Of Ribbon Wands and Birthday Parties

 So my little girl turns 2 in September and me being the event organiser/crazy person I've started organising everything early. In my eyes earlier the better as you never know what could happen should you leave things to the last minute.

We've decided on a Fairy Princess and Lost Boys Theme, I was torn since I have such a teenie tiny backyard so I've had to go all out and hire a location at the park. It was a half decent price to be honest and I'm quite happy we have the park for the entire day too So from morning when it opens to the afternoon when it closes so it will give us plenty of time to work everything out.

I think a few people think I'm insane organising a 2 year old's birthday party 2 - 3 months in advance, but being in the event industry I don't see the harm! Not only am I organising her birthday but a wedding for early next year too! I think it's in my nature... I've decided no set games... we'll have a face painter, lots of bubbles been blown from a bubble machine, a pull String pinata, Balloons, Peter Pan Hats, and ribbon wands. The last two hand made =)

So far I've got the wands complete. They are quite easy to make and not too expensive... Plus it's a good party bag gift considering Lollies will equal hyper 2 year olds which I don't think I could handle...

If you want help in how to make these gorgeous wands feel free to ask =)

Once I've worked out the Peter Pan Hats with some help of hopefully another wonderful Young mum I will be able to show the world those too! Wish me luck!

I'm really relieved that I have a lot of my daughter's birthday party complete... I mean imagine how insanely stressed I'd be should I have left everything to the last minute right?

♥ Lor ♪♫♪

Been busy

So I've gotten a full time job and that's got me well full time !! I'm loving my job finally out of retail and back into the event industry whoop!!

My daughter has been amazing adjusting to preschool/early learning centre in a full time situation so well!!! She's even gotten to the point where she wants to be like the older kids using the big toilet!! I mean she's almost two and she's telling me that she needs to go or that she already has!

She did do a wee in the toilet this morning and I am so proud of her!!

Tomorrow is pancake Saturday. And the day we go to put a deposit on our wedding rings! I'd love to go into decorative events and see what they can quote us for the reception design!!

Sunday we're off to a photoshoot for the princess with rock your baby! The gorgeous little dark haired girl in cream and black on their main shopping page is my little girl!!

After the elusive photoshoot I will be off to pay more to my wedding dress possibly wear it and then get me measured up again so they can order my gorgeous gown!

Such a long crazy and busy weekend ahead of us and I'm looking forward to it!! Next weekend though is the biggest excitement though!!! It's my birthday!!!!

A quarter of a century old and celebrating cause statistics state that the more birthdays you happen to have the longer you live!!!

Anyways I'm off to oogle the group of hard kunt guys with brand name man bags and laugh with my ever loving fiancé!

<3

NICKI MINAJ!

I saw Nicki Minaj last night!! Got trampled on in the moshpit and woulda been right at the front since I had a VIP upgrade but was a good friend and waited! =D

The show was awesome! Nicki was beautifully gorgeous and as I would have imagined she'd be! Afterwards as a VIP upgrader I got to meet Nicki! I adore her so much! Her songs are amazing and if you listen closely all of her songs have a deeper meaning!

I was a little disappointed when her manager was being horrible we could only choose one thing to be signed and we couldn't even go to her while she signed it! I handed my VIP laminate across and the signing process seemed to be so rushed that the holographic side of my laminate was signed and rubbed off. I was so upset.

Nicki ended up foiling their plans though when she opened the blinds and window to where we were sitting and called out to us! The security guy called back saying they were bringing us in little groups when she said NO I want all of my barbz in here! She even blew me a kiss! =D

I told her all about my little princess loving her songs and dancing to starships in the car! She was absolutely elevated by the idea and said "Bless her soul! Give her kisses from me!" We took a photo and then I asked her to sign my boob Yeap got my boob signed! I mean I had my laminate signed and they wouldn't resign anything so what else was I gonna do?! I have a whole pile of pics of my signed chest =D I'll upload soon hehehe

All in all I had such an amazing night! I only wish her manager wasn't so crude! Nicki though was an amazingly beautiful soul and I wish her all the best with her career! LOVE YOU NICKI MINAJ!

Love

♥ Lor ♪♫♪

Waiting...

I'm so excited at the moment for two main reasons the first is that within 9 days there will be exactly 1 year until I get married!!! And that finally my fiance has decided on who his groomsmen will be! It's taken him over a year just to tell me his second groomsman and when I put a deadline on him I finally got the other two, so four altogether since he knew who'd be his best man! Now it's just a matter of having him ask them all! GAH!!! Yeah a year sounds like a lot of time and that maybe I shouldn't have put such a deadline on him but I would really like his groomsmen to know that he'd like to have them in the wedding party so they have the money to be able to pay for everything they'll need! Fair enough right??

Anyways the second and the thing I'm most excited about this year since it'll be happening soon is NICKI MINAJ!!! I absolutely love her and I so cannot wait to meet her!!! Yes I did just say MEET her since I have a VIP Upgrade which includes a meet and greet!!! I am so excited!! I cannot wait I've been counting down for ages now! 8 days to go til I meet you Nicki!!!

I am a little upset though.. As a really good friend of mine who is coming with me next Wednesday has just told me he's getting a cough and on the weekend he'd hurt himself at work! It's driving me mad that he won't take at least one day off to recuperate! I mean it's hard enough working 6 days a week!!!

Not only is all of this happening but another really good friend of mine is going into the hospital soon for an operation! I hope all goes well and it's a success for her! Love ya!

So I'm not going to make this a long long entry as you can see I could probably go on and on about everything but I have my little princess to look after who has just finished her breakfast of cornflakes! I might end up reblogging when she goes down for a nap though!

Anywho Ciao for now!

♥ Lor ♪♫♪

Deeply Saddened

I'm not sure whether I've mentioned this or not but I am an event planner I absolutely love planning events even in my spare time! SO I've been planning this event for a little while now and it's started to get me looking into things much more clearly which is absolutely wonderful as it will provide me with something to stand on when it comes to it.

So the event is called With Open Arms or WOA (pronounced 'WOAH') it's all about raising awareness of suicide and self harm. I've had someone I was friends with commit suicide and it hit close to home for me. So when I started actually looking into things I've realised how often it happens! Suicide and Self Harm in teenagers! It makes you wonder and you can't help but to feel for their parents, friends and families that they have left behind because they have committed suicide. It made me start to wonder what started it all, my mum has been sending me articles she finds in the news and what not and she mentioned trolls not knowing what they were as it's not well explained...

SO for those who don't know here is the term for TROLLS in the online community.

In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory,^[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response^[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

I've discovered that the platform Tumblr is the main source where there are people who are self harming or suicidal. They blog and post images on this page, they're calling out for help and support because they don't know who else to turn to and instead they are hit with brutal anonymous comments telling them how horrible they are, how ugly they are, how they should just kill themselves and be done with it. I am honestly completely disgusted and it makes me scared to think that my own daughter will be growing up in a world with such brutality.

The main person that has brought my attention to this is the recently deceased Olivia Penpraze who was just 19 years old, who posted on Tumblr about how she was feeling only to be confronted with hate and brutal anonymous comments which were still coming through after her death! You can read more about it all here. There is this post also, as well as Olivia's Video. It's so sad to know that someone has taken their life; cyber bullying being one of the reasons and I'm sure there's much more..

RIP Olivia and all of those who have taken their lives hopefully we can raise awareness to the youth of my area with our With Open Arms event to be held in May this year!

♥ Lor ♪♫♪