Let’s have a party!

Girls gone WILD!

First, let’s dec­o­rate!  The party was at my daughter’s place for her and her girl­friends. Her chalk­board wall was ready to get wild with some col­or­ful zebra stripes. I added the banner.…why?  Because it is not a party with­out a ban­ner! ;o)

Next we need food!!  I pre­pared some of my daughter’s favorites.

Cock­tail Meat­balls
Cheese Fon­due with bread and apples for dip­ping
Chicken Taquitos
Choco­late Chip Cookie Dough Truf­fles
Peanut But­ter Pie

   
All served on zebra plates!

I pre­pared the peanut but­ter pie in lit­tle can­ning jars.  I topped each lid with a leop­ard print and tied on a mini fork.

I wrapped small nut cups with leop­ard spot­ted paper to go with the WILD theme.
Inside each one is a choco­late chip cookie dough truffle.

Next up, drinks!

I sim­ply served lemon­ade plus a peach schnapps spiked lemonade.

They were served in dec­o­rated Star­buck bot­tles com­plete with hang­ing monkey!

 NIGHT OWL
NEW YEAR’S EVE Party!

PARTY DETAILS: First I dec­o­rated the fam­ily room; mainly the fire­place man­tel.  I cut huge owl sil­hou­ettes out of black poster board and taped them to some big old win­dows.  I filled up the man­tel with lots of can­dles and many more owls!  Hang­ing from the ceil­ing is a cir­cle gar­land made by cut­ting 250 2″ cir­cles out of var­i­ous papers and fold­ing them in half.  I sim­ply glued them to a string and tacked them to the ceil­ing beams!  What a sim­ple idea but it sure makes a great PARTY state­ment! I might leave it up for a few extra days!

 I set up a lit­tle “Photo Booth” in the cor­ner of the room, the kids had some fun with the signs which I pur­chased at Party City.  (I added the skewers.)

Fun signs and tat­too mustaches!

More owl dec­o­ra­tions!  Great owl images printed up and secured to the win­dow panes of another old window.

I hung stream­ers to make the area fes­tive.  This is where we served some punch.

Addi­tional party decor included some owl pho­tos which were hung on some branches plus some dic­tio­nary art!
Var­i­ous chex mixes are in the glass can­is­ters ready for snacking!

The entry­way wel­comed every­one with noise mak­ers and some cham­pagne chill­ing in a bucket. We were ready for midnight!

CHEERS!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

you throw a
REDNECK PARTY!

The back­yard was trans­formed into a REDNECK Fall Fest
for a good ol’ boy’s birthday!

Larry was used to greet the guests.
Larry was clip art that I had enlarged and then I painted him.

Our red truck was used as a bar.  Old wash bins and tubs were used to hold the pop and beer.  (Thanks Dawn!) Punch was served in a big soup pot.  Lights at the “bar” were lights poked inside Jack Daniels bottles.

Fall punch and lemon­ade was served at the Moon­shine stand.
Drinks were poured into mason jars and each straw was tagged with some­thing redneck.

Snacks were served off a white truck tail­gate.
The menu of every­thing on the truck was writ­ten on the shut­ter.
Burlap, old wooden crates and mums made the “snack shak” old the rustic.

I baked 50 apple pies (birth­day boy’s favorite!) for dessert plus filled up huge cookie jars with ding dongs, ho hos and twinkies.

Signs on the cookie jars were secured with duct tape, red­neck style.

Ban­ners were made with duct tape to dec­o­rate the deck and hunt­ing lodge.

Flan­nel was used as table­cloths and weeds in bot­tles and cans were decorations.

Hay couch, hay bar table and hay benches:

More dec­o­ra­tions: Bubba the scare­crow and a wheel bar­row full of pump­kins, mums and apples.

Din­ner was served on pie pans.
Paper tow­els were used as nap­kins.

Funny REDNECK stuff:

For a cold fall day, extra flan­nel shirts were avail­able for any chilly hillbilly.

Git R Done!
Thanks for all the help set­ting up and clean­ing up!
Also, remem­ber my blog as a wid­get called “fancy box”, click on any photo and it will enlarge into a fancy box.  There is a lot of detail going on in some of the photos!