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ideas for Jean's birthday

Ok guys, I need your help. Jean's 3rd birthday is in two and a half months. She keeps saying she wants a "red cake" and loves her new ladybird (ladybug) backpack so I'm thinking of going with a ladybird theme. We've already booked the church hall at the playgroup, with the back room where you can fit a bouncy castle. I need ideas or links to UK suppliers for simple:

invites
decorations
games for in the main hall
goody bags for girls and boys
food (including cake)

Think I'll just go with ordinary plates etc. possibly solid red.

Sorry for those of you seeing this multiple places!
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Halloween

slicesmissus's Halloween party:

baaaaabydunlop dressed as a senior button pusher.
bromley001 dressed as a Level 8 bard.
charliebob dressed as Harrison Ford.
chrisscorkscrew dressed as Squidward.
cloud_walker_uk dressed as a cup of coffee.
corsetra dressed as Mde. Lachienne Foutue d'Enfer -- you don't wanna know, though it looked more like a character from Harry Potter and the Black Prisoner.
corsetrasewing dressed as Wesley Crusher from "Star Trek".
dativesingular dressed as a ferret.
derien dressed as Helga the wisewoman, although the live snake was a mistake.
dreamkate1 dressed as Josephine Baker but the banana "skirt" didn't survive the night, though it looked more like Sigfried in need of testosterone.
ellierachael dressed as a 1980's yuppie child.
fiareynne dressed as Mary Queen of Scots ... without her head. Most convincing.
ionracas dressed as Michael Schumacher.
just_a_monkey dressed as a monster from a Super Mario game.
justmejill dressed as a second baseman for the Padres.
karintha dressed as the love child of O. J. Simpson and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
ladymorgy dressed as Winona Ryder.
lareinadeluz dressed as the Scaly Power Ranger.
laurenmitchell gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as Sybil - except that Sybil didn't show but the other 24 personalities did.
ldhenson dressed as a walking Guillotine.
madmini dressed as Optimus Prime.
mattflibs dressed as legendary space hero Buff Hardmeat.
projectstupid dressed as Camilla Parker-Bowles when she becomes Queen.
ragdoll dressed as a witch.
renfairewench dressed as the Lord of Cora Harbor.
sidhe_etain dressed as a skeleton.
slices dressed as Elizabeth Regina on steroids and roller skates.
thomastrue dressed as a hellsent revenge.
tronella dressed as the Vicomte des Boules-Velues, and it suited them all too well.
uglyface2 dressed as Franklin D. Roosevelt, and it suited them disturbingly well.
voter_colonel dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.
wendy_dent dressed as the resurrected dead -- complete with the most convincing coffin, and it suited them disturbingly well.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
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DIY

Jean is demolishing the Lego house we've just built. If only all DIY was that easy. We're sleeping in the spare bedroom/office still, but closer to being back in our bedroom again (Alex and his Dad put in built in wardrobe and insulated the outside wall). We need to wallpaper and paint the wall and rehang the curtain rod. We've also got the airing cupboard being turned into a utility area (need to strip wallpaper and paint in there, then tidy some wiring away in trunking).
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five words

You ask for five words in the comments and then elaborate on them in your own journal. My five, courtesy of ragdoll


Red Dwarf
The Small Rouge One got me through a really difficult time in my life. There I was, home alone late on a Saturday night. I flipped on KAET Channel 8 and was hooked. Rimmsy and Listy helped me through my divorce and starting over again. Then they led me to the TORDFC board where I started chatting on AIM with slices and six years later I still have a soft spot for RD. It's also one of only two fandoms I've written fanfic in (the other being ST:DS9).

Ex-pat
Four years ago tomorrow I arrived, jetlagged, at Gatwick to begin my new life. England is home to me. I couldn't imagine living in America ever again. Sure there are things I miss, people I miss. But this is Home. This is where my heart is.


Mummy
My favourite word *grin*. She says new words every freakin day but nothing can top the first time she said that. I never even had any question on whether to be Mummy or Mommy. I am mum. I turn back into Jenni from 7 pm to 6 am LOL.

Banana
I'd love to make banana bread but the darn things never stay in the house long enough. Not with the "Nanna Nanna" monster around.

Massachussetts
Ahhh nostalgia. Childhood trips to Onset Beach or Down the Cape or Lincoln Park (Rocky Point doesn't count as it was in RI). Middle school plays and dances with Chaka Khan or Kenny Loggins blasting. It's where I came from (and where I went back to heal after my time in the desert) but it's no longer home. On an amusing note, a middle school friend (with whom I just reconnected via facebook) now living in Glasgow compared Glasgow to Brockton!
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ow

Seem to have aggravated the plantar facitis in my right foot again. Had terrible pain yesterday and couldn't put weight on it. Alex took me to A+E (his Mum put Jean to bed) and I had an x ray to check for a fracture. I'm off work today resting it and putting ice on it.
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and don't it feel good?

Just been listening to Absolute 80s while doing the dishes and making jam. Yep. Making jam. Red Gooseberry jam, in fact. last night's batch was 75% strawberry 25% red gooseberry. Mmmm. So I went outside to get the last few dishes (we ate dinner outside) to be serenaded by the neighbours singing There Is Nothing Like A Dame from South Pacific, LOL.

Oh and I GOT MY BRITISH PASSPORT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!
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