Making Memories

Hi everyone!

As promised, I'd like to share some photos of my Tea Party from this past weekend.

It is a rare occasion that I get to spend a day with all 5 of my girls at once, so I planned this day especially for that reason.

I had so much fun decorating.

I made banners and a tower of tea cups.

There were vintage tea pots everywhere.

There was even one hanging from the chandelier.

Everyone brought some type of food.

I think the French Macaroons were our favorite.

We all exchanged handmade and vintage gifts.

There were paper dolls, vintage gloves and aprons for all.

Each of us wore vintage outfits and every one of us had some type of wardrobe malfunction.

There were fresh flowers for everyone to take home.

My husbands oldest daughter couldn't be here, but she joined us via iphone and I sent her a package of goodies to open at home.

We all had such a crazy good time.

We laughed so much our faces hurt and my husband did sneak home early from his fishing trip to have a peek at our silly little party. It was decided by all that we should do this again, so we are planning a garden party for sometime this summer.

Thank you so much for stopping in.

I wish every mother and daughter out there could experience a day like this.

It's one that I will never forget.

Karen

Paper Garland

As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are 4 birthdays in my family in the month of March.

Three of our daughters and mine.

This year we are planning to celebrate all of them together with a tea party.

We are making this a very girl kind of thing with lots of frills and pretty decorations.

Last night I made some paper garlands for the event.

These were so simple to make.

I used card stock and a large hole punch to make the circles (you could cut the circles out by hand if you don't have a hole punch), then stitched them together with my sewing machine (you can also stitch them by hand if you don't have a sewing machine). I used upholstery thread to make it a bit stronger.

I strung these across the curtain rod.

I made another type of garland to drape across a chicken wire door that hangs on the wall in my dining room. I cut out the circles then using a regular size hole punch, made 2 holes in each circle to string ribbon through (they look like a big paper button). This would be a great project to do with your children.

I'm pretty pleased with the overall look and I love the pretty colors.

This was a fun project and the happy colors brightened my day.

Hope you have a bright and happy day too!

Karen