Thank you to Denita for sharing another beautiful party with us, after Alex’s Cars party was featured here a while ago. I love how this party is kept simple yet exquisite for a first birthday party, that three-year-old Alex got involved with the preparations, and how Denita made such an effort. Here’s what she writes:

“First birthdays are often more of a milestone for the parents than for the child, and for me, it was a celebration of making it through the first year of being a mom of two! I wanted to make Caris’s first birthday special, but nothing too hectic, so an afternoon tea party was held at home with close family members: Granny and Grandpa, Nanna, 2 uncles, an aunt, a cousin, mommy and daddy, and her older brothers.

A few weeks earlier, when I found the gorgeous Peter Rabbit themed party paraphernalia at Glam Baby in Bedfordview, I was super excited. After all, who can resist that cute little bunny! My favourite find was the cardboard Peter Rabbits pushing little wheelbarrows! (and plates, and serviettes, and cupcake toppers!)

My three year old son, Alex, helped me make biscuits in the shape of carrots, and bunnies, which I decorated with royal icing, with green and orange for the carrots, and pink for the bunnies. He ate a lot of biscuit dough during this process!

The table was adorned with Peter Rabbits pushing carrot patch cupcakes, on the wheelbarrows, which I made using green icing pushed through an icing nozzle that looked like a shower head, and tiny icing carrots that I found at Kadies baking supplies shop. The decorated biscuits and remaining cupcakes were displayed on a cupcake stand.

Peter Rabbit, being blue, is unfortunately not very girly, so I baked a chocolate cake and covered it with suitably-girly pink plastic icing, and then topped it with an edible Peter Rabbit print that I had made at Kadies. I took them the image that I wanted, and they printed it on rice paper with a special printer. I was very happy with the way it came out, as I have seen some really awful rice paper prints before. Alex then helped me frame the picture with pink and white icing flowers.

Caris was the epitome of cuteness on the day, as she smiled for everyone, ate cake and niknaks (only because it was her birthday!) and enjoyed opening her presents. But soon after blowing out the lone candle, and listening to Alex sing happy birthday at the top of his lungs, it was time for an afternoon nap!”