Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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Today i was featured here :) Thank you to Michele from pocket exchange for such a lovely review. And welcome to any new readers from her site.

She also reminded me that i used to do posts on things i ate or made this weekend in her review - and i think i may have to add those again as i haven't done one in ages.

have a super day 



Thursday, June 17, 2010

HOMEMADE VANILLA CUSTARD - MORE DELICIOUS AND CREAMY THAN SHOP BOUGHT STUFF


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we love to grate chocolate on ours and stir it in - mmm chocolate custard.

How to make custard like your granny used to make the old fashion way. No box custard or powder bases you mix with some milk and microwave or stir in a pot.
Non of those tastes the same as old fashion custard made from eggs, milk and real vanilla. For added smoothness and richness swop out 1 cup of milk for a cup of cream in the recipe below.
This is what you will need to make your very own delicoius custard.

INGREDIENTS
3 eggs
1 litre of milk
2-3 tablespoons gluten free flour
1 vanilla pod or vanilla paste or 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
4 tablespoons sugar or agave. you can put in more to taste


METHOD
Split your vanilla pod and scrape the seeds into a large pot with the milk in it. Place the restof the vanilla pod in the pot once u have scraped out all the seeds.
Bring the vannilla milk to the boil and then take off the stove. In a small to medium bowl place the eggs, corn flour and sugar and beat to a smooth consistency.
Pour the egg mixture while continuasly whisking the milk into the pot. Keep whisking until it begins to thicken - make sure it doesn't stick on the bottom of the pot.
place the pot back on the stove on a low to medium heat and continue to stir until nice and thickened up. You can add more sugar if you would like it to be sweeter.
also vary the amount of corn flour for a thinner pouring custard at less and for a thick tart filling custard add more.
place in bowls and serve. or you can add a multitude of toppings, cherries, chocolate chips, sprinkles or jelly :) our favourite is to leave the custard in the fridge until cold and then to grate some chocolate over it and stir it in -  mmmm


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Thursday, May 27, 2010

ROASTED PLUMS WITH ALMONDS, HONEY AND CINNAMON SERVED WITH SWEETENED VANILLA MASCAPONE




INGREDIENTS
Plums (1-2 plums per person)
Cinnamon
Honey
100grams Almonds (chopped)
Vanilla pod or essence
1 tub 250g Mascapone
2 tablespoons icing sugar (or 2 taste)
1 -2 teaspoons milk or cream


fresh plums cut and sprinlked with almonds and spices


Straight from the oven - all roasted and golden brown


METHOD
Cut plums in half and remove the pip (1 or 2 plums per person). Place in an oven proof dish large enough to just hold the plums. Make sure each plum is facing with the cut side up so you have a hollow where the pip was. Over each plum drizzle some honey into each hollow and some generally over all the plums. Sprinkle with chopped up almonds and cinnamon to taste. Sometimes i add some seeds from a vanilla pod for some extra flavor.
Place in the oven at 180 degrees celcius and bake for roughly 15 - 20 min or until golden and soft.

In a separate bowl mix/beat the mascapone, milk, icing sugar and vanilla seeds. Adjust to taste.
Remove plums from the oven and place 2- 4 halves per person in pretty bowls and place a nice dollop of vanilla mascapone on top - serve straight away as mascapone will melt from the hot plums.
Enjoy

you can also use fresh peaches, pears or apricots or other soft flesh fruits in season.

Monday, May 17, 2010

COCONUT ICE - MAD HATTERS TEA PARTY LOOK OR GREAT GIFT




Sweet sweet coconut ice. for those of you that have a serious sweet tooth or have a friend with a very sweet tooth - this makes a lovely personal gift or great tea time treat.
so very pretty and girly - pink and white.



