today we celebrated miss madeline turning 8! a little early, as her birthday is this week, but seeing as we are having her baptism next weekend, it was just too hard to do it all at once.
she was so, so excited for the day to come and being that their last day of school for two weeks was yesterday, she's even more so!
she looked so cute (and thrilled to bits!) as we snapped some pictures outside before her friends arrived, thankfully like a little girl still, i'm hoping she stays that way for just a little longer! i looove the oversize flower crown, so i am especially pleased that she agreed to wear it for the day.
we had the house decorated to the nines, with this chalkboard sign in the entry hall. if you look closing you can see miss maddie waving in the reflection to the left.
i wanted it all to be matching and set up beautifully so i actually hired some tables and chairs from a place in midland, so that i could use my chair covers and have it all uniform (ocd much?) but i was so pleased with how it all came out. the only thing i ended up having to buy was the pink chair sashes, so that's a positive! between mum and i, we have everything you could possibly need for a tea party!
my best friend jen, who makes cookies over at baked on benrua, made these amazing cookies to be placecards for the girls. i love them so much, and the best bit was, she even threw in two extras, stamped with mine and mums names to enjoy during the party.
how cute are they?!
star of the show. what a day she had! every time we have organised a tea party for someone else, she has always asked when she can have one for her friends (definitely her mothers daughter!) so now that she's (nearly) eight and most of her friends are at a similar age, i figured we were probably safe using china for it... and thankfully nothing got broken!
i wanted to do a really vintage style cake, not one of these overdone cakes you see at every party these days, so i bought a two pack of round sponges from woolworths, along with some strawberries, jam and cream. i had planned to just do it into four layers, fill between each one, then top it with some rose buds and a dusting of icing sugar. but then mum turned up and it became a work of art. ladies and gentlemen, my mother is amazing! look what she did with some flowers she bought along from her garden. maddie and i were blown away by how cute it was and the first thing she wanted to show everyone that walked in the door was that gorgeous cake!
almost ready to receive guests... we took our table to pieces and stashed it in alexanders room during the party so we could have a gorgeous long table and chairs.
love love love. i was so happy with how it turned out.
i made crockpot hot chocolate for the girls to have in their teacups and for any of the mums that decided to stay (recipe can be found at the end of this post, we have used it on many occasions, it's delicious and always works perfectly!)
we also had water and pink lemonade with fresh lemons added
i baked most of the things we had to eat:
-mini sausage rolls
(easiest recipe ever, 8 pack of sausages, 2 sheets of puff pastry cut into 4... wrap each sausage and cut to the size you want, then brush with a beaten egg and bake in a 180 degree celcius oven for 30 or so minutes - until brown)
-mini corn fritters
-egg sandwiches
-macarons (from coles! $8 for 10 and they are delicious, so there is no way i would try and make them for that price... i value my sanity)
the girls all oohed and aahed over the setup when they arrives, loved looking for their place and i absolutely heard one of them exclaim to another whilst drinking out of her teacup, "i just feel so fancy!"
such little ladies
after they finished their afternoon tea, we took some photos with props, which involved a lot of giggling and noise, then played pass the parcel, musical bobs and musical statues. oh i love watching them get competitive, it's the best bit. we had a lovely afternoon with them all and madeline was so sad when it was over, one of the girls even cried because she didn't want to leave.
maddie with her cake! so cliche but i honestly cannot believe that she will be 8 this week. how on earth did that happen?!
loving her life
happy almost birthday miss madeline. we love you so much!
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crock pot hot chocolate
ingredients:
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 x cans sweetened condensed milk
ingredients:
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 x cans sweetened condensed milk
(just buy the coles/woolworths brand ones- they are exactly the same!)
1/8 teaspoon salt
8 cups water
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
marshmallows to serve
directions:
1.) in crock-pot combine milk, water and vanilla.
2.) add dry cocoa and salt, stir until smooth.
3.) cover and cook on high 2 hours or on low for 4 hrs
4.) top each serving with marshmallows
1/8 teaspoon salt
8 cups water
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
marshmallows to serve
directions:
1.) in crock-pot combine milk, water and vanilla.
2.) add dry cocoa and salt, stir until smooth.
3.) cover and cook on high 2 hours or on low for 4 hrs
4.) top each serving with marshmallows
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