The years keep rolling on by at a fast pace, one minute you have a troublesome toddler, the next a ratbag 9 year old. How did THAT happen?!
There was much deliberation over cake choices (but kindly realising the limit of mum's abilities, they make their requests to allow for a wide margin of error, and their expectations low!), and much the same from parents re giftage.
Discovered that candle in the cupboard wasn't in fact a nine, but a six. Sharp knife applied, some creative candle rebuilding and TADAAH! It now IS a nine.
And inside the cake, the requested RAINBOW! (which apparently was very hard to focus on...perhaps my lens did not recover as well as I thought it did?!)
And now, with barely two scant weeks between them, I have to roll out another birthday cake for the little boy. Not sure if I can handle the pressure to produce... (but I will say this: a friend gifted me with a pallette knife and said it would make all of the difference. It did indeed make smoothing the icing much easier. A pity the cake underneath wasn't all that smooth!! ;-)
I think the cake is perfect and I'd love to sit in that chair in your kitchen and have a natter! We have two birthdays in September too, 3 days apart. xx
ReplyDeleteoh my, THREE days apart. Now there is some cake production pressure!
Deleteand yes, wouldn't it be lovely to round up bloggy friends for a cuppa? wouldn't the chatter be brilliant?!
The cake turned out brilliantly!
ReplyDeleteI so know what it is like to back up the birthdays ... you'll manage!
Cake looks pretty damn good to me! Our birthday cakes are very simple, more often than not just topping the icing with sprinkles. Living in the bush, my kids (fortunately for me) haven't been exposed to too many elaborate birthday cakes although I can see that I might have to lift my game in the future ;)
ReplyDeleteSharon your cake is a definite winner. And gee I love that photo of Georgie with it at school. What a beautiful girl.
ReplyDeleteWill look forward to seeing what we come up with for the boy child!!!
Happy 9th birthday......time does move on and of course every year they get older....so do we!!!! Love your birthday cake and the edited no 6 candle...after all they are inter-changeable aren't they. I can't imagine having 10 students in a school...when I was in high school a couple of the families had 9-10 kids themselves.....hard to imagine that these days. Well she does look like a pretty happy 9th year old so a big tick for Mum. One day, one to go.... Kathy
ReplyDeleteHappy 9th birthday......time does move on and of course every year they get older....so do we!!!! Love your birthday cake and the edited no 6 candle...after all they are inter-changeable aren't they. I can't imagine having 10 students in a school...when I was in high school a couple of the families had 9-10 kids themselves.....hard to imagine that these days. Well she does look like a pretty happy 9th year old so a big tick for Mum. One day, one to go.... Kathy
ReplyDeleteNine and old enough to enjoy a necklace ... ah, she IS growing up :). Many congratulations to you all. Amazing that your school is enabled to continue with just ten pupils: wonderful! Enterprising work on the cake AND the candle.
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