Bridal Shower

My friend, Krissi, just got married! Woo to the hoo!

She asked me to be one of her bridesmaids, and I was thrilled.  All of the other bridesmaids live up North, in New York, and they threw her bridal shower and bachelorette shindigs up there.  Since, I am down here with Krissi in good ol’ Florida, I wanted to throw her a party to celebrate with her southern friends.  Don’t be fooled though, we don’t have many friends down here.  We pretty much hang with just each other.  Anywho, I wanted to throw a bridal/bachelorette/girls night/Krissi day for my lovely friend.

Here’s what went down…

I knew I wanted to hang balloons upside down from the ceiling, because I have seen many cool examples on Pinterest.  Here is what I came up with…balloons hung from ceilingI bought clear-ish balloons and filled them with pink confetti glitter, then hung them from the ceiling with pink ribbon. glitter filled balloonsI’ll give you a quick fun fact about Krissi, she is a health nut, and she was even more so because of her upcoming wedding. So, I made some cupcakes, which were the weight watchers recipe for red velvet.  I threw some colorful sprinkles on top, since I was going for a colorful “sprinkles” theme. bridal shower cupcakesI, also, framed a couple of my favorite photos of her and her hubby to be, Sean.shower cupcakesI made another good ol’ mimosa bar, because a Krissi party isn’t a Krissi party without mimosas.bridal shower mimosasI had other bevs for the non-mimosa drinkers as well. party drinksPlus, these amazing straws…funny strawsI picked the dog faced straw for my drink, who woulda thought?sprinkle partyTo continue with the “sprinkle” theme I found these awesome polka dot baskets and serving trays at Michaels.pink bridal showersprinkle pretzels I made white chocolate and sprinkle covered pretzels and popcorn.  I could eat that popcorn for every meal for the rest of my life.  Seriously, melt some white chocolate and pour it over some popcorn, you will not be disappointed,IMG_0961For favors, I did these cute little succulents in mini pots.  The big guy was for the guest of honor, of course. succulent favorspatio party lanternsI found these little pink lanterns, that light up, at the dollar store. Sorry for being a bad blogger because I didn’t get a picture of them lit up at night, but it was really cool. pink lanternsKrissi was pretty pumped about the jello shots…IMG_1000 IMG_1010Of course, we got her some goodies for the celebration. I drew her pup, Oliver, and also got her a couple things on her registry.   IMG_1014She, also, received some mula and even some pesos for her honeymoon in Mexico! IMG_1026Just look how excited Charlie was about the pesos! IMG_6738And, look how thrilled he was to be smooshed by me!

We had a blast, and we will miss our Krissi so much when she moves back to NY.  Love you Krissi!

Here are some photos from her fabulous wedding…photo 1 photo 2 photo 3

 

ART GIVEAWAY

Hi everyone!  Today I am pumped to try out my first attempt at a giveaway on the blog!  Let’s see how this goes.

A while back I posted about how I created some feather art for my laundry room.  I got so many compliments on these pieces that I decided someone should have a couple feathers of their own! Here are the two that I created for my laundry room…

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I think they are pretty sweet! I hope you all enjoy them as much as I do!  And if you do… you could have a couple of your very own!

Here’s how it works.  If you would like to be entered into the giveaway I want you to comment on this post.  In your comment please write: “ENTER ME” and then tell me where you would like to put this art in your home!  For example:

– ENTER ME, I would hang these in my laundry room!

If you do these two things I will enter you in the giveaway.  I will be using random.org to choose the winner, so there will be no bias here! I will enter anyone who comments before Friday 7/19/13 at 7am! If you are chosen as the winner you will get a choice of two colors for your new art.  These are the colors I can use to create your own custom feathers…

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If you are chosen for this giveaway you will be receiving two feather prints which I will make by hand.  I will just need to know the colors you would like.  Both feathers can be the same color or you can choose two different colors for each feather.  I will just need to know which colors you would like, just give me the number that is assigned in the photo above to the color(s) you like.

Good Luck everyone!