Happy Birthday to ... Me ...

Hip Hooray - it is my birthday!

What a lovely few days - a Royal Wedding followed by my birthday!
What better way to celebrate than with my very own ruffle cake 



Hope you all enjoyed watching William and Kate on their magical day.
I thought everything looked spectacular - I was totally in awe.
Stunning dresses by both the bride and bridesmaids and what a beautiful couple they make.

Wishing you all  a wonderful weekend - hopefully it is filled with a few ruffles!.

I am joining in with Lou from Sunny and Scout for Point and Shoot - come and see what everyone else has been up to!

Images: Sweet Style
Leanne

A Royal Wedding

A Royal Kiss on the balcony
Cath Kidston style wedding by Wedding style guide



Royal wedding themed party by Bird


Today we celebrate the wedding of Kate and Wills. I thought she looked beautiful in her Sarah Burton designed dress with the delicate lace sleeves and he a true prince! Now it is time for tea parties and bunting!

Some of the traditional cakes that will be eaten at tea parties up and down the country today are cherry bakewell tarts, Victoria sponge, fruit scones with strawberry jam and lashings of clotted cream and Viennese fingers.

English tea party cakes
Image sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

Have a sweet day!

This week I'm grateful for... memories


How was your Easter? Did you get a chance to put your feet up and eat way too much chocolate?

I did!

We enjoyed ourselves silly down at Gran and Pops' house in Fibrotown. We always do. Gran and Pops still live in the house I grew up in and it's always going to be 'home' to me. I love that I can tuck the Tsunamis up for the night in the very room that I used to be tucked up in. I love that they can go wild with their adored cousins in the very backyard where I went wild with mine. I love that there is a memory around every corner (mostly because my dad is one of those dads who refuse to throw anything away, but more on that some other time!).

So, this week I'm grateful for...

118. Memories - and the time to indulge in them. My memory isn't the best, but I love those flashes of certainty you get from time to time when you remember something that you thought you'd forgotten.

119. Chocolate - what would Easter be without it? But I'm especially grateful that these days chocolate is a genuine 'sometimes' treat for me rather than a 'most day's indulgence. And really, who cares if 'sometimes' I eat, like, car loads of the stuff... That's still 'sometimes', right?

120. Support - I'm still a bit choked up over the support my blog received on her (she's definitely a girl) first birthday. Sob. What an honour it is to play a little part in so many wonderful women's and Glen's blogging life.  Thank you.


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Happy weekend to you!



[Image by Soup and Sunday]

A new baby!

We have some very exciting news to share!!! We are getting a brand new baby!!!



Our beautiful baby was hatched on EASTER Sunday the 24th of April 2011. What an amazing day to be born. Our baby is definitely the example of new life! We will be getting our baby when he/she is 3 weeks old so it will look a little like the above. Very young and very vulnerable needing a mumma to feed, look after and love it. I will be hand rearing our baby which is a very big task but something that Rob and I have been researching and preparing for months and months.Our baby will just be opening his/her eyes so as far as the baby is concerned I will be its mother and we will form a special bond.

Our new baby is an Eclectus Parrot. Over the next couple of weeks we have to come up with a boy and a girl name for our birdy! I like the name "April" for a girl and "Jasper" for a boy. We will not know the sex until their feathers come through. The advantage of the Eclectus is that you can tell the sex by the colours of their feathers. The males are a beautiful green with blue and red under their wings and the female is a gorgeous red and purple.It's exciting waiting to see what sex we will get! At first I really wanted a female but after lots of research and 'you tubing' I don't mind what we get! They are both just as a amazing as each other and I cant wait to form a special bond with my new baby!

A male at 6 weeks of age! 

 A male and female Eclectus! 

I can't wait to actually get our new bird and bring it home and share with you my own photos! Exciting times ahead!! 

x S.K.K x