I was very excited at the prospect of organising Dylan's first birthday. I had seen pictures of rainbow cake and despite never having made a cake by myself before, I decided to base the party around this theme.
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Armed with rainbow bunting, multicoloured plates and bowls and plenty of balloons, I set about decorating for our rainbow extravaganza. I made some birthday bunting using 13 pieces of coloured card and sticking a photo of Dylan from each month on them. I pegged them to a piece of string and made my very own memory bunting following Dylan from a tiny newborn to a mischievous one year old.
We had all the usual party food and for desert I decided on plenty of fruit as well as cakes so the little people could have a healthy lunch. As well as plates of watermelon and assorted fruit I made a fruit rainbow using strawberries, slices of orange, melon, green and purple grapes.
