A SPECIAL DAY...

Four years ago today I was lying in the room above where I am now with a gorgeous little bundle of  baby!

I don't want to make you mums jealous but she came very quickly and pretty much painlessly. So quickly that we didn't make it to the hospital.  Fortunately the midwives made it just in time meaning  Mr Lemon Drizzle didn't need to step in.  Actually my Mum was also here and she had taken her rings off and boiled the kettle (my Dad needed a cup of tea!)

Anyway that tiny bundle is now a rampaging force, mostly of destruction!  But also very cudly and always likes me to know that she loves me, so on the whole I've decided to keep her!

 Obviously there is a party on the horizon but tomorrow it is just a small family party so I made a small pink cake for my small pink pickle.

There are also decorations going up.

Happy Birthday my darling!

Where has Nevie-Pie cakes gone?

Sorry if you were looking for the main Nevie-Pie Cakes website and can't find it - no, you are not going mad, it does seem to have disappeared!
Mr Lemon Drizzle is fixing this now - he informs me that: "Yola have suffered a DoS attack and their support forums tell me I need to reconfigure the A record at your Domain Provider to point to their new IP".
That seem like gibberish to me, but he also says that it should all be fixed again within 48 hours. Fingers crossed...

TREATS AND GOODIES.

Don't you love a giveaway?  

A few weeks ago I won a fabulous one from Torie Jayne.  She was giving away a £60 voucher for CSN stores.  I promised her I would let her know what I bought (I only went slightly over budget) . It all arrived this week and I have already made good use of some of my winnings!

As my family is getting bigger and eating more I needed a bigger pie dish so I got this lovely blue Le Creuset dish and it came just on the day I needed to make a chicken pie.

I also purchased two stacking cooling rackes which are fabulous!

I have read so much from Nigella about reusuable baking paper that I had to try some of that.

I also got two flat baking trays for my cookies.

 A tin of butterfly cookie cutters

And some square cutters which I shall be using later on today!

Anyway as a thankyou to Torie here is a pretty cake!

A good friend ordered it for a summer party and she wanted me to incorporate the bird house from a previous design.

I also used this trial which I found on Tories blog,(here), she does like a bird!

ps. Happy Birthday Mum

pps. If you live in the USA or Canada, head over to Haniela's blog for a chance to win a CSN voucher!

ABOUT BLOOMING TIME!

I have a confession.....sometimes I'm a terrible friend!

One of my good friends had a lovely little baby boy some months ago and I have just got round to getting a goodie basket together for her! (hangs head in shame) 

I actually wanted to make some her some chocolate macarons as well but I knew that I would never find the time and her little boy would be a year before I gave her her new baby package!

Here's what she could be munching on now!

And here is what she has actually received.

Photo courtesy of Heartfelthandmade
   A beautiful banner from Marie at Heartfelt Handmade 
She made me this in exchange for cake!

A lovely burping cloth and tinkle tent (just for boys can you guess what it's for?) from IslaBBaby

 And a fabric collage from me!

 I also included some homemade elderflower cordial.

I hope she enjoys!