Aeroplane Party for my baby boy's first birthday.

Had my baby boy's first birthday party this weekend. Was hard work and a lot of planning but SO worth it! Will share some of the day's details, and some recipe's too.

Detail of the 'airport'

Entrance to the house - decorated with New Zealand flag bunting, and the 'airline' name

I went with an aeroplane theme, but took it a bit further to include the whole experience of flying and travel.

Setting the scene with a toy aeroplane. Note all the cool drinks and spoon holder covered with old maps.

I made a very big aeroplane cake all by myself, and decorated it with a yummy butter icing. The cake recipe is one I've found online. A nice, basic and easy recipe you can find here: http://www.stayathomemum.net.au/recipes/baking/sand-cake/
 

The massive aeroplane cake - and I made it myself from scratch! Hard work!

I also had some GORGEOUS rainbow cupcakes made by the talented Corli at Le Petit Four. Not only were they SUPER cute on the outside. Inside they were an amazing rainbow in colour.

rainbow cupcakes

The 'baggage claim' area

For the party favours my mum and I made A4 size drawstring bags, and decorated them with the Royal New Zealand Airforce Logo. I thought they looked really neat.
I also attached personalized 'pilot licenses' for each child. Inside the bags were an inflatable beach ball globe, an aeroplane spoon, a hand decorated party blower and an aeroplane sweet.

Close up of the 'pilot licenses' This one is for my 2 year old :-)

Content of the favour bag: an inflatable globe, an aeroplane spoon, an aeroplane sweet and a party blower that I redecorated.

For the birthday boy I made a pilot uniform bib to wear at the party, and also had a pilot hat knitted by the talented Sonia from Creative Aertz. He looked gorgeous, if I have to say so myself! :-)

The bib I made for the birthday boy.

Birthday boy Chris modelling his cute pilot hat and bib.

Upcoming jewelery designer and new projects

My two year old son is fascinated by my jewellery making, and today I scraped the courage (and patience) together to let him play with my beads while I work. Usually I don't let him mess with my beads and findings, because:

a- He still likes to put everything in his mouth, and

b- He will probably throw them everywhere.

But he was really good, and tried to copy me with what I was doing, putting beads on wires. I was pretty impressed with him getting the wire into those small holes, and not loosing his patience with it.

Now that I know he can handle it, I will let him play with them again :-)

I also painted these cute little tin buckets with some blackboard paint. Great way to organize pens, pencils, chopsticks etc... I love the way it looks! Will be selling these too at the upcoming market on the 3rd April.

Weekend festival and some silver spoons

Had a lovely weekend - went to Browns Bay for the Cairo to Cape Town Street Festival with my two boys, Mum, friend Nicola and her son Ben on Saturday.
I love walking through stalls (always see things I want and I always get inspiration)  Also had some lovely ice-creams on the beach and a Savannah apple cider - Bliss.

Then we discovered a great, well hidden, little Hospice shop and I found some gorgeous silver spoons and forks. Have some BRILLIANT ideas for those!!
The weather was warm and sunny, SO nice - we better enjoy the last of the warm, dry weather before the winter start. Not long now!
xxx