Flossy & Blossom Parties

16/02/2025

The easiest, cutest, cupcakes ever!

My two year old is absolutely obsessed with Minnie Mouse at the moment. We head of to tomorrow and Daddy was working today so we decided to make Minnie Mouse cupcakes to get us into the Disney spirit. As if we haven’t been watching enough recently.

I tried a new recipe for the cupcakes that involved melting butter and milk, whisking eggs and sugar, and all of these additional steps that I don’t usually take. I used four different bowls, took three times as long to prep as usual, and my kitchen turned out a state. What happened to putting all the ingredients in the bowl and whisking? And you know what? The cupcakes tasted exactly the same as they usually do when I use a much simpler recipe.

Oh well, my daughter enjoyed all of the pouring and mixing. I will be honest and say that she did not assist in decorating.

I used Swiss meringue buttercream (obvs), dairy milk buttons, and I made these white chocolate bows using a mould I’ve had lying around for years.

So simple yet so effective.

03/12/2024

I haven’t had the energy to post for a while because who has time to make reels or find interesting things to post about in between bouts of having their head down a toilet?

Anyway we are THRILLED that Olive will be becoming an older sister next year. Throw all your ‘two under three’ tips at me. I’ll take all of them!

02/11/2024

A few stills from Olive’s second ! I’ve finally got around to sharing all the little details in my stories and saved them to a Bluey Party highlight.

05/01/2024

Wow! I can’t believe this was five years ago!!

At the time the fire felt like the worst thing that could have happened. At the bottom of my post you can see I said we’d come back stronger and we really did.

Although we don’t operate as a children’s entertainment company anymore I am so unbelievably proud of what the Flossy & Blossom family went through. I didn’t let the fire knock me back. A year later I didn’t let lockdown knock me back.

Whilst running Flossy & Blossom I obtained an undergraduate degree, a postgraduate degree and a masters. I made friends for life and I have the most wonderful memories. What eventually closed my company wasn’t any of the numerous challenged I faced, but the decision to stop to make room for my own new family.

I’ve kept this page open because I do have plans for the future of Flossy & Blossom. I won’t be putting my tiara back on any time soon but I’m not ready to wash my hands just yet.

Anyway - this popped up on my timeline today. I’m reminiscing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

🔥 FIRE UPDATE🔥

It has been a TOUGH few days. As many of you know from our last post, more than 30 of our costumes were destroyed in the Croydon Fires of New Years Eve.

Many of you have been with me since the beginning of my journey with this company four years ago. You’ve seen it grow. You’ve seen me grow. You’ve seen the addition of some of the most beautiful hand made princesses dresses I’ve ever seen, made by my mother. All but one of them were destroyed and believe me when I say, I am mourning for them, and I want to cry for all of the 100s of hour’s of work that went into them.

I lost more than £3000 worth of costumes and equipment, and that is not even considering all of the personal furniture and stuff that I had stored in there with my company equipment. I have minimal trust in insurance. Tuesday morning I saw no coming back. I thought this was the end...

This is NOT the end. We are continuing on. Yes, our costumes were amazing, but it was our EXPERTISE that made us the company we are. And that has not disappeared, nor has my will to succeed.

We have these characters remaining. We will double that by the end of the month. We will rebuild until we are stronger than we were before.

I could not have considered this option if I hadn’t had so many messages of support from all of our followers. I thank you all truly from the bottom of my heart.

Finally, my thoughts go out to everyone else affected by this trauma. I am lucky that I had the majority of my personal items and furniture at home with me. I sympathise with your losses and hope you have support around you.

14/08/2023

This Saturday we celebrated Olive’s birthday. It was a beautiful day in a beautiful setting and I was of course in my element.

In my nine years working in children’s parties I attended hundreds of parties, maybe even thousands. (I could work it out if I went back through all my years of records) but it’s different throwing your own child’s birthday party!

We went for a koala theme with grey, white, pink and blue. I want to shout out a couple of companies who really added to the details of the day.

Dragonfly Sweet Company provided the beautiful sweet tubes for the older kids party bags (not the baby).
And Bobblez Inflatablez provided the white and grey bouncy castle, which just went perfectly with my own softplay!

07/08/2023

Oh how my princess identity had changed.

07/08/2023

Olive-May is one!
So begins the five day count down to her birthday party. We went for a ‘koala’ theme inspired by her Australian roots, but we’ve got a pink and blue colour scheme going on to make it pop. I’m on party bag prep today and if you know me you’ll know I am in my element.

03/08/2023

I’ve been quiet for a while as we have been away in the Netherlands for a wedding. But I’m back now and getting in to the holiday swing.
This morning Olive and I went to for a dinosaur disco. She’s dressed as a princess though because next week they’re having a pirates and princess session, and I got myself confused. Whoops!
Oh well. Is there ever actually a place you can’t dress as a princess to?

06/07/2023

I did a thing. You know that thing?

12/06/2023

The rootinest, tootinest cowbaby.

06/05/2023

I used to bake. A LOT. I have set out on missions to find the best brownie recipes. I used to make ice cream from scratch. I once (successfully) made a wedding cake. I considered starting a cake decorating business for a while.
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For as long as I can remember I have loved baking. At some point in my late teens to early twenties it became somewhat of a self therapy for me. In my darkest moments I loved creating something beautiful. Cake decorating is just about the only task in which I can be truly patient and just enjoy being in the moment. In all other scenarios I am go go go.
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Despite all of this though, over the last few years I have barely touched the kenwood and the piping nozzles have remained as unloved as Woody left alone under Andy’s bed, eagerly awaiting their next turn. Recently I have started baking again and to my dismay almost all of my attempts have not gone to plan! I am reminded that cake decorating, like everything else, requires practice! And I am sorely out of practice. I am not deterred though! With my daughters christening around the corner, and first birthday just three months away, I have time to practice. And I am looking forward to the experience.
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I had a go at shortbread and cupcakes today for our Kings Coronation BBQ tomorrow. What did you get up to?

04/05/2023

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!
In all of my eight years of children’s entertaining and dressing up I only ever played a star wars character once! I have very few pictures of myself at that event, but in celebration of STAR WARS DAY please enjoy this hastily edited Canva picture!