Yarr-arr, it's Summer!

Hello! How have you been? The last weeks have flown away so quickly. Suddenly Summer arrived and so did the last school week, which was full of events out of the ordinary and I could hardly find any time for sewing. Big E left for her first Summer camp yesterday, she will be away from home for five days (eek)! The camp is called I'm creative, she picked it herself (that's my girl)! And while she's away I will be sewing with school kids at two day camps. We'll be making monsters again :) And maybe we can come up with a way to use these Kona cotton scraps I have.

The biggest occasion last week was Big E's birthday party for her classmates, her real birthday is on Midsummer's Day which is a national holiday, that means everyone will be away at their Summer houses so we always celebrate her birthday early before school ends. She doesn't mind getting some of her gifts a month early :)

She ordered a pirate party (Please mum, I don't want any crafting or sewing at my party!) so me and the Dad did our best. I'm pretty proud of the invites we made. While preparing for the party T and I realised we did not know much about pirates and how they party, but we enjoyed saying Yarr-Arr to each other. A lot.

For the nine nine year old girls the pirate-thing seemed to come quite natural, at the table they had spontanious burping, screaming and farting contests... You can't really tell a pirate not to behave like one, can you? 

 

 

Comments

[Ulla V.]

I love the fact that your girl picked this theme for her birthday! And you definitely made it so cool for her and her guests. It's wonderful when we grownups can play and make such party preparations. My husband and I are just two big kids sometimes - and I hope that we never forget how to play. :))

I couldn't help smiling when I read that the guests burped and farted - they must have felt so much at ease with you all, that they dared being real pirate girls. :)) Wonderful. :))

Take care,
Ulla

[Greer]

Ooh, I'm so glad I stopped by today - my soon-to-be-four-year-old has ordered a pirate party for next month! A rainbow pirate party, to be precise. I have loads of ideas, just hoping for some time to put it into action!

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Yar-har-harr! LOL! Makes me laugh AND cringe! Sounds like pure fun. Neat invites. You're still a kid at heart--and that's a very good thing for a mom.

[fee]

Hey - pleased to meet you too, and i did enjoy my little nosey around your blog!
And how refreshing to see pirates for girls - my kind of girl!
fee x

[Diane]

My grandmother's birthday was on Midsummer's Day too! But, she was sick and tired of it, so when she immigrated to America when she was 15, she just changed it herself to the next day. Lovely post.

[jojoebi]

lol how refreshing to see a non princessy girls party. We always have my sons birthday early for the same reason, it falls in the summer break, he doesn't mind because he ends up having two cakes!

[Clare W]

Ahoy there - a lovely post!

[krista - Poppyprint]

I wish I was sitting around that party table!!! It sounds like that was the best pirate party ever.