presentation night

Last night we hosted our local home education groups first ever presentation night.

We had two graduates, one has gotten, at the age of 15, a chef's apprenticeship, the other at 18 is off to university next year.

Even though it is close to Christmas I wanted the night to have an educational theme rather than a Christmas theme, so I deliberately have not yet decorated our entertaining area for Christmas.

 So I came up with a centrepiece of a blackboard with letters around it (I used my chalkboard pen), a bundle of old books and some apples and then onto the tables

 I sprinkled gold stars.

 On one of the smaller children's tables I wrapped a can in pencils tied it with red ribbon, put numbers on the chalkboard and sprinkled it with giant paperclips.

 Here are our children with their certificates, each family was responsible for organising their own children's certificates and presenting them.

A very quick shot of my decorated pavlova before my camera ran out of batteries, cream, passionfruit, banana, mango and kiwi fruit grace the top of this beauty, it was very yummy too!

It was a lovely relaxed evening with a special feel to it and I am sure we will be having one again next year.

aqua stripes

I seem to have a slight obsession with aqua at the moment. 

I am just loving it as an accent colour.

I thought I would show you what I did with two of the chairs I found on the side of the road at council clean up time.

I simply painted them over white, then added a stripe in aqua.

I love the fresh beachy feel of these.

I paired them with this table and wondering if it might benefit from some white and aqua love.

I thought I would quickly add a couple of things to the table to dress it.

I grabbed this little embroidered table cloth that belonged to my grandmother.

A pot of violettas, and some violet tea cups and some cute cup cakes.

 I have been experimenting with icing using a piping bag. 

I have always shied away from piping bags, because every attempt I made ended in failure. 

Then I went to a cup cake night at our sister church and found out how easy it actually is to pipe.

So I made carrot cupcakes (white icing), vanilla cupcakes (pink icing) and chocolate cupcakes.

I was very pleased with how they turned out.

 My pot of violettas, I have these planted all around my yard at the moment.

Miss Maggie thought she should come and check out what was going on!

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