Pennies from Heaven Designs: Queen for the Day! Mum's 80th Birthday ... making memories

We only have a few days until the end of June and in our family, another birthday, our eldest will be 24 next week. Unbelievable how this time goes, I remember when our two girls were so little and enjoyed taking them to school and nursery, coming home and having lovely summer evenings at home in our paddling pool at the time, at this time of year. In May we also celebrated my Mum's 80th birthday. It took some organising as I was adamant it was going to be a surprise so I started putting my organisational skills into place! We booked the venue, a beautiful historic building in the heart of Meopham, great for all sorts of celebrations www.nursteadcourt.co.uk. We decided on afternoon tea for everyone and as it is the year of Our Majesty's 90th Birthday, I decided that my precious Mum was also going to be Queen for the day! So that was the theme. And we did her invitations ... of course!

We wanted to make it so memorable, not every day your Mum is 80, so we employed a brilliant photographer Kirsty www.photographybykirsty.co.uk who spent a couple of hours taking some fantastic photos of our family and friends. We had a fantastic cake made by Karen www.icedimagescakes.co.uk all in the vein of Queen for the Day. Not only did it look stunning, it tasted delicious! Of course, the day wouldn't be complete without Mum's first Great-Grandchild and our first Grandchild, the beautiful Sofia so we had to get some photographs of her also. It was a fantastic day, the sky was blue, the surroundings were absolutely gorgeous and to top it all Mum had just one of the best days. In fact, everyone did!