Shirley's party advice part 6 - don't be afraid to interrupt us!

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Okay, this is shirley's party advice part 6. Shirley ducked out a while ago and you'll notice us chatting about all kinds of stuff whilst we wait for party planners to barge in.

So, don't lurk, jump in and chat. We'll give you any advice on parties from costumes to cakes....

Agree, Blathers, you can't do a carbon copy of DS's cake. Is friend in question also a Lego geek? If not, then I would take the lego out of the equation, and maybe make a flat 6 and cover it in penguins - fishing, in an igloo, cross-country skiing....

I may be slightly penguin obsessed

Jesus Stealth, you're a bit of a freakin genius!!
I am now thinking that its do-able

Oh no Stealth, friend is as Lego bonkers as DS. I'd be better off dropping the sledging angle than the lego one!

Ah. A '6' made of lego bricks?

(my imaginary penguins are sulking now)

nonsense.

You're hooked.

Maybe... I've only tried bricks once and it wasn't fantastic.

The blocky edges would be a nightmare!

Maybe this upside down?

Better link

You would need one of these for lego 6

Or indeed for the one you linked to

Do you think you could mold sugarpaste by just pressing it into one of those trays?

Yes. Absolutely. You might need to add some sugarcel, and chill it a bit before you take it out, but I have used silicone ice trays as moulds (we have an R2D2 one )

I'd better see if his Mum likes the idea before getting too carried away

S'pose so

Given that you don't like fondant, you could also make bricks out of chocolate, or candy melts.

oh ok, thanks stelthsquiggle.
if you dont mind me asking whats the general line of topic in this group??

Candy melts are all fairly pastel though aren't they? This needs to be bright.

zouise we spend most of our time discussing the party details that you're talking about taking over - the cakes, balloons, party bags, food, games, activities.

None of us are really the type of people who would pay someone else to do the fun bits.

Not at all - candy melts come in really satisfactorily lego like colours. I have some

thanks blatherskite. Thats just what i wanted your opinion on, its a discussion board, right??
Im new to this site so just finding my feet ... im not trying to put forward a sales pitch, I just want some honest comments on some ideas i have regarding parties and everything that goes with it.

Are you professional cake makers ect or a mum like myself...who loves baking and going over the top with my children's parties

Zouise, we're all mums discussing mum stuff. If you look at the top of this thread you'll see its the topic for parties/celebrations. But withinnthat we have our own thread where people come in and iut and bounce ideas off us. We help them source everything to do with their specific parties, purely because we love parties ourselves and whilst we're not manically planning our own we'll readily discuss everyone elses!

I suggest you post a new thread within parties if you want to gauge feeling. But most people come on here because they are mums trying to do diy parties themselves for the pleasure of it.

I might have to have a look if his mum agrees to my plan

It did sound very sales-pitch-y zouise if Im' honest and people tend to be wary of answering those sort of questions on here as things like that are supposed to be paid for on MN.

As far as I know, we have no professional cake makers on this thread, although some of stealth's cakes are way better than some professionals I've seen anyway. We're all just crafty types who like going a bit over the top with our children's birthdays and helping others to do the same. I love spending hours finding the perfect bits to make my children's parties special and have been copied a few times so I think I'm getting it right most of the time. I've been known to supply party bags for a party where the venue supplied bags too just because I hate the generic plastic tat type bags and couldn't bear the thought of giving those out. I personally wouldn't pay someone to do it all for me but I know other Mums who have/would and could easily find a local company that would do the majority of the work for me just by asking for some recommendations on Facebook.

If you want answers to some specific questions, you might be better off starting your own thread in this section. This is a discussion board but leaping onto an ongoing discussion thread and derailing it for your own purposes is seen as rude. If you'd like to help us plan some parties then feel free to stick around and join in :)

Blathers you need to do the lego construction cake they are soooo brilliant. Fondant is easy! More forgiving that buttercream etc get to it!!

Hi everyone! Can I get thoughts on a grown up party please?

Am throwing a party following me and DP getting married on our own for friends and family. (Not a traditional reception, not our style) Have thought we'd hire a pub or something but not sure what to do to make it a bit special! Was thinking drinks and food. Like the idea of doing cheese but not sure what else. Should we decorate if so with what? Is a pub even a good idea? We don't have a budget for a band or DJ really. Should we do other entertainment? So does anyone have any ideas please? (I started a thread for this in chat but only had a few replies)

Oh and should we post invites or is that too formal? And do we explicitly say 'no presents please, your company is all we want'.

We'd like it to be classy but fun. The pubs I have it mind are nice pretty ones!r