Happy Birthday Riley!

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Dress: Retrospec'd cotton

Petticoat: Banned Retro via That Shop polyblend

Heels: Wittner leather, elastic

Belt: HellBunny elastic, satin

Hairclip: Bubbah Blue via Etsy fabric, glitter

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Finally sharing all of the gorgeous pictures from a certain little fellow's "socially distant" fourth birthday celebration-on-the-footpath a couple of weeks ago. Despite the fact that the Bluey-themed birthday party he had so been looking forward to had to be postponed/cancelled due to the Covid 19 #lockdown, he was so excited to open his presents with family watching from an appropriate distance away, blow out the candle on his cake surrounded by his loving mother & older brother & display his birthday cards proudly in the front window of the house for all to see. We love you very much & are so incredibly proud of you, darling Riley & look forward to celebrating all of the missed milestones with you very, very soon.

Regardless of the change of plans, I still wore the outfit that I had previously "put aside" to style up for party day - a gorgeous blue & black floral cotton fit-to-flare dress with flattering scoop neckline from vintage-inspired Aussie label Retrospec'd, cinched in at the waist with an elastic & satin bow belt from HellBunny & puffed out in the skirt by a full, midi-length black polyblend petticoat from Banned Retro via That Shop to give that true 1950s shape & movement; a pair of black leather pointy-toed heels with elastic straps from Wittner to provide height with a modicum of comfort & finally, a handmade fabric & glitter Bluey hairclip from a Sali's Bowtique via Etsy to complete the look.

Scroll down to see snippets from the celebration...