Maeve's first party - Sunday, July 24, 2005

the party pixie

Today was Maev'es first birthday party ( a week after the actual event. I had a bit of a week. It was my aim to be the perfct Donna Hay Mum and have loads of expert cupcakes and a party food for people to gush over ( well not really) but I was having serious failures. The cake took 2 attempts and the second, swhlst it looked good on exiting the tin started to die a dismal death as soon as I began to ice it. I was in tears. 2 days of cake baking after many years of abstension had taken it out of me. I packed it in and went to bed and today, at 9am my sister Mim turned up to help. We dicided to fix it with a new kind of icing make from whipped cream so we despatched Jeanette off to the shops to get the supplies we needed and then the thre of us started the production line fixing the "main event cake" and icing loads of gorgeous red cupcakes with marshmallow flowers. It all come good in the end.

Thanks to my wonderful helpers.

The guests soon started arriving and Simon manned the sausage sizzle. At last count we had 60 people from 7 weeks old upwards at our house. What a huge day. I think everyone had fun though and Mim was a womderful helper making the clean up a simple task.

Maeve was inundated with the ost gorgeous gifts so now she is so spoiled! I will upload a link here soon for a gallery of party pics.

posted by jen @ 12:20 PM