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Hello smart creative people that live inside my computer: I would like to talk about birthday parties. Riley turns six at the end of the month and we will be celebrating this weekend at the cabin in Oregon. We’ll mostly just be hanging out with family, so it won’t be a Great Big Huge Affair With a Rented Bouncy Castle or anything, but this year I’d like to do something a little more fun than my usual summer birthday method of slapping down some colorful paper napkins next to the cake and calling it good. The cabin is a great place for a kid to turn one year older, but the travel logistics and rustic accommodations make it a little challenging to set up a design-blog-worthy party decorating theme, even if a person had talent for such things, which I most decidedly do not.

Do any of you have any ideas for making a low-key family get-together a little more special for the birthday boy and everyone else? I think there will only be one other kid there, aside from JB’s brother’s brand-new baby; and maybe 6 or 8 adults total. We’ll probably just sort of assemble in the backyard during the afternoon, and while this location features plenty of natural decorations already . . .

. . . I’d still love any thoughts on Making Things Festive. Games, food or drink suggestions, themes, crafty things—I’m all ears.

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