Tis the season to be.....

STRESSED!!!!

Well it doesn't feel like I've stopped lately and being ill last week did not help!

Last weekend was non stop, a Christmas lunch with my girlfriends followed by taking a friend on her Christmas food shop Sunday .

The past 2 days I have been baking madly! My friend asked me to bake a cake for her daughters birthday. Rianna loves fairies so this is what I was able to come up with.....

What do you think?

I used Betty Crocker strawberry and vanilla cake mixes (to save time!) and I attempted to make some vanilla icing but unfortunately it doesn't appear as white as I would hope... I'll hope for a better attempt another time!

It's a pretty big cake for a 3 year old but I certainly think the adults will enjoy it!

I made some ginger muffins decorated with some cute Gingerbread men,

The last thing on my list were the teddy cupcakes... as you can see from the sloppily applied icing I was getting very tired!

I also made some festive cookies in the shape of Christmas trees and decorated some number '3's

Some Christmas jellies & an ice cream cake (essentially just vanilla flavour mixed with lot's of yummy goodies!) are waiting to be removed from the fridge and freezer.

Here is some of the spread, I should be able to share some more photos with you tomorrow,

In between all that I was able to do some online shopping and treat myself to this,

I couldn't resist Grumpy as he is the character we best attribute to my dad! I thought he was the perfect Christmas tree decoration to put away in my bottom draw.

Well I'm blogging from work today and should probably stop! Do you know if I didn't have to work over the Christmas weeks I would get so much more done!