the 10th birthday - day...

A smidgen of pre-birthday sewing and this wee craft bag emerged...Ny is a project girl, and likes to work with paper mainly at this stage soooo, I thought a wee 'pick-up-and-go' bag would work...so she has wee pockets for everything and a large pouch in the middle for all the paper a girl can carry!...and of course every girl needs a party dress...it was totally a hold up to the kid and cut type of pattern...seemed to work, imperfectly tho...i love the wee lemon vintage buttons...and she looked darling on her big day with this dress, leggings and a sunshine yellow sweet cardi, and yellow shoes..


The enchanted castle cake in progress and the complete...twas fun to do and not hard just time consuming...and a wee tissue pom poms that were strung everywhere...along with bunting and balloons....

this is as early as it looks! and yes that is frost on the ground !- brrrr!!...nothing like a bike ride with ALL the family in dressing gowns and slippers outside at 6.30am!...did I mention brrrrrr!


we went to the big smoke and took the big girls and friend to the movies...and had to wear these fun 3D glasses...teehee, a good look, no?

then back to the grandies place where most of her cousins and aunties and uncles gathered for a lovely aftenoon tea, cake and silly-fun games....then out for dinner....it was a SUPER-fun day, full-on, loud, lots of laughter, a few remenising moments, lots of food, and whanau....Miss 10 said "I never want this day to end..."

Happy Birthday sweet, loved, compassionate, sassy,stunning, funny, loving, loyal girl - we love you.

Foxgloves and bubbleblowing

well today was a busy one...we packed the girls off to school and then cleaned up round here a bit...went for a wander round our wee section, and was delighted once again to see our lovely apricot foxgloves, they are just so pretty so thought I'd share a bit of sweetness with you....while baby was napping we went on a worm hunt and found one dilegently burrowing away, so we gave him a pat (um a little to rough Jose!) and popped him back to burrow some more....bubbles occupied the wee lad for a bit more of the more till 'oh no...I spilled myself', floated in from the deck, and sure enough short of blowing on him to make the bubbles, it was the end of that game....sigh. Such a nice mild day though and when Micah woke up we went for a wee wander down the road and then was time to explore the grasss and to see what daisy's taste like...a quite day, which was lovely, as tomorrow will be 'all hands on deck'....oh finished a bag that i was making today and will pop a pic up tomorrow or so....