Well Saturday saw our CrafTea and Cakes summer fair take place. The sun shone and lots of people came and we managed to make £735 for our two chosen charity's. Two friends joined us, both called Janet and took on the tea and cakes side of things while Suzie and I concentrated on the sewing side of things. Another friend, Jean brought along some vintage tiered cake stands that she had made and Julia gave us a large double quilt which was 2nd hand but added well to our total. A huge thank you to everyone who helped us on the day with washing up, setting up, clearing away, making cakes, serving tea and cakes.

And the result was.......

All the hard work was worth it today when we hosted the latest CrafTeas 'n' Cakes at Suzie' s home. The crafts sold well, cards sold more than ever before and the cakes...well they went like the proverbial hotcakes.

Suzie despite not feeling very well managed to get through the day and is seen here setting up the tea and cakes.

At times the lounge was full to bursting but the weather was mild and people were able to spill out into the garden to enjoy their cups of tea.

In total just over £700 was raised to share between the two causes, but that total will raise as we have a few orders to do. So if you came, a big THANK YOU for supporting us and more importantly children in parts of the world who are very needy. Also a special big thanks to my husband Dave who made teas and coffees and washed up for a solid 3 hours!
Now off to lie in a darkened room .......

A much better cake!

A couple of blog entries ago I put on a cake I had decorated for my son's birthday but I wasn't that pleased with it compared to the picture I had seen originally. Yesterday my daughter made this beautiful cake for her colleague at work, helped by our lovely neighbour over the road who is a bit of an expert cake decorator.

I think A may do a course in cake decorating now, she has so enjoyed creating this work of art. I have tried for years to get A to be creative but she has shown no interest in sewing, art or anything like that but now she may have found her niche!......By the way A, don't forget my birthday is next month!

Birthday tea

Today is my youngest son's 17th birthday but we had the tea yesterday with Grandparents etc.. I saw this idea for a cake and decided to try it. It's not as good as I had hoped it would be but it tasted OK!

The lady at the cake shop said I had to put the wires in a little plastic container which you push into the cake or I would probably poison my family! So I did, but I think it wouldn't have hurt to push them straight into the cake!...and would have looked better. It's meant to look like an explosion of fireworks...if you look back on my snowgoosey blog ( or use the link to the right of this) you will see that my boys are quite fond of explosions! They blew up a model house in the garden just after Christmas.