Hobbit Day 2012

Last Friday we celebrated Bilbo's birthday and the official Hobbit Day that was encouraged around the world.

We made plans for this day that involved a lot of food in fact 6 meals for the day.

Eden prepared the invitations for everyone. Handwritten on a rough looking parchment type invitation. I especially like the Elvin script. Complete with a Hobbit name for each of us

Rogan was very keen to make the banner that we put up on the balcony for the 'party goers' to see

 So to start the day off we had First Breakfast which consisted of mushrooms, with sourdough fried bread, eggs, bacon and tomatoes
 Through out the day we had tea and coffee Drinks -Ginger beer, honey and lemon drinks.
 I LOVE HOBBIT DAY, IT GIVES ME A MAJOR EXCUSE TO PIG OUT AND NOT FEEL GUILTY COZ   I'M A HOBBIT :] thank you for writing this Autumn sweetie.

Second Breakfast - strawberries with cream,

 Elevenses  was scones with jam and cream.
Corbyn loves making these Spelt flour soaked scones

We set the table with our beautiful white table cloth and of course we had to have our special  tea cups

Oh yes these were extremely yummy

Our little Hobbit kept getting in his hobbit hole over and over again

Each year we add hobbit feet by simply drawing on with textas

Our Hobbits are all dressed up and ready to party. We left the elf, who seemed to be unable to keep up for the day asleep inside.

Some of our youngest hobbits, Arwen, Corbyn and Myffwyn, all dressed up and ready to party

Moran and Rogan ready as well

Could this be Merry and Pippin? NO it is Vellvin and Eden!

Musical chairs was one of the  most favoured games we played on this day.

Back to the food.
Luncheon  was fried potatoes, onions and apples. Might I add by this stage we were starting to feel a little full

Our children love to decorate and we had fun preparing our new home  with streamers and balloons (well they got blown up but the little kids played with them before we could  put them up).
We had Luncheon out side on the decorated balcony.

Afternoon Tea  consisted of Apple pie and custard

I did print out some pictures for the children to colour in. It is so sweet to see our littlest on enjoying sitting down at the table and  colouring.

Have I mentioned that this year we made a gigantic cake for us to light up and sing Happy Birthday to Bilbo. One of the funny things about the day was the children themselves decide on characters and Arwen wanted to be Bilbo. So all day she kept going around telling us all that it was HER birthday and it was her birthday cake.

Starting to decorate with whipped cream.

Saxon with the help of the little ones decorated the cake.

The finished cake complete with Frodo on top of what I called "Mount Doom"

We made these glow stick lanterns to decorate the table for dinner

Glow stick lanterns were super easy to make. I cut up the glow stick into the jar and shook it up. I left the the cut sticks in the jars, even though I know other instructions did not say to do this, they added to the glow effect

We had dinner outside on the balcony with the glow lanterns.
Quite frankly we had had enough of preparing and eating food by this stage and of course washing up so we actually combined Dinner and supper together.

We had meat pies, cold cuts, pickles and eggs  as well as the supper of cheese, crackers.

Lighting the candles on the cake is always exciting and I love how the kids set it up so that  it looks like Frodo is lighting the candles

See that huge slice of cake being cut out? Well we did not each much of it due to the fact that we had eaten almost non stop it seemed all day.

This is the remainder of the cake after we had taken that first slice. In fact we did not even eat all of this slice and the rest is in our freezer waiting to be eaten still.

After the clean up we all pretty much went to bed as it had been a very long and exhausting day and we had a big day the next day with our Kynan coming home to celebrate his birthday late too. It had been months since we had seen Kynan and we were all so very excited to be seeing him in the morning.

So until next year we hope you  had a Happy Hobbit Day in your homes too!!

Blessings to you and your homes,
 

Hobbit Day or Bilbo's Birthday Plans

As this year is the 75th year of the release of the Hobbit book and the fact that the movie is released in December there seems to be a great many opportunities available to celebrate this day.

In the past years we have concentrated on the fact that 22nd of September was the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo. This year I think it will be a more Hobbit themed idea, well mostly.
This was our first impromptu Hobbit theme birthday
The year we made a quest (treasure hunt with items to collect)

Last year we went on a trip interstate and tried to keep journals of our adventure

In preparation for our day on Friday we came up with these ideas~
First off you need invitations to the party, we are making ours in old style with a little bit of elvish writing or old dwarven runes on part of them. Or here is a runic translator for you
Of course you need to have a Hobbit name and this name generator will set you up
Decorations are a must and consist of streamers, balloons, a birthday sign, a party tree (if you can), bunting around your celebration area.
Glow Stick Lanterns these are going to be such fun to have and to make. Simply find a jar, some glow sticks and then cut the glow sticks into the jar (add glitter if you like) put the lid on and shake.
Do not make too far in advance though as they don't last that long

For fireworks we have sparklers and party poppers (sadly no fireworks permit for us)

Music for dancing or listening, my preference is good Celtic music or some old English folk melodies

Watching this old movie and the new trailer also the party scene from The Lord of the Rings
Games are lots of fun. our list includes charades, blind man's bluff, musical chairs, quoits, riddles, poem memorization, murder in the dark (cause of the cave scene), scavenger hunt here is a trivia question game
charades
Food is very important and we have made up this list of essential foods for us to consume over the day~
First Breakfast -Of course there will be mushrooms, with sourdough fried bread, eggs, bacon and tomatoes
Second Breakfast - strawberries with cream,
Elevenses -scones with jam and cream
Luncheon -potatoes , onions and apples
Afternoon Tea - Apple pie and custard
Dinner -meat pies, cold cuts, pickles and eggs
Supper -cheese, crackers, tea and coffee
Drinks -Ginger beer, honey and lemon drinks

Here are some fantastic recipes if you have the time or inclination to try them
An invitation below with other great ideas

Hobbit second breakfast ideas- word search, bunting and food ideas
Here  is an amazing menu for meals for Hobbit day as well as this one and another menu
Other information-
Reference Guide
Readers guide
Educators guide
Party Ideas
Miniature  Bag End

May you have a great celebration of Hobbit Day or Bilbo and Frodo's Birthday this year.
Why not check back later for how we celebrated this year, we would love to see you!

Blessings to you and your homes,
 

Happy One Hundred and Eleventy One Birthday Bilbo

We knew it was coming, yes we did!
We also knew that our annual celebration of the special day for all Hobbit fans, like we are, would not really be a happening event in our home this year.

Our lives have been revolving around our family holiday and Autumn's Debutante Ball and as tomorrow we are leaving on an adventure the best we could come up with, as I was ABSOLUTELY sure I could not organise a  party as we have done in past years Our Celebrations in 2010  and Our Celebrations in 2009
and an idea was formed that we would combine our trip with the theme of a Hobbit Adventure' such as Bilbo and the Dwarves had.

So in preparation of this we each drew lots for a role of a dwarf and Bilbo. I ended up as Kili one of the most popular dwarves in our family along with his twin brother Fili.

We intend to keep a journal ('To there and Back Again' Inspired) and try and work in some Lord of The Rings/ Hobbit adventures.

So to all you fans that celebrate this day in any way. Have a great day and have a little cake for me too please.

Blessings to you and your homes,