Birthday parties are a serious business for 5 years olds.  Zoe has been counting down to her 6th birthday for aproximately 123 days.  She wants it at home, of course, because her mum did such a fabulous job of her 5th birthday (note to new mums...be careful setting too high a precedent with fabulous birthday parties in the early years).  This years party has a rainbow theme, and just when I was starting to feel sick because the date was fast approaching and there was no suitable invitations at my local shops and I really didn't have time to drive to bigger shops to maybe (or maybe not) find something better, I looked on Etsy.

 

Late Monday night I found some fabulous rainbow invitations from The Parchment Place (an Esty store based in Adelaide) and 1 hour after purchasing I had the personalised jpeg file sent to me ready for printing.  A quick trip to Office works the next day, a quick blast through the laminator (it's true - I laminate nearly everything in my life these days), and a magnet stuck on the back and I had fabulous rainbow invitations in the kids' school bags with two whole weeks to go. Yay - the sick feeling was gone and I could relax for at least another week before having to get organised for the party (enter nightmare soon after with 12 children at my home and no food or cake or lolly bags and sick feeling returns!).

Thanks to everyone who entered the Ottobre giveaway last week.  There lucky winner from my blog is Simone who wrote 'Great prize. I would love to win so thanks for the chance'.  The Facebook winner is Anna Miles.  I'll send you both an email to get your address.