Here in Luxembourg I have friends with children named Saoirse, Caoimhe and Roisìn to name but a few and when Niamh was born 8 years ago she was the third Niamh I had met, so I never thought about the pronunciation of her name.
Anyway Niamh had her party on Saturday at a play centre in the city which caters for 10 or so parties concurrently. The parties are assigned party rooms but spend most of their time running around in a huge jungle climbing area and are paged at various points to return for food and cake. Irish names tend to confuse even English speakers so you can imagine what a Germanic/French speaker would make of her name. Needless to say when Niamh's friends were paged as Nee-am-ha's party - it fell on deaf ears even though it was announced in 3 languages. To be fair there was so much noise with that many children I could never see a paging system being successful.
If you're wondering how the card stays open and the princess stays upright, have a look at this side view. The grass which holds the card open was easy - I punched a strip of grass, used a bone folder to make a fold line and adhered below the fold line to the base of the inside of the card. I then covered the base of the grass with a patterned paper (printed with the sentiment).
Anyway she loved it and Simon and I had a great time at her party although somewhat deafened by the noise of a hundred or so children having a good time.
P.S. There is a little stamp which comes with the set which says "Kiss Me" but I thought that was going a bit too far after all they're only 8 years old even though they've been engaged for over 3 years now ;0).
Such a pretty card....love your ideas for the easel part.
ReplyDeleteI laughed at the Nee-am-ha....my daughter is a Niamh too and has been called some very strange things!!
Oh how sweet! I'm sure Nee-am-ha/Niamh will absolutely adore this. Funnily enough Australians never get my name right and constantly call me Cla - I always have to say it in an Aussie accent!
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