Chalk Drawing Photos

I am always taking photos. Seriously, I have my camera or iPhone at the ready almost all the time ready to snap a fun or silly or lovely or precious or pointless moment. 9 times out of 10 the subject matter is my children. What can I say - I think my kids are rather fabulous (biased much?) and I adore having snaps of time caught that I can share with grandparents, family and friends.
So when I saw the idea of using simple chalk to create a fun backdrop or prop for a unique photo opportunity I knew I had to have a go.

This is a GREAT activity to do with your little ones. My kids love drawing and colouring in the 'picture' before they jump right in for me to snap away. Milla, who is 4 and a bit of a Disney fan, tells me "it's just like Mary Poppins when she jumps into the picture"... awwwwww
The above pic is one we created to use for Milla's butterfly party invites and below are some other we set up while I was babysitting my niece and nephew a few weeks ago

I was then convinced by my niece that it was my turn to be in a photo rather than take them all so we came up with this bunting inspired one... LOL

The limit to these super fun pics is only your imagination... Have a play with some chalk and your kiddies and be sure to share what your come up with!

Whale Spout Pic SOURCE, Swimming In The Ocean Pic SOURCE, Umbrella Rain & Rainbow Pic SOURCE, Surfing Girl Pic SOURCE, the other pics I found on Pinterest but they had broken links - please let me know if they are your images and I will credit you :)

Skiing themed 40th birthday party - Party Pics!

What a great night! Lots of laughs, great food, fabulous company and one happy birthday boy!

With all the prep work done and ready we headed to the restaurant and quickly put the table together as guests were arriving, most of whom remembered to wear their Ski Pass Invites (see HERE). The place mats (see HERE) and decorations (see HERE) were a hit with the guests as well as the takeaway coffee cup favours (see HERE) and lots of fun was had with the ski themed photo props too (see HERE)




The restaurant had a wandering accordion player playing and singing on the night so we managed to get him to serenade Matt with a Bavarian style Happy Birthday song.


To top of the night out came the amazing 3D mountain complete with edible snow, skier and trees! Made by Party Cakes by Leora the three tier chocolate mudcake with crushed candy-cane chocolate buttercream filling, covered with ganache and peppermint flavoured fondant was both yummy and looked fantastic!!




We had a fun and late night that will be remembered for quite some time!!

Skiing themed 40th birthday party - Photo props!

Remember I was telling you HERE how I would be using some old ski boots as part of the table decorations for hubby's ski themed 40th this weekend? Well this is what they will be used for - photo prop holders!!
The clever Samone of Cake Ink. designed me some fun and funky 70's style ski themed props. Beanies, ski googles, moustaches, glasses, mittens, fluffy hats and more. I printed them off, cut them out, mounted them on foam core then attached to a paper straw (so easy).


With these on the table for the night and lots of cameras handy I think we could have quite a few laughs!!