*repost from other blog, still trying to figure out how to export my old blog, but since the party planning season is beginning i thought a refresher from last year would be a great way to start! I have three large events i'm coordinating with many details that i hope to sharing with you in the coming few weeks! Stay tuned!*
2 months ago i said that decorations from the tea party would be coming up soon... well... at the time i didn't think it would actually take me two months... but at least now i have some funny commentary about the decorations to share with you too.
so our theme was love in yellow and grey :) you'll notice from before that all the foods were yellow. well i tried to stick to that theme with the decor.
since last season's centerpiece rage was all about the lemons and limes, i decided to give it a try. whenever i think of lemon/lime centerpieces i think of the jennifer aniston, vince vaughn movie (Jen: what are these? (holds up brown bag with 3 lemons) vince: you asked for lemons. what my baby wants my baby gets. Jen: there are 3 lemons. i asked for 12. baby wanted 12!) so with that in mind, i went to russos and bought 10 lemons and 12 limes cause lemons were 5 for a dollar and limes were 6 for a dollar).
no close shot of the lemon/lime centerpieces cause well.... they didn't actually look like i wanted them too. with the smaller vases you can only fit like 5 limes/lemons and then there's soo much empty space still left in the case. for lemon/lime centerpieces i would recommend tall long vases or candy jars. though i would have to say that the centerpieces were the easiest to do of all the decor that i did. you just stick them in a vase :) and maybe wash the fruit if it was dusty.
fresh flowers. i can't say enough about having fresh flowers, when done right really brings a different air to the room. the intention was to make carnation balls over white square vases (ala spring martha stewart inspiration), however, we ran out of time. thus, just a normal display of flowers this time.
i tend to see carnations as a cheap flower that i wouldn't want in any nice arrangement (ala devil wear's prada and meryl streep specifically requests not a single carnation be seen). however, recently i've seen large clusters of carnations put together that have changed my mind about the versatility of these cheap fresh flowers. so for those of you who don't like carnations as much as i don't... i recommend using them in large, closely arranged, bunches, makes them look much classier like a peony or small english tea roses.
along with fluffy flowers, i tried my hand at tissue paper flower pomeranders. in theme with the grey and yellow...and finally we put our "interesting," vintage mirror in our living room to use!
cheapest of all my decor purchases! tissue paper comes in like 50 sheet packs for like a dollar at ACMoore. so we've had these hanging up for the last 2 months and many people have come through our apartment since then, and the only person who recognized what these were, were of course jarsofc1ay, thank goodness cause the were for her party. but one resounding question from guys has been... "why do you have loufa's hanging up in your living room" or "why do you have sponges on strings here?" yeah... oh well i guess these are lost on some people.
oh what do you do with leftover flowers that don't fit into a pomerander?
stick them on a plate =P
to add a little to the cupcake plates one of my roommates decided to cut out designs out of tissue just like we would cut designs for snowflakes! brilliant! fast, easy, and cheap! and look sooo classic!
i guess that concludes the first tea party at newberne adventure :)
thanks for following along!
so our theme was love in yellow and grey :) you'll notice from before that all the foods were yellow. well i tried to stick to that theme with the decor.
since last season's centerpiece rage was all about the lemons and limes, i decided to give it a try. whenever i think of lemon/lime centerpieces i think of the jennifer aniston, vince vaughn movie (Jen: what are these? (holds up brown bag with 3 lemons) vince: you asked for lemons. what my baby wants my baby gets. Jen: there are 3 lemons. i asked for 12. baby wanted 12!) so with that in mind, i went to russos and bought 10 lemons and 12 limes cause lemons were 5 for a dollar and limes were 6 for a dollar).
no close shot of the lemon/lime centerpieces cause well.... they didn't actually look like i wanted them too. with the smaller vases you can only fit like 5 limes/lemons and then there's soo much empty space still left in the case. for lemon/lime centerpieces i would recommend tall long vases or candy jars. though i would have to say that the centerpieces were the easiest to do of all the decor that i did. you just stick them in a vase :) and maybe wash the fruit if it was dusty.
fresh flowers. i can't say enough about having fresh flowers, when done right really brings a different air to the room. the intention was to make carnation balls over white square vases (ala spring martha stewart inspiration), however, we ran out of time. thus, just a normal display of flowers this time.
i tend to see carnations as a cheap flower that i wouldn't want in any nice arrangement (ala devil wear's prada and meryl streep specifically requests not a single carnation be seen). however, recently i've seen large clusters of carnations put together that have changed my mind about the versatility of these cheap fresh flowers. so for those of you who don't like carnations as much as i don't... i recommend using them in large, closely arranged, bunches, makes them look much classier like a peony or small english tea roses.
along with fluffy flowers, i tried my hand at tissue paper flower pomeranders. in theme with the grey and yellow...and finally we put our "interesting," vintage mirror in our living room to use!
cheapest of all my decor purchases! tissue paper comes in like 50 sheet packs for like a dollar at ACMoore. so we've had these hanging up for the last 2 months and many people have come through our apartment since then, and the only person who recognized what these were, were of course jarsofc1ay, thank goodness cause the were for her party. but one resounding question from guys has been... "why do you have loufa's hanging up in your living room" or "why do you have sponges on strings here?" yeah... oh well i guess these are lost on some people.
oh what do you do with leftover flowers that don't fit into a pomerander?
stick them on a plate =P
to add a little to the cupcake plates one of my roommates decided to cut out designs out of tissue just like we would cut designs for snowflakes! brilliant! fast, easy, and cheap! and look sooo classic!
i guess that concludes the first tea party at newberne adventure :)
thanks for following along!
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