Cake and camping

I made a really nice cake at the weekend, for Jasper's Christening - even if I do say so myself! It was a 6-egg lemon madeira sponge, in three layers with home-made damson jam and I wanted to ice it with lemon butter icing with a blue ombre effect. I found a great example on Pinterest, courtesy of The Hungry Housewife's tutorial and decided it didn't look too difficult (famous last words!). I didn't have the specified size of icing tip and so I just used some disposable piping bags and cut the ends off without putting a tip inside. It seemed to do the trick and my cake didn't turn out too badly (at least I didn't think so!):

Not a bad effort?

The day went quite well, although it did start to absolutely pour down just as we left the church. The after-party was to be held in our garden and as we don't have an event shelter/gazebo (we live in a very windy location and our last one blew away!) we decided to put our tent up instead. There were about 60 guests in total and so we were a little nervous about squeezing everyone in if it did rain but it worked surprisingly well! We bought a new tent last year (the Outwell Montana 6, complete with the awning) and it would appear that it doubles quite nicely as a garden party shelter :-) so that's handy to know for the future!
We also took a gamble and got Sainsbury's to make up some sandwich and wrap platters for us. They were a lot better than I was expecting, and very good value I thought (Sainsbury's, that's your cue to send me lots of free groceries...). We also got free glass hire from them, which was handy! As it took me forever quite a long time to ice the cake, I was very relived that I wasn't then going to have to stay up even later to make all the food for the next day! 
As we had the tent up anyway, the girls and I camped in it for the night whilst Daddy and Jasper stayed in the house. Unfortunately, we are riddled with birds where we are, due to our rural location, and the dawn chorus was tremendously loud! Especially at 5 o'clock in the morning. Still, at least the girls and I managed to fit in thousands a few egg and spoon races before breakfast! Always a fun start to the day!