Thanksgiving 2010

This year I had a little more time to put into the decor of our Thanksgiving day table. First I made the place mats that I have previously posted how to make. Then I decided I was going to do gourds lining the table with candles in them. I used my grandfathers drill with a 1 1/2 drill bit on it. I learned the hard way, literally, that some gourds are harder then others which meant it was not easy to drill holes in all of them. I actually split two of them right in half! In the end the table looked awesome. Here are the pictures...Hope you enjoy!

The first set of pumpkins I drilled

Make sure you do this outside because the guts go flying everywhere!

My grandfathers thumb kept getting in the way lol!

This was the easiest to drill. Its a Cheese Pumpkin! and the inside is the prettiest color!



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 I am really dissappointed how these pictures won't go the correct way! When I figure out how to fix it I will. Hope you enjoyed the table....upside down, right side up...

Green produce bags and Halloween Soup Night

So today I made plans to have some of my family over for dinner. I have been wanting to make soup since I haven't ever made it unless it was in a can. My mom makes wonderful soup so I knew I had the ability in me somewhere! The day started out by going grocery shopping. I am a huge fan of Adams Fairacre Farms. They have numerous locations but the one closest is in Kingston. They have great produce and their employees are knowledable and freindly. The soup was zucchini and bread crumb stoup. It was one of Rachel Ray's recipes. Though I am not a huge fan of hers I found this recipe and thought it looked and sounded delicious! I also loveeee zucchini so I figured I couldn't go wrong. In addition to my soup I had another choice for my guests. My boyfriend made avgolemono soup. It's a Greek lemon soup that he learned how to make from his yaiyai (grandma). It is fabulous! So, at the grocery store I needed to get a lot of ingredients! I recently ordered these new 'green' produce bags that you can wash and reuse instead of using those terrible plastic bags. They worked great! I ordered them from 3B Bags. If you order 4 sets you get the 4th free. So for 12 bags I paid $25 and change which included shipping and handling. Not bad at all! I highly suggest them!

In the bags were apples, parsley, and zucchini. Each packet comes with two 'smaller' bags and one large bag. The small bags are pretty large

It's great because your produce can breath in these bags as opposed to the plastic were they can sweat and get moldy

 So, after I went shopping it was time to come home and start prepping for my guests. On my kitchen table, I had fake glittery candelabras and gourds. So I decided to decorate the table more instead of just leaving it plain. I had purchased cute napkin holders at Pier 1 that are extremely versatile. They will go great with many different occasions. I already had place mats that added a nice detail to the table.

These gourds are going to be reused for Thanksgiving. Wait to see what I am going to create for that table scape!

After I was done decorating it was time to start cooking! Our kitchen is tiny so it was very interesting trying to cook with two people, two different kinds of soup. In addition, I also made grill cheese. In the end everything came out great! Some people like the lemon soup better and some like the vegetable soup more. I will have to say, for my first time making soup I did a pretty good job! Can't wait for my next creation... any suggestions?

Past Events

Though I have always been planning parties, it wasn't until I was in 10th grade when I realized that I wanted to become an event planner full time as my career. So starting that year I took photos of all my work to create my portfolio. Over the years it has grown, and grown...anddd grownnn. This blog is to showcase some of my favorite pictures from each event. What I truly love about my photos is the transition from amateur planning to elegant elaborate events. I am still learning and love input about my work so please, any advice, questions, comments are greatly imprecated!

The theme was "Red Hot" so to create more of the reddish tone in the room I decided to get balloons. I thought 100 would cover a good portion of the entire room, however now I know 100 balloons does not go too far. It worked out though becuase the balloons covered all of the dance floor.

This was my Junior Senior Prom 2005 for Rhinebeck High School. I had this great idea to hang gerber daisies upside down. It came out awsome. My mom had such a wonderful time hanging them all (hehe).

These were the table arrangements. We did three gerbers with floating candles. A local candy shop donated red hots (the candies) which we spread around the table and also gave as the favors in little tin cans.

close up of the tables

I think this may be a very long blog since there are much more events and the first one already had 4 pictures! :-) It is just so hard to choose between all the pictures that I have taken.

This was Thankgiving 2005. My aunt as a big thankgiving ever year and I am incharge of the table decor, seating cards and arrangment of guests and all that fun stuff! This year was the year of pumpkins.

I used spider mums and put them inside smaller sized pumpkin .

For the place cards I used real mini pumpkins and used floral wire to twist the paper leaf I created around the stem of the pumpkin. The left over wire I curled around to make it look viney like a real pumpkin.

As much as I wanted to get more done tonight these few pictures have already taken about 30 minutes! Tomorrow night I will be back on with more events!