INGREDIENTS
1 tin of condensed milk
500grams Icing sugar (sieved)
4 to 5 cups desiccated coconut
a few drops pink/red food colouring


METHOD

Make sure the icing sugar is sifted and then add the condensed milk and then coconut - keep adding the coconut until the mixture is really firm but not crumbling apart. Squish some in the palm of your hand and see if it holds it shape - if it starts to sag or is very sticky - add more coconut.
Divide the mixture in half and press into a wax paper lined dish or baking tray.
Mix a few drops of colouring in the remaining half of mixture and work through thoroughly, then press on top of the white layer in the dish. (Do this quickly so the white layer doesn't dry out to much as then your layers can separate when cutting).
Leave to dry and then cut into squares

Enjoy

ps variations could be making the mixture green and adding peppermint essence - and for a decadent twist dip them in dark chocolate

Sunday, May 2, 2010

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

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 I don't usually do posts on the weekend but seeing as though i haven't posted anything on my blog in a while I thought I may as well share with you the great Chocolate chip biscuit recipe I've been baking recently. All nice and crispy with fine cracks on the top the biscuits look really good. My husband says they remind him of his childhood and that makes him happy :)



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chocolate chip cookies, biscuits, gluten-free, betty bake, with milk,


CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES (CAN BE WHEAT-FREE OR REGULAR)

125grams butter (at room temparature and cubed)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence or one vanilla pod
1 and a quarter cups brown sugar
1 egg
1 and three quarter cups (upto 2 and cups)Gluten-Free flour of choice (eg. rice flour, gluten free flour mix)OR (1 and a half cups regular flour)
1 teaspoon bicarb
1 teaspoon baking powder
80 grams dark chocolate or chocolate of choice


METHOD:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius
Beat butter, vanilla, brown sugar and the egg until smooth and lump free.
Add to the mix the flour, bicarb abd baking powder.
Mix until everything is well incorporated.
If using normal cake flour use the 1 and a half cups of flour but if you are using a wheat free/ gluten free flour then add more flour until the mixture is nice and kind of stiff like a workable play dough.
Chop up chocolate and mix in.
Roll into small balls and flatten gentle with your hands and place on a greased baking tray.
Allow space for spreading between the biscuits and place in the oven.
Bake in the middle shelf for 7 - 10 mon or until lightly brwoned.
take out and let them cool before taking off the baking tray and placing in jars or on a plate for tea

ENJOY!!!

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Decor chat during ballet class



Hi there all you great readers. I've been missing in action the last while due to us deciding to renovate / redecorate our kitchen and our daughters bedroom. Then while this is happening i also attended a photography workshop and school has gone back so i've just been rushing from place to place. Trying not to be late for things and trying to squeeze everything in. When we have any spare time we are covered in paint and saw dust trying to get the kitchen and room finished! Half my daughters room and pieces of the kitchen are in the lounge making everything chaotic. So everything is still not finished! I've been so inspired by some of the home decor blogs out there. There are so many talented people out there and i'm so glad they decided to blog about how they decorate their homes. It has really helped me with some of my paint choices and layout ideas and just inspiration in general. So thank you all you great decor bloggers. Well i do have some great recipes to blog about but as i type this from my cellphone while sitting waiting for my daughter during ballet class i don't have any of then with me. Maybe i'll get it right next time. Have a great day.


Thursday, April 8, 2010

I feel the need to bake something




You would think after the Easter weekend and all that chocolate that I would be sworn off sweet food but today I feel the need to cook/ be creative so I think maybe I'll bake with my daughter. With all the cooking blogs I read there is no wonder I feel like cooking all the time - they have me drooling in front of my computer screen daily. I think we'll go whip something up right now.

how is your thursday going?

P.S. Feel free to send me pics of your creations and prehaps I can put some of your delicious goodies you made up on my blog (don't forget to send the recipe).





Tuesday, April 6, 2010

THINGS I MADE or ATE THIS WEEKEND - EASTER

 

Well happy Monday - umm errr Tuesday :)  Being the long weekend and having monday off my brain thinks it's monday when it's actually tuesday (ha ha ha silly me) I keep thinking tomorrow is tuesday when it is actually wednesday. Pretty sure the rest of the week is going to go like that which is great cause when it gets to friday - which will feel like thursday the weekend will have come early - what a nice surprise it will be for my brain :)  It is funny how our bodies get into rhythms and certain circumstances make you feel differently. Anyway Easter was lovely and great to see friends and family and relax and eat ...... wait for it.... CHOCOLATE :)


We (my daughter and I) did try make our own easter eggs and I thought I had this bright idea - we blew out the inside of the eggs and washed them out, let them dry and then filled them with melted chocolate and let them set so we had solid easter eggs in a real egg shell which then you crack open with a spoon and inside is a solid chocolate egg. It kind of worked but the filling of the melted chocolate took way to long and you couldn't see if it was full so i gave up after 2 eggs. but it was kind of fun!




