Preparing…

The celebration for our home’s centennial is just a day away!  I’ve been having so much fun with the preparations for this party…I LOVE vintage and this gathering will definitely have an old fashioned flair!  Since I don’t have girls, I rarely can add dainty touches to our celebrations unless it’s just for me and my girlfriends!  But this time it’s all about the era so I can have some fun with my color choices and floral patterns and not worry a bit if it’s too “girly”!  So today I’ve planned to complete the majority of my decorating before my family arrives this afternoon!  Even though I will then have plenty of helping hands, it also frees us up a bit to visit and just enjoy the occasion!  I sing the praises of planning ahead…it really makes it much easier to be stress free on the day of an event, big or small!  AND we can’t control mother nature so I also recommend having an “indoor” backup plan if the party is slotted for outside!  It looks like a backup might be needed this weekend so I’m going with plan B for my food setup…which is actually my favorite of the two!  So even if it’s not raining, I think I’m sticking with this one…and we won’t have to worry about the bees and flies bombarding the goodies!  Since I can set things up in advance inside, I’ll share a peek at my party preparations…

centennial celebration in the works…

i’ve shared a few peeks before, but now it’s countdown time and i have some of my decorating projects under my belt!  since the style of the party will be old fashioned AND casual, i decided to use a variety of vintage patterned fabrics for the embellishments!

i love making fabric “curtain” garlands!  they’re so easy to make AND inexpensive, if you don’t splurge on your textiles!  they look so festive and yet they’re still softly casual…perfect for my style of entertaining and decorating!  just cut strips of the fabric to your desired length and tie them onto a strand of ribbon or twine…

my sun room was turned into a makeshift craft room for a day or two!  i’m not going to share quite yet where i’m using this…i may just change my mind anyway!

i can’t have any kind of gathering without tissue poms!  and after pricing them in the craft stores i think i will ALWAYS make them myself!  they’re so easy to create and literally cost pennies compared to the pre-made kits!  while convenient, those kits also don’t offer the range of sizes or colors & patterns you can get if you go the DIY route!

fun with some craft paper & fabric tape…

the floral tape adds a vintage touch to my old buntings i purchased last year in the Target dollar bins!

can you see my theme coming together?  simple, vintage, dainty!

paper buntings strung together…

apple crumble toppings made ahead and frozen…

and a peek at the adorable invites created by my dear friend at Alice-Louise Press!  i’ll share the full view next week!

so i’ve been busy this week…but all the simple details were easy to tackle over a little bit of time!  now i wait for my family…and look forward to our celebration!

happy friday everyone!

check out the link to alice-louise press to see more of her fabulous letterpress creations!