Box Lunch Garden Party

My Red Hat group met at the Nurenberg Gardens during the Art Fair last June. I offered to provide a picnic lunch for the event. I have enjoyed making box lunches for other events, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to use my boxes and add my personal touch. I used boxes that coordinated with the bright colored linens and tied the boxes shut with colorful ribbon and a packet of wild flower seeds that had an inspirational message. I bought the boxes at William Sonoma and the containers for the fruit and pasta salads at the Lund's deli counter. I used a mini clay pot for mints and covered it with cellophane and tied it with a bright colored ribbon.

Graduation Open House

As graduation open house season rapidly approaches, I’m reminded of the fun we had planning and pulling together two such parties for my two favorite high school grads! Of course, I had tons of help from my favorite party planners, my sisters and mother – my blog mates. For both parties, we had a 20 x 20 tent set up in the turn-around in the driveway. We created a “Wall of Fame” in the tent by hanging pictures that were strung together with, in the case pictured, hockey skate laces, and anchored with hockey pucks at the bottom (hole drilled through the puck). The pictures were created by blowing up photos to 8 x 10 or larger at Archivers or Kinkos, then mounted on black foam board. For table centerpieces, we used magnet frames (BorealStone.com) with skates as magnets and a hockey puck base. We also sprinkled the center with personalized golf tees. For my daughter’s party, there was no specific sport or hobby theme, but we used bright colored plaid tablecloths, and the pictures were strung together with a variety of bright colored ribbons. We also matted the photos in bright colored paper between the photo and the black foam board. We used Gerbera daisy plants in terra cotta pots as centerpieces. The “parting gift” was a key chain with a small silver frame that contained a picture of the graduate.

Maple Syrup

Getting ready for a grand way to end Spring Break. We had a "staycation" this year which was perfect for tapping the trees and boiling sap. A super fun family event...all was well until the snow fell and put a damper on our spring affair...life in Minnesota.
We have bottled and are ready to share with friends. The bottles can be found at any brew your own beer store and the labels were created by cutting letters out of magazines, scanning and printing on label sheets...an easy all age project.
Remember...you can use these bottles for many party favors.
More to follow.

The Beginning

After many years of talking about writing a book on parties we have thrown in our family, we decide in a five minute phone conversation that we would start a blog.  

Well, here goes.  Now what do we do?  Stay tuned for tomorrow.

The Girls