy and look at her now!  Why does that go so quickly? 😭😢⏲

Before I know it I will be posting about her first bitrthday party.

Deciding the theme very soon! 🥳🎉