Sweet Pea Party

The reason that all has been so quiet on the blogging front is now (just about) ready to be revealed... I have been working hard on launching a new Eco friendly party bag business- Sweet Pea Party. The idea is to provide an alternative to the plastic, mass-produced party bags currently available. Sweet Pea Party bags are individually hand crafted with stamps or other decorations and are all re-useable, recyclable or biodegradable.

At the moment I've put a few things up on my eBay shop, there will be plenty more to follow over the next few weeks. But for now, here are a few of my favourites...

Wedding favour bags

Pirate loot bags with milk chocolate coins

Fairy dress party bags

Dinosaur party bags

Moustache party bags

If you like what you see, maybe you'd like to recommend Sweet Pea Party to a friend, or follow the Sweet Pea Pinterest board

Thanks for reading and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Instagram Challenge- Week Two

8. Getting the drums ready for jubilee weekend performances

9. My favourite Pizza Express pizza- Calabrese- to celebrate my new role at work

10. I heart freebies- free Benefit Bad Gal mascara with the July edition of Glamour

11. More freebies- Garnier BB cream arrived in the post this morning

12. Misha B

13. Raindrops through the window

14. Sophia's amazing Union Jack cake- made for our jubilee party

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Herman the German Friendship Cake

I gave you a sneak peak of Herman the German Friendship Cake in this post, but now it's time for the full review.

I received a bag of 'Herman' with a simple sheet of instructions (similar to these) from a colleague last week. I've spent the past ten days keeping him alive (you can tell he's still alive because the mixture bubbles), feeding him flour, sugar and milk on day four and then finally dividing him up to share the Herman love before baking him.

Adding apples, sultanas, cinnamon mixed with milk, flour and sugar:

Ready for the oven with brown sugar and melted butter drizzled over the top:

Fresh out of the oven:

Thrifty re-use of a Fudges savoury biscuit tin to take the finished product to work:

In all the excitement, I forgot to take a photo of the portions, ready to go, but I hope I will have an update and a new Herman to try soon!

*Update- Herman turned out to be quite a tasty cake, the apple worked well and made it soft and moist*