We also made an easter tree :) which was fun. Which we got the free printable eggs and bunnie pictures from Spagat a really cool blog. We had lots of fun making it and I think it came out really nice.


In all we had a very creative and relxing Easter - hope you did too


Monday, March 29, 2010

THINGS I MADE OR ATE THIS WEEKEND.... OR SILLY THINGS I DID

this is my dog grace - who has nothing to do with this post
but she does look kind of sad for me and my sillyness

So this post isn't as much about the food I ate but more about the stupid thing i did this weekend.
You see it all started out with a simple impromptu dinner invite by my mom to go somewhere for dinner as a family. We all said sure lets go and went off to Imhoff farm for pizzas at the Blue Water Cafe. Lovely restaurant and it serves wheat-free pizza too :) Now this restaurant has a great outdoor play area for kids with a large jungle gym built connecting onto a big tree and a slide coming down out of the tree to the ground. Kids love it and my daughter loves to go there and play while we sit at the outside tables and drink tea. Well anyway this was night time and we had all eaten our pizza inside and were getting ready to go when my sister in laws and my brothers had been walking around outside on the lawn and goofing about on the jungle gym (my husband included) So i come outside to see what they are doing and my one sister in law says - you so have to go down the slide it is so cool, and my brothers both agree, my husband too :) they are all telling me i need to go down as it so cool. Now I'm not great with heights and this is not your average length slide. Anyway I think what the heck if they can all do it so can I. So I proceed to climb the tree.....which I almost got stuck in with my very short legs (i'm 1.5 meters in height/ 4 foot 11 inches). I eventually get to the slide section of the tree and decide it's now or never so I just let go and think the quicker i do this the better - then I can say I've done it and I won't have to do it again cause the height I'm looking down from the slide is a bit daunting (i really don't like heights). So I let go and slide very fast in my woolen jacket till i thud to the bottom and twist my ankle as I land!!! OUCH!!!!
Now this is 10.15 at night - the staff of the restaurant are all packing up getting ready to go and I can't walk at all - I'm crying in pain and my husband and brother have to carry me to the car. The night then proceeded in paramedics seeing to me then driving to a couple of hospitals then x-rays and getting home after 1am.
I am now laughed at as Betty queen of the kiddie slide and I'm now stuck at home with a rather large tennis ball for a foot/ankle. It is rather painful - the upside is I don't have to do the dishes or the cooking :) no standing allow.


have a great week

Thursday, March 25, 2010

THURSDAY AND BLOGGER INTERVIEW WITH SIMPLY-MEL B

So Today I have the pleasure of bringing you an interview by  the blogger Simply-Mel B. I so enjoy reading her blog about her life - about her kids and the sometimes the killer boots she buys or simply how she is taking a little holiday - she is quirky and fun to read but very real and sometimes says things I think but never have the courage to say :)

hope you enjoy her interview below

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this is the pic Simply-Mel B sent me of herself :)



The city I live in ....feels like home. Nowhere else fits like Cape Town.

I love ....technology, funny people, dancing, seeing things through the eyes of my kids, shoes, lipgloss, nights in on the couch with my man.

My favorite food is .....my mom's macaroni cheese.

The Best thing I can cook .....I try not to think about cooking. Ever. Not even for this question.

My Staple food is ....coffee. :-)

My friends think I'm .... fun. Honest. Loyal. And I am. Although the fun part sometimes needs topping up.

I totally Rock at ....finding excuses to avoid Pick n Pay.

My style is....not nearly as rocking as my 5yr old daughters'. She regularly rebukes my look!

My blog is about ....me, myself and I. And the people I love. And the things they do and say. Its a commentary on my life. And each year is printed and bound into books for my family to keep.

If  I was a food I'd be …. sweet chilli sauce. Sweet with an occasional BITE!

My healthiest thing I eat is .... Pumpkin seeds.

I am 1 of 4 children

My obsession is...trying to keep the big things in focus and letting the little things go. Its about living and absorbing each day. Intentionally.

My parents discovered I was crazy when ....If they think I am crazy they are disguising it very very well...!

I've known I was different since....I told my best friend in Std 7 that she really did look fat in her favourite bubble skirt. In fact, I told her she looked like an overbaked meringue.

If i could take 3 things with me to a desert island ....Barry Hilton for comedy, Gerard Butler for,er, company and my laptop to tweet the experience.

