I absolutely love children's books and have fallen in love with Dragon Arc by Magic Cat Publishing, so you can imagine my delight when my middle child requested it for her birthday theme this year. I don't know if its my welsh heritage or refusal to grow up, but the idea of a boat sailing…
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Camp Cats
Its Austin, our cat's 2nd birthday and as we like to celebrate everything, a party is in order. I can use the cat as an excuse to throw the party themes that i have wanted and my kids haven't agreed to, so here is my camping party theme! Whenever we erect the kids tent our…
Christmas Shortbread
One of the things I always make at Christmas is my Christmas shortbread, its so easy, so delicious and a great gift. Ingredients: 250g of soft room temperature unsalted butter1/2 a cup of icing sugar1 tsp of coconut extract 1 egg (at room temperature) 1 cup of dried cranberries1 cup of pistachios 180g chopped white chocolate or…
Christmas Cookie Boxes
This year I have made our teachers cookie selection boxes for an end of year gift, containing several types of cookies and its a lovely gift for anyone who has a sweet tooth. These contain my Christmas shortbread, choc chip cookies, my choc orange cookies topped with a sugared orange dipped in chocolate, coconut iced…
Rudolph Chocolate Oreos
My kids wanted to bake something fun so i came up with these 4 ingredient Christmas oreos, chocolate oreos covered in chocolate with icing eyes and a red cachous nose ( you could also use red candy or icing). They were simple enough that i could show my kids once and leave them to it…
Morgue Halloween Party
I think Madonna sang it best when she sang, "come on, Morgue (vogue) Let your dead body move to the music, hey hey hey, Come on, Morgue, Let you dead body go with the flow, you know you can do it! and it was the perfect theme for our Halloween disco. Starting with the invitations,…