To the Batmobile!!

Besides the big weekend with Miss A's Alice in Wonderland tea party on Saturday, we got to celebrate another birthday on Sunday. One of my dear friends son and one of Alexa's friends, Kurt, had his bday on Sunday. Miss A and Kurt are 2 days apart!! Due to the crazy weekend Kurt's mom assisted the cake process by baking the cakes for me. WOO HOO!! That way I had the fun easy part of icing and decorating!!!! So here you have the Batman Cake!!! I must say this one was quite fun!!!

Miss A's Mad Hatter Tea Party

Well this weekend was a big bang for the Z Family. It was Miss A's 5th birthday party! I have always wanted to do an Alice in Wonderland themed tea party, and finally Miss A was excited too. We had it at our home and I have been collecting decorations for about 6 months. Well when you start early you end up with a whole mess of items...haha. The most I paid for a tea pot was $5. I hit all sorts of small town antique shops. I even hit thrift and consignment stores. The shops here in Dallas are sooo much more expensive so I tried to avoid that area. 

I also found these flowers at a local craft shop, Hobby Lobby and they were already half price and I got them for another 40% off! I had this idea to create a drapery of flowers in the middle of the room. We have high ceilings so we can't exactly hang from our ceiling...so we had to create one. Thanks to my husband and a new ladder I think we did pretty good!

We had an area for the kiddos to make their own hats. For the ladies I glued mini felt hats to headbands and there were all sorts of flowers, feathers, butterflies, birds, tulle and stickers to put on them. The boys had a top hat and rock star or space stickers to put on theirs. 

I also had another chance to grow some grass from my kit I bought online a few months back. I used them in these big cup and teapot planters I got on sale at Wal-Mart for $10! Niiice! 

Miss A's birthday is the only event that I do not make a cake, my sister always makes her cake. It allows me to focus on all the details and other foods! I like to work with fondant because I never took any classes and all the icing handwork is something I do not have any earthly idea what to do with all those icing tips!!! My sister on the other hand can do all that decorating with icing. So she made a teapot cake on top of a mad hatter hat.

Cheshire Cat Snails Tails (tortilla rolls, with turkey, cheese, cream cheese and spinach all rolled up with a gherkin pickle held together with a toothpick! 

We have some White Rabbit Hole Donuts (powdered donut holes)

Queen of Hearts Jelly Tarts (strawberry tarts, palmiers, and some other cookie called
 some sort of jamdingers)

I made Caterpillar Button Mushrooms (mozzarella and tomato)

We also had veggies and fruit. The plate stands were more of my mix and match finds at small town shops. I held them together with glue dots that way I could break them down for easy storage and also make different combinations that fit my needs!
We also had Mad Hatters Sweet Tea and March Hare Raspberry Lemonade served in teacups with the kiddos initial on them. (technically espresso cups I got at World Market for 99cents.)

Of course it would not be a party without the Mad Hatter to stopped by and did a few magic tricks and had fun with the kiddos! This was about a 1/4 of the kiddos. We had 24 kiddos at our little shindig!!!

It was a great party, great fun, and best of all great guests! Thanks to my family for all the set up and clean up support!!! Can't wait until next year!! Need to start planning....hhhhhmmmmmm

Two little birdies...

Thursday bento was a little fun. We did some little birdies out of hot dog. Used toothpicks to hold the wings together and perched them on a bed of corn. We have some grapes and a babybel cheese with the word "Tweet" cut out in cheese on it. Of course after I cut out "tweet" Miss A asked me why I did that word. I told her that is what a bird says. She said no they don't mommy...they say "chirp chirp". HAHAHA! Good grief! Let's just say that began a 30 minute conversation with a 4 year old about the different sounds a bird makes! Oy vey!!!

From A-Z

Wednesday's bento lunch was Miss A's initials but also A through Z for the alphabet she recites every day twice a day if not more. Not to mention counting to 100 everyday! BOY IS THAT FUN!! ha ha! So we have A and Z ham sandwiches and salt and vinegar chips. I don't know how that little crazy gal can eat those but she loves them! We have some green beans and strawberries and there you have it!!!

Miss A's pumpkin!

Miss A got her idea for her bento today from last nights dinner. We had rice, stir fry, and potstickers! yum! I have not done rice molds in awhile so she wanted me to do a rice mold out of her pumpkin cookie cutter. It was not enough rice so we also used the cat cookie cutter to mold the rice. We just stuck left over rice into the cookie cutter and wrapped in cling wrap and stuck in the fridge. This morning we pulled it out and she chose the ham and shapes for her faces. She also cut out cheese shapes herself, she was determined not to use a tool. Oy vey! haha. I made the turkey rolls and then we added the edamame for some protein and some grapes for dessert! Voila!

Weekend Bake Extravaganza!

So this weekend was a first for me. Working full time, being a mom to an almost 5 year old and a 5 month old, I usually only commit to one baking project in a weekend. But this weekend was a baking trifecta, but I must admit it was fun!!!

We started off with 20 ladybug cupcakes for Miss A's soccer team Saturday morning.

Then Saturday afternoon a good friend of mine had her 3 year old

sons bday party. He wanted a Lightning McQueen cake and since I did this a few weeks ago I knew I could spit it out with little stress. I must say the car popped more then the last one because I outlined everything in black.

Then Sunday I did a bridal shower Tiffany box cake. I must say making that Tiffany blue was so much fun! I even had fun making the tiny chain for the heart charm. Next weekend is Miss A's bday party. It is the one party that I don't make her cake, my sister makes it! That way I can focus on the other party details! However...I am working with a friend for a special cake for her son this weekend...It is a superhero!! Going to be a fun week into a spectacular weekend!! But for now....let's get through the week! Have a great one!!!

Lil' Pumpkin

Well it is a new week. Had a crazy weekend full of baking so Monday was a nice easy lunch for Miss A. She knew right off that she wanted a pumpkin sandwich! So we have a turkey pumpkin sandwich with cheese accents and a green bean stem! We have some baby lil pumpkins, that are yellow tomatoes and we threw in some green beans and pirate booty!! Miss A just loves those air puffed cheddar corn things...Pirate Booty rocks!