Birthday Prep

First let me show you our inspiration.  Sunshine found these at the Dollar tree and we decided to use these for our inspiration colors.  Sunshines favorite color is green.

 I want to do a candy bar so I pulled out my 3 tiered dish

Yeah the peach does not quite go.

Love the size and shape.

Enter my little friends Mr. Blue and Mrs. Green

As Emeril Lagasse would say BAM!

See! Pretty and ready to PAR-TAY!

We also went shopping on Sunday and gathered our supplies for the party. 

Items from Wal-Mart

Dollar Tree Items

Winco Stuff

(we picked through the bulk candy for blue taffy)

Michaels

I actually took the bags with me and we referenced them frequently hoping to keep things close in color.

I will be making a traditional round cake because I am scared to do anything else.  I hate failure!  

I made the invites and will show those soon.

I have been busy.  What about you??

Big Empty Wall

In my formal dining room I have two 14 foot high, empty walls.

I was tired of looking at the emptyness. So I went around my house and gathered all the picture frames that I was not using. I took out the glass and back and spray painted them with Rusto-Oleum Stone Gray:

They turned out blue-gray, which I love.

I organized them on the floor how I wanted to hang them.....

And then did it!

What do you think? I'm not 100% sure.... but this arrangement sure beats the empty wall!

When I see this picture, the frames look tiny! [There are 13 frames + one "M"!] Either I need to add more frames or just be at peace with my high ceilings that result in empty space.