My favourite read is....a magazine. I havent been able to really enjoy a novel since the Twilight Series. Sad but true. And I enjoy the variety of mags – the fact that I can read bits n pieces over weeks. In the car, in the bath, on the patio, in the loo. Novels tend to eat up my life – I can put them down!!

My mood is best ....when I get my own way. ;-)

My blog address is.....www.simply-melb.blogspot.com

My readers are....entertaining, thoughtful, loyal, honest, conversational, intelligent.

My full name is......not in the phone book.

My wish for 2010 .....to make it memorable.

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See wasn't that fun :) I so enjoy reading her stuff - hope you will to.
Have a fabulous thursday.
Tomorrow is break up day for my daughter - yay for sleeping late and easter around the corner :)

 

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

THINGS I MADE or ATE THIS WEEKEND @ The Grand Daddy Hotel and Sevruga at the V&A Waterfront

So in South Africa yesterday (monday) was a public holiday and it was also mine and my husbands wedding anniversary - so that is why i never did a post. We had a great time and stayed at the Grand Daddy hotel on sunday night and woke up there on our anniversary on monday. It was gorgeous and so nice. Being our anniversary there was a lovely bottle of champagne in our room on arrival.

 our room at the Grand Daddy hotel

We had such a lovely room with little balconies off our bedroom and bathroom looking out over Long Street.

We had supper at Sevruga at the V&A Waterfront which was so delicious - I am sooo going back there. I had the slow braised lamb on polenta with onions and gravy (R99) superb and my husband had the chef's choice black sushi plate (R280) containing 29 pieces of sushi - he says it was delicious. We had a great time and our waiter was attentive enough to look after us but elusive enough not to bug us so we could talk. Unfortunately I didn't take my camera along - but I did want all my attention to be on my husband as we chatted the night away recalling our 11 years together. We did have a beautiful candle lit table for 2 with crisp white table cloth and each others eyes to stare into. It was a great evening :) I will definately be back to try out more of the menu.

The next day we had breakfast at the hotels restaurant and then checked out and walked around Cape Town and looked through some of the little side streets... we ended up back on Long Street and settled for tea at Lola's Cafe where I had the most delicious and freshest Pineapple juice I have ever had. Although the place is a little shabby - it's menu looked very good and the place was very quirky - I am going back to have more fresh juice and to try out the vietnemese spring rolls

Lola's Cafe Long Street.


We then decided to go to several places but due to all the traffic and other people also out on the public holiday we ended up driving around in circles and down streets for way to long and so decided to eat a late lunch at a Primi closer to home. We eventually stopped at one in Claremont outside Cavendish and as we were walking along the pavement a piece of the wall/cement cladding came falling down right in front of us - luckily there was a tree and some branches took the brunt of the cement! It was crazy - we were a mere 3 - 5 meters from were it all fell down. My husband and I were in total shock and we just kept saying to each other that we were lucky to be alive!!! wow is all we could say! It was a huge crash and then a cloud of dust. It made me wonder how insane it must be when an entire building falls down like in 9-11 with the twin towers falling. We were so blessed to have been 3 second later than when that plaster/cement fell or we would have been under it - easily the sheet was the diameter of a car. After taking a few photos and calming our nerves we eventually had a wheat-free pizza at Primi Piatti and then headed home to fetch our daughter from grandma.
A beautiful weekend wouldn't you agree? and a huge wake up call :)












 

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Aunty Jenny's Chocolate Cake


This chocolate cake is sooo moist and delicious i just love it! I ve been baking it since a teenager and got the recipe from my friends mom who we all called - Aunty Jenny. She was the best cook (still is a brilliant one) in our church. We loved to go eat at her house and it was always a treat to chat to her in her kitchen while she cooked :) This cake is always asked for by my husband whenever i ask him what cake he would like for his birthday or he'll ask for it sometimes when he just feels like something nice and baked and chocolatey. And so of course I used this as one of the cakes for my daughter's fancy tea party.

The basis of this cake is a good mayonaise -which sounds disgusting to be put in a chocolate cake! I have even had people refuse to try it because they heard mayo is in it! but once they do - there is no turning back and they come back for seconds. It is really that good.
It is better made with a normal (wheat) self raising flour but can be made with a wheat-free flour of  your choice. The cake itself keeps well in an airtight container for 5 or so days. And really is nearly as delicious on the 5th day as on the 1st!

