Aren't these stamped moustache plates cute?
You can create whatever design you want on your paper plates using a sponge and paste food coloring.
Emily at Remarkable Home gives a full tutorial on the easy process including cutting the sponge into a cute shape.
You have plenty of time to create fun plates for your July 4th gathering. Stars and stripes, anyone?
Want an easy and fun entree to serve up at your next gathering? How about mashed potato martinis?
You see these frequently offered by caterers and they are just as easy to serve at home. Let your guests get creative in making their own "mashtinis".
Moore Minutes gives some great suggestions on setting up various topping stations and shows photos of the finished items with virtually no cooking!
This is a repost of a 11/2008 blog entry. I've had a few people mention these pumpkins lately and thought a repost may be perfect for last minute Halloween and tailgating decorations!
While it's still t the season of pumpkins, they are great decoration and yet, you don't have to use them in their traditional colors.
It's still football season, so why not decorate your tailgate in seasonal pumpkins that support your favorite team! The pumpkins above provided a warm welcome to guests of a homecoming parade watching party. Tons of compliments on them and it was one can of chrome spray paint and various rolls of grosgrain ribbon. Easy wow factor.... minimal cost.
These streamers create gentle movement in the breeze and are made from items found at the Dollar Tree.
The poles are actually bamboo stakes normally used in gardening. These are green 5 ft stakes and are $1 for a package of 6 or so. Spray paint those the color of your choice. I used white.
Right now, most Dollar Tree stores have rolls of satin ribbon in stock. I chose red, white and blue. $1 per roll. Cut long pieces of each color and hot glue one end to the top of the stake.
These can be placed anywhere... line your driveway, place them at the corners of your patio, stand them up in sand filled pots on your porch, etc. Use any colors you want for any occasion. These would be great for a bridal shower, graduation in school colors or child's birthday in primary colors!
Know what I love about it? It's simple! Anyone can do it!
Just make a rectangle cake and cut two angles into it.
Sprinkle some graham cracker "dirt" on home plate and it's done!
This cake was just one part of a fabulous baseball party thrown by Beth of Custom Creations.
Visit her blog to see all the cute details!
This cake isn't JUST for children. What about a World Series Party? Or a tailgate for a college game? Or a cute groom's cake?
I wanted to remind you of a wonderful discount from my sponsor, SmileBooks.
The great folks at SmileBooks were one of my sponsors for the BlogHer conference last August and are sponsoring me for Lavish as well. They printed some amazing booklets for both conferences that feature party ideas from this blog. The quality is phenomenal! Have you wanted to make a nice coffee table style book? Maybe featuring a vacation or holiday, maybe a birthday party or special anniversary, etc? Smilebooks produces the highest quality of glossy, beautiful photo books. It is so easy to create a book, just upload your photos! You can create your own layouts or have them designed for you. SmileBooks is offering a 30% discount to readers of Everyday Celebrating in celebration blogs and those that read them. Just use coupon code CELEBRATE30 during checkout to receive the discount. Also, what about CALENDARS? SmileBooks just launched a line of calendars and they are now 30% off! There are so many occasions to celebrate with a book... Mother's Day, Graduation, Celebrate a high school band season or sport, etc. These make a fabulous holiday gift! And... this code is good through December 2011. With an expiration date of 12/31/2011, you can get discounted books for every occasion... all year!
photo credit: Family Circle
Like the look of imprinted napkins but not the cost?
Create cute personalized napkins to fit in with your decor by simply stamping them!
Get inexpensive white napkins and stamp each one with a theme. One of the benefits of stamping is that you can have many different kinds of napkins for just the cost of a single stamp instead of custom imprinting costs.
These make a great hostess gift as well!
Remember the airplane invitation I created for my son's birthday? Not just for children's parties!
Alexandria, 15, emailed to inquire about the airplane invitation. To celebrate her 16th birthday, she chose not to have a large party, but instead have a very special unique outing with girlfriends.
Her parents celebrated their daughter's love of flying by taking the money they would've spent on a party and renting two planes and instructors to give Alexandria and 7 of her friends their first lesson in flying.
Alexandria used this invitation to send to her 7 friends. Instead of the childlike logo, she placed a picture of each friend on the invitation. Great idea!
Happiest of birthdays, Alexandria!
The airplane invitation and logo is available for purchase in the Everyday Celebrating store.
You may have seen the button on the sidebar there. This one:
That's one of the largest blogging conferences in the United States and it's sold out. As always.
I'll be there representing several sponsors and one of them is the fine folks at Smilebooks.com
SmileBooks helps you turn your favorite digital photos into treasured photo books. Within minutes you can download SmileBooks free software and begin creating permanent photo book memories. When you're done, fill out the order form and within days you'll receive your incomparable quality photo book. Create memories that last a lifetime, in no time at all with SmileBooks photo books.
They have several sizes to create and also great templates if you're not that creative. However, if you do want complete control over the design of your pages, you have that capability.
I found the software to be easy and self explanatory. The preview was clear and I loved how it would immediately tell if your photos were not going to print at a high quality level.
To show you an example, here is one of the booklets that Smilebooks prints. What you are seeing here are the custom designed idea books I'll be passing out at the BlogHer conference. Please leave me a comment if you're going to be at the conference. I'd love to meet you and load you down with some swag! :)
If you click on the photo, you can see more detail. The pages are a beautiful gloss and really are coffee table quality. They make beautiful hardcover books that are perfect gifts or a great way to celebrate a special occasion such as an anniversary, birthday, graduation or wedding.
Stay tuned! Smilebooks and Everyday Celebrating is going to be having a fun competition through this blog with lots of fun prizes!
But for now.. Smilebooks wanted to celebrate blogs and the people that read them by giving a 25% discount to readers. Simply type in the code Blogher25 at checkout to receive your discount!
So get busy creating a book of memories! You don't need an occasion.. how about making a Summer Fun book or a book with your vacation photos?
Don't forget! If you're going to the BlogHer conference... leave me a comment!
Enjoy!
Graduations are coming up quickly!
Both high school and college students seem to amass several t-shirts over their careers and several are dear to their hearts.
Take those symbols of good times and make them into a t-shirt quilt or blanket!
There are several sellers on etsy like Katherine who made the one above. (I'm partial to it as it features my sorority, Sigma Kappa! Any SigKaps out there?)
These make a great gift that they'll keep and maybe pass down. Imagine a parent passing down their greek shirt quilt to a child when they join. And they don't have to be made from sorority/fraternity shirts. They can be general college shirts or one from all the organizations they were in like band or drama, etc.
Some etsy sellers make less expensive versions that are blankets, seen below. Both are cute and equally sentimental. And they're great for both males and females.
These would even make a great whimsical tablecloth for a graduation party that they could keep afterwards! Or can be hung on a wall for decoration.
And they aren't just for graduates. What about making one of your favorite sports team and maybe displaying it at your tailgate site?
Need shirts? Goodwill or Ebay are great for local or pro sports teams.
Wish I would've kept all my shirts!! I would love to have one of these now!