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Glitter Drink Swizzle Sticks {DIY}

By On January 4, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Thanks to the holidays, I’m on currently halfway through a two week vacation from medical school. With the wedding only five months away, I’ve taken this opportunity to do as many wedding projects as I can manage.  This basically means I have been glittering everything in sight!  Despite my best efforts to lay down newspaper, there was a thick layer of glitter on our living room floor this morning and this afternoon I noticed an impressive layer of gold glitter in Pat’s beard!  Needless to say, he was not thrilled.

One of my projects was these easy glitter drink swizzle sticks.  This cute and easy DIY is a perfect thing to have on hand for your upcoming party or wedding!  You can make them in any color or shape.

DIY Glitter Drink Swizzle Sticks

You will need:

  • Paper punch in the size and shape or your choice – I used this 1.25 inch scallop circle punch from EK
  • Bamboo Skewers
  • Wire Cutters (Optional)

  • Spray Adhesive

  • Newspaper

  • Hot Glue Gun

  • Cardstock (I used white resume paper)

  • Glitter!

1.  Punch out your shape of choice, two per skewer
2. If your skewers are longer than your drink glasses, use the wire cutters to snip them to your desired height.
3. Open your newspaper and lightly spray a coat of adhesive on it.
4.  Line up your punched shapes onto the newspaper.

5.  Spray the shapes with adhesive.
6.  Coat with glitter and let dry.
7.  Hot glue two cutouts around one skewer

You’re all done!  Pour yourself a cocktail and enjoy your drink swizzle stick!

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Coffee Filter Garland {DIY}

By On November 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I made this pretty and easy coffee filter garland for a recent Ladies Who Brunch that I hosted.  The puffs are delicate and elegant.  The garland can be customized to suit your special occasion and would look great at a wedding!  I found that dipping them in multiple different colors created a soft ombre look.

 

Coffee Filter Garland

Adopted from Martha Stewart Weddings

Supplies:
Small containers
Rubber gloves
Food coloring or powdered dye
Coffee Filters
Baker’s twine or fishing line

How-To

1.  Squeeze several drops of food coloring into a bowl of water big enough to dip your coffee filters in or prepare your dye bath according to package directions.  I suggest using rubber gloves, especially if you are using dye.

2.  Dip coffee filters, multiple at a time, into the dye until they are saturated.  I didn’t dip them all the way in and let the dye bleed up a little to give an ombre look.  You can also dip in more than one color.  Gently press the extra liquid out of them.

3.  Let dry.

4.  Stack 12-18 together, and connect the layers by pulling a needle and thread through the center. Use your fingers to fluff up the edges like rosettes.

5.  String the puffs on fishing line or baker’s twine and tie knots on either side to keep them in place.

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Halloween Deviled Eggs {Recipe}

By On October 30, 2012 · 8 Comments

I love, love deviled eggs.  In my humble opinion, a party really isn’t complete without them!  Plus, I have a secret deviled eggs recipe can’t be beat.

I whipped up this “scary” version of my favorite treat for a friend’s Halloween party this weekend.  The olives were a bit of extra effort but totally worth the reaction – a real crowd pleaser!

My recipe for deviled eggs is a spoonful of this and a dollop of that.  I’ve put rough measurements here, but adjust for taste!

Halloween Deviled Eggs

Idea from Make-It Love-It, recipe my own

Ingredients:

6 Eggs, hard boiled and peeled and sliced in half
1/4 c. Mayonnaise
1 1/2 tsp. Sweet Pick Relish
1 1/2 tsp. Yellow Mustard
1/4 tsp. Garlic Powder
1/4 tsp. Smoked Paprika
Pinch of salt
1 can of pitted black olives

Recipe:

1. Mash the egg yolks, mayonnaise, relish, mustard, garlic, paprika and salt

2. Scoop even amounts of filling into each egg half

3. Cut black olives in half for the spider body

4. Slice half olives longwise for 3 to 4 legs

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Backyard Movie Night {Free Printables}

By On July 16, 2012 · 1 Comment

Lately, backyard movie nights have been all over the blogosphere.  I was inspired to put together my own fête, with the help of Pat and my friend Julie.  It was much simpler than I had anticipated, because Julie has this awesome almost windowless wall that faces her even awesomer backyard.  I rented a projector from the school’s library and got a DVD from Redbox, which made the total cost for this activity $1.27.  I still cannot get over how great the projection looked.  We watched Moneyball, with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.  It’s the story of how a baseball team used statistics and algorithms to create a successful team.  It was a great choice, as it had sports for the guys and for the ladies….Brad Pitt!

I used this template from One Charming Party to make popcorn boxes for the snack table.  Someone at school had thrown away a stack of bright yellow file folders, which I rescued and ran through the printer.

I created my own template in photoshop for the film snack labels.  Here is what they looked like:

I have them in both PDF and JPEG.  The PDF has them repeated so you have a four filmstrips that you can cut up as you’d like.  The JPEG is a single label.

.PDF Film Strip Labels

.JPEG Film Strip Labels

Here was the menu. I’ll post links as I get the recipes up:

  • Sweet and Spicy Bacon Popcorn
  • Oreo Cookie Bark
  • White Truffle and Cracked Pepper Popcorn
  • Caprese Couscous Salad

All of the recipes were very simple to make.  I made all four the day of the movie and it only took me an afternoon!

The night went off so well we have plans to do it again soon – we might even make it a weekly thing.

 

Here are the links to the film strip labels again:

.PDF Film Strip Labels

.JPEG Film Strip Labels

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