Life's A Stage

Last nighttime was the annual Senior Adult Fall Banquet at our church building in addition to I was asked to come upwards up amongst a agency to decorate the stage.  It's kind-of hard to mean value of ideas for something similar this - it's a big space, tall ceilings, depression budget, etc.  I hunted around on the spider web in addition to Pinterest a lilliputian but didn't come upwards up amongst anything likewise inspiring.  Just non a lot out at that spot for decorating at a church!


A few weeks agone I attended a local vacation craft-type sale.  The sponsors did a proficient project of decorating the mutual areas, in addition to ane matter I noticed was that they hung big thick branches horizontally along a curtained wall in addition to dangled ornaments from the sticks.  That got me thinking most the sticks, in addition to equally that stewed inward my encephalon for a few days I decided to create big clusters of sticks all around the phase in addition to create total inward around them.  It was free, big in addition to dramatic, in addition to filled upwards the infinite well.  


I cleared everything off of my forepart porch and added those things in, in addition to a friend brought upwards a common bench to utilisation equally well.  I went exterior my dorsum debate in addition to gathered branches from what my married adult man had trimmed off of our trees quondam before inward the summer.  Free, free, free!  The alone terms for the phase laid was $6.00 for the tissue newspaper for the poms.  Pretty good!  


Here's the result...the pictures are never equally proficient equally existent life.  It's hard to receive got proficient pictures inward a room amongst no windows in addition to fluorescent lights!

I used some thick burlap-type stuff pieces that I had to wrap around all of the branch containers to unify them.  Some of them are only trash cans in addition to vases!

I followed this very uncomplicated tutorial for the poms.  I dearest them.  (The black ane is actually chocolate brown.  It looks plum-colored here!)

The tabular array decorations were done yesteryear a friend who organized the event.  They were beautiful.  Table centerpieces tin flame endure hard because I e'er desire something big in addition to showy, but ane has to cry back that everyone seated at the tabular array should endure able to run into around it.  

She used styrofoam pumpkins in addition to covered them amongst mistaken mums.  I've seen this done amongst a existent pumpkin in addition to fresh flowers, but this is a swell option if you lot desire to endure able to reuse twelvemonth later year.

Lanterns were purchased at Ikea in addition to volition endure used for many church building functions inward the future.  For the lawsuit the candles were lit in addition to placed inside.

This organization was on the grand piano.  

I've already been recruited to help amongst decorations at our Women's Retreat inward Jan (Thanks D!).  We're racking our brains for ideas directly in addition to I'll percentage pics later that event.  If you lot receive got whatever ideas to share, I'd dearest to remove heed them!  The subject is "Life's H5N1 Trip" in addition to we'll endure going amongst a "trip" theme...vintage suitcases, maps, etc.  Suggestions?

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