Cupcakes, Cards & Flowers

Life in the Davies household is busy as always. At the moment there seem to be a lot of cupcakes around thanks in part to my sister who bought me an amazing cupcake recipe book for Christmas! The butterfly cakes are part of a batch I made for the last school cake sale. I do like making sparkly butterflies! They are edible by the way!
These are banana & caramel cupcakes. I made the caramel sauce which I was quite impressed by! The boys took some of these cakes in for their teachers who raved on about how delicious they were! I was pleased! :o)
This one is a lemon meringue cupcake! My favourite cupcakes so far made from the recipe book Helen gave me. I made lemon curd for the filling too. I love the way the meringue piped onto the top of the cakes! The boys said they looked like ice creams.
I also made fudge cupcakes. I think the icing was too thick (I followed the recipe exactly though) so I shall change that next time. These are delicious too. I am being very generous giving away lots of cakes- our waistlines will not cope if we eat them all!
Creativity has stepped up a gear here too. This is Luke's thankyou note to Grandma & Grandad for his Christmas presents. It reads 'presents Luke thanks' but should of course read 'thanks for my presents, Luke x'!

Timmy drew a thankyou picture. I think it's obvious, but in case it isn't he has drawn himself playing with the wooden train track. Rather good don't you think?

Jordan has re-discovered all the art & craft supplies in the house & has developed a flair for designing cards. This is one he made for his best friend Hallie to invite her round to our house for tea. Inside the letter A it says 'you're a star'. :o)

This is what he wrote inside. Very cute! I love how he spells 'nag'. His misspelling of friend prompted a big discussion at the tea table one night. Timmy tells me he knows how to spell friend because his teacher told him to remember it by thinking of someone burning their bottom!!! (Fri End)!!

This is the card I made for my friend Marie & her husband's 13th wedding anniversary earlier this month. Marie likes pink although I am not sure if her husband is quite so keen on it!! I used recycled packaging to make the little hearts too. I do like to be thrifty!

This is the thankyou card I made for Annie-Joy to say thankyou for all her dedication gifts. I had a lot of fun making them although I don't think the photo does it justice. I like the black felt bookplate & all the little bits making up the whole. I love this photo of AJ.

I made this card & one similar for Mother's Day. I gave this one to my Mum. It was good to use the fabric flowers that Lee's parents bought me last year for my birthday & some of the gorgeous patterned paper that Lee bought me for my birthday last year. I have decided that my art supplies are for using NOT looking at (as gorgeous as they are). It's fun experimenting with new things.

These are the pink tulips that AJ chose for me for my birthday. Tulips (any colour) are my favourite along with yellow roses.

AJ showing me the sweet little teddy bear that Timmy bought me for Mother's Day. He chose it himself for me & I love it! It sits beside my bed.

The children gave me more tulips for Mother's Day in a posh bouquet. Lee did an excellent job of organising the kids to get me gifts for my birthday & for Mother's Day. With mine & Lee's birthday as well as Mother's Day within 2 weeks of each other our mantle piece has been constantly displaying a wonderful array of handmade & bought cards this month! And we have used a lot of birthday cake candles too! Great fun!

Well, that concludes the blog entry for today. Honestly, I will try not to leave it so long between posts but this year just seems to be racing away with it's self, don't you think? Hope all who read are well & enjoying the week. Have a great weekend. Till next time! :o)