Birthday Girl

There has been Stomper-spoiling going on this week for my birthday. And instead of just trusting to others to spoil me I've taken a hand myself. So I've booked the posh restaurant for me and Fixit tonight, I've booked the tickets for Sex and the City tomorrow evening for me and the girls, to be followed by dinner out. I showed Fixit how to buy some Mad About You dvds on Amazon and I commissioned a bracelet, featuring some little tap-shoes as a centre-piece and as much purple as possible. Then I put my trust in the lovely Angela at Boutique Beads and this is what she made:

I didn't see it till this morning, Fixit was in a panic about what to get me so I said I had this bracelet being made and he could get it for me once Angela rang to tell me it was ready. Then I went in on Thursday because she hadn't rung me and I thought Fixit might be cutting it fine, only to find that he'd been in there twice already to sort it all out. I was so astonished and impressed that I blushed. As you do.

My Mum sent me a Bill Granger cookbook (and I whipped up a most delicious meal from that last night), and a shirt which you would think would have been lovely on me because it was the most divine shade of peacocky green and made of silk, but this is what it looked like on:

And I think you'll agree that that blouse and I have nothing to say to one another. Thus, I spent a large chunk of yesterday trudging round the David Jones Women's Wear section looking for a suitable exchange. Which was very difficult and I had no joy in all the sale items, so eventually I bought a full-price Alannah Hill skirt, my very first. Apparently pleats near my face are no good but pleats near my legs are acceptable. Anyway, then I was all excited about having a really cute skirt to wear for the posh dinner tonight but unsure if I had anything nice to wear with it, so today 2 good friends minded the boys and I went to the Alannah Hill factory outlet in Brunswick Street and Oh My God, WHY have I never been to that shop before?!?! It is FULL of stuff I like, in my size, on special. Talk about walking out with a smile on my face.

I have to go swimming with the boys now, so I'll report back on romantic dinner and girls night out later.