Here's another picture... neither came out too well - one too light and the other too dark - so I posted them both.
Caroline got to lick the beaters after I had made the frosting. Her Gran made the cake for me the night before. It was a devil's food cake recipe from the King Arthur Whole Grains cookbook. The frosting was this strawberry frosting recipe that I have been using for a few years.
Here's the table, all set with cake, crackers and cheeseball, Coke, and Southern Comfort punch for the adults.
Caroline opened presents first. This one is from Mommy and Daddy.
Here she is holding up two of them. They are just little peg doll forms with pipe cleaner arms, wooden beads for hands, yarn for hair, and felt dresses that I stitched up the sides. The yarn and beads are attached using hot glue. Then I painted simple eyes and mouths on the faces.
Here Caroline opens a gift bag from Gran and Grandad. I told Uncle Tim he had to help her, because I knew there was a bike helmet inside... the bike helmet gift is a family joke (at Tim'sexpense) from childhood... sorry, Timmy! The bag also had some pajamas, card games, Snoopy magnets, and hair clips.
Gramma and Grampa brought Caroline this wooden doll cradle that my grandaddy made for me when I was little. They also brought the doll high chair he made, but it has come apart and needs repairs. The wrapped packages have matching spring dresses in them, one for each of the girls... Caroline loves for them to match.
Here she is wearing her helmet (which came with knee and elbow pads).
3 comments:
Yay! Happy Birthday Caroline!!!! 5 is a big milestone. The cake looks delicious!
Happy Birthday!! Did you make those dolls out of that felt crafts book? I bought that book on amazon recently, it'd been sitting on my wishlist since you first posted about it...now I need to go to the craft store and look for wool felt!
I think the Feltcraft book has something very similar in it... I did not make these from wool felt, just cheapie Wal-Mart felt. I used some nice wool felt when I made the seals from the Feltcraft book, but that stuff is expensive, and I don't know where to buy it locally. I based these dolls more on this idea for little saint dolls, which we might make next school year for Along the Alphabet Path (or I wil paint them... haven't decided which yet): http://craftyincoffeeland.blogspot.com/2007/05/because-mommyd-asked.html
and
http://craftyincoffeeland.blogspot.com/2007/05/part-2-making-saint-matthias-pull.html
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