We celebrated Katie's 5th birthday this weekend with a Puffin Rock-themed pool party. Not many of our friends know the show or its characte...
Today was Liv's 3rd birthday. We started the morning with breakfast in bed. My mom did this with my brothers and I when we were little and I have to say it is my favorite memory of my birthdays. I looked forward to it more than anything every year. It was such a special thing she did for us and I wanted to share it with Liv this year too. And let me say she loved it! She squealed the moment I walked in the room. We spent most of the day at home getting ready for her party, but we had to take a quick trip to the barn at one point to see the puppies. We had a simple dinner of tacos. The best part of the evening was watching the birthday girl . I love seeing how things make her so excited. She loved the cake but most of all loved all the presents! Happy Birthday my sweet Liv!
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Last week I was contacted by a very talented lady named Katy. She had seen my sons Tintin bookweek costume (over at my other blog) and wanted to share the absolutely fabulous Tintin party she and her husband had created for her sons eighth birthday party. I think you will agree that this is one very lucky boy. I think you will also agree that Katy and her husband clearly thoroughly enjoyed the task they set themselves! The Tintin 'wallpaper' idea was found by Katy on Pinterest apparently from a bookstore in Bath in the UK. They were very sad to take it down and I can see why. Its looks wonderful. I love the typewriter prop. These whoopie pies with the speech bubbles are so fun. Katy also made giant speech bubbles and stuck them up around the house. Katy's husband made the chocolate cigars from Cigars of the Pharoah and these sugar cookies are to die for. Katy took inspiration from Stephanies blog for this tempting stack of favour boxes. And look what was inside each one. Lucky party guests. Old tomato soup cans were cleaned and re wrapped with Crabe Extra labels. These served as a fun decoration but were also used as a game. *see the end of this post. I love the Tintin bunting. A party just has to have bunting to be a real party as far a I'm concerned. The cake is a work of art isnt it! Katy put a Tintin spin on some traditional games: *There is an old party game known as 'The Chocolate Game', which is played by sitting in a circle, tossing a dice and if you throw a double, running to a pile of clothing and getting on as many items as you can then eating as much as you can from a block of chocolate using a knife and fork. You do this until the next person rolls a double. In the Tintin version, the children had to dress as Tintin and instead of cutting into a block of chocolate, there was a box of Red Rackham's treasure in the centre ( chocolate gold coins). * Red Rackhams treasure had been 'discovered' during a treasure hunt game where the boys had to use balloons, scrolls and a map to seek it out. * The post-it note game where you have a character stuck to you forehead and ask everybody questions to try and guess who you are. They had Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, Thompson and Thompson, Professor Calculus to name a few. * Tossing Snowys 'bone' at the pyramid, made from the cans of Crabe Extra, to knock them down. I think this party is absolutely fantastic. My Tintin enthusiasts have already put their party orders in. Well done Katy and thank you so much for sharing!
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How many kids would absolutely love to have a Trolls party right now? The movie is a total hit and this fun theme would be the happiest party on earth! Check out these fabulous Trolls Birthday Party Ideas from Sunshine Parties! The creativity will blow you away! Just implement these ideas and you're on your way to
Slumber Party For my daughter's 7th birthday, we had a SPA slumber party. My baby was almost 1 year old and my husband was travelling. My older daughter and I did a SPA for the kids with a fancy dinner, a bubble bath treatment with face masks, manicure, pedicure, hair and makeup, did a cat walk, watch a movie and made girly picture frames. 4 BFs having a sleepover! A fancy dinner The Menu So many yummy choices! SPA time! A cool makeover - manicure, hair and makeup The girls made picture frames to take home
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Cakey wanted a princess theme for her 5th birthday party. With her agreement we changed it to a castle theme to make it a little more open-ended and boy-friendly. I really had no idea what to do for the cake until my mother pulled out her old copy of the Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book. Inside was a castle cake that I thought that I could make. I am not that great in the kitchen. Normally for birthdays, I bake a round cake and decorate it with sweets. This castle cake was going to be my very first fancy cake. I used my usual kid party cake recipe from Donna Hay, this recipe makes a solid cake which is easy to ice and decorate. Recipe for one basic vanilla cake: 2.5 cups of plain flour, sifted 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder, sifted 1.25 cups of caster sugar (Donna's recipe actually calls for 1.75 cups of sugar but it is way too sweet) 250g butter, melted 4 eggs 1.25 cups of milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Beat all ingredients until smooth. The mixture is quite runny. Pour the mixture into a lined and greased cake tin. Bake at 160 degrees C (320F) for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer. I made two of these cakes in a 22cm square tin. I made each cake from scratch because after many baking failures I have finally learned not to double a recipe. Bake two square cakes I made a large quantity of fluffy butter cream icing in a pale pink. (I also had extra icing ingredients in the pantry in case I needed to make more.) Butter cream icing 250g butter, softened 2 cups of icing sugar mixture, sifted 2 tablespoons of milk Beat the butter with an electric beater until very pale and creamy. Beat in the icing sugar, milk and food colouring. Now the construction... I chose the flattest cake for the castle's base. I covered it with a thin layer of icing. I squared off the second cake and cut out four, mostly equal, squares for the castle towers. I placed the cake squares (towers) on each corner, the icing acted like a glue. Cut out four equal, flat squares for the castle towers At this point Chris took the kids to the park so they wouldn't hear my swearing as I tried to ice the castle cake. I found the joints between the base and the square towers very difficult to ice. In the end I disguised my messy icing with strategically placed liquorice all-sorts, smarties and freckles. Ice the cake and use ice cream comes for the turrets Next the turrets... using tall ice cream cones. I placed the cones on top of the iced cake towers. According to the photo in the Women's Weekly the ice cream cones are completely covered in icing. I could NOT get the icing to cover the cones. In the end I only iced the bases of the cones and left the rest of the cones/turrets plain. We needed some little flags to finish off the turrets. I cut four flag shapes from a piece of folded over paper. I glued the paper flags onto toothpicks and carefully poked the sharp end of each toothpick into the top of each turret. I added candles and I was done. Yay! For her 6th birthday Cakey will be getting a round cake decorated with sweets..... If this is your first visit to At home with Ali – welcome. If you like it, you can follow along via email, RSS, google+ or facebook. You can also find me on Pinterest and Instagram. Cheers Ali
