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My littlest niece Ava turns one soon (awwww). Seems like only yesterday Matt and I were making the montruous pilgrimage to Brisbane in anticipation of her birth, then quickly met her and her poor drained mother in hospital before dashing home again to start our first calving at Ythanbrae, babies of our own!

But oh what to get a second-child, second-daughter for that matter, for their first birthday? She already has all the toys under the sun, and any beautiful wooden toys, books etc. I have already given to her big sister Scarlett for birthday's, so Ava will no doubt play with them soon. So I settled on the boring clothes option. Boring you say? Oh no - I found the CUTEST little denim pinafore on etsy (where else?) from Squirt Baby. My mum used to dress me and my sister Louise in identical denim pinafores she made with red skivvies, red tights and shiny black patent Mary-Janes when we were little. We of course thought this was horrendous, but this little creation from the talented Fiona was SO reminiscent of that for me that I couldn't resist. Albeit minus the 80's acidwash denim that we had to endure...

To make to whole experience even greater, Fiona is a Melbournian etsian! What a pleasurable find, and yes I do believe that any purchase/sale on etsy is absolutley an experience, that's what makes it such a great outlet/concept.

P.S. I will post a photo hopefully of Ava in her pinafore, although I don't think it will fit her for awhile yet...she is a huge baby so I figured I couldn't buy her a size 1 but size 2 might not fit until summer. Perhaps Scarlett just scored herself a tunic top to wear until little sister Ava grows a bit?