Photo Diary: Virgo Birthday Time!
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My favourite birthdays are always the ones I share with a close friend. In New Zealand, I’ve done double birthday parties with Jennie, one of my favourite people, who happened to be born three days before me, on September 10th — & they’re always a good time. In America, Miss Nubby Twiglet turns a year older a day after I do (though she has a couple of years on me!).
Nubby & I celebrated our birthdays together in 2008 & had an amazing time in Central Park. We put an open invitation out to anyone who read our blogs, saying they were welcome to come & join us for cupcakes & photos! It was a wild day, mostly I remember that it was insanely hot & I felt like my make-up was melting! We had about 60 guests, who were all so rad, & then a few of us went back to the room we’d rented at the Hotel On Rivington for bed jumping, cake throwing & the best sleep EVER!
This year, we decided to do something a lot more low-key. We commandeered a community garden & invited a few of our favourite people over for a midday birthday picnic…
There were bubbles & miniature cupcakes, skull-shaped goblets, a disco ball, multiple cakes & balloons EVERYWHERE. I wore a pink sequinned Betsey Johnson dress with a flower crown & false eyelashes. It was a wonderful way to send off the year that has been & welcome in the year ahead!
Beware! LOTS (& I do mean LOTS) of photos follow!
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A birthday isn’t a birthday without bubbles…
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Or a disco ball…
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Showing Nubby how to use her new camera!
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Jazzi loves to help. Isn’t her hat epic?!
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A real playgirl blows up her own balloons!
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Fumi & Asami are the cutest!
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Nubby & Eliza.
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Cake from Venieros, a gift from Hugh & Pat!
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Creamy delicious!
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I’m not sure what The Dish is helping me with here, but I have a photo of myself from my 5th birthday party where I look exactly the same & my mother is in his place!
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Skull cups… Thanks, Party City!
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Eliza did the honours.
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I shot silly string & it landed on Nubby’s Miu Miu handbag… You should have seen the look on her face, hahah!
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After a little while, circumstances dictated that we move on…
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Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go!
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So we decided to walk the dogs over to Tompkins Square Park. There was a festival going on but even despite that, our Birthday Gang ™ made quite an impact. Soon, we found some park benches, & sat down in our sequinned finery so we could swig from open champagne bottles, watch children throw rocks at squirrels (?!) & listen to music which sounded like poltergeists…
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Turns out that Chloe boots make excellent hiding places for champagne bottles!
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Nubby is always saying that the three of us should form an all-girl pop group. It’d be good, right?
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Trying to preserve her modesty!
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I turned 27 today & I know that this is going to be the biggest year yet. Lots of changes are coming… I can’t wait to see what happens!
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Photos by Chloe Rice
! I love you Chloe!!!