MSE Parents Club Part 12

Fitzio

Hope you feel better too Becles. I used to get really awful headaches all the time, but they completely disappeared during pregnancy! It's been a while since I had one. Just took some Ibuprofen.

Last night DH said he would get up with Holly this morning (he usually has a lie in on Sat, I have a lie in on Sun), but he kind of said it whilst accusing me of being in a "foul mood" so I was raging (wasn't in a foul mood, was just tired and had a headache!) and played the martyr by saying I will do it myself!! But I wish I was still in bed! Never mind, it will be my turn for a long lie tomorrow.

SugarSpun

Thank you lovely ladies! I'm just drinking tea and wondering how I can possibly bring myself to put clothes on, it must already be 25 degrees :eek:

I got a lie in!! And Husband has given me a packet of Sour Zoo sweets because I said I wanted to go there but has suggested I spend the day with my parents as they're leaving tomorrow. So no zoo. I don't know what to do with them - there are courtyard flea markets but people always seem to want silly money for their old broken crap.. and my parents aren't really into anything and keep saying they want to not intrude. I'll wait till they get here and think of something. But now I'll finish my tea, forage some breakfast and take a shower.

pinknico

Happy Birthday Sugar.x

Sarah_Joanne

chopsticks wrote: »

Thank you, that's really helpful. I am going to go for it (as long as the cake shop has the "1" tin available to hire when I need it. I was thinking of perhaps using giant and normal chocolate buttons for decorating to make my life easier , so they'd be quite good to cover up the mistakes!

No problem. Chocolate buttons are good but circles of fondant are easier to stick on (just use a dab of water) or if you change your mind about the fondant you could always use a palette knife to smooth chocolate buttercream over the cake then stick buttons onto that, bit like this:



Now feel free to keep my nose out if you like, I just get excited abiout cakes!

chopsticks

Sarah_Joanne wrote: »

No problem. Chocolate buttons are good but circles of fondant are easier to stick on (just use a dab of water) or if you change your mind about the fondant you could always use a palette knife to smooth chocolate buttercream over the cake then stick buttons onto that, bit like this:



Now feel free to keep my nose out if you like, I just get excited abiout cakes!

Are circles of fondant easy to use? I was thinking that I might end up pulling them out of shape as I picked them up to stick them on.

I like the buttercream cake too. I was thinking about buttercream originally as I thought it might be easier for me, but then I didn't want it to be an uneven surface as I want to decorate it. I didn't think about smoothing it down

Oooh, decisions decisions...

P.S. Don't keep your nose out - I'm very grateful for your help and suggestions.

searching_me

sj kettles just popped ... how many sugars ...

happy birthday ss .. sounds like you had a great night (apart from one stupid man) ...

got a lie in today ..8:30am .. not bad as im usually up at 7am , just wondering what to do was thinking park and picnic but the wind as a chill in it although its suppose to warm up later so dont know .... i'll decide after my cuppa x

SugarSpun

Thank you lovely ladies!

I'm very grateful for all the pictures of cake. I "made" with the assistance of Betty Crocker some cakes for the party and was horrified to find that icing isn't included in the packet! I made violently green almond icing, but still had to donate about 20 cakes to people at different tables

got-it-spend-it

Ooh, it's too early for yummy cake pictures. Some people are on a diet, dontcha know!

Happy Birthday SS, glad you had a fabby party.

We're off to a Farmers' Market in a bit once we're all showered and dressed. I've woken with a sore throat and gunky chest again, not sure what's going on as I'm fine later in the day but feel rubbish first thing.

First England match tonight- whoop, whoop!

Sarah_Joanne

chopsticks wrote: »

Are circles of fondant easy to use? I was thinking that I might end up pulling them out of shape as I picked them up to stick them on.

I like the buttercream cake too. I was thinking about buttercream originally as I thought it might be easier for me, but then I didn't want it to be an uneven surface as I want to decorate it. I didn't think about smoothing it down

Oooh, decisions decisions...

P.S. Don't keep your nose out - I'm very grateful for your help and suggestions.

Fondant circles are easy to use, just make sure it's not rolled too thin, and dust the surface well with icing sugar and should be no problem to pick up

searching_me wrote: »

sj kettles just popped ... how many sugars ...

No sugar for me thanks hun, I'm sweet enough :rotfl:

searching_me

right we decided we're definately going park so off to get everyone ready catch you all later xxxx