Party Time

My wee miracle girl Jessalyn turned 7 last week, so I threw her a fairy party on the weekend.  Thanks to the wonderful world of Pinterest, I had so many ideas to churn through to make it magical and special for her.


I spent a while on the decorations, and still have sticky tape all over the house but it was so worth it.  The printed stock came from Stockberry Studios on Etsy, and was so cute, little signs for the party, labels, cupcake toppers and wrappers and lots lots more.  For only USD$10, totally worth it.

I made little packets of Fairy Dust for the take home thank you packs.

We had a Fairy come to entertain the girls, they played games and danced and sang really really really loud!  I'm a bit concerned about the gaggle of 7 year olds in my back yard screaming "I'm sexy and I know it..... wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle".  *sigh*

Lots of food and drinks were enjoyed.

Heart and Flower shaped fairy bread:

 Cheesy Macaroni in individual packs:

Fairy Flower Nectar in mini milk bottles with paper straws:

For dessert, pre-scooped ice-cream with sticks for the girls to dip in sprinkles:

And the cake.  I've been dreaming of this cake since first seeing it on Pinterest, and it worked so well:

Shrug for my gorgeous girl

We have a wedding on this weekend, which will go from day to evening, so I knitted a 3/4 length shrug for Jessalyn for the event. It's worked with two strands of rainbow dyed treliske bio-natur yarn which was dyed by Carolyn from Nappycino as part of a swap we did. I didn't want the colour to pool, so I used the two strands. The pattern is the GG shrug by Bec, and it's a lovely quick easy pattern. I made a few mods (of course) - I added some increases across the back, a garter edge around and the flarey 3/4 sleeves.

Purple the Turtle

A very much loved addition to our family is Purple the Turtle. He is actually Sheldon the Turtle, but the name hasn't stuck, so he is now named Purple. For my very much Purple and Turtle obsessed daughter Jessalyn.

Fun pattern to knit, a little fiddly at times, and I used 8ply yarn instead of the patterned 4ply! This poor guy has some stuffing issues, I understuffed his neck, so its a tad floppy, and I overstuffed his shell, so his body doesn't fit in as nicely as it should. He seems to be well loved by his new owner, so I shouldn't be too picky I suppose :).