Vintage Wednesday

What We Wore on Sunday for Arlo's Party

me

Dress- thrifted from St Vinnies in Kingsland a few days before the party, originally more of a MuMu so I shortened it and pulled it in with a belt

Boots - vintage cowboy from Peachy Keen

Hat- vintage from Trademe, Ang found a lot of 5 vintage cowboy hats for the party

Ang

Shirt - thrift find from Salvation Army in Dominion Rd

Miss Isabella

Hat - vintage Trademe

Top - Vintage and Textile Fair

Shorts - 50s from the Bailey Collection via Black Betty Bam-bul-lam

Shoes- Tiny Space

Miss Harriet

I love this picture of her, she went to a friend's Dance Party which was on at the same time as Arlo's and on Sunday morning Isabella set her hair for her in rollers and tied it up in one of her vintage scarves

Billy

Shirt - Cotton On Kids

Shorts - hand -me-down Oshkosh from Harriet

and below off to school on Monday in one of the tees I screen printed for Party bags

The Birthday Boy

Hat - a present from Peter at Alleluya which had been left in the cafe months ago

Shirt and Jeans Cotton On Kids

Vest - vintage Cowboy vest from Betsey and Joy on Etsy

Boots - vintage cowboy from Vixen Vintage on K rd

BoY MONdaY

In case anyone reading is new to my little part of the world I thought I'd put in a little explanation of Boy Monday. It started 2 yrs ago when I realised Billy only had a year left before starting school and I wanted one day a week to be just about adventures for him. The idea was on a Monday between dropping Harriet to school and pick up we would not run errands or do housework but Billy would get to choose what we did and as far as possible, I would make any suggestion happen.
Sometimes he just wanted to take a 4yr old boy slow, climb every wall, explore every nook and cranny, find treasure walk around the neighbourhood and to the Library, sometimes he wanted to go on a bus, train and boat on the same day, sometimes have a quiet day at home baking. As Arlo was only 1yr old and along for the ride it became known as Boy Monday.
Last year when Billy started school I carried on with Arlo but at just turned 2yrs he really wasn't able to decide on a whole day's adventure so it was more about me repeating some of Billy's or thinking of fun places he would like to go.
This year however he totally gets the concept of a day of me all to himself and choosing what we can do.

His first request was go to Peter's (Alleluya Cafe)

then he wanted to go to the $2 shop for another favourite of his

Bubble Mixture

next he wanted to go to the park so knowing there was an unexplored park near us with a little water feature and being a hot sunny morning I asked if he wanted to go to a water park...he did

we spent a couple of hours here, his other favourite thing is finding little treasures, string, bottle tops, small containers, anything tiny to play with

washing his 'bumbum' and hair were pretty amusing too

then in the middle of the inner city we found this Heron visiting the park

some rock climbing

and a ToiToi broom stick

we didn't get home till nearly 2pm, just time for a nap before school pick up

Photo a day - day 28

Money

Photo a day - day 27

Something You Ate

Salad with Nashi Pears from Nana & Papa's tree and peppers from Aunty Margaret

Photo a day - day 26

Night

tired little cowboy after his big day

Retro Cowboy Party

On Sunday we celebrated Arlo's third birthday with his little friends and extended family with a Retro Cowboy themed party

Arlo and I went on a little visit to a horse farm on Saturday morning and picked up hay bales, I made use of all the retro cowboy images I could find in my vintage book collection and Leon contributed some western party graphics


the Cowgirl Gran's arrive

Miss Isabella

Arlo's wee friend Emma and the children's party table

Aunty Colleen and Arlo

cowboy Kahi

cowboy cousins

Aunty Elizabeth and Barb

Pass the Parcel

Papa and Arlo

Aunty Margaret and Mama

a thoughtful moment in the OK Corral

Arlo requested a cowboy boot with horses and cowboys and was very pleased with his Mama's cake

Papa & Billy

the gorgeous Sol

In case you are wondering where Miss Harriet is she was at Miss Emma's big sister's party and Miss Emma got to hang out with us

Party Bags all ready

as well as some wee packs of lollies they had screen printed cowboy and cowgirl tees

or little skirts from my gingham scraps

our littlest cowgirl guest - the lovely Francesca trying her party bag dress on

the birthday boy playing with one of his presents after all his guests had gone home

I asked him what he wanted to do today and he said "have another Cowboy Party"

thanks everyone for helping us celebrate