party | entertain – Page 4

last week i taught a class on how to plan a party on a budget. The main ideas I shared are this:

make these homemade party hats
make d-i-y custom water bottles labels
add a yarn ball garland
arrange your own flowers
purchase a small package of stripy straws. voila!

a pretty table setting that can be adapted for almost any party. Are you in the midst of planning any events right now? Come back tomorrow to see some ideas for a summer barbecue! enjoy your Wednesday,

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well well, what do we have? one of my favorite color combinations yet? it looks that way! mixing brights with neutrals:

party details!

1. i covered the table with brown kraft paper.
2. using two large neon green poster boards i cut them down to smaller sizes to be used as placemats.
3. i added striped washi tape to hold the placemats in place + wrapped the utensils with tape too for a little extra detail. can you tell i love taping stuff? {purchased locally, found online here.}
4. i made those happy name place cards using this font.
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happy may day! for many of you mommas, your kids will be out of school this month! i’m so jealous – i love summer vacation, but now that we live in new england – school doesn’t get out till the middle of June! and, it could be worse, the school district expected to have the school year end June 20th, but because we didn’t use ANY of our snow days this year our kiddos will be done June 13th. snow day credit – – – thank goodness for an easy winter!

last week i decorated these tables for a dinner celebrating the 170th birthday of this phenomenal organization. i made utensil pouches out of brown kraft paper card stock + filled mini glassine bags with rock salt &

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kiana’s birthday was yesterday. she’s 14. i can’t wait till she’s sixteen, because we really need another driver in our family. i feel like kiana has always been years ahead of her age, so she should be twenty. yet, the idea that i only get her at home for four more years just breaks my heart. so, i’m happy to accept fourteen and the fact that it looks really good on her.

to celebrate, i planned a simple family breakfast. i realized as i downloaded the pictures i was obviously obsessed with the decor because i didn’t take any pictures of the food or our family, minus two pictures of kiana. for breakfast we had whole wheat crepes,

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friends, it’s 2:15am and i’ve been girl-talkin’ with my roomie for the past three hours. i miss husband & the kiddos but really, this isn’t so bad…

i was starstruck this evening. starstruck by my favorite blogger’s husband. the last photo on the right – do you recognize him??? he is married to miss james, over at bluebird vintage. if you have never visited her site – go now.

i’m signing off, but will be back on monday with a full alt. report + i’m sharing my valentine’s ideas with you next week!

enjoy your weekend!

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thank you for the birthday greetings & wishes! my day was filled with family, friends, and lots of good food!

to my surprise, i woke up* to our bedroom filled with a web of streamers! check this out:

the streamers & balloons were my daughters idea – but husband had to do the work! he worked 12:30-2:30am to get this all done! on instagram he said,

here’s some friendly advice:
1) putting tons of streamers up in pitch dark is extremely hard and probably quite amusing to someone watching! #decoratingfordummies
and 2) DON’T start by putting your lowest streamer up first #soreback

the tiara was sela’s idea!

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summer birthday party.

neon + neutrals breakfast birthday party…

spring table setting

♥ + chalkboard oilcloth

winter wonderland…

a web of love.