I have this need to plan. Sometimes it’s just for a day. Sometimes it’s for the entire year.

Last year I had a plan sorted for this year. Well, my plan fell through the cracks in the floor boards.

So I need a new plan.

I came up with painting the house.  A great plan I hear you say. Keep me occupied, finish all those crappy painting jobs I started 6 years ago.

But one very hard to get *excited* about.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still paint, but I need something more…creative.

And then waltzed the impending 4th birthday party and the corresponding cake.

And…ta dah! I have a creative plan to fill my mind in between the paint fumes.

So first on the agenda is the cake. I’m going to build *off plan* this year. I know, I can hear you freaking, thinking of the tears and icing thrown all over the newly painted walls. But I have gone off plan before (see above Volcano).

All others have been sourced from the trusty Women’s Weekly Kids’ Birthday Cakes.

So…it’s a Mermaid this time round. And I’m lying awake in bed at night drawing the Mermaid pattern on the ceiling, imagining where I can get edible glitter.

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