Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was at our house and it turned out beautiful! I decided on rich warm shades of purple for the main color theme! I had paisley napkins drenched in shades of eggplant, greens and gold’s. I mixed that up with some solid white napkins and added a few purple and white that had a checked pattern. I'm not one that normally mixes too many patterns but I think the trick was to keep the table cloth a solid color. Here is a list of some of the items I made.

Napkin rings made out of scrapbook paper, ribbons and pearls.

• I cut 1/2 inch strips by 5 inches and used Modge Podge to adhesive the ends and mixed it up from using scrapbook paper for some and ribbon for others and then put a small pearl for a special touch on each napkin ring.

For place cards I used pinecones from the yard so that was obviously inexpensive.

• I painted them gold then put each persons name on some glossy old cream invitations that I cut into strips. I glued the names onto the pinecones to make sure they were secure and that was it!

I wanted to have a centerpiece that had accents of purple but not overwhelming so I took a little trip to our farmers market. I bought flowering kale and brought them home, cut the stalks and plopped them into a vintage white pitcher and they looked so good people thought they were fake.

Halloween 2009

So I'm going to play catch-up and post a few of the parties I hosted this year. Actually, we had like a party a month in 2009 and it started with our wedding on May 29,2009 and didn't stop. We were married in an awesome barn on the Western Michigan Coast, I'll post those laters.

Heres some pictures from the festivites! The invitations were black crate boxes with a resin casted finger and a ribbon around the finger as a reminder. They were from Martha's line and I just added some touches to personalize it with more information.

Creepy Finger Invite to set the mood!!