{Link Love} Birthdays

February is Birthday Bonanza month over at Creative Collective, and this week the girls are asking: Do you have any family traditions? Do you have a favorite birthday that stands out in your mind? Do you have any birthday horror stories? Are you planning any big birthdays this year? I like to stretch my own [...]

My first birth story

I title it “my first”, as hopefully I’ll have a couple more in the years to come (a while down the track!), but this is the story of Rafael’s birth. Some parts are pretty gory, but come on, it’s a birth. Can’t get around it! It was a very quick labour so fairly intense… Friends [...]

Birthday Dinner #1

I’m one of those people that likes to drag their birthday out for as long as possible, with numerous celebrations over a few days or a week! Last year I had a Halloween Party to celebrate my 25th, this year I didn’t have anything really planned because my parents and bestie are going to be [...]

Nandy’s 90th Birthday

I just had to share this photo of my grandma blowing out her candles at her 90th birthday party. Amazing, right?

Off to the coast this weekend

We just got home from a great birthday dinner with my parents, JA’s parents (mom & stepdad), Chloé & Scott and Miriam at Australian Pizza Kitchen in Civic. SO YUM. Very full now. JA and I both got half/half pizzas so we could share and have 4 different kinds of pizza each =) We had [...]

Daily Photo – Birthday Presents

Halloween party!

As I’ve posted a few times already, I decided to throw a Halloween party for my 25th this year. I think I like planning and decorating for parties almost more than attending them, that’s the fun part! So I spent a few days leading up to the night putting up spooky decorations (which my dogs and cats promptly took down) and made a cool haunted house cake.

In the end I had a really great time, about 20 of my good friends came and ate and drank and were merry! I’d set up a bucket to bob for apples, apparently it was too easy because the bucket was too shallow, but it was pretty funny watching the boys anyway.

You can see the whole set of photos on my flickr account, otherwise, continue reading to see a few snaps.

Halloween Party Decorations

I’ve taken some photos of the decorations I’ve bought for my Halloween Party, any visitors from the US might think it’s not very much stuff, but people from Aus know Halloween isn’t big here so it will be enough to get everyone in the mood =P I’ve got some black velvety type fabric (left over [...]

Halloween cake inspiration – absolutely awesome cake design

For my 25th Birthday this year I’m hosting a Halloween Party, which is fairly unusual in Australia (most people I’ve invited had to ask what date Halloween was?!), so to get everyone in the mood I sent out some cool invitations and have bought a whole bunch of decorations from the party store in Queanbeyan. I was going to hire Naomi from Hello Naomi Cakes who did my wedding cake to make me a fabulous spooky cake, but as it turns out we’re on a bit of a budget so I’m going to have a crack at it myself!

I came across some fantastic cakes made by the uber talented Mary and Brenda Maher of CakeGirls (in Chicago) that are totally inspiring me to go all out and think 3d for this cake of mine, so wish me luck!

Continue Reading to see photos of the amazing cakes!

Doggie Bones Costume for Halloween

I came across this cute costume today whilst looking for halloween costume ideas: Not many people in Australia actually celebrate Halloween, but I’ve wanted to have a Halloween party for YEARS, so decided for my quarter of a century this year I’m going ahead and doing it. I designed my party invite today (and by [...]