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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Happy Birthday to my Jonah!

Jonah turns 12 today!


He is such an awesome kid -- so sweet, funny, easy-going and fun to be with!
Last week, while Sage was at camp, he & I worked on a project together:
we made a duct tape hammock.


It was pretty frustrating at first, but then we found our groove.
Jonah asked me: "Are you having fun?" I told him that once we'd figured out how to make
it work, it was fun. I asked him if he was having fun.
"Yes! It's nice doing a project together, just you and me," he replied.
See what I mean? Super sweet!

We had a joint birthday party on Sunday (joint with his dad, whose birthday was last Wednesday).
Austin had a coupon for a DQ ice cream cake, so they went to pick one out. 
I thought they'd just pick a ready-made cake, but they got talking to one of the employees, 
who turned out to be a fellow Doctor Who fan, and they talked her into making this cake.


And for Jonah's party today (we're going swimming at the Winkler pool),
I made another Doctor Who cake (I made a Tardis cake for Austin in May),
but this time, Jonah wanted a dalek.


And lastly, before I go, I want to share the card I made for Jonah....
he's a huge fan of cars and plans on being an automotive mechanic one day, 
so I bought this discontinued set online from a fellow crafter and 
paired it with Papertrey Ink's Label Basics stamp set.


I used three different colours of inks to stamp my panel (PTI's orange zest, Heidi Swapp's Teal 
and SU! Island Indigo) -- Jonah picked the colours.
I cut my panel at an angle and adhered it with dimensional adhesive.

Thanks for looking!

17 comments:

  1. Happy birthday Jonah! I love your card Leigh and the cake you made is awesome!

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  2. I am in awe over the duct tape hammock. Love the card too.

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  3. Happy birthday Jonah! Love his card and wow on the cake!

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  4. How fun! Love the hammock, the cake and the card....hope Jonah has a great birthday!

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  5. I've never seen a duct tape hammock- that's so cool gotta show this to our scout group! Fab cake and card. In fact I'm feeling the love as I type x

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  6. What a totally fab card! Jonah seems to be very sweet and how fun to make a duck tape hammock together!

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  7. A card maker AND a cake baker? You go, girl! The card is such a great design.

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  8. Happy Birthday!!
    And what an awesome card...
    love it!
    And the cakes.
    I'd so totally eat those cakes! *giggle*

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  9. Hope Jonah had a wonderful birthday! Fun hammock and a terrific cake too!!

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  10. Happy Birthday to Jonah. Love the card, hammock and cake.

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  11. Happy Birthday to Jonah! They do grow up so fast!

    The cakes look amazing!

    Love the graphic design of your card and the colors!

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  12. Belated Happy Birthday, Jonah - looks like you had a most fabulous day making a hammock with your mom (seriously, duct tape rocks!) and having special cakes! Awesome!! Wishing you a year filled with all things wonderful!!
    ~c

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  13. Anonymous9:30 am

    Happy Birthday to Jonah! Love your thank you card...so very cute!

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  14. Happy Birthday Jonah! What a fun cake!

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  15. What a fabulous post leigh!
    I can see you had a very rich week of celebration too ;)
    First, the DUCT TAPE HAMMOCK = GENIUS!
    BRAVO!!
    Second: happy Belated BDay Jonah!
    3rd: Love these cakes!
    4th: what a cute card you made for him ;)

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  16. Happy belated birthday Jonah
    OMG you cake is too cute and your card so rocks.

    Hope your day was absolutely awesome!

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  17. Cute cards! I really want to eat your cake.

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