Just try not to be empowered by this stunning 60th birthday boudoir session
Mrs. MC wanted to do a 60th birthday boudoir session to celebrate the beginning of another decade and to give her husband of six years an exciting anniversary gift. And she surely wowed him as much as she wowed us. This session is classy, striking, timeless, and hot. Girl looks seriously GOOD.
My experience in amateur cake decorating: aka How to make easy birthday cakes
My experience in amateur cake decorating has been really positive. People don’t appear mad at my cakes (even if they are sometimes crooked). With a few hacks, you too can learn to make easy birthday cakes too…
The best combined birthday and holiday/anniversary gifts
The thing about combined birthday gifts is this: They better be fucking awesome and super-symbolic. Because you’re not just saying one thing, you’re saying a lot of things at once. So here are my favorite symbolic gifts that’ll work for combined birthdays and holidays, or anniversaries, or just general gift-inspiration awesomeness!
How do you celebrate birthdays that fall on, or close to, holidays?
We welcomed our sweet baby boy in to the world last year on Christmas Eve. My husband’s birthday is the 28th, so he’s not a stranger to being forgotten at Christmas time. But in this Pinterest-crazed day and age, I feel kind of put-out that we won’t be able to have big birthday celebrations, as almost everyone will be busy with Christmas festivities. Any suggestions?
What to do when people ask, “So what gift do you want from me?”
Getting presents can sometimes be comparatively unrewarding — especially now I’m at an age where family still want to give me birthday and Christmas presents, but aren’t quite sure what to get. Therefore they ask me what I would like. I used to feel this took a lot of the fun out of it, but now I’ve realized that I can get all meta about it. What I’m really doing, I’ve decided, is giving them the gift of giving. So here are my tips for when someone asks you for a list of present ideas.
Throw this birthday party: Superheroes and Monsters
For my daughter Em’s second birthday we decided to go with a monsters and superhero theme. Em loves monsters and I really love the idea and concept of celebrating the primal animal creature that is generally outcast by society and misunderstood for its difference. Our family celebrates difference, so why not celebrate monsters? I also was super excited to celebrate and make room for the toddlers exploration of the “hero” archetype. We all have our own particular super strengths and I’m all for advocating the idea that we are all our own hero.
Dinner is coming: My Game of Thrones-themed 29th birthday feast
I got this fancy idea in my head that I should throw myself a Game of Thrones birthday party, simply because I love the show and have been listening to the books NON STOP for weeks and weeks now. The endless descriptions of all the succulent food featured in the novels was driving me nuts. So I made a fire, invited over the masses, and had a feast. Here’s how I pulled it off…
Celebrate turning 40 with your own Harry Potter-themed party
Some of you Homies might not know it (yeeeeet) but I have a pretty serious thing for Harry Potter. I squealed about twelve decibels higher than I usually do when I saw this Harry Potter-themed birthday party that Tina threw for herself in honor of her 40th birthday, and had to share.