My Daughter's Birthday

Monday was my daughters 4th birthday. I can't believe how fast the 4 years have gone! For months she has been saying that she wanted a Princess birthday cake until two weeks before when she decided it should be a Fifi And The Flowertots cake instead! So that's what I made for her. It took in total about 5 hours as i bakes the cake and then decorated it. It tasted good and it didn't look as evil in real life as it does on the picture!

BIRTHDAYS, BIRTHDAYS AND MORE BIRTHDAYS

May is the busiest month in our house by far. Every year I suggest hibernating through it! This year, I had my sons second birthday, my sons ninth birthday, my husbands birthday and my daughters first dancing show!

That's not to mention the countless other birthdays during May, dress rehearsals, work etc!

So, this month the sewing has had to go on the back burner so that I could make birthday cakes. I did manage to make a Pirate shirt for my littlest boy to wear to a 50th birthday party also in May! (In the picture the red dress I am wearing is the first thing I made in 10 years!)

The first cake I made was a football shirt for Matt. He plays for a local football team and luckily his number is 9 so it made it a perfect cake for him. The following week I made a Noddy car for my youngest. Noddy isn't great but I was really pleased with how the car itself looked. Finally last week I cooked a more grown up cake for my husband, a Guinness cake. He was a bit dubious to start with as he doesn't like Guinness but the cake tasted gorgeous!

Now its back to the sewing. I have just dissected a skirt of mine that was too big and I'm hoping to make a coat for my daughter.

By the way, I also got a mention in the latest issue of Sew magazine. imagine my surprise flicking through it with a cup of coffee and there staring back at me is a photo of my youngest in the pyjamas I made for him!

THINGS TO DO

I have been busy the past week trying to complete my cross stitch. I have still got loads to do though! The more I make the more ideas I have bout what to make next. I have now got an ever growing list of things to do. Some are more important than others but I want to do them all by the end of the summer. That seems a long way away but in reality it isn't at all! I thought I would keep a permanent reminder of this list, so here goes:

Finish Pirate Shirt, Lara's pyjama's, finish Tweety cross stitch, Lucas's birthday cake, Tony's birthday cake, summer dresses for Lara, summer dresses for me, alter Lara's jeans she has outgrown into cropped trousers and shorts, learn how to make trousers, teddy bear cross stitch, hand puppets, sock monkeys for each of the children, headbands, a new bag for me, two ducks that match the pyjama's.

The list just goes on and on and on. First things first though is a birthday cake for Matt, he is going to be 9 so it has to be super cool, all he has told me is he wants a chocolate one!