Jikana Damaru: 12/07/09

Joint First Birthday Party Snaps

As promised, here are some snaps from today's joint first birthday party, which we held at Wamberal Park. It was a glorious Summers day, and considering the sugar content of the cake, remarkably scarcely a tantrum (from either bubs or adults) in sight! I don't know who had more fun, Fern or myself, but neither her nor I stopped eating the entire time... every time I looked over at her she was stealing another fruit skewer off an unsuspecting bub! Like mother like daughter...

I have started the planning for Fern's own first birthday party; after much deliberation I chose a rubber ducky theme. I have a few ideas up my sleeve, but please if you have seen any amazing styling/ food ideas on the web or have been to a similar party please share!

Fake cakes

Knitted cupcake decorations by Strawberry Fool

Knitted Cupcake Decorations Assorted set of 4 for £24.99 from Strawberry Fool (affiliate).

Craft & Creativity

Honeybake Baking Set for £44.99 from Letterbox

Pastries on stand for £11.99 from Letterbox.

From the book "My Favorite Felt Sweets", available as a paperback for £7.54 from Amazon.

My Flickr faves post, Knitted Cupcakes, and my Craft & Creativity post were enjoyed by lots of you so I thought I would dedicate a whole post to fake cakes.

I have the cakes in the second pic and hang them on my Christmas tree each year!

Christmas Cupcake Decorations by Urban Outfitters

Looking for more cupcake decoration for your tree? Try the Christmas Cupcake Decoration Set of 6 for from Urban Outfitters shown above.

Have a sweet day!

~ N O E L ~

Here is my favorite home made Christmas decoration. I made these Christmas NOEL letters two christmases ago and love getting them out each year.

As you can see Christmas in our house is not red and green but pink and green!

capturing moments

forever

as they grow so fast

hand in hand

mother & daughter

memories & moments

this is how I spent my Sunday morning on the sand photographing these beach babes!

Happy Birthday x10

With 10 babies (rapidly approaching toddlerhood) in my mothers-group-turned-friends, we decided to hold one big birthday party in our local park with party food! and balloons! and pressies! and cake! The party is tomorrow and I can't wait for the squeals of delight under mountains of wrapping... closely followed by scrambling mummies sticking fingers down throats to lovingly extract the bits of wrapping paper the bubs won't be able to stop themselves from sampling.

In celebration, I was inspired by this inexpensive packet of bibs I found at Target:

... and this lot of hand-me-downs:

... to make a personalised bib for each of the bubs in our group for their very special party. Here's how they came up:

An hour of terrible sewing, a bit of fabric paint and ta-daaa! something to prevent the cake from smearing into their party clothes... for about 5 seconds! I'll post pics from the party tomorrow, should be lots of fun!