What Ive been up to....

All dressed and ready for my first Taekwon do lesson with Daddy.......

Having a cat nap on mums knees.......

Trying to get up my wind for Daddy..................

Modeling this seasons must have booties..............

Phew.....Ive been busy :)

Celebrating Halloween a little late!

Ok so if your wondering why my blog has been totally abandoned for weeks now you see the reason why! A certain mini Curran has arrived and been very busy taking up all of his mummies time! Well I did have a sec to try out his Hallwoeen booties and get a quick pic...well just about!!

Halloween

Well as you can all imagine I didn't expect to be around for this Halloween but a certain mini Curran wasn't playing ball so here I was not ready for Halloween at all with no decorations or anything up!! I flew to Lidl earlier and picked up some goodies for the kiddies and that was about the height if it. Check out the little outfit I had all ready for its debut...... Oh well....





...don't think these booties are gonna be needed either!!! :)

Working on some letters...

Ive been busy all day...I had some letters to do....I just wanted them to be done and ready in case little baba Curran decided to make an early appearance...No such luck tho!! Have a look and see which is your favourite :)

M for Marisa.....

L for Laura...

U for Una....

A for Alison....

Thanks Nicola :)

Oh have I just not got the kindest friends ever? Look at what Nicola brought me this afternoon when she came to visit....she just knows me tooo well!! I cant wait to try out a few new recipes and send them into work for her to try out! :)

Afternoon tea for some friends

I'm having some friends over for a cuppa and a chat this afternoon so I baked up a few goodies for them....its also a great chance to showcase my fab new cake platter :) So we know I'm a sucker for pretty Tupperware but I actually seem to be moving on to cake platters and cupcake stands!! I now have three different cupcake stands and god only knows how many cake platters but in my defence....how often do I bake so they are a total necessity right??!!

Hey what do you think of my mini sponge cake bites?? I gotta hide them from Gareth I reckon!! :)

Another birthday cake....

So I had an order for a birthday cake, this time a 30th birthday cake for a guy called David.....his wife gave me no direction apart from the number 30 so I could do what I wanted really. Sometimes this can be a good thing and a bad thing.....I got thinking. OK guys like cars......maybe a race track with spectators standing in the grass....this is how it turned out...

...a close up of the track...

......on stand-by......an ambulance, a police car and a fire truck.....

...and the little spectators having a good look...I coloured some sugar yellow and stuck it to some yellow icing to give the impression of sand...there is sand at a race track right??!!

Thank you cards

So I have been busy making some thank you cards for my wonderful friends and family that came and spoilt me at my Baby Shower. Just another project to pass some more days during these last few weeks that seem to be dragging along!! :)

A pressie for Melody

Last month I went to Melodys baby shower........we had such a lovely afternoon chatting and eating goodies. I made her this little picture for her nursery which she has just done up so beautifully. She knows she is having a little boy and we are just dying to meet him ........not too long now Mel!! x

A cake for Daniel

I also had an order this weekend for Nula's Kitchen.....It was a birthday cake for a little one year boy called Daniel. His Mum Claire didn't really mind what I made but she liked the idea of a train which I thought could be really cute so I set to work..........a few hours later full of multi coloured frosting and a very messy kitchen this is what we had....

A detail of the little carriages carrying all the goodies...yummy!

B for Brandon, M for Mia

Ive been busy working on some letters this weekend. I had a request to work within a certain colour scheme...green, blue and white for a little boy called Brandon and green, purple and white for a little girl called Mia. I'm delighted with how they turned out.....If my name began with a B or an M I think id be tempted to keep them!! :)


B for Brandon....

M for Mia......

