all things pink and lovely

5 years ago our lives changed for the better because Lucy entered our hearts.

 And so we CELEBRATED!

Cupcakes and Cake pops

Fun Fun FUN

Food and decorations

Happy birthday Lucy. Sorry about my dodgey cake skills

dressing up again

We got another opportunity to fancy up last night for a 60th bash for a work friend of Clint's. Thought we should catch it on camera as proof

Ozzy didn't want to be left out of the photos either

This is my new Veronica Maine dress that I am loving right now. And those heels made plenty of holes in the lawn at the party - whoopsy. Do you like how Ozzy modelled his paws next to mine! Probably should have gotten a tan (the spray on kind not the skin cancer kind) None the less we felt swanky and like grown ups again for a little while.

This morning it was straight back to reality and off the a 2 year olds birthday party. No heels just every style of Havaianas and crocs on display.

Happy birthday lovely boy. Hope you enjoyed the party and presents. We are glad to have you in the family

gift for a cheeky girl

Inspired by Pinterest, I spent a few days collecting supplies and then a few days creating.
The little girl who I was making this for is most definitely too cool for standard type 3year old girl gifts. And I have no doubt she already has a good collection of accessories. So I just added a few new ones for her. And this was her reaction.

She has perfect present opening style - Rip into that little sucker!

What a cutie pop


Her birthday is in the height of summer and this year Mother nature put on a show of over 40degrees again. But that didn't seem to phase the kids at all. And the best party tip that I learnt from this party was that no matter what, we NEED to get a bubble machine. It was honestly like a snake charmer for kids. They couldn't get enough of it.

a wedding to end the month with

Well as promised November has been very busy for us. And we topped it all off last weekend with a wedding.

We started the weekend off with a spot of painting... But I will tell you more about that in another post. I love the suspense! Then I had some gal pals over and a super clever friend spray tanned us. (she has a beauty business - nothing dodgey and no oompa loompa results) So all bronzed up we got dressed in our party clothes on Saturday and headed to the ceremony.

The bride was beautiful. And the men in their suits were so spunky. I really enjoyed the fact that everyone was dressed up and looking their best.

BH's before we murdered the dancefloor.

The Groom's sisters made the cake. There are so many clever people around!

He is so handsome. And all it takes is a suit. NY resolution is to find more reasons for him to weat a suit!

The tanning goddess - for Movember.

The whole thing almost made me want to get married again - to the same man of course. Although in all reality I would still prefer to run away to the Mauritius and elope. I'd let the kids come with us.....maybe.

getting crafty and spooky

We don't really celebrate halloween in this house. I guess thankfully it is not a big tradition in Oz and so it has only just started being pushed by all the supermarkets and advertising. And while i really would never entertain the trolling the streets for lollies, I would like to embrace the festivities with friends etc. So this year I thought I'd have a little dabble at some decorations. They were so cheap to make they would even be great party deco's.

So I started with some 8inch paper lanterns which were $1.50 each and a packet of plastic spiders, also $1.50 and some craft glue. And really from here it is a no brainer, glue as many or as little as you like over the lanterns

as many

or as few as you like

The lanterns could be linked together easily or hung separately wherever you want to decorate. It is raining outside tonight so we have them on my favourite tree inside to show you.

Here is a shot of them with some battery operated tea candles inside
Wouldn't they be dreamy scattered around you garden!

I loved the idea so much I even made a pair of spring inspired ones with colourful paper butterflies. I will definitely be making many more of these for future parties!

As you can probably tell the dark and dodgy pics are by me, whereas the light, clear and arty ones were done by Clint. I might have to make him my official blog photographer. Do you agree?

week two, october holidays.

What an absolute corker last week was. We finished off with lots more visits with friends and swimming lessons and extreme speed wedding shopping. Unfortunately I ended up sick over the weekend so that has slowed me down a bit but every plan is flexible so nothing to get upset about.

In some extremely rare snippets of spare time I have managed a few little craft activities. This one I will show you today was an awesome treasure find from my local op shop.

