How is it possibly even Monday again? I mean I know it’s a cliche to talk about the weekend going by so fast but I HONESTLY think I blinked and missed it. Approximately two hours ago (in my head) it was midday on Friday and one of my best friends in the world, Cara, was…
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When I was planning the invitations for my friend Pip’s ice-cream baby-shower last weekend, I asked her for some ideas as to what she would like me to use as a theme. One of the thoughts she had was something to do with elephants. Trying to mix elephants with ice-cream wasn’t what I’d call a…
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One word (or is it two?): ice-cream. On a big table, stack up a few tubs of the most delicious ice-cream you can find. Mine was my very own bespoke flavour from Harry’s Ice Cream Co, just around the corner in Brunswick: cinnamon doughnut and maple syrup (I know!!). More about that later. Fill vintage…
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Happy Friday, friends. Oh and an extra big welcome if you’re visiting for the first time from Pip Lincolne’s blog Meet Me at Mikes. How awesome is Pip! Sending big love and thanks her way for sending YOU my way. I’m a Melbourne-dwelling mother of two, a journalist, an author, and a big fan of…
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I always think it’s nice at a party, even a little one, to give your guests one “wow factor” to make them feel special. It doesn’t need to be difficult or expensive, just something that looks a bit extravagant, so they think “Wow, I’m excited to be here.” It might be a rainbow curtain of…
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First birthdays are for waking up to a room full of balloons. They are for giggles, smiles, and squeals of glee. They are for daffodils, and boxes covered in homemade, polka-dot wrapping paper, made by Mama late last night using potatoes and paint. First birthdays are stay-in-your-PJs-until-lunch, they are wear-a-silly-hat-if-you-want-to, they are tear-the-paper-off-your-presents as if…
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You know those times? When your husband and your 14 year old step-daughter gleefully announce, “We have decided to host a High Tea party for our friends next weekend.” And you think, “Oh great. That means I will be hosting a High Tea party for their friends next weekend,” and then you think, “When did…
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The flowers were in bloom and the breeze was light, so we headed out to Edinburgh Gardens bright and early on Saturday morning to claim our own little picnic place inside a pretty ring of old trees. I was hosting a birthday party for my good friend Tonia. There wasn’t enough room in our home,…
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I am throwing a birthday party for a friend and, since spring has so gloriously sprung in Melbourne, I thought I’d make it a picnic. But not just any picnic. I was thinking I’d put on an outdoor high tea. I will bake little cakes and ice little biscuits and serve scones with jam and…
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Author George MacDonald once said, “I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.” Isn’t that a lovely statement? As a person who is closer to fifty than five but clearly still rather immature, it is nice to know MacDonald was writing for me. I have been…
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