Little Princesses with birthdays....going Dutch..and more..

My little baby girl turns 4 tomorrow! My sweet little princess. And..I made her a little castle cake.

She wanted a pink cake with pink icing..but..I had to improvise as I made everything except for the icing..from scratch.

The cake I made from scratch... and I thought I had red food coloring in my pantry. this evening...but nope..no food coloring...but...I did have a large box of raspberry jello powder...so..into the cake batter that went...it actually made the cake taste pretty good..ha..so..that problem was solved. Improvision..we mom's are good at it ..ehh? ..ha.

And the icing...I had about 2/3rd's of a container in the fridge..so..I melted it and drizzled it over the castle and sprinkled the whole thing with little multi colored butterfly and flower candy sprinkles.There is pink in it..so..I think she'll still like it though.

Cute..but not fancy..but..it is edible and looks mighty sweet..which cakes are supposed to be anyhow..but a prize winning cake..this isn't.

...but ..that's not what matters...what matters is that I took the time to make it and had fun doing so.And I think a little 4 yr. old will definitely enjoy it.

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We got her a teddy bear that you can stuff...so we stuffed it...got a pair of patent looking shoes for it, and a little outfit, and a Ty beanie baby toy of one of the Backyardigan characters that she likes.

And my oldest daughter made her a little blue sundress, then made her teddy bear a matching sundress.

Not a real fancy birthday..something simple and sweet and just with family.

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Well...I collect Dutch themed items.

...it all started several years ago when my dad gave me a pair of little children's sized Dutch shoes..

I had found a large pair somewhere..I have no idea where now...

but then on a visit home before dad passed away..he gave me a pair of child sized Dutch shoes and told me that he really liked them but wanted me to have them...so..that's all it took...

over the last few years I have slowly been adding a pair here..a pair there(finding them at garage sales or at antique shops as I can afford them..and come across them)...and even have had a few gals from over at Mary Jane's Farm Farm Girl Connection send me a few that they have gifted to me to add to my collection.

So..recently I decided..o.k....since my collection is starting to grow...

I am wanting to set up a special place by the front door of a new home...in the entry way...and make a dutch themed vignette and have my little Dutch shoes in a row in an entry way along with a few vintage garden watering cans....

So....I have been on the look out now for Dutch themed items...to expand my collection a bit.

Here are a few tings I found recently....

a lovely Dutch themed tablecloth....and a darling kissing dutch pair.

Aren't they adorable!!!

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Oh..and remember the little 1950's kitchen canisters with the roosters on them that I shared a while back?...well...I found a couple more darling vintage chicken items from the 50's.

(gotta love etsy for inexpensive vintage items)

I found this set of... covered butter dish..(yes it has a bit of paint worn off on the butter dish..but I honestly think it adds to the charm a bit)...and a sugar dish..and a salt and pepper set.

Darling! These will be used in my new home...yeah..I know..I know..why are you buying stuff now woman when you haven't even moved yet???...but remember..I mentioned finding little things that I can tuck into the drawers of my dining room buffet for safe keeping...ha.

I haven't totally filled up the buffet yet with my little vintage finds..ha.

And these things are all small items..and..they honestly don't take up much room.

And...I did clear out a heap of stuff recently.

(o.k...I think I'm a little bit justified now....smiles)

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Well...we survived the power outages..we stayed here through them..didn't go anywhere..just sat it out here at home...luckily it didn't get too unbearably miserable.

But I honestly hope that we don't have any more of them this summer.

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Someone asked about Passion Vine flowers and zone 7......you can grow it in that area..but like here in North Florida..the plant will die back during the winter time...but will spring back by summer time.

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Well....that's all for this evening folks..I hope that you all have a lovely evening..and a good day tomorrow!

Thanks for joining me in blogland!

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~The Garden Goose~