$4.99 - how could I leave it there?



A small spray of primer



And then a spray of cool metallic silver

Then attached inside Miss L's wardrobe door



How cute

So all up, approximately 8 dollars later and we have a unique and funky necklace holder for our very trendy little girl.

Tomorrow we have a 2 year birthday party on our agenda and this is what I made for part of the decorations. Abby is her theme and the little miss whose birthday it is, is sweet and cheeky just like Abby so it really fits well. I hope everyone gets some great photos with it.

Master F's construction party

Lots has happened since my last post. But I guess that happens considering how long I leave it between entries.
Firstly Hank had his de-nutting operation. Turns out he is the Houdini of stitches so he spent a full 10 days with a cone on his head. We used every satellite dish joke we could during this time!
Next was Fly's party. It was so good that we were tired for the full week following.


We decorated the party area with caution tape and cones and the party food was all the type of stuff you'd get from good old jiffy vans.My kids ate so much junk we ended up all night with tummy aches!




Next was Mothers' Day weekend. SO nice getting loves from the kiddies that made me a mother. Plus they got me a blow torch so that i can start experimenting with brulee's and meringues in the kitchen. It's a hot pink one too - so totally up my alley.


Then it was Super Nanny's 85th birthday so we popped over to see her.


Have a few projects to get finished so will hopefully have some good photos of my achievements next installment.

DIY cupcake pick decoration

A very good family friend is turning 2 this month and I offered to make these for her party. Miss S' mum is making and ultra cool butterfly cake so I thought these would keep with the theme for some extra cupcakes. They are super easy to make. First using a cutter punch (or precut shapes if you have them) cut double the amount of circles from your chosen card.

Next I like both sides to have something on them so that no matter what angle a photo is taken on the day a little something is seen. So on half of my circles I stamped a little message

Next I glued on some butterfly embellishments that i found at the craft store. Then I folded back the wings of a second butterfly and glued only the body strip so that the wings stood up like so:

the next step was to assemble the picks. So I place one stamped circle face down and glued the back making sure the message was the right way up first.

Then pressed a butterfly circle on top and used some clips to pinch the base closer together. The drying time would all depend on the glue you use, however i used a diamond glue so it was dry very quickly

And here is the end result.

I hope you enjoy making them as much as me. I keep them very simple as they usually end up in the bin within seconds after the candles are blown out. But they really help keep the party theme alive and keep me out of the kitchen on the day.

Busy hands...

"you're in pretty good shape, for the the shape you are in"

Dr Suess

Well right about now the shape I am in is.. portly. But I have been portlier (is that a word?) so I am not hating myself completely.

So to keep myself busy to avoid overeating etc I have started planning Fly-boys 2nd birthday party even though it is almost over a month away.

We have decided on a construction/bob the builder theme. Perfect for the little bruiser really.

I have made the lolly bags which are bought black paper bags with coloured paper tools on them. I'm really happy with how they have turned out:

Today I made some cupcake topper-picks. You know the little toothpick things to stick in the cupcakes to keep the theme alive.

I have also order the hats and caution tape and we will be using this Photo board on the day

new photo boards

Here are some pics of the latest photo boards: I have a couple in production including Abby Cadabby too. They are so much fun and I am so pleased when they are finished. It's just finding the time at the moment.

Party photo boards

Another little hobby of mine. I find it makes people more relaxed about having their photo's taken at our parties and is a nice little keepsake for them afterwards to remind them of the good times.

This was the first one I did - it was for Lucy first party which was a circus

theme

Followed by this Elmo and Cookie monster for her best mate Cooper

Then this teddy bear one for Coopers cousin.

Then this one for L's 3rd fairy party

And lastly this little monster one for Flynn's first birthday.

Hopefully I can keep up the tradition for my kids while they still like them. I have missed one of Lucy's birthday's already because i simply run out of time. But i have kept all of mine if anyone wants to rent them. Can also make them to order to suit whatever theme you want!