"There are no safe paths in this world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now,
and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go."
Here at the Meloche household, we love all things Hobbit. In fact, we had a whole house full of Hobbits and other characters invented from the mind of Tolkien this past Sunday. They descended upon our Hobbit hole to celebrate Ezra's 7th Birthday! A merry time was had by all, which makes all the effort and preparations heartily and acutely satisfying.
Before I begin, I should warn you though: there are a ridiculous amount of pictures in this post.
In fact, you might do well to give your index finger a good, long stretch before you start scrolling through this post willy nilly.
Go ahead, I'll wait...I'm patient like that. Ready?
Let us begin at the beginning...or shall I say, at the entrance:
Next, we have our resident cartographer generating Middle Earth:
Ahem, then I, added all the final touches: words and such...
Then there was the birthday banner with special Hobbit lettering.
(Thank you Shower of Roses for the idea!)
Here we have your typical pound cake and, if you watch carefully,
you can see it transforming itself...
into Elven Lembas Bread! If I had known better I would have called it 'cram'.
"If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise."
If I read The Hobbit before throwing a Hobbit-themed birthday party, I would have certainly called this 'cram'. Anyway, I used these as prizes for a game we played...more on that in a minute.
Moving on, we have Gandalf the Grey's wizard hat that I made using this pattern. The Churchwarden pipe is all Richard. Yes, he smokes it.
(One day, I would like to make a t-shirt that reads: "I Love my Non-Conformist Husband!" and wear it).
From left to right, we have Samwise Gamgee, Arwen and Frodo Baggins.
The cloaks I made using this pattern. Material and leaf buttons are from Joanns.
Aren't they cute? Oh the kids are cute too.
I threw this picture in the mix because it is just so cute. This was taken 2 years ago. The kids were invited to a birthday party with a literary theme and the boys went as Frodo and Samwise. Isn't it uncanny how closely they resemble Hobbits?
A little bit of man power:
And...a hobbit cake to call home:
The gravel is made out of crushed Cookie's N Cream Hershey's Bars. Genius, right?
Frodo in front of his cake.
Veritable Hobbit Fare: Fish Sticks, Root Veggie and Beef Stew, Po-Tay-Tohs, Mushrooms, Pickles, Cheese (our favorite Manchego and Baby-Bel) Homemade Candied Pecans, Mini Ciabatta Bread, fresh radishes ( I bought them for decoration but Richard insisted I serve them and they were a hit!) and hot tea.
" I cook better than I cook, if you know what I mean."
Welcome friends!
Look, a Hobbit baby!
Arwen with Galadriel and other Elven company.
Frodo on a journey:
Having quite the adventure!
Hobbit Love.
Kids had to recite/read their favorite word or quote from the Hobbit
to win some Elven Lembas Bread:
Fun Stuff.
Waiting for cake.
Super. Cute.
Wizards. They're notorious flirts.
A Swiss Army Knife for his pocketsie.
Oh, in case you are asking yourself, "Where is Augustin?". The short answer is:
He was sleeping. But I will leave you with these most recent shots. He wouldn't let us put the 9-month label on him, nor would he stay in one spot! Little turkey.
