Boat Race Day!

Table sat up with all the food

Bubbles flowing

Cupcakes went down well

Waiting for the race to start

Rowing past Oxford slightly ahead 

Back at home watching the finish and all the chaos that happened in between.

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Preping for a Party

This weekend was not only Easter weekend, Saturday was also Boat Race Day! YAY! Boat race is a rowing race between Cambridge and Oxford held on the Themes and this had been going on for a very long time umm about 158 races! So with my dad having studied at Cambridge and living in Putney (where the race starts) we always have a party! This year I took charge and got everything ready, this is what I made on thursday and friday....

You can have a traditional English party without home made BUNTING in the Oxford and Cambridge colour.  

Which I also did my nails in with Mac's Spirit Of Truth under Barry M's Nail Effects pale blue 315.

So first I made Brie & Walnut Savoury Scones from The Vintage Tea Party Book

Here they are straight out of the oven

Next up was Spinach and Cheese Muffins from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook

 

First the frying of the onions

Everything mixed together

Ready for the oven

Last I made Marshmallow Cupcakes also from The Hummingbird Cookbook

Cakes just out of the even. Cooling before the melted marshmallow was added.

I put food colouring in the mini marshmallow icing so they would be Oxford and Cambridge colours. Here the Cambridge cupcakes have been iced and the Oxford ones have just had there melted marshmallow put in.

Oxford icing being mixed up

Finished Cupcakes

Everything is ready for the big day!

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Round up of the Month! January 2012!

Saw in the new year on a root top in Soho watching the London Eye fire working with my amazing friends Katy and Joe

I been on some lovely muddy walks on the common with Robyn

I went to a Gallery party in Notting Hill with my Gorgeous friend Katy this is us getting ready

 And Katy in the local shop getting a bottle of wine

I got tired of being poor and having bad hair so I took a risk and home dyed it!

and it turned out OK YAY!!!!

I have not seen all the ladies I lived with at uni altogether sign graduation over a year ago so we have one big meet up in birmingham!! It was an amazing day and we spent most it the time drinking tea and talking! We also in typical Hester fashion tried to get all 6 of us in a photo booth! here are the results!

and here are some of my fav photos taken by the girls on the day!

  This one shows the good result of the self hair dying :)

I then fell in Love with the new Dior nail varnish colours!!

And saw this amazing leopard print scooter in town! NEED!

I also went driving with Robyn to see the Deer in Richmond Park

We managed to find 2 quite big groups of them and we got very close!

As I have already posted I help out some friends on a Photo shoot

This is all i have done this month well I that i feel the need to tell anyone about! I had a fun time let hope February is just as amazing!

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Helping Friends!

One of my good friends is an amazing textiles designer Alexandra Newton! She has a show coming up in March as me and another good friend Katy the photographer help her out putting together some shots of her now work! As she will be lurching her new work in March I can show you any of the pic's till then but here is some I took behind the scenes!

Here's my Make up! Done by myself! In love with this Mac Orange Lip stick Morange

   

Alex and Katy checking some of the pic's we had got!

When the shoot was done I got some shots of her tidying up!

Then we went back to Katy's to check out what we had and Katy has Chickens which I feel in love with! I wish I had chickens!

And I will Post photos of Alex's show and the ones we took today when I am allowed.

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