enticing icing: spaceships and laser beams

Well it's been a few weeks, but I just wanted to share a few pictures from Xavier's 2nd Birthday! I don't know where the last two years have gone and a few weeks on it's still hard to believe our baby boy is 2!

We had lots of yummy party food, and for once I tried not to go too over board! The printable's we got from Spaceships and Laser beams as always really brought everything together and looked fantastic!

The hanging rockets (an idea I got from Pinterest) were a great hit with the kids and the confetti sprinkled all over our lawn looked pretty and was gone in the next mow.

The rocket cake was a big hit and the sparklers added a great touch, along with the little alien I made from the picture on the invites!

Just had to share these pics of Xav enjoying his cake (especially the one where I asked him to smile ;)

And sharing cake with his buddy...

So another year has passed, another theme come and gone and big thank you to all our friends and family who came and shared the day with us xx

Now that I am slowly getting back in the swing of things I have a few parties I would love to share with you, starting with my son's 4th birthday held recently.

Let me just start by saying I have two typical boys, if it's got wheels or an engine its cool. My eldest is obsessed with Motorbikes and had not waived in his choice of theme for he's party, so on the hunt I went only to come up blank. Enter boys party designers - Space Ships and Laser Beams! on etsy! I can't rave about these guys enough. I went to them with a rough idea of what we wanted and they brought it all to life (and for a very reasonable price too) and were just awesome to work with. We are already planning our youngest's upcoming birthday and I know exactly where I will be heading for our stationary.

So our Motorbike party was nearly complete, we had the 'look' sorted. I just had to come through with the goods on the day. Silly me let Sax look at some cakes online with me and what did he fall in love with, you guessed it the 'Rainbow cake'. Now I had read about this mythical cake on blogs, seen lots of beautiful pictures but attempted one myself, no never. As you know I am more of a cupcake than a cake kind of girl. Cupcakes are easy, simple yet still tasty. A rainbow cake, it has layers, colours and is pretty complex but I gave it a go and it all worked out ok in the end :) and I will never forget the look on the birthday's face on the day, so that definitely made it all ok.

The party table all came together pretty easy, as we were having it at the local park I wanted to keep things simple, yet still work with our theme. I had some of the designs from the stationary printed at my local cake supply shop straight onto icing with edible ink so I could add them to the Chocolate Chip Biscuit party favours. It was very fiddly but looked really cool and I was so happy with how they turned out.