Several years ago, I bought a small pergola designed to shade a grill, about 8x4 feet. It was one of my craigslist finds, and I have gotten so much use out of that $30 purchase!
At some parties, it just makes sense to have a lot of photos on display. A first birthday party. A graduation party. Or an anniversary like the daisy-themed 40th anniversary party I threw for my parents. One fun, simple way to incorporate many of those photos is by using them as the backdrop for the food or dessert table.
We've been making a serious effort not to eat out/take in food recently. It's not good for the budget or the waistline! Unfortunately, I'm the only one who cooks in our house, so I've been trying to make it easier on myself by doing a lot of planning ahead and making my own convenient freezer food. My husband can manage, at least, to heat things up by following directions written directly on the wrapper. ;-)
The Daisy 40th Anniversary party was a good sized celebration, with a lot of guests. And a lot of glasses. In these circumstances, wine charms can be very handy things. I'm always forgetting where I set my glass down, especially when I'm playing hostess and photographer at a party.
It's teacher appreciation week, and parents all over the country are showing our children's instructors how much we love them. For my daughters' classes, I'm whipping up a fun treat: homemade fortune cookies, with a message from each child in the class inside each cookie.
Nothing says movie nostalgia like a lit marquee letter sign. But I did not have the budget to go scouring through antique malls for the Firefly Theater outdoor movie night. As usual, I decided to figure out how to make my own!
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