My friend Lauren gets married 2 months today!! This weekend gone was her epic hen weekend. The festivities included:
- Cupcake making at Herts College
- Belly Dancing session
- Lovely dinner at The Pepper Hut, Old Town, Hemel (check it out, it's AMAZING.)
- Glass painting at Horizons
- More scrummy dinner at Chianmai Tai Cottage, Old Town again.
We had an amazing time!
First off we made batches of cinnamon cupcakes and decorated them with white chocolate buttercream icing... If you have never had the pleasure of trying this stuff, you have not LIVED! It was incredible!! We made toooonnes of the stuff! We also got a mini masterclass on sugar paste decorations - extremely fiddly and extremely time consuming, but look at the effects we got...
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| Bride-to-be Lauren having a go! |
As well as those, we also produced two pretty stunning lemon cakes, one plain sandwich and one Bundt style, again, laddened down with lemon juice icing.
Thankfully the maid of honor had planned a session to make us all feel better about consuming so much sugar in two hours... Belly dancing! It's probably best to just show you the video. I'm on the far right, Lauren is 2nd from the left:
If you've never tried it, you SHOULD! Bellies are an advantage!!! Trust me!
The following morning everyone reassembled with hangovers and feeling very tired... so we painted 75 glass jars to cheer ourselves up!
Glass painting has evolved since the days I used to do it as a child. Now you can buy ready designed stickers that act as the black lead outliner pen you used to use, and so your designs look far more delicate and complex, and instead of runny, messy paints, you now have glaze pens, which is a paint-pen, that behaves like a ball-point gel pen. The actual act is therefore incredibly easy, mess-free, smudge-free, and the results are stunning:
I am going to order my own pens and stencils when pay day comes around, because I think in doing that activity I realligned all my chakras, cleansed my soul, and found inner peace. It was seriously theraputic!
That's all for now! What did you lot get up to at the weekend?
BBxx
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