A Second Birthday!

February has been a busy month and one special event was our eldest granddaughter's second birthday celebrations.
The actual birthday was on a Thursday and some of the family gathered at the playground at a local library for a little morning tea, some gift giving followed by Rhyme Time in the library. DH and I decided that we would give our gifts to the birthday girl that day...

Another 2 titles in the much loved 'hippo series' by Hazel Edwards as we knew how much Miss A loves  'There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake'!

To help act out the stories we added a lovely hippo puppet and a wooden High Tea set. ( forgot to take a photo of the latter, but it had lots of 'cakes' in the box! Lol

DsD2 said that the puppet would be a hit and later on sent us a photo of Miss A, napping with him/her 😍.

The big celebration was on the Saturday. The venue was Bunya Crossing Reserve which is situated on Bunya Creek, just north of our suburb. It's a very popular place for families, just like all the river and creek crossings where my generation would swim in the 50s and 60s...very few pools in those days!

And the bunting I made for A's first birthday had its second airing...( two photos of it merged into one)

I still wasn't very well, so settled myself into a chair and cuddled grandchildren...

The thoughtful birthday girl took time out to check on her baby cousin...

And of course every birthday party needs a birthday cake and DsD2 made a cute duck cake...

What a lovely way to celebrate a birthday!

Chooky Blue's Party...

Once again I've joined in this event; like the majority of participants who signed up here, I did not actually travel to the Chookshed! All of us, by signing up, agreed to spend as much time as possible over this last weekend, working on craft projects...and eating yummy food was also on the agenda :-)
Friday night, I didn't get much crafting done, but instead went out with some family members to celebrate DH's birthday. The food at our chosen local restaurant was delightful, so that requirement can be ticked :-). (when we came home I did manage to work on some crocheted granny squares)

A closer look at the birthday cake that DsD2 made for her dad...a chocolate torte made with a recipe from a Diabetic website :-)

Saturday was really about preparation for projects that I wanted to work on. I spent lots of time, cutting out hexagons...it seemed like lots and lots of hexagons! One lot of hexies were out of Christmas fabrics for a Christmas in July Swap. The other lot of hexagons that I cut out were the 42 that I needed for the Liberty Rainbow Hexie Swap. The colours I was allocated were blue and purple. 

For this swap we have to use a glue pen(specifically a Sewline) to baste the hexies over the papers. I spoiled myself and bought some precut papers. I was a bit hesitant to use glue, being a stitching baster from the 1970s, but of course had to abide by the rules of the Swap. I was pleasantly surprised how easy the glueing was...a lot better with the heavier commercial papers as opposed to my homemade copy paper ones I'd tried years ago. 

On Saturday I also cut some more 2 inch squares for my Trip Around the World quilt; and marked the quarter inch line on 2 sides.

Also on Saturday, I sewed some more squares of Liberty fabrics for the blocks in my Liberty Postage Stamp Quilt block swap.

And to have a break from all that cutting, I grabbed the crochet hook and yarn and my pile of 10 inch crocheted squares grew by a few more.

Sunday was the May meet for the Sunday Stitchers and what better way to continue to work on stitching projects, surrounded by dear friends? 

It was also the group's Biggest Morning Tea to raise money for Cancer research. So that yummy food comes into play again! lol.

As well as eating, chatting and laughing at Sunday Stitchers, I basted those Christmas themed hexies on my homemade copy paper papers....just about got all my pile done...

A great weekend!
Congratulations to Chooky on another very successful birthday weekend. And here's that link again if you would like to 'visit' some of the other 'partygoers' to see how they celebrated.