Jubilee Crafting!

I hope you had a good Jubilee weekend!  I watched quite a lot of TV - like the pageant on the Thames.  I heard the atmosphere in London was great, although I think the crowds were so huge we had a better view of everything on the TV  It's a shame the weather wasn't better, the poor singers at the end were drenched!

I enjoyed doing some Jubilee craft projects over the long weekend.  I made some bunting and a patriotic red, white and blue crochet flower garland to hang in my window...

I also baked some cakes with my Mum and sister...

The union flags were fun to ice :)  We also used some of my cupcake toppers on the more simply decorated cakes...

This golden carriage is my Dad's from the Queen's coronation, I thought it made a great prop for my little photo shoot!

All these photos were taken with my new camera.  It's a Canon Ixus 230 - I really love it :D  My old Olympus still works but I wanted something a bit lighter to carry around with me.  I'm impressed with the big screen (about 4 times the size of my old camera) and it records HD videos too!  The only downside is I don't have a memory card for it yet - the place I bought it from said that it came with a card but it doesn't.  I'm borrowing a card for now but will hopefully have my own soon.

Jubilee Party!

There were quite a lot of fish on the blog last week so I thought it was time for something a bit different with some inspiration for parties celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee...


I love the bright colours of these cupcakes :) They're really easy to make - I used this recipe to make strawberry flavoured cakes.  Half the cakes were iced in blue glace icing and half were iced in red.  I left the icing to set before piping white glace icing on top - that stopped the white from sinking into the colour underneath.


I finished off the cakes by making some toppers with my Rule Britannia printables.  I made the toppers by sandwiching a cocktail stick between two circles.  Some of the circles were hand cut with scissors and some were cut with a 2 inch scalloped circle punch.

I also made some bunting with my Rule Britannia scrapbooking paper - you can print this template and use it to make your own bunting.  Plain red, white and blue papers would look good too.

Some royal facts...

• The Queen is the second longest serving monarch - only Victoria has reigned for longer at 63 years.
• There have been 12 Prime Ministers over the Queen's reign.
• The Queen has owned more than 30 corgis during her reign - she currently has 3; Monty, Willow and Holly.
• In an average year the Queen will host more than 50,000 people at banquets, lunches, dinners, receptions and Garden Parties at Buckingham Palace.

For more facts on the Queen take a look at this website: http://www.thediamondjubilee.org