You know that feeling...

...when the guests have gone, the house is being cleared up and the dishes washes - we did it! We had a party, all are happy but my goodness I am tired!

It seems that we have crammed a lot into a few weeks. With Mr S (my lovely husband) travelling and being on my own with baby, I have tried to prepare for Baby L's first birthday in the only way I know. Plan, plan, plan.

Now that I am on extended maternity leave, being with a baby seems to be more than a full time job especially when you are with them all day and night. So my evenings whilst she is sleeping, I have been planning ahead, cooking, freezing and making.

I posted my cakes on line over the last week as a party is not a party without cake!

This cake was inspired by a french cake that I saw in a magazine a few years ago when working in France. I tore out the photo and put it in my notebook. It is so simple but really light and went down a treat!

We had a lovely party and Baby L stuffed as many snacks as I think she has ever seen and went to sleep straight away that night!

We had a black cat theme being so close to Halloween, I went down to the Craft Shop and bought a peice of black cart and cut out cat shapes and stuck them on the mantle peice.