On Alice's 1st birthday I made cake and another cake and wrapped presents and more presents, but it still never hit me that my tiny baby is a 1 year old until pretty much the next day, when I looked at her little face and said, “Hi my little one year old… woah”
We had the family over for the party! Aaron made burgers and fries then we played for a bit. Everyone wanted a turn to hold and chat with the little birthday princess.
Cake time!
Alice wouldn't hardly touch the cake until we handed her a spoon. Then she was all about feeding anyone and everyone.
She dug in! (I admit I drew the eyebrows for her)
…and then she had a quick bath
Present time!
Thank you so much to everyone who gave Alice gifts, she was pleased as punch with everything. She was so pleased, in fact, that she kept exploding with excitement, as she does.
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About the cakes:
I wanted Alice's cake to be a bird theme since we always call her our little birdy, with her fluffy hair and perching toes. I'm not good at using fondant or sculpting or anything… so my idea was to have Air scan and photoshop some birds off some fabric that I love, print them onto cardstock, and I cut them out and strung them up to look like they're flying over a forest.
I know it's very random, and the trees and white frosting make it look like winter… but it was all I could come up with, and I think it turned out pretty cute.
The little ‘cake smash’ cake was fun… the rosettes are the simplest, most forgiving way to frost a cake around. All you need is that 1M frosting tip and you are good to go. I used a strawberry shortcake flavoring for the pink frosting too. YUM
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About the crown:
I love felt and I have lots of it. I looked at some images of felt crowns online and came up with this one. It was a mixture of a few other ones that I liked. My Momma helped me sew it when she was here back in August. I embroidered the name on the front. The final touch was the lace at the bottom, which I think pulled it all together pretty nicely. I was going to put more flowers on it, but once I got this far I decided it looked nice and simple and feminine.
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About the nose picking:
What is the deal with my children and picking their noses lately!!?? hahaha
1 comment:
I just realized that you're probably not going to do a 13 month post. I'm so sad.
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