Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Shower Time!

My amazing sister-in-law Beth is getting married next month!! Her bridesmaids (including moi) put this adorable shower together! Everyone did an amazing job with their crafts and foods, it was so fun to plan and to attend!!

 I put this wreath together starting with the grapevine, added the burlap flowers with floral wire. The "H" is a wooden letter from Hobby Lobby and I totally scored with the Chevron scrapbook paper (also a Hobby Lobby find)!! Because I can't make bows the ribbon has wire in it and I spiraled it to make it fancy ;-)
 Susanna made these dot streamers with circle cut outs and thread, they looked so great hanging from the mirror! 

 These letters are spray painted with Rust-Oleum "Eden".  The B's and heart are hot glued to natural burlap. I left the glass out of this 11x14 frame that is painted with Rust-Oleum "Antique"

This frame and the one below are pained the same "Eden" color, but the pictures were taken at different times of the day. I used stencils to make the off white heart and charcoal letters.

 Wedding date!!

Cucumber Shooters: I used a potato peeler to make the lines, and then cut the ends off the cucumbers and sliced them into 4ths.  Next was the melon baller (which apparently I don't own, so I used a tsp scoop) it should end up about the size of a shot glass with the bottom still in tact.  I filled them with chicken salad: canned chicken, mayo, walnuts, and a little mustard.

 Kate picked up these perfect initial mugs from Anthropologie.

 Susanna cut up a million fruits to fill all the clear cups, it was such a great way to add lots of color to the table, and it made it easier that they were individual servings.

 Mandy made 3 different flavers of pancake muffins! There was chocolate chip, gingerbread, and pumpkin!

 Kate made the bacon bundles on the left (pretty sure I ate about 20 of them), on the right are pastry puffs filled with avocado, salsa, and greek yogurt, they were really tasty!

 The center of the back are egg muffins, with peppers and sausage made by Mandy. Teal created the cake pop stand (and a majority of the pops;-)) she covered styrofoam with green chevron paper from Hobby Lobby, it matched the party perfectly! 

Teal also made the tissue paper balls (which I have yet to attempt!)

This banner was made with white & natural burlap and stenciled with charcoal paint, and then hot glued to twine.

LOVE the mimosa bar! We had three different kinds of juice, orange, blood orange, and pink lemonade. The runner is green chevron and natural burlap.
Party Favors! 8oz mason jars filled with homemade sugar scrub, chevron paper on the lid, a thank you note tied with twine and a little scoop.

Sugar Scrub: 1 cup of sugar to a half cup of olive oil and ten drops of essential oil. We had peppermint, lemon, and lavender.  I get my essential oils from DoTerra. 

The labels were printed on a full sheet of labels and cut to size. They say Beth's Bridal Shower, along with the date and "flavor" of the scrub!

Monday, September 17, 2012

Wesley's Halloween Birthday (last year)

Since Halloween is getting close I thought I would share party pics from last year and the super cute food/recipes!

Nothing fancy here just a banner made from Halloween scrapbook paper.

Down the super long hallway at my parents house I had balloons tied in a zigzag pattern.

I'm not to fond of all the layers in 7 layer dip, so this might be more like 5 or 6 layer dip. I put the meat (i think), beans, cheese on the bottom and guacamole on top and lined around the plate with tomatoes sliced in halves. The spider web is made with sour cream, I put it in a ziploc bag and cut the corner off and squeezed it out in the spider web design. The oh so scary plastic spiders completed this look! 

These super cute tooth picks I found at Hobby Lobby.

Mummy Dogs: So simple and so yummy! I wrapped uncooked hot dogs with crescent rolls. I pulled the dough as I wrapped to make them stringy and then they went around the hot dog several more times.

Eyeball Deviled Eggs: Added green food coloring to the yolk mix and topped with a black olive (the 7th ingredient that doesn't make the cut in 7 layer dip) . 

These were sort of a fail ;-/  Slice the apples add the peanut butter to hold the teeth in, but instead of slivered almonds like you see here use mini marshmallows.  It will look SOOOO much better!

Plates I got from Party City.

LOVE this drink server I got as a wedding gift! Anyway this is Hawaiian punch, the top is filled with plastic eyeballs that float perfectly for a gross effect! 

Creative Wesley wanted to be a robot and so he picked out the pieces and we created this masterpiece! 

Gumby made an appearance!

This is where I earn Mother of the Year, I forgot birthday candles so he got to blow out a Yankee candle.  Thank goodness the Scentsy obsession hadn't started yet we really would have been in trouble!

His birthday cake was a dirt cake: Pudding, whipped cream and Oreos all mixed together and then topped with crumbled Oreos, gummy worms and plastic bugs.

The spider webs and "Chandeliers" are from the $1 store.

This would have looked better with black or white candles, but still turned out.

This is a cold spinach dip with carrots stuck in it to look like a hand.