Parties Together With Epitome (Last Infinitesimal Gift Idea!)

Over the weekend nosotros hosted a dejeuner for my girlfriends, a dinner for several immature couples, in addition to a birthday political party for my sister.  I idea nosotros mightiness equally good squelch inwards equally much equally possible piece the solid was build clean in addition to looking good!
  

I basically kept the tabular array ready in addition to only switched out dishes for each event.  These ornaments served equally identify cards in addition to a take-home political party favor.

The "cupcake stands" were inverted milkglass spectacles that I spotted at a thrift store.  They were $2.99 each, but I knew they wouldn't sell for that much then I kept an optic on them until they were marked down.  Yes, I hold off for things to endure marked down at a thrift store.  I snagged the ready of 12 for $9.00. 


The girls sat inwards the dining room...

and this was the boys' table-I kept it super elementary in addition to left the fluff for the girls.

I meant to bring pictures amongst our guests at the party, but I e'er forget to draw out the photographic telly camera 1 time people arrive.


Part II-
Several weeks agone my friend Darla in addition to I took a route trip for the twenty-four hours to Dallas-we packed inwards Ikea, textile in addition to jewelry warehouses, several Homegoods stores, Anthropologie at Northpark Mall, in addition to dinner at Babe's Chicken (YUM! if you've never been there...I wishing I had roughly correct now!)  Anyway, nosotros had a projection inwards take away heed in addition to constitute our supplies at Ikea.


Inspired yesteryear my friend Pam at Simple Details, we wanted to build roughly monogrammed door mats for Christmas gifts.  If y'all haven't been to Pam's blog, banking enterprise agree it out!  I dearest everything almost it...she has such impeccable gustation in addition to every projection she does ends inwards perfection!  We started blogging almost the same fourth dimension in addition to she was 1 of my get-go "blog" friends, in addition to we've since discovered that nosotros receive got then many things inwards common.  Visit her site for a amount tutorial, but here's a quick run downward of what nosotros did.

I enlarged the missive of the alphabet I wanted on the calculator in addition to printed it out.  Thankfully, it was a gorgeous, sunny twenty-four hours then nosotros used the window to draw the missive of the alphabet inwards the pump of a slice of posterboard.  


Then, nosotros trimmed the missive of the alphabet out of the middle to build a stencil in addition to centered it on the mat.  Spraying instantly downward to sweat in addition to avoid whatever bleeding, nosotros gave each mat iii or 4 coats.  Darla used Krylon apartment dark in addition to I used Walmart glossy.  I yell upward hers turned out a picayune darker.  I don't know if the flat/glossy was the divergence or the brand.

She's going to kill me for putting inwards this picture, but I receive got to demonstrate the process, right?  So, I'll nation prissy things almost her then she won't endure equally good mad.  She's the form of friend everyone needs...an amazing mother, smart concern woman, in addition to she genuinely hungers in addition to thirsts to know the Lord better.  She's my "Upstairs Friend" that I tin laissez passer on notice completely endure myself amongst and I know she volition e'er dearest in addition to bring me no thing what my solid looks like, how my kids human activity or what phase of life I'm in.  She was my #1 encourager to start this weblog in addition to is e'er form to limited her support.   


After the missive of the alphabet was finished nosotros only eye-balled the border, taped it off in addition to sprayed.  This was a fun project, mainly because I had a cracking partner in addition to our kids had a nail playing together piece nosotros worked.  I made my mats for teacher's gifts in addition to nosotros were actually happy amongst how they turned out. 

It took us perhaps 1 1/2 or 2 hours to produce all of these from start to finish, non equally good bad.

The finished product!


How would y'all wrap a doormat?  This is what I did...

Whew!  I gauge that was actually 2 posts inwards one.  Thanks for hanging inwards there!

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