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Birthday Alien Attack



I've been up to my armpits in Birthday arrangements for Dr Fred 60th celebrations... I've been so busy - partly because I kind of wasted the one good day we have had pottering around the garden when I should have been closeted upstairs hiding in the attic making Dr Fred a scrapbook illustrating the rather fab almost 25% of his life he has spent with me.   I really needed a sun fix and I really needed to sit in our new garden and contemplate how it might look this time next year... so i did just that, I planted loads of pots up and set some seeds off and then when the rain started AGAIN I went back upstairs and continued my serious labour of love!!

It started as a birthday card and then turned into a home made book and then got very quickly out of hand - how do you par down almost 15 years worth of photos to illustrate every adventure and good time?  well basically you don't, as I had left this all to the very last minute and it was a mammoth task I used more or less what I had to hand - I trawled through all the photos I had had printed over the years - I trawled through all the digital stuff and picked a few very relevant ones and I asked a few pals for some contributions which I printed on our not very good but will have to suffice printer!! I hit the collage boxes for stars, animal prints space stickers... Then I spent hours sorting arranging and mixing them up so after spreading them out all over the floor several times I'd no idea where some were, but eventually to cut a long story short (and process) I had some semblance of order and I just stuck them down - Collectively it came to 120 pages - photos little musings, some of my own illustrations and lots of collage to break up the pictures.  It wasn't the best work I've produced but given the time scales and materials to hand it worked in its own way and Dr Fred seemed to like it when presented with it at breakfast today.

Then I got crazy in the kitchen!  its a big birthday so it deserves a big cake - goodness knows how we
 will ever eat this but after further slaving away I produced a Mars attack, complete with aliens, cake of gigantic proportions using every colour under the sun - its garish and childish but very good fun....



and as if that wasn't enough tonight we head up to Newcastle to Ernest's for DJ Yuri Cosmos to host a Yuri Gagarin space party to commemorate the first man in space April 12th 1961... so we had to make costumes fitting such an event - this is why  I haven't posted for so long!!!  off now to start partying 😀😁😤

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