The 7th of May 2007 changed my world...

Twas the 7th of May 5 years ago now when this perfect pink person entered our world...  I never once thought I'd be making bunting out of doilies and searching high and low for all things pink to please someone quite this much... But, I did and I love how things turned out for our special girls big  turning 5 day.

This beautiful smile is all the reward any mummy can hope for.

The party went off beautifully and was so very pretty thanks to some lovely friends and businesses involved, perhaps some ideas for your event prep in the future... If you're into pink that is...

Here's a few images of the magical party we held at Mytyme Beauty due to us leaving on our epic adventure 2 days afterwards - doing the gardens seemed like too much hard work whilst packing for 7 weeks and baking, so Cath and the girls opened the garden of the salon just for us (and 12 of Tildas little guests) to indulge in some serious nail polishing fun and a spot of girly morning tea.

They even had a sign just for her salon.

'What colour polish would you like?' Ummmm pink of course to match my new Oopsidaisi dress (Thank you Sam)

While nails were being polished and a quick pass the parcel on the lawn lots of little fingers (and big) were nibbling happily on some seriously pink sugary delights - some made by yours truly and lots of inspiration and goodies ( fairyfloss, macarons, heart candy, flowers etc) from 

A Tasty Surprise .

Thank you Phoebe for all of your help.

Pink popcorn was one of the things I was determined to perfect and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - melted white chocolate, coloured and  drizzled over air popped corn - onto trays and into the fridge... delicious and effective..

Cake pops are one of those must have things at a party now and Tilda and Oliver were very keen to make them. I found this recipe and used all of the cupcakes that went wonky in my oven - I am so not a 50's housewife..

Great way to disguise a dodgy cupcake

The rose petal and pistachio macarons were from A Tasty Surprise - I'm not sure if anyone else ate these - I certainly had more than my fair share - completely delicious!!!

Like I said - lots of 'pink' food - wafers, marshmallows, meringues, jelly... Oh and there was watermelon and red grapes too - closest I could get to pink fruit.

Paper cupcake stand can be found at Pink Frosting - An amazing site and super fast postage

Sweet party favour bags I embellished with heart doilies and ribbon and filled  with handmade hair goodies by me...

 The whole table together looks pretty sweet (apologies for the blury image) The doily bunting was paper doiles folded in half and sewn by machine - very delicate and not ideal for a windy or rainy day. I sewed satin ribbons onto every third one (mainly as I couldn't resist)

The cake!! Well, as you know I can't bake so I was planning on making cupcakes as the 'birthday cake'. I made these circle vanilla cakes to crumble for the cake pops and when they turned out better than the cupcakes I nearly fell over in shock!!! Soooo they became 'the cake' instead - phew, did that make sense? 

A quick jam and cream in the middle and lots of pink icing, sparkly cachous and mounds of persian fairyfloss and Ta Da - CAKE!!

So thats about all from me, we had lots of laughs and one very exhausted birthday girl at the end of it all.... If you leave a comment, question below i'll be sure to get back to you - I do love parties....

Thank you once again to all of our guests and friends who helped us get ready for Tilda's big birthday - I couldn't have done it without you - only 10 months until the next one.... eeeekkkkk

xx Shelli