Another cake

It may have been my lads birthday last weekend but he had his parthy on saturday. We took him and 10 friends (i use the term loosely cos his sister was one of them) tubing at tamworth snow dome. This is where small children wizz down a hill in rubber rings and appear to have lots of fun.

Due to the tubing basis of the party his royal partyness wanted a tubing cake! Cue me on friday frantically baking and trying to come up with something that looked snowy!

I've never made royal icing before but it seemed to come out all right! i went with doing a soft version (with glycerine in) as i though it better for the kids. Then i had to attempt tubes! Hooray for pre coloured icing! A large blob of black icing was transformed into 2 rings and after much ummimg and arrring (i mean about 3 seconds worth) i decided to pop some of his lordships toys on the tubes rather than attempt to model some people out of icing!

It turned out quite well i think!
I haven't been up to much else as i've managed to break my sewing machien! the fabric i sent through was just a bit too thick for it to deal with and it bent the needle and now if used it maked an interesting metal scrapping noise! I sent it home with my mum and dad  for a service as thats what they are getting me for my birthday, i get such interesting birthday gifts these days! I've borrowed my mums machien in the mean time so sewing will be slower while i adjust to the different machien, hope i have something to show you soon. x

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Just thought i'd share this with all of you, its a top offer which i will be taking them up on as i have 'borrowed' pinking shears (my mums) and managed to 'cut' a pin with my sissors so now they have a loverly dent in them!

The gallery - April

Well for me april has seemed to be one long holiday, so here are my kids having a great time on their easter/april break

Guess where we went!

swap

Well i finally recieved my easter swap parcel. This is due to my parcel being sent to work and no one being there over the extremely long holiday!
I was paired with wendy who sent me these loverly things.

what beautiful parcels, i was very excited, and upon opening them i wasn't disappointed,

 (notice that the chcolate bar has gone AWOL!)
Thank you wendy and thank you to laa laa for organising the swap.

Birthday cake

Well, its been a busy weekend as my lad had his 6th birthday, i can't beleieve he is 6 already!
I did my motherly duty and made cake, covered it in chocolate icing, sugar cars etc and candles.

the general opinion was yum yum.
We also took a trip to the black country museum which (if anyone is interested) is doing a great deal at the moment, gift aid your visit and you can go again, as many times as you want within the year for free!
Anyway, the reason i mention it is because my 2 got to try out some maypole dancing. We used to do this at school when we were little and they enjoyed it alot although boy did complain that his sister wasn't very fast and he had to skip slowly behind her. she didn't skip but galloped and amused me no end! I think it should be brought back into schools, if only to keep parents entertained!

Full of chcolate

Yes, i admit it i've been eating my kids easter eggs! well, they taste so much better when they are not yours, and its better for them as it means they won't have eaten too much chocolate and chcolate is bad for them and their teeth etc etc etc...............
anyway, i have been up to things, i made more shorts for the boy

Don't ask me why he insisted on flashing his belly!
he likes them alot and i had to wash them overnoght so he could wear them on his trip to legoland!

How could i resist snapping this?

Is anyone else as excited about it as me?

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