Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Today I want to show you a very special party. It’s my youngest, Beatrice’s, first birthday party! With a sunshine and rainbows theme, in pastel shades because she’s still our baby, we had lots of lovely colours all over the house, and the kids loved it (as did I)!
The food consisted of rainbow sandwiches (wrapped in coloured tissue paper), rainbow cone snacks, sunshine jellies, milkshake and Beatrice’s birthday cake was a sunshine with a rainbow of rainbow drop cakes! The party bags had ‘you are my sunshine’ labels, were filled with pastel coloured goodies and multi-coloured pom-poms which were handmade for the guests by our 7 year old, Alice.
We did absolutely everything ourselves, including making all of the food, the decorations and Beatrice’s tutu and I have put together a number of very simple DIY tutorials to show how to do it all yourself over the next few weeks :)Click here for the balloon wreath tutorial.
Here are some of Beatrice’s lovely friends, and a very tired birthday girl at the end of the day!
She had a wonderful time. Thank you to everyone who shared her special day :)
Awesome images credit: Gavin Trezise
Verity
PS While you’re here, don’t forget to check out this week’s competition!
Tags: balloon wreath, birthday cake, bunting, confetti, garlands, jelly, paper, party bag, pom poms, rainbow, sunshine, tutu
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Generally, when Beatrice is given a book, be it board or paper, I give it around 15 minutes before she’ll (as with most babies) have either demolished or digested it. The number of books in her library with missing corners far outweighs the more intact kind and it upsets me when books get damaged. So, when I found Indestructibles I just had to give them a try, and indestructible they are!
They quote chew proof and rip proof, but I think they might be bomb proof! ;) I received mine 2 weeks ago and have had Beatrice intensively ‘testing’ it every day since, along with every other child (and adult actually!) we have met along the way and it is as intact as it was when it arrived! Ok, so it’s slightly creased and does look used, but the sentences end when they should and none of the illustrations have been maimed.
Indestructibles are not only teeth and finger proof, but they are waterproof, washable and soft enough to roll up tight to fit in any bag, so very portable too. One down side to this is they are so lightweight, mine almost blew away when Beatrice had it in the pram! But I suppose that’s pretty obvious with a paper book, I must have been having a tired day…
The actual story part of the books don’t have any text in them, only illustrations, to encourage dialogic reading which I (and I think Beatrice) also really liked.
So, reading material that even ‘Beatrice the detroyer’ hasn’t managed to annihilate? These books deserve their name :)
Verity
PS If you have a product that you would like to see put through it’s paces by some very rigorous testers, just get in touch!
Tags: baby, book, paper
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
I ♥ paper! It’s amazing! A few folds and a piece of paper can become a piece of art! And so of course I’m completely besotted with the shop Upon a Fold. Shop owner Justine has had a passion for paper for as long as she can remember and wanted a place where she could put all her pretty paper finds in one place: Upon a Fold was born! And it really is fun of gorgeous paper goodies for many ages and reasons in life so do go and check it out!
Here’s a little selection of some delightful decorations and paper toys that I’m sure would fit right in to the nursery or a little one’s play time:
Debs
Vendor Details:
Upon a Fold website
Upon a Fold blog
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Tags: paper
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