Firstly the cake, I am still plagued by guilt that I (or perhaps we – why should The Captain be excluded?) did not make Roo’s first birthday cake. We did manage to make some yummy pumpkin soup for lunch though. I enlisted the help of Jhoomur from
Pretty Special Cakes to make a cake and cookies while I wasted many hours in The Reject Shop and Kmart focusing on decorations instead. I also chose to spend any spare moment in the week prior to the party searching every op shop and antique store in the region to find a vintage high chair, rather than finding a party dress.
We went with a Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit) theme which suited our garden in its spring bloom. There are so many pictures they cannot all fit into one blogpost. The second blogpost with more pics should be out within the week. Enjoy the photos!
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Styling Details:
· Two-tiered Peter Rabbit inspired cake. Top tier was ginger spice, bottom tier was chocolate. Design featured a hand cut and gold painted chocolate letter ‘R’, chocolate watering can with royal icing flowers, hand moulded white chocolate frog, garden details sketched with edible pens; royal icing fence, green leaves and lavender. It tasted even better than it looked!!
· Cookies of 7 different designs were vanilla flavour, all hand piped with royal icing and the rabbit cookies were hand painted
· Mini smash cake was a two tiered vanilla cake, filled and frosted with buttercream
Food and Drinks
· Sparkling drink –lemon, lime & bitters cordial, soda water, chopped strawberries and mint leaves
· Fruit water – water, crushed ice, chopped lemon, mint and strawberries
· Soup – Homemade pumpkin with cream and nutmeg served with hot buttered rolls
· Savouries – a mix of mini pastries from the local supermarket
· Vege sticks – sliced carrot, and celery. Paper cups lined with a dollop of hommus dip
Table Setting
· Metal flower pot stand with mini terracotta pots –
Kmart
· White milk jug used as vase – a gift
· Glass drink dispenser –
Kmart
· Chalkboard labels –
Kmart
· Blue gingham tablecloth – A length of fabric from
Spotlight, no sewing or finishing!
· Hessian fabric used as table runner -
Spotlight
Garden Decorations:
· Large Blue Balloon –
Lark, decorated with lace and ribbon from
Spotlight
· ‘Welcome to the garden’ slate sign –
Kmart
· Wood signs (‘Once upon a time’ and ‘Messages’) made by me using recycled wood from our back deck and hand painted with paint from
Spotlight
· Bunting message cards – made using Hessian squares from
Spotlight, paper doilies from the
Reject Shop and blue card from
Spotlight then all stapled together. Mini pegs from
Typo then pegged to twine from
Spotlight.
The Party Chair
· ‘One’ bunting – made by both
Finding Femme and I, using hessian squares from
Spotlight, paper doilies from the
Reject Shop, hand painted ‘one’ using paint from spotlight. All stapled onto ribbon from
Spotlight
· Large Blue Balloon –
Lark, decorated with lace and ribbon from
Spotlight
· ‘One’ hessian sign – Letters from
Typo then attached to hessian fabric from
Spotlight and hung using twine