April is a pretty busy month birthday wise for us and this year Chionia had her very first birthday party.......along with that came lots of pink and purple fairy things!! Lots of baking - 30 cupcakes for daycare, 30 cupcakes for school and then a few more for the party!!!
We kept presents to a minimum as there is a surprise happening for both girls next month but she got a leapster 2 from us and some My little Pony's and a cash register.
Her birthday fell on a Thursday so mum and dad came up from Dunsborough and stayed the night so we had a birthday cake on her birthday - a very funny fairy mushroom!! And for her party we had a beautiful fairy cake :)
Of course I had all the little bits and pieces for the party :)
And then it started :) Fairy Sparkle and Fairy Bubbles arrived and started the fun and games :) All the little fairies had a ball. I am also pretty pleased with how I tried to cut out artificial colours and flavours for the party - the only thing with artificial colours was the icing on the cupcakes and cakes - everything else - sausage rolls, mini quiches, white marshmellows, popcorn, fruit, fairy bread (yes I used Nemars NATURAL coloured 100's & 1000's ;) ) was all free from the crap!! Lemonade for drinks and lots of fairies went home very happy and tired!!! Thanks to Carol who grabbed some awesome photo's of the day as well :) Nice to have a scrappy mum there who knows what sort of photo's are important hehe
Unfortunately the bug Chionia got on her birthday itself (after everyone left the poor thing got gastro) Gary and I caught in the wee hours of Sunday morning :( I am sorry to anyone who picked up the bug whilst they were here (mum, dad, shelby, Bianca, Shelby Di.....oops.....!) Hopefully you are all better now - it was only a 24 hour bug :)
Then the next day was Gary's birthday - poor thing - as we were sick the day before I lost my last chance of picking up a little birthday pressie for him - He did receive a double swag a few weeks back for his birthday. So I though I would make him a yummy roast for tea - popped it in the oven - came back an hour later to put the potatoes in (in the meantime had been rushing around the house cleaning it up from the party still as we were sick the day before!) and found that the gas had gone out GRRRRRRRRR so dinner was delayed.......I didn't even have a cake for him as we were all caked out from the last few days!!!
A BOM class and a couple days of work and all of a sudden it is Easter.. Had to do some quick invites for Jess's birthday next Saturday which I completely scraplifted from Amanda - 5 girls coming for a sleepover and they thought the invites were sooooooooooooo coooooooooooolllllllll!!! :) Thanks Amanda :)
So yesterday I scrapped and had heaps of fun with some new goodies from the shop :) Prima petite fleur vines and some collections releases :) Along with the Graphic 45 pp I just LOVE - I believe they have docked in Australia just waiting for Printblocks to send them over!!! Fingers crossed they are here for the retreat YAY!!!
Also in the midst of all the birthday chaos SIA (Scrapbooking Industry Association) was on in Sydney - now for those of you who don't know it is a big get together of wholesalers and retailers in Australia - Twiddleybitz had a booth over there so all the few weeks previous hard work came together and the stand looked fantastic. Jump over to the DT blog and check out some of the new pieces. :)
Jess and little Monty - my sisters new puppy!!!
FIL & MIL wedding day photo - love these old photo's!! (don't worry it is a copy!)
And the BUsselton jetty photo taken sometime in the 1950's I think - way before the cyclone came through in 1978 and wiped out half of it!! Now it is a lot more commercialised....
Must run - need to organise the girls for the beach and then pick up my phone from the shop - oops left it there Thursday!! Have a happy and safe Easter everyone :)
4 comments:
Hiya Mel.
Happy Easter to you and yours.
am curious. Whats Graphic 45 pp? The TBZ on the corners of Monty are divine. In fact on all of them are just so nice. I gather the floral one on Monty comes pre coloured as the detail is exact.
cant wait to get my hands on some.
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Mel, the party looks fantastic. Bugger about the bug, what a way to end a birthday.
Your LO's are just super devine.
Oh Mel you totally you totally rock the "Best Mum ever" award. Sorry to hear your all sick. We have been hit with it this week too. xxxFelicity.
Oh wow, this is a brilliant evening with loads of cakes and other yummy treats. I am just so impressed with these details. I also threw a cupcake themed first birthday bash for my son at the local event venue in LA. Would like to try out some different recipes for the cupcakes and hoping to be successful at it.
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