I’m kind of sad that summer is unofficial lye over, but I can’t complain. I’ve spent the last few weekends of summer happily. A few weeks ago, Matt and I decided to go on a mini road trip down memory lane to our old Stockton stomping grounds. Normally our trips to our old college town would take us to the winery, but since only one of us can enjoy the wine, we ventured down to a Chinese take-out place we often went to through college. They have the best sweet and sour chicken ever. We continued south to Cape May where we explored the shops (where i found a lot less antiques than I expected, but some great craft ideas), walked the boardwalk, and enjoyed an indirect flashback to our alma mater again. Despite a few holes in one, I fell apart and panicked at the end of our game, and Matt beat me by 5 points.
Even though I lost, Matt still treated me to a beautiful had beaded bracelet in my favorite color. I can’t even tell you the shop he bought it from because there was no sign on the building. We had dinner at an Irish pub where I, of course, ordered the butter lobster rolls, and stopped for smoothie desserts.
We also celebrated my niece Laila’s birthday. The night before the party, the kids all came over to watch the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (which they loved) and help bake Laila’s tie-dyed cake and cookies. Everyone was in charge of mixing and poring a color.
They turned out great!I decorated the cake for a Frozen theme party with blue frosting and white snowflakes.
To add to the birthday festivities, we made a fairy garden in a hollowed out tree stump.
We used a fairy garden kid along with a few mini items I found at Michael’s.
I glued floral pins to the bottoms of everything to stake them into the ground.
The only thing left to do is plant some pretty fall flowers. with a hideaway like this, fairies are bound to make this their new home!
