Prosecco Jelly Shots

I am the queen of jelly shots and every time someone has a party I am always asked to bring some along.  So when Jane asked me to make a batch for her New Year party I could not resist making prosecco jelly shots - could any thing say 'its party time' better than boozy jelly shots!

Prosecco Jelly Shots

Ingredients

1 pack of pineapple jelly

1/2 bottle of prosecco or cava

Sliced straberries

Edible gold glitter

Mini clear shot glasses

Instructions

Put the jelly cubes and a small amount of prosecco into a jug and microwave until the jelly has dissolved - leave to cool.

Once cooled top up with Prosecco and carefully pour into the shot glasses and drop in a few strawberry slices.

Refrigerate overnight.

Before serving dust with some edible glitter!

Makes about 20 jelly shots - I highly recommend doubling the recipe!

Kelly x

Ringing in 2017

Happy New Year!

We kicked of New Years Eve by taking the kids to see their first Pantomime -  Robinson Crusoe at the Cliffs Pavillion in Southend - the kids absolutely loved it and it was a magical performance with amazing scenery and props - the giant sea monster was spectacular! hilarious slapstick humour and brilliant songs and dancing - Gok Wan was fantastic as the Spirit of the Ocean - we have already booked tickets for this years Pantomime - Jack and the Beanstalk.

My mum had the kids overnight so we could go over to our neighbours house to celebrate the New Year - I have such wonderful neighbours and they host the most fun house parties - here are a few photos as we closed out 2016 and welcomed 2017!

Prosecco Jelly Shots!

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2017!

Kelly x

Parties, Parties, Parties!

Over the last few weeks our weekends have been packed with parties and celebrations - here is a sneak peak of a few of them

Neighbours Christmas Party

The first party of the festive season, 10 of us headed to Three Rivers Golf Club for a Best of British Christmas Party - absolutely fantastic night, I am so lucky to have such amazing neighbours we all get along so well and are often hosting or attending parties at each others houses so it was so lovely that we could all get together to go out celebrate - The venue was decorated in red, white and blue and all the tables were named after landmarks - we were on Trafalgar Square Table, a Take That tribute band entertained us over a three course dinner and we then danced the night away to the house DJ - roll on our next night out!

School Mums Night Out

The next week I was out with mums from school, we headed to Marcos tapas bar.  The food was amazing, drinks flowed and had a brilliant night in the company of these fabulous girls.  We also did a gift exchange - budget was £5 and we had so much fun stealing the gifts - I went home with a lovely photo frame

Royal Brompton Hospital Christmas Party

Joshua was diagnosed with a congenitial heart defect (pulmonary stenosis) when he was 3 months old and we have been under the care of the wonderful Royal Brompton Hospital who now do check ups on him every 6 months. We were invited to attend the Christmas Party at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kensington that the Brompton Foundation host for families.  The event was truly amazing 4 hours of sold fun and the boys had a wonderful time - there was Elf Entertainers, Disney Princesses, Face painting & Glitter Tattoos, Clown making balloons, Bouncy Castle and at the end each child visited Father Christmas and received a gift which was hand picked for them - Truly magical day out!

 

Kelly x

Joshua's 3rd Birthday - Who-liday Grinch Inspired Christmas Lunch Party

At the weekend Joshua turned 3, we had a low key celebration at home with family. Josh loves Toy Story so he received amongst other presents a Buzz and Woody which he loves.

Although we had a quite day I didn't want to let the day pass with out Joshua having a special birthday lunch and cake.  I decided on a Grinch Inspired Who-liday lunch.

For decorations I used what I had laying around the house - a red and white striped running, green spotted napkins and some cake stands, for the food I keep with the red and green Grinch colours

Lunch Menu

Red & Green mini jelly pots

Elf cake slices

Lattice Crisps

Cheese and Ham Pinwheels

Grinch Sticks

Here are a few photos of Joshua's birthday.

Kelly x

Bonfire Night Party

On Saturday we had a few of the parents and kids over to ours for a Bonfire Night Party full of fun, food, drinks and fireworks.

I wanted to keep the food and drink simple so I wasn't in the kitchen all night - for the adults I did mulled wine in the slow cooker and I wanted to make something special for the kids to drink so I borrowed my mums slow cooker and made huge vat of hot chocolate with all the trimmings (plus some booze if the adults wanted a spiked version)! 

I took lots of photos of the food and kids but forgot to take any photos of all us parents having fun!

  For dinner I made typical Autumn Bonfire Night food - Sausages, Baked Potatoes and a Chilli (non meat version as one of our guests is veggie) together with Toffee Apple Crumble for dessert

After dinner we went out into the garden for the firework display and sparklers - all the kids loved it apart from my little Joshua who decided he would rather stay indoors watching toy story! which is why there are no photos of him.

 

Kelly x