A second round of images from the Lady's 5th Birthday Tea Party. I am still getting positive feedback from the party and questions about how to do it. Here's how we did it:
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| Letters in pastel card stock were sprayed with glue and glittered in coordinating colors, then taped onto satin ribbon. If you are more organized than I, you can order a similar banner from Martha Stewart.com and it will cost a lot less than my DIY version. The flowers are tissue paper blooms. |
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| The dessert table was layered in lace curtain panels. The rest of the decor is a study in "use what you have decorating": paper blooms left over from the mantle, extra fresh flowers, glittered lanterns that looked goofy in the centerpiece and a Cinderella figurine and slippers from Grandma. The cupcake stand is a cake plate, a silver tray balanced on top a white planter from Ikea. |
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| Clear glass vases and pastel vases from the 1940s were filled with candy and paper blooms. A simple paper bloom garland is draped over a silver mirror left over from our move a year ago. After the tea party, we cleared the tables and made a candy bar complete with go-bags. The kids LOVED it! |
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| Another shot of the centerpiece. Paper lanterns, paper fans, bloom poufs and silvered candleholders strung from the ceiling provide the anchor to pink tulle garlands and paper lanterns in the corners of the room. Cinderella blue balloons hang from pink streamers. It's about as low tech as you can get, but it took a while to hang it all from the ceiling in an ordered manner. Lots of trips up and down the ladder. |
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| Detail of the color scheme. |
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| My Sweet Baby before she dives into her cake. JJ made the cake, decorated with love and topped with 3 different candles. It resembled a small bonfire when lit, so I was glad when she made the wish and blew out the candles. |
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| Sweet Tea Party Princesses. I hope you are looking at a future CEO, Shareholder and Surgeon and not a princess. |
