Yeeeeeeah love pancake day!!!  Because Jon hates my pancakes (they are not crepes and not american style) I had a couple of friends round for a Shrove Tuesday lunch instead! We had Nutella and banana, Nutella and strawberry and lemon and sugar – they were yummy!

I use the basic recipe that my mum taught me years ago… 

one cup of flour

one cup of milk

one egg

pinch of salt

So this month my lovely Mother turned the big 60!  Of course we had a party to celebrate where all her close friends and family came together for a lovely Black Tie dinner.  I’ve not really planned many parties and now I know why, they take up a large chunk of time and hone in on your organisational skills, but it was worth it 🙂

Some of the things I did for the event I snapped up for you…

Centre pieces – which took me forever as I’ve never done them before.  I bought vases from Ikea and got the roses from Aldi.  I then de-leaved them (loooong process), cut them all down and then divided them up equally, where I then had the task of making them look pretty, so I tied a piece of ribbon around them.. ta da!

Next was the name places.  I bought jam jars from HobbyCraft along with tags and ribbon. I then wrote everyones name on the tags and on the back, I wrote what food they had ordered (as you always forget if you’ve ordered months in advance).  I then did pink ribbon for the ladies and blue ribbon for the gents.  Each jar had a tea light in it to add a little glow.

The I had a cake designed to suit Mum down to a tee. 

I even did my very first speech which went better than expected, I got more laughs than I thought which is always a bonus!  It was a lovely evening and Mum enjoyed it as well xx