Paper Crop Circles

They just seem to appear overnight from nowhere.I just wish they would clean up after themselves. 😉

Wedding Rosettes

wedding decoration paper rosettes

I had a fairly creative weekend.It began with a trip to the villa where my niece is getting married to look over the site and help my SIL to figure out a few things. It is challenging for the bride to be located in SF and her wedding location being here in SoCal. In the villa is a large ballroom with tall doors that open onto a grass area on one side of the wall and to the piazza courtyard… [Read More]

“We The People of The United States…”

…in order to form a more perfect 4th of July party…” I love the 4th of July with all the anticipation of a beautiful evening.I begin to plan for it now since school ends the third week of June and by then it is too late for me to plan a lavish celebration. This year I will be up north for a wedding but I am still decorating in my mind and will use many of these items for son2’s… [Read More]

High Tech Wrappings.

Off to a bridal shower this weekend! Wonder what could be inside….. I do like to give wrappings an unexpected stir! “Stir It Up” – Bob Marley

The True Meaning of “Happy Hour”…

Oh… My…  Gosh!!! I KNEW my wish came true!!! Companion song: “Shower (get it?) the People” – James Taylor

“I’ll have a cocktail umbrella, and make that a double.”

cocktail-mermaids

Everyone is drawn to something. I love cocktail umbrellas and festive toy embellishments added to drinks.I have little plastic mermaids that hang on the rim. Then there are the toys that hang by their tails: monkeys … cats, … elephants. But my favorite is the paper parasol… … and I do prefer pink. My first recollection of this delicate adornment was in my Shirley Temple when I was very young. We were vacationing in upstate NY and dining at a… [Read More]

A Southern California Wedding

“Becca + Jim”   B-E-A-UTIFUL Hydrangeas! This was a picture perfect wedding and apparently an online magazine thinks so too.Southern Weddings magazine. I guess even California qualifies if it’s in the Southern region of the state. 🙂 Scroll down on the site from the link above and you will see Becca + Jim. It is the wedding of my BBF’s (am I too old to use that term?) daughter, Becca. It was held in August and was absolutely spectacular. I… [Read More]

For My Proper Pink Martinis

New Lilly coasters!Perfect.