Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Birthday




As you know, yesterday was my birthday, which one I'm not telling. And in celebration of the occasion I wore this recently completed dress for the first time. This project has been a long time in the making due to many and various interruptions, but once I started work on it, discovered it to be the rubix cube of dresses. Subsequently it took me about three months to make it! Now that I look it up it appears I started it in May. So I have quite a sense of achievement now I'm actually wearing it.

I had quite a delightful day yesterday, not only for the birthday celebrations, but also spending the afternoon in the company of some very stylish ladies. After meeting Lady Melbourne for tea a little while back, we thought it would be lovely to meet some other fabulous and fashionable Melbourne bloggers. And fabulous they were. It is hard to describe just what a treat it is to see these ladies come to life off the page. So colourful, vivacious and passionate; they made my birthday a day to remember.


Left to right: Porcelain Blonde, Super Kawaii Mama, Lady Melbourne, I'm not Anti Social, Esme and the Laneway. And we were also briefly joined by Aus Style, the gorgeous fashion innovator.


The evening was spent indulging in Greek food and chocolate cake with my family, and of course being spoilt rotten in the present stakes. *eek* I am so privileged to have such an amazing family and all my friends in the blogging world, including you my delightful readers. Now I'm off to plan another evening of festivities which will of course involve more food, friends and having fun dressing up.

24 comments:

Kim said...

Happy happy happy birthday! you look absolutely wonderful! (my Ian's birthday is Aug 17. Go Leos!)

Robo said...

Happy birthday! Hope you have lots more fun in lots more fabulous clothes ;)

Skye said...

What a lovely dress - you all looked gorgeous for high tea. I'm getting ridiculously envious seeing this on all your blogs, Sydney girl that I am, I really missed out!

Rachael said...

Gorgeous dress! You look beautiful, birthday girl! I am so very jealous of your living in Melbourne, it looks as though you had a marvelous time.

Fashion Hayley said...

Happy Birthday. I'm so sorry I missed this.

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday - The dress looks great!

Kirstie Sequitin said...

happy birthday! beautiful dress :)

Anonymous said...

I wish you a happy happy birthday! You look great wearing that dress!

Anonymous said...

Darling, it was fabulous to meet you in person! You are as inspiring as you are beautiful :)
Hope you had an amazing birthday weekend getting spoilt...

Looking forward to seeing you again soon xxx

Anonymous said...

happy birthday! you look wonderful!
:)

K.Line said...

Happy BDay. Gorgeous dress! (Oh, and not that I'm trying to get you to spill the beans on your age, but I find it's best to look gorgeous and tell people how old you are and have them say "No way, you look to gorgeous to be XX!" Point is, you're fab whatever the age...

Elizabeth said...

What a lovely birthday celebration and dress!

Shallow Coffee said...

Happy birthday fellow Leo! So glad you enjoyed it. What a lovely dress!

Anonymous said...

happy birthday! :.)

floraposte said...

Happy Birthday!

Fabulous dress; such a rich looking fabric!

Andrea Eames said...

Happy birthday! It's great to see all you lovely Melbourne bloggers together, what a great group.

Kelly said...

Happy Birthday! And, of course, congratulations on finishing the dress!

esme and the laneway said...

I do hope the rest of your weekend was as fantastic! You look amazing, that dress is just so good.

Liv Bambola said...

Love the dress, very fun!
Hope you had a wonderful birthday and enjoyed celebrating with the gorgeous ladies of the Melbourne blogosphere :) x

Candice DeVille said...

Thank you so much everyone. It really was such a special birthday. Being able to share it with stylish friends and all your good wishes mean so much.

Anonymous said...

I wish you a belated Happy Birthday! As I said on Lady Melbournes blog, you all look so stunning, so elegant, that it really makes me happy to be a woman and to see how lovely we can all look.

Bonne journée!

Mademoiselle M.

Unknown said...

Belated happy birthday SKM, and what a fabulous dress and afternoon! I just blogged about afternoon tea too! It was my first ever, and certainly not my last. Yummy!

Unknown said...

what a lovely birthday dress! you look lovely. i'd wish you a happy day - but you've already had one!

Prudence Arcadia said...

I am so glad you had a fabulous and beautiful birthday! Cheers!