AUNTY JENNY'S CHOCOLATE CAKE
2 cups self raising flour (or wheat free flour)
2/3 cup of cocoa
1 & 1/4 teaspoon bicarb
1 & 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 & 2/3 cup of sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla ess
1 cup (good quality mayonaise- like crosse and blackwell)
1 & 1/3 cup cold water

METHOD
Sift and combine the first 4 ingredients and set aside.
Beat sugar, eggs and vanilla on high speed for 3 minutes or until light and fluffy
Now beat in the Mayonaise slowly
Beating constantly add the flour mixture and the water alternatively - Beginning and ending with flour
Pour into 2 cake tins (roughly 22cm) greased and floured
Bake @ 180 degrees celcius for 30 - 35 min or until the sides start to pull away from the tin
Cool in tins for 10 min before turning out onto racks
Once cooled decorate as desired

Enjoy


Betty :)

Monday, March 15, 2010

Pro X Games and Computer Crash

So my computer crashed about 10 days ago and I have been trying to get everything back up and running ever since between doing mommy stuff - so hence the lack of posts!
so here's an update on some of the things that have been happening:

Mountain Bike Trials - they balance on things and do crazy tricks!
1) Last weekend we went to the Pro-X Games and had a very hot and interesting time there spending all day from early in the morning till late after supper there Saturday and almost as long on the Sunday. So all of the weekend was spent in a sandy forest/sandy land kind of area trying to stay out of the sun and free of dirt but still enjoy watching all the extreme sports  - it was really cool.

There was lots more to see like: skate boarding, bmxing, motocross, FMX, and bands...



It was great fun to watch and it was a good excuse to sit around and eat picknik food that i had made. Even though it was really hot and dusty I still enjoyed the excuse to do nothing :) so blissful.

Since then I have cooked, baked cleaned and cleaned and run around like a chicken without a head. And I haven't even gotten to this current weekend we just had yet.... anyway hope you had fun the last two weeks.
Posting will commence as normal from today - which means hap hazard and odd as usual :)

Betty 

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Tuesday Interview - Questions and Answers with LANA LOU STYLE

Today is my 50th Post YAY!!! :)  And I also have the priviledge of putting up the answers I got of  Lana's from Lanalou Style's blogger Interview. I so enjoyed getting to know a little bit more about her. She has a gorgeous blog that is definately worth a visit, especially if you are into decor :)
I hope you enjoy reading her answers.

I did. :)
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The city I live in ...is amazing; beauty, style and nature all in one!

 I Love .... colour

My favorite food is .....sushi especially salmon roses

The Best thing I can cook ..... is cupcakes, I know, not exactly challenging but I do decorate them beautifully!

My Staple food is .... boring Shredded Bran cereal for breakfast

My friends think I'm .... a creative genius ;)

I totally Rock at .... putting together storyboards!

My style is.... a little bit of everything, but more feminine and pretty than edgy and cool

My blog is about .... things that inspire me, interiors, decor, fashion, photography and Cape Town!

If I was a food I'd be a ... a delicious creme brulee

My healthiest thing I eat is .... hot water with lemon in the mornings

 I am 1 of .... 3 children

 My obsession is... discovering cool new places in CT to photograph

My parents discovered I was crazy when .... um sadly I'm not so crazy

I known I was different since.... I didn't want to be a doctor, lawyer or have a high powered job

If i could take 3 things with me to a desert island .... a never-ending book by Marion Keyes, my camera and a bikini

I live in..... Cape Town

My favourite read is.... livingetc, it's my favourite magazine at the moment

My mood is best ....when I'm being creative or out in nature

My blog address is.....www.lanaloustyle.blogspot.com

My readers are....the best, they make my day!

My full name is......Lana Louise Kenney hence lanalou style

My wish for 2010 .....is to be happy, inspired, motivated and free!

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See now wasn't that nice :)
for those of you local to Cape Town it is always nice to find another Cape Town blogger :) and for the rest of the bloggersphere it is always nice to find a good blog to read and get inspired by.
have a great tueday

Betty
(pic of lana supplied by herself on my request)

Monday, March 1, 2010

THINGS I MADE OR ATE THIS WEEKEND

 Seeing as though my brownies flopped this weekend
 I though I would put up a pic of this cake i made last weekend for a ladies tea party :)


This weekend was...... WINDY!!! staying in a little town next to the sea has it's advantages and disadvantages. One of them being - when the sea is rough the wind blows ALOT! While the rest of Cape Town was having glorious weather - we were having sand blasting, hair knotting wind!!!
But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy my weekend - just thought you would like to know :) so you can relate. So everything you read below imagine it with WIND!!!

