'UP'

My 3 boys ages 13, 9 and 3 adore the movie ‘UP’ it’s one we watch over many times and enjoy.
My husband and I planned a family holiday in a few weeks time and I thought I would surprise them
with a ‘sweet table’ … ‘Adventure is out there’

Along with the usual cake, cupcakes I had beautiful hot air balloon and cloud shaped cookies from http://www.polka.com.au/ I also made yummy chocolate brownies and a juice refreshment.

Then each one of the boys has their own little 'scout book' for journaling the trip we take,
we have done this on all our holidays such a great keepsake.
I have worked with my dear friend Jennifer Sando of  http://www.jennifersando.com.au/  on a few projects recently and asked her if she would be so kind to come and take some snaps before the boys tucked in to the goodies.

I really wanted the table to capture ‘The Spirit of Adventure’ and to make it very ‘UP’ with out being to ‘merchandised’ The cake bunting was made from hot air balloon stamps and I used some of our favourite quotes in elements on the table.

And because the love that Carl and Ellie have in the movie, we have a little ‘Ellie badge’ for us all to wear while we travel (both from etsy).

It’s simple but fun and was inexpensive and easy to create I’m sure it will be in the memory bank of the boys for years to come, the boys LOVED it.

Make sure you check out http://www.jennifersando.com.au/ and 'like' her facebook page
over here

UPDATE ::
We were featured on the Aparment Thearpy blog OhdeeDoh .. very cool.
Not bad for a first time submission - woop woop...
http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/my-party/my-party-billy-oscar-and-archie-adelaide-south-australia-128663

Woodland Party .. the beginning

For my son's 4th birthday party we are doing a 'Woodland Animal' theme,  we decided on this theme because of his love of owls and creatures in general and my love of Gnomes, toadstools and Mr. Fox.

There are some beautiful woodland parties on the internet that are so inspiring, my challenge was to make ours unique, I was inspired by the beautiful folk style fabrics from Denmark and have used these as my starting point... Still a few months to go, but I have started sewing and styling to my hearts content..
I look forward to sharing the finished product..
because Gnomes (and woodland creatures) make people happy.. they just do.

The 'Gnomes' book that started my ever so slight obsession

Somewhere to store your Gnome

crochet toadstool

collected so far... cant wait to show you what all of this becomes