Charlottes 1st Birthday - Butterflies and Owls

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My youngest has just turned one!!! Little ♥Charlie Lou♥ had her 1st birthday on the 26th of March just over 1 month since our city was turned upside down..... but here was no way I was letter an Earthquake ruin HER big day :)

Here she is in her birthday outfit

Butterfly Fairy bread

I ♥ details!!

see the invite here

My new silicone teacups ♥

Cookies all made my ME :)

Rice Bubble cake on popsicle sticks

And last but not least the CAKE! My first go with Fondant and a 5 kilo mud cake! I think it came out pretty well (we did have one booked in to be made but had to cancel after the EQ and the lady who was going to be making it told me I did a great job!!!) Take note of the ears... my husband contributed these, they took just as long as the rest of the owl to make!

And the birthday girl with her cake....

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Felt Flower Tutorial

As part of Charlottes 1st birthday party I made these gorgeous felt flowers

So simple just cut out about 40 5cm felt circles and starting with one, fold in half then fold half in half again.. pictures make this much easier to explain! then pin into a polystyrene ball.

The ingredients

Fold your felt circle in half

Then fold half the half in half again

Stick a pin through the middle and into a polystyrene ball

Continue until your ball is covered.....

Grace's First Birthday

GRACIE'S 1ST BIRTHDAY

So after a year of planning and a new obsession with party blogs Grace's party has finally been and gone! 

It was an amazing week of Celebrations with family and friends - especially as grace's best friend has her birthday in the same week!

When the cake arrived on Saturday I knew it was going to be the perfect party!

I could stare at this all day 0h what a beautiful cake!

The Sweet table

The Cupcakes - Thanks to The Tomkat studio for all of my inspiration! Really THANK YOU KIM!!!!

Hanging decorations

The Banner

Birthday Girl enjoying a marshmallow pop

On her restored rocking horse

 We were blessed with gorgeous weather all day so the kids got to play outside and have fun. 

Num nums

Family pic - there are actually 4 of us... ones still cooking :)

Madeline and Grace

Nana making big bubbles for the kids... the trick is some golden syrup in your detergent ;)

Having our little girl has brought so many wonderful new people into our lives!

Tutu

Well in a spare 5 mins last weekend I made my first tutu, the simplest craft I have ever attempted! One length of Ribbon and 20 or so 20cm wide pieces of fairy tulle (two colours works best). The tutu tulle is nicer than plain tulle, it's soft and stretchy.  Now for the difficult part - yeah right! just knot the tulle (making sure the ends are even) around the ribbon leaving enough ribbon to tie the tutu in a bow around you fairy. Thats it.