Tara's Spring Wedding Shower

Sweet Success! Tara's shower was wonderful! I was so happy with how everything turned out for this event that we had at work! Tara is our Sports/Aquatics Director at the YCMA, and she is one of my favorite managers for sure! She'll be tying the knot with her man, Michael, in a couple of weeks, so I was so excited to plan her shower!

I didn't have a "theme" for the shower, but chose to use gold and aqua blue as my colors, which Tara loved!

For the gift table I used aqua blue table skirts and white tablecloths with two gold sequined table runners.

On each end, I used live Dogwood and Apple Blossom Branches table for many reasons. 1) THEY'RE gorgeous! 2) They added some needed height. 3) They helped cover the not so pretty walls. 4) THEY'RE GORGEOUS! Thankfully, our dogwood tree is already in full bloom!

I thought this gold dot detail behind the gift table was super cute! I had bought a pack of large gold "dots" at Target a few months ago on clearance. I originally got them to string and hang up for Christmas, which I did, but I had a TON left over!
I thought taping them to the wall behind the gift table would be a neat detail and add some interest. I arranged them as if they were floating away from the frame that I bought for Tara.

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What I thought was crazy, is that verse is what Tara's theme verse for her wedding! And I promise you I did not know that until the day of the shower! I love when things like that happen!

I decided to set up the bar in our Multi-Purpose Room for the food instead of setting up additional tables. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the food, which still blows my mind. I actually started to not even do this post because I didn't have the pictures, but nobody's perfect so I will do my best to describe what it looked like.

On the first tray in the picture of above, we had an assortment of fruit. On the large tray in the center of the bar we had small pimento cheese and chicken salad sandwiches, and on either side of it where you see the cake plates, we put the cupcakes that we had, which were SO CUTE! but loser me didn't get a picture of them. (sorry peeps).

I had gold sparkling cupcake liners around each of them, and I, with the help of a co-worker, made small cupcakes picks that said "Love" in gold script. Try to imagine them. They were just the cutest things!

For drinks, we had Tea and Lemonade

This banner turned out perfect! But it did not look like that originally. I had bought it at Party City, but the letters were stapled to silver fringe that did not match my aqua & gold theme, and it also wouldn't have allowed me to hang it the way I wanted to. So, I pulled out the staples and ran fishing line behind them to make them look like they were just floating.

Sorry, again, for not having some more better pictures for y'all! But, it was a great shower! Here's a few more pictures!

(I LOVED these napkins! :) )

Congratulations and Best Wishes to Tara and Michael!
And thanks for being awesome!

Easter's On Its Way

Hippity Hoppity Easter's on it's way! I love this time of year. The flowers are blooming, everything is turning green, and it's finally beginning to warm up after all of this crazy weather we've had. So, I wanted to bring some spring inside and have our home Easter ready!

I posted pictures of our mantle to Instagram a few weeks ago, but I've yet to blog about it. I love the vintage spring look it gives.

(I just can't seem to get a clear decent picture of it!)

We (Pop and I) made that chalk board. We got the actual black board part at Lowe's and the frame is made from damaged wood boards that they had on clearance. These worked perfectly by giving a wide and sturdy frame for the chalkboard and adding character to it because of the chipped and skinned places in the wood. We nailed it all together ,and I used a grayish chalk-paint to paint the frame.

For the mantle, I chose to run it long ways and hang a wreath of greenery on it.

To the right and left of the chalkboard, I used old books, more greenery, and these awesome candle holders, which are actually old spool that mom has had for a while. Overall, this décor gives a great neutral spring look.

In the dining room...

I kept the tablescape simple. A lace table cloth with an off-white table table runner that I picked up at Target and simple off-white plates with clear glasses. 

For the center piece, I used a bird cage with this cute nest we've been using to decorate with for spring for years and place it on a layered burlap charger.

Kept it simple at the top of our china cabinet.

On this piece behind our dining table, I carried through with the neutral color scheme, using topiaries, white flowers, and white dishes. It's perfect spring, and the light colors keep the space from feeling over-crowded.

To finish this space off, I added this super cute bunny banner that I also picked up at Target! (If you haven't checked out their Easter products in the dollar zone yet, you need to! They're the bomb.com!)

I'd say we are ready for the Easter Bunny! Hope you all have a wonderful Easter!

"Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, He has risen!"

Luke 24:5-6