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While making shortbread my 6 year old suddenly holds up a piece of butter and exclaims “Look Mummy, a cuboid!”
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Spread your favourite Jam/Jelly on each cake. Whip cream and spread on 1 cake
Put the second cake on top of the first (jam/jelly side to cream). Then spread a crumb coat (or thin layer of cream) all over the cake to stop crumbs messing up your icing layer.
Whip together butter and icing to make a butter cream. Add orange food colour. Put a small bowl of the icing to one side and then add chocolate powder to the remaining orange icing. Mix to make a lovely dark chocolate icing. (I’ve used a natural orange colour so it is not very bright).
Pile 4 cup cakes onto the cake to make a mountain and cut 2 cup cakes into 1/4’s then arrange till fill in the gaps.
The finished volcano/mountain shape.
Cover the entire cake with the chocolate icing. Cut out a depression in the top of the mountain from the icing.
Smooth ‘rivers’ of the orange icing down the cake to form the flowing lava.
Decorate as you wish. I have used neon coloured sugar and jelly dinosours. Let your create side explode! Tip – Use sparklers as candles to create a great fiery explosion. Also popping candy down the lava is great fun too!
Natural Food Colours
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Clarins Opalescence Spring Make-Up Collection
Clarins Opalescence Spring Make-Up Collection
Isn’t it the perfect gift from your little ones, a gift to spoil Mummy? The spring Opalescence range from Clarins is beautiful. I would love to receive these, wrapped in homemade wrapping paper and with cards made by little hands that say ‘I love you Mummy’.
If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I share my love of make-up by giving you some tools and resources to get the most out of your beauty products. Make-up is so life enhancing and having the right products and know how means make-up can give you such self confidence. The confidence to know you look your best even when you have been up for three nights in a row with sick kids.
Pink Orchid Joli Rouge Brilliant Perfect Shine Lipstick and creme blush in Rosewood
I can’t recommend this range enough. It has all bases covered (no pun intended!). An Instant Light Radiance Boosting Complexion Base, Opalescence Face and Blush Powder (a truly beautiful piece), multi blush, Ombre Minérale Eye Quartet Palette, Instant Definition Mascara, Joli Rouge Brilliant Perfect Shine Sheer Lipstick and the Gloss Prodige glosses.
And it’s a good thing I have 3 children because I am coveting all the items in this range! I can have lipstick and creme blusher from one, Face and Blush Powder (so gorgeous) and lipgloss from another and the eye-shadow and mascara from my third. Perfect.
And perfect is how I would describe the range. The colours are fresh, sooo pretty and very flattering. Just right for putting the colour back into our sleep deprived cheeks.
And here I am. Ready for my Mothers’ Day Lunch and feeling very pretty with my gorgeous makeup!
The range makes such a lovely gift because not only is it luxurious to wear, but the items feel so great in the hand as well. The lipsticks and compacts are heavy and satisfying to hold and close with an expensive click. They are the sort of makeup pieces you will want to get out in public. Just to show them off!
Ombre Minérale Eye Quartet Palette and Instant Definition Mascara
The stand out piece is the Face and Blush Powder with its holographic lid. The design of the palette is just beautiful. I love a bit of astrology and the palette looks very astrological to me with its interlocking circles and smattering of gold. I would really be in two minds as to whether I could actually use it or just sit and admire its loveliness!
Start dropping those hints to hubby now! (Or maybe just forward him this post, it might be better!)
I love it!
See the Clarins Opalescence Spring Make-Up Collection on the Clarins site here.
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Me: Wow, how are you going to eat all those birthday sweets?
7 year old looking at me as if Im silly: “One at a time Mum !?!”
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What a super idea, especially for plane travel and around the airport or the shopping mall. Love it!
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Another super idea.
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Mornings are frenetic, to say the least, in our household. With me, seven year old, three year old and 9 month old all to chivvy and cajole out the front door in time for the school run.
As 9 month old usually doesn’t wake until a few minutes before we leave, I usually only have time to pop her on the boob for a quick feed before we leave for the walk to school. There is no time for anything more. And now that she is well and truly weening, she understandably is hungry again before we have reached school.
What she needs is to be able to feed herself her banana, yogurt and porridge as I wheel her in the pram. A couple of times I have bought her some Ella’s Kitchen breakfast squeezy pouches as they are perfect. But I don’t want to fork out for those every day.
So I was very glad to find these Squeeze Please refillable food pouches online. Not only are they refillable, but they are very easy to clean, you can pop them in the freezer and I have put them in the microwave to defrost. (Though I’m not sure the company endorses this….?)
They are a great find. The only point I would make is that as baby will tend to wave the pouch around, don’t make the 
contents too runny. As the ‘spout’ is free flowing. Though I have seen refillable pouches with non-free flowing tops online.
Another great product that makes a busy Mum’s life a little easier!
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The Ingredients. No, there is no Passata in it. Im using an empty sterilised bottle to keep the lotion in.
A lotion / cream for baby that is natural and reasonably priced is challenging to buy. Recently, when my second baby was born I was given a tub of Neal’s Yard Remedies Baby Balm. It is wonderful stuff and I love it. Containing Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Shea Butter and Beeswax it leaves babies skin so soft. But at £10.50 for 50 grams it got a bit pricey as I used it every day as an all over moisturiser after little one’s bath.
I particularly loved the product as I know Olive Oil has long been used as a moisturiser and I know that it contains antioxidants, rich emollients and vitamins. Particularly, I know that it is recommended for children with eczema as a natural alternative to other prescribed creams. With all these benefits for the skin I was keen to continue its use.
Not long after, as I was shopping in the baby aisle of my local Waitrose, I noticed that they had tubs of Solid Coconut Baby Massage Oil priced at £2.89 for 125ml. I wondered if I could make a my own baby balm. Hot footing it round to the Olive Oil Section I bought a 500ml bottle of Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil for £3.39. The beeswax and Shea Butter I figured could be done without. 😉
Once home I made up a batch and was pleased with the results. It readily soaks into the skin and does not mark clothing. It has a very faint, pleasant fruity aroma; it’s almost as if the olive oil and coconut oils almost cancel each other out.
Below is my recipe. I hope you make some up too. And if your feeling adventurous, add the Beeswax and Shea Butter and let me know how you get on.
For step by step photos, scroll to the end of the ingredients/method.
Ingredients
125 g (4.4 oz) Solid Coconut Oil
500 ml (18 oz) Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Method
It’s that simple!
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