Needless to say, I have quite a few inspirational photos tucked away in my Pinterest pages. Snacks, cakes, favours, wall decorations, table displays...the whole nine yards. I've decided, out of a mild degree of laziness, to go with a Halloween/autumnal theme for this party. It's easy to do and it looks good. And it doesn't require the sort of effort and expense I'd go to in order to make a visually accurate Very Hungry Caterpillar cake, or a caterpillar made of paper lanterns like this one from Pottery Barn...
so cute, but no way... |
via, Martha Stewart |
The one thing I would advise? Make sure you press down all the edges of the painter's tape once you've cut out your face. Otherwise, the paint bleeds through and you have to spend a lot of time with a rolled up corner of paper towel painstakingly tidying the edges of your stencil. Yes; that was a lesson learned through trial and error.
In the end, you have a lovely set of jars like this (which I know you'll see somewhere in all the pictures I take of this party). I think Martha suggests putting electric tea lights inside, but since our party is in the afternoon, I don't think I'll be taking it as far as all that. Besides, I still have paper bats to cut out and some candy corn-themed bunting to hang over the sofa. Happy times.
Meanwhile, it's not-so-happy times as I have a stinky, angry, whinging baby in serious need of a nappy change. Of course it would be right after I've already changed him that he decides to poop. Of course it would...
Love the idea, great decorations!
ReplyDeleteSo cute! I love the faces :)
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