Monday, May 5, 2014

Six!

card from k for c best birthday gift EVER six! piggy cake Nativity set from Armadillo Dreams c's fabric bucket piggy bucket piggy bucket quilt and new room decorations above her bed pillowcase quilt and cat quilt birthday girl mama made birthday dress and sister made purse purse made by k birthday dress birthday dress flowers birthday dress 2014 birthday dress birthday dress birthday dress

This post is quite overdue. My sweet C turned 6 on Good Friday but the blissful busyness of life kept me from looking through the pictures until now. It's actually rather fun looking through them later, it feels like I am reliving the moments all over again - I just wish I could remember more of the details.

We had a nice quiet family celebration at home (the party came last week when our friends visited, but more on that later). She woke up to a bookshelf and some fabric hoops on her wall above her bed that I secretly hung the night before while she was sleeping (She's a heavy sleeper!) All my kids tend to wake up before the sun on their birthdays and C is no exception. She had us up for opening presents before Little L was even ready to wake. She adored the kitty purse K made for her, and was thrilled about her quilt, but the Aqua Farm from Nana and Grandpa was "the best birthday gift ever". She has been wanting a fish for years and now she finally has one along with a freshwater snail. Note: Animals - 11, humans - 5, I think our home has officially been taken over.

I am so happy for my C and I swear she grew up overnight. I do believe she'll be ready for first grade in the fall (gulp!) She turned six and poof her baby face disappeared. They really do grow so quickly, don't they? I better not blink! She keeps telling me how she "feels like such a big girl now" and that she can do so many things she couldn't do at the age of five. She'll always be my cuddly koala bear, though. Oh C, we love you so!

Details:
-Kitty purse pattern from this book
- piggy bucket made using this pattern with Briar Rose and nursery versery fabrics
- pillowcase made using this tutorial with more Briar Rose and Wee Wander fabrics.
- birthday dress made from the geranium dress pattern. I did view A but modified it to have pockets in the side seams of the skirt. Fabric is from Wee Wander. I currently have one in the works for K with the same fabric but in blue.
- quilt made by the talented Thouraya and I have a feeling she will have some better pictures of it up on her blog soon. The quilt deserves a post of it's own, we love it!
- Nativity set was custum made for C by Dustin at Armadillo Dreams.

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Happy birthday to your not so little girl! <3 how exciting... fish! :)
1 reply · active 568 weeks ago
who knew fish could be so exciting?! :p
Beautiful post! So many birthday projects - congrats on completing them all.
1 reply · active 568 weeks ago
So many gorgeous handmade presents! Happy birthday to your little girl.
1 reply · active 568 weeks ago
What a lucky birthday girl! So much beautiful handmade goodness.
1 reply · active 568 weeks ago
She gets the most excited over handmade goods so I tend to go overboard with her ;)
I love it. Everything. And the Wee Wander paired with Briar Rose is adorable.

Happy birthday! xo
1 reply · active 568 weeks ago
Thank you, Katherine! XO
Hi,
I have been following your family for quite a while now, tonight I went way back into your old archives and I notice that C, had a different name at birth, did you guys change swap the original names around?? Happy Birthday to Miss C, looks like she had a fab day!
2 replies · active 568 weeks ago
Hi Melanie! Yes, you are right :) She still has the same name but we call her by her middle name. We love her first name but we realized it is just too hard for other people to pronounce.
I was thinking that may have been the case. We have a little one named Persephone and people really struggle to pronounce it if they have never heard of it... sometimes I wonder if we did the right thing, I guess if it becomes too hard we could use her middle name. Thankfully because of the Greek Main Lesson in Steiner schools everyone who has been to a Spring festival has heard of the name!!!
Hi there! It's my daughter's fourth birthday tomorrow! At her request, I found myself scouring the internet for a "piggy cake" and found myself on your wonderful blog! Do you use a recipe and instructions to make your cake?
Hi there! It's my daughter's fourth birthday tomorrow! At her request I have been scouring the internet for a recipe and instructions for a "piggy cake". Your cake is perfect. Do you happen to have a link that you can share?
1 reply · active 515 weeks ago
Hi Becky! I just made a vanilla cake. If I remember right I made 2 layers. One for the head and then I cut an oval out of the other layer and put it on top to be the nose. Then I frosted it with pink frosting, did chocolate chips for the nostrils and whipped cream wit ha chocolate chip center for each eye. HTH!

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