Friday evening - I had lovely wheat-free pizza from Primi Piatti with Being brazen while watching a DVD (and yes the guys were there to - so no girly movies) I tried to make brownies to take with - they flopped *?!!?!* but took them with anyway.

Saturday - I went to the market again! (thats because i go every saturday to do my grocery shopping) pest aside free veggies etc... then had coffee with my husband and daughter in noordhoek (a little village 7 minutes drive away) and then relaxed at home, in the evening we went for a drive and ended up at a local pizza place and had some more wheat-free pizza! Wind blew the whole time......remember!!!

Sunday - relaxed outside in a sort of sheltered spot from the wind, walked to out local store to buy milk etc.... then slept abit at home and picked on various things the whole day - eventually musted up the will power to make some hot chips and salad for us adults and some spaghetti and cheese sauce for my daughter (her favorite at the moment!) Watched a DVD with the husband.

so quite a relaxing (even if it was windy) weekend.

Hope you had a good one, did you do anything fun or eat anything good? :)

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Blogger Land



Hi there all you bloggers and readers out there in Blogger Land. Sorry my blog hasn't been itself lately but I have run out of Megs or data for the month and now have to wait 5 days for the new megs etc... to come in for my account to be re-billed. Thankfully there is only 28 days in this month. So today I am at a place were I may use some internet to put this post up but I'll have to come up with more ingenious ideas in the next few days. Or otherwise I'll see you in March. Wow I can't believe I just said that - March 2010. time is flying! For me March is the month of my husband and I anniversary. So I will have to start thinking now of present ideas or special things to do for my special man :)

I will post a blogger interview soon by Lana of lanalou style and hopefully one by Simply Mel B. Also cake recipes to follow -as I don't have my recipes with me to type them out now. Sorry gals (and guys?)

Well happy Tuesday everyone. sorry I missed my weekend post yesterday. The weekend was really busy and to top it all off we were sick and THEN my husband had some nuts hidden in something he ate, so he had a big allergic reaction!!!! So i guess I'm just trying to recooperate.

well yay for tuesday!
hugs and smiles

Betty

Friday, February 19, 2010

Little Girls Grand High Tea Party - party photos

So almost a week has past since my daughters 6th birthday party. This time last week I was baking like crazy and assemblying party packs. Backing some more and hanging butterflies and jewels from the roof of my moms outside canopy. I went to bed way after midnight and rose at 6am the next morning (saturday) to bake scones and a second birthday cake (my daughter had 2 parties - 1 in the morning for the kiddies and 1 in the afternoon for the adults/family).
Wow to think of all the craziness we went through for her party ... but it was ALL totally worth it. Take a look at the pics... I hope you agree :)

 
the craziness started out like this 


  I made these little jars to go in the party packs and filled them with all sorts of pink and white sweets


 
I am so happy with how they came out - all that was used was some old little bottles, some scrapbooking paper, glue and some plastic flowers...  a little white paint around the edge of the lids.

 
Inside the party packs were cute cupcake stickers, a small juice, a heart chocolate, a  fake tattoo, the little jar of sweeties, some bubbles with heart shaped lids, and a string of faux pearls.



the bags/packs looked like this 


The party looked like this....

the table set up


fine china tea cups filled patterned with butterflies and flowers



watermelon cut in the shape of hearts


 
teaspoons and a blue butterfly


 
elegant scones and cream 


coconut ice and pretty purple butterfly


pink heart jewels in "peace in the home" plant 


 
Pink bunch of roses 



 
another view of the table with latte bench at the end with pretty cushions


the crafting table



crafting at the party - ceramic hearts



grouting the hearts



single yellow roses were used randomly down the tables


wheat and wheat-free cupcakes


wheat-free butterfly cake that was used for the morning girls tea party


wheat-free decadent chocolate cake with a whipped ganache icing - was used for the afternoon adult and family party

 Thanks for looking - Have a fab weekend

Hugs Betty