Thanks everybody :)

Well after all the blogging about the Baby Shower preparations I suppose you want to know how it went??? It was a blast...I had so much fun, well actually I hope everybody did :) I was spoilt rotten by my friends and of course my hubby(who was banished from the house once Janey was finished with him!! I'll explain...). I got up at half nine on the morning of the party and that means so did Gareth lol..we got busy making yummie turkey,lettuce and cranberry sambos and also egg mayo ones. I packed the gift bags and set them up at the door and next thing it was time for me to be evicted!! I was sent off to get pampered...as in get my hair and make up done....oh just perfect!

By the time I got back everything was ready, Janey and Gareth had been super busy and then came along Melody and Saoirse to help out with everything...sure next you know there were guests at the door :) So we ate until we could eat no more, played games, and we giggled and chatted all afternoon like only girls can....here are some pics of the events....

This was the prize table.....if you won a game you could choose from Cath Kidston goodies like gardening gloves and pretty tea towels, hand made pictures made buy moi!, amazing handmade jewelery made by Janey and a goodie box consisting of mini cupcakes and truffles.

Here is Chloe very busy competing for the very coveted prizes pictured above...here you had 30 seconds to pair the most amount of baby socks, oh what a giggle :) Leonie ended up being the real champion at this game pairing a whopping 11 pairs.

Here are photos of Me with my very good friends Nicola and Pauline....

...Sinead and Catherine.....

...Melody.........

....Nicola and Fiona....thanks for taking all the pics Fi x

Here are Gail, Leonie and Deirdre chillaxing!

Myself and Sarah.

Lucky lucky me opening gifts from my super generous friends.

Just check out this gorgeous gift Fiona gave me.....does it not just scream Nula??? Like..pink cute and cats.......oh just perfect!

Would you just look at all the gifts I received ..........my god Ill bet everyone wishes they had friends like me!!!

Oh such a shame its all over, I cant believe it...oh well the best is yet to come. Only for my wonderful friend Janey, and just as wonderful husband Gareth and fab cousin Saoirse it would have never happened. Thanks guys !!! :)

Decorating, baking and preparing for my Baby Shower

So getting ready for the Baby Shower was so much fun......there was just so much to do........make name tags...make gift bags......bake...decorate the house...organise prizes for the games..... so where do I start......OK so maybe with making name tags for every guest....... these I made with die cut paper nappy pins, glitter ink and stampers card paper, cute eh?



Then I started making the gift bags.....these were just little plain white paper bags that I stamped, filled with a cupcake and piece of rocky road, folded over and sealed with ribbon and a hand made gift tag.

Next then was the job of decorating, I decided to make a start and then leave some for Janey to do also. I had seen this gorgeous idea on an American website of making a washing line and hanging out tiny baby bodies on it as decoration. I went to Avoca and bought a packet of those old style dolly clothes pegs and painted them pink and blue. I then raided babs drawers, or rather my hospital bag for some tiny bodies!

I went up to my Easter supplies and fished out my Easter wreath and with a few alterations we had a Baby shower wreath to hang on the front door.

Then time to decorate the table and the window sill behind it....all that was needed for the window sill was a few empty bottles, fresh white flowers and a bit of blue and pink ribbon...and voila!!

Then for the table...well I knew the baking alone would be great decoration, and the table cloth....which was a piece of fabric I bought online from America and Janey stitched up for me...but the best was yet to come, The Wish Tree Janey made for me. Just look at how beautiful it was. The idea was that every guest took a tag from the tree, wrote a wish for myself and Gareth on it and placed it back on the tree. Just gorgeous :)

She also made up this beautiful collection of jars that spelt out Baby Shower which were placed in front of the Wish tree.

So now for the baking......Well I reckon when baking for a Baby Shower its all really about the pink and blue is it not?? Oh and anything cute with a bit of glitter on top would never go astray either......... so wait and ill show you what I baked up....

... some Baby shower themed cupcakes with carriages, nappy pins and bottles....

..and some very cute mini cupcakes.....

...some pink and blue mini meringues....

......and then some chocolate caramel hearts and handmade truffles....oh yummiee

Phew some preparations eh??But I think totally worth it :)