Shirley's party advice part 4 - Better at party planning than Pippa Middleton

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New thread :) Everyone welcome.

She'd better be!! DH saw the body the other day and he was impressed at least. The wings look good now they have the lines on.

I took it slow* and had the foot lifted for bits as the thickness of fabric was stopping it moving at all but at least it's done now.

• it didn't actually take me an hour and a half to do the 2nd wing, I had to pick up DD from preschool and get my blood test done in between. I'm slow, but not that slow :)

Tip for today. Children's medicine syringes are the perfect tool for filling the stems of plastic wineglasses with jelly-fied water precisely and without getting splashes all down the side of the glass.

It'll come in handy on a daily basis that one I'm sure

I believe I may have suggested that particular genius solution.

Did you? Damnit, I thought I was being clever. In any event, I had forgotten you said it and came up with it all over again all by myself :)

Tip 2 is - you must wait about an hour for the jelly to part set before it's worth putting the edible glitter in else it all just sinks to the bottom.

I'm going to make the jellies over the course of tomorrow I think. I've got 5 lots of setting to wait for!

I also need to make the cake tomorrow

and Marzipan and ice my Mum's Christmas cake

and tidy up!

I think Dolly might definitely be on the scrap heap

Poor dolly

Nevermind im keen to see it all come together. We're all just getting ready for bed then a drive to see the christmas lights with Chrimble the family elf! Hoping dd2 sleeps cos shes cried all day.

Cake marzipanned. Hopefully, it'll have dried out enough to ice tomorrow.

By tomorrow morning I will have marzipanned, iced and decorated 8 mini Christmas cakes. Oh, and wrapped them. At this point I have 5 iced, 2 more marzipanned and none decorated.

Whats the theme of them this year stealth?

Have realised that a trip to Costco (and DD) are going to disturb my cake/jelly making plans tomorrow.

Very un originally, snowmen. They're done. Not wrapped, but I will do that (and post photos) in the morning.

Just keep remembering the jelly, Blathers.

Snowmen cakes are on flickr (well, their photos are. They have been delivered to teachers)

I love those snowmen!! Dd has just made a load if fairy cakes so i may see if she wants to make snowmen for them.

Playschool got them all to make and decorate an xmas cake. Then wrap it. Dd is all sad saying this isnt the cake i made you, mine had a snowman but there was a mix up at school. So this is no good as its not mine. I told her it didnt matter but she was so sad. So ive let her go mad with a fairy cake kit. Argghh.

Blathers whats the progress? !

I have cleaned the lounge carpet!

Next step is the Yellow jelly layer and the first double batch of cake mix which should do the first 3 sponges

I've also been to Costco and have all the food except the grapes which DH is picking up on his way home.

and the shower curtain and bath mats are just finishing in the washing machine

Wtf you got all this party stuff and you're spring cleaning?

I love the combined party and house panic. I can empathise.

Honestly the shower curtain?!

Yes, Mum, Sister, BIL, 2 nieces, other sister, brother and brothers girlfriend will all be here as well as the party! This place is a tip.

Washing the shower curtain makes the rest of the bathroom smell fresh. It's a good cheat

Ahhh i like your thinking!

We are having a pirate party for DS(4). He has 3 girls coming to the party. How do I make the theme appealing to girls as well as the boys?

Hi barefoot. Dont panic we've had this discussion many a time. Girls relush the chance to dress up too. Dont try to make it girly, make it fun and girls will have a great time still.

Costumes, consider providing foam/card swords, bandanas, eye atches so that everyone is in the theme. You can use them for partybags.

Food, themed food such as jelly orange boats, shark infested jelly, hold coins etc all add to the theme.

Games, walk the plank, treasure hunts etc. we did quite a bit on pirate parties earlier in our ramblings. I'll find it tomorrow for you as there was a good party we linked to too for unisex ideas.

Ffs. Im awake coughing. Ignore typos.

page 7 on here

page 40 and work backwards on this one

Just leave the pirates as it is - there are loads of cool girl pirates (The Night Pirates is a favourite here, with it's "rough, tough little girl pirates"). I am trying to think of any way in which I would modify a pirate party to be gender neutral, and